After reading some truly inspiring words from Blair, I felt I needed to put a few thoughts down on my feelings about fitness and the drive to get up and do this day in and day out. Compared to other people I have come in contact with, my life-in the fitness aspect-is relatively uninspiring. I never played any sports in school. I was never pushed to even try out. Perhaps being raised without a male figure in my life was the reasoning behind this. I was introduced to the gym in my late twenties and although I have stuck with it over the years now, there was never a drive, a purpose, or a reason. I just did it as I felt it kept me in shape. I later moved into a brief mixed martial arts stint and felt like that I had reached a new goal. There was a drive to be better, hell to beat the other man. Years of that training did not do a body good. I managed to sustain some good injuries along the way that now deem it necessary to make the gym routine an adventure. Still, where is the drive...the reason? I believe anyone in my position has tried fad diets, programs to reach new goals but in the end we seem left further behind than where we started. Why do I do this? I am 38 years old. I will never play college ball or a professional sport, I will never fight again. I will never be a cover model to a magazine. I guess my point is that there doesn't have to be a drive or a reason. I do it because it feels good to set a goal and to pass it. I enjoy being broke down and knowing I have done something the average Joe could not. That is my drive. I have learned over the last few weeks that the "gym" sucks...and that this whole belief that you have to be in a gym doing the same vanilla workouts to achieve goals is a lie. Consider a wild mustang in a fenced area. Yeah he could run about but there is never the chance to be free. To let loose and run at top speed. To use what God gave him. The same goes for us. We need to break out of the maze and let loose. Use the machine God gave us to its full potential. There is so much there, so much untapped ability that is slowly dying in your cubicle, behind your steering wheel, on your couch. Get the hell up and do something. We are a connected society, I say disconnect. Go off the beaten trail and explore. There is a world out there that is passing you by.
Awesome words of wisdom! Oh BTW.. If you go to Crossfit.com and look at the WOD on Monday... Click on the pictures and take a look at the four picture there. See if you can spot someone you know! Tehehehe. Hugs!
ReplyDeleteIf you want to get inspired. ? Check this guy Kyle Maynard at Crossfit.com in the Crossfit Journal. Definitely someone who will make you think twice about complaining about the workouts. :)
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