Change your lifestyle for YOURSELF!!!! Don’t Worry What Others Think!!!!

On Friday, I had a great conversation with some people at my daily workplace.

They were asking me what I did to lose so much weight and get fit. I told them that I started slow with my comeback into a healthier lifestyle. I started slow: lots of stretching to get my flexibility and stability back, throw in some stability abdominal work (because I am not worried about having a “six-pack,” just a strong core and lower back), strength training, cardiovascular strength condition (for my farm work at home), and lots of yoga.

They looked at me like I was crazy. Yoga? Cross-training?

I told them when I go to the gym or workout outside, I do not give a flip what people think of what I am doing. When I first started back into this lifestyle, I did water aerobics, yoga classes, spin classes, etc. to get into shape for what I really want to do, Pure Unadulterated Strength and Conditioning. I took baby steps… started out with the bar (45 lbs) with most exercises. I still do not do pullups, I do reverse rows on a TRX system. I use a  bosu ball for instability. I do different types of pullups and hand positions to keep my body guessing.

Lots of people are saying keep the body guessing for moving forward. That’s true, at home I have farm work, that is not something easy for someone who grew up in a city.  Its always different. It takes strength and conditioning to do the work.

I want to be a healthy example for my family, I want to be around for a long time and be functional during my life. That is why I work out…. and I don’t care what people think when I am at the gym. I workout for myself and my family. That is what matters, nothing else. Be All YOU Can and Want To Be. Once you figure out what you want, make a plan to get there.

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Life Happens in a flash.

Life, life can happen in a flash.

 

I was trying to mow some grass after work before the fireworks on 4th of July. I did not have any gas for my mower, so I drove the half mile to the gas station.I strap the gas tanks in the back of the truck. I was on my way back trying to take the left hand turn into our driveway off the busy highway. Traffic was coming the other direction, so I waited.

My family has a gameplan because there is a nasty turn that is behind where we have to turn into our driveway. If any one is coming up from behind and not going to stop, we drive forward and turn around at the next store.

As I was sitting there, I was looking in the rearview mirror, there was a tow truck changing lanes behind me to miss me. I look to see if I can turn and look back at the mirror, and there is a gold minivan about ten feet behind me not stopping.

I take my foot off the brake, I tried to put the truck into first gear…. BAM

I get shoot forward about 30 yards. My truck stops dead, I can’t drive forward, the van drives off.

I exit the vehicle, get the gas cans out of the bed and put them on the side of the road. Most what happens next is a blurr. I get taken to the hospital for whiplash and my shoulder that is killing me.

 

Why am I telling you this?

 

You must be prepared for anything. In life, one must have plans. When I used to fight in mixed martial arts and wrestled, I had gameplans. When you are training for a healthier life, you must have a plan, and a back up plan, and another back up plan for your back up plan.

 

Why? Life happens, you hurt yourself, you go on a business trip, family happens, and etc. I was powerlifting for the past ten years, now with a hurt shoulder and my posture being affected, I must change how I workout. I cannot do chest or shoulder exercises. I am having to do a pause at the concentration part of the exercise to get my posture and stability muscles back together.

 

I will be going back and forth from my pause workouts and my powerlifting workouts (after I get cleared from the physical therapist).

 

What kind of plans do you have for your healthy life? I can help you with that!

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Real World Training: What are you training for and how are you going to accomplish your goal?

What are you training for? Your health? Yourself? Your family? High blood pressure? Bad Cholesterol? Lift your truck? Be able to do something without feeling like you are dying?

 

Let’s get real for a minute. What are you training for? That must be something you have to ask yourself and write it down. That is your long term goal. Mine is to be able to lift 600 on deadlifts, 500 on squats, 450 on bench, and 350 on shoulder press. Why? might you ask. I want to be strong enough to lift the end of my truck if it were to get stuck in the snow again. That was such a pain. Now, that can coinside with my farming life as well.

I have to feed animals while heaving 50 lb bags of feed, bales of hay, and lots of mowing. I am also practicing for hiking, since I live in the beautiful Smoky Mountains. I want to make these things easy for myself rather than feeling like I am dying. I also have been diagnosed with high blood pressure and I always show up as morbidly obese. Now, the morbidly obese thing? I am not sweating this too much because I am a power lifter. I am 6-0 and 260. But I am moving around with about 18% body fat.

 

I am on the path of losing body fat and gaining as much muscle as possible. I am not a body builder. I am looking for making myself strong and healthy.

Now, what about you? What are you training for?

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