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.

#poweroftheearthfitness

My Journey

This is my journey…… toward better health and life.

For those who know me, I have always been somewhat of a power house. I have always been a strong,  powerful, and muscular individual. I have been in Martial Arts in some form or fashion since I was around 8 years old. I played the usual sports for a young man in Ohio; football, wrestling, hockey, and golf.

I played football and wrestled throughout high school and college and then was associated with a Martial Arts school for at least 6 years after that. When I reached college I ended up being a heavy weight wrestler. The weight limit was 285, when I entered college, I weighed 220 and I needed to gain weight.  Gain Weight I Did!

By the time I was out of college I was pushing the scales at around 270 to 280 pounds. wearing 38 X 32 pants and having a collar size around 18 3/4. Since then I have gone all the way down to about 235 but keep gaining back about 15-20 lbs.

That stops now.

My wife and I have pledged together to lose weight and to become a healthier team.

My issue is that I am now a corporate worker and I am chained to a desk for 7 hours a day on the phone. I am also finding out if I am gluten intolerant, have genetic markers that make me more susceptible to diseases, and what kind of workouts work for my type.
I am really excited to find all this out. I am going to do a weekly blog on this and have been doing a gluten free diet, and am still doing Martial Arts style workouts, with my cardiovascular testing workout being the 300 workout. I am going to shoot for getting it within 12 minutes as my end goal. I have lost 10 lbs in a week from doing the GF diet and changing my workout.

I will keep you updated!