I thought I would "get a little real" and dish some of my exercise/fitness history.
I grew up athletic'ish, tried out some sports (like scoring points for the opposing team tried out), rode bikes, skateboards and plop'd down in drill team for a few years in high school.
In 1997 I enlisted in the Navy and got into the best shape of my life, but at the cost of my right femoral Neck (right hip) and left hip to a lesser extent. With three pins embedded in my bone; that set off a metal detector once even, and an appointment to a "Temporary Retired Disabled Leave" classification, I was sent home...In great shape, but broken and patched up.
Flash forward to 2013...and I have had at least two major (one literally Life Saving) surgeries and...a beautiful bouncing baby boy, and my body is showing it...like "...so when are you due?" from strangers...showing it.
I signed up with a "Globo..." gym (that had a great kids care center), attending the group classes and got motivated enough to work with a trainer. The training sessions were tough, and intense but really good (...like i was getting back to Navy boot camp shape) until the last one...a free extra training sesh that ended up immediately halting all the progress and work I had put in.
I signed up with a "Globo..." gym (that had a great kids care center), attending the group classes and got motivated enough to work with a trainer. The training sessions were tough, and intense but really good (...like i was getting back to Navy boot camp shape) until the last one...a free extra training sesh that ended up immediately halting all the progress and work I had put in.
We were doing some wall climbs, where I had to push my body up, throw my legs over, and push off and down the other side. I think I did it once, the second time though my arm failed me and I crashed down onto a half-a-foot-wide 'wall' my rib cage cracking a rib...I was workout broken.
Fast track 2.5 weeks ago... add my sweet (3 Year Old) baby girl to the life changes and reasons I've given up on my body column(s)
and the realized anniversary; 5 years since my work out "break-up",,,when I finally accepted my need to get my self "fit again". I find myself anxious for an accident, or incident that will end this honeymoon phase, when things start to fracture or break. I feel optimistic and encouraged by the people around me and my trainer(s). I have already fallen down, and have campers, team mates and trainers that help(ed) me up...I wasn't even bruised...just modified!
Tomorrow because of scheduling conflicts, will go to a different group at a different time of day for my work out and I am nervous. There is an underlying visual confidence level that helps me enjoy the early morning (dark) workouts, annnddd my kids might have to witness the nightmare is my face whilst working out.
I feel like I have leveled up...{{{going BOLD}}} perhaps.
I hope you enjoy reading this one as much as I enjoyed putting it down!
-i
Fast track 2.5 weeks ago... add my sweet (3 Year Old) baby girl to the life changes and reasons I've given up on my body column(s)
and the realized anniversary; 5 years since my work out "break-up",,,when I finally accepted my need to get my self "fit again". I find myself anxious for an accident, or incident that will end this honeymoon phase, when things start to fracture or break. I feel optimistic and encouraged by the people around me and my trainer(s). I have already fallen down, and have campers, team mates and trainers that help(ed) me up...I wasn't even bruised...just modified!
Tomorrow because of scheduling conflicts, will go to a different group at a different time of day for my work out and I am nervous. There is an underlying visual confidence level that helps me enjoy the early morning (dark) workouts, annnddd my kids might have to witness the nightmare is my face whilst working out.
I feel like I have leveled up...{{{going BOLD}}} perhaps.
I hope you enjoy reading this one as much as I enjoyed putting it down!
-i
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