Not really, but maybe I will be if I keep telling myself that. The reality is that I'm an out of shape husband and father in his early 30's and I'm trying to change that. I am your typical couch potato. I have an office job that keeps me on my rear more than my feet. And when I come home from work, I play with my son but that's the extent of my physical activity. By the way, he's two so it's not a brutal workout.
My story begins a few weeks ago while my wife and I were watching Losing It With Jillian. I was motivated by the story of a 50-something year old woman and her desire to lose weight. As part of the workout, Jillian (the trainer, for those who don't know) showed the woman how to train for a 5k (see the plan here). As I sat there and watched this overweight woman quite literally work her butt off, I was motivated to get out there and run...at 10 o'clock at night. So I turned to my wife and fearlessly said, "I'm going to go run a mile." Thankfully for the sake of my pride, she didn't laugh out loud. But I couldn't have blamed her if she had.
Emboldened, I downloaded an app to help me track my steps and ran a mile that night...at 10 o'clock. The whole way, my body was laughing at me. The next day it was cursing me. But over the course of the next few weeks, I began getting up early on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to run at the gym. After doing a little more investigating, I found this "Couch to 5k" app which gives you stretches, prompts you when to run/walk/etc. and allows you to listen to music on your iPod. It's amazingly simple to use which is great for people who run at 5:30am and aren't entirely awake yet (like yours truly).
So this is my story. Follow me as I try to right the wrongs of inactivity in my own life and try to chart a better, healthier course for whatever time I have left.
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