Getting Back on Track

Its been a while since I wrote in this blog. I had been wanting to update on my running and weight loss but there was nothing to update. I hadn’t been at all successful in getting anything done, at least not consistently. So I haven’t wanted to write anything as I feel like I’m extremely hypocritical even having this blog.

If I have a blog about exercise and weight loss and don’t do anything to get myself towards weight loss, then how can I write a blog about weight loss or my fitness adventures. Blogging for me has always been a love-hate relationship. I love the idea of a blog and I hate taking the time to write in it. The blogging higher-ups would tell me that I shouldn’t be this open and honest while blogging and maybe they are right, but I have always gotten good responses while bearing my soul, as scary as it is.

So I am going to attempt to revive this blog. I don’t need to have advertising, I’m not looking to get paid for this, all I believe that I want is to be an inspiration to someone who is looking to lose weight and wants to revive his or her exercise/fitness life. If nothing else happens and all I get to do is share my experiences with the interwebs then so be it! For those of you reading, please comment either on this blog or on Facebook when I share it to FB. It would make me happier to know if people are actually interested in reading my stuff.

Lets get started: here goes!

1. What’s been going on for the past several months?

The last several months have been crazy. If you’ve been following along with my photoblog, I got a job as a photographer for a wire service agency, Icon Sportswire . They had me shooting professional sports off an on all summer long. I think that most of July and August was spent at Busch Stadium photographing the Cardinals. I don’t think I shot all that many games as it feels like but between shooting games and working my real job at the hospital, I haven’t had all that much time to write or any energy to workout.

Here’s a little secret, I’ve actually been rather lazy up until this last month when it comes to working out. One of the things I’ve found out is that the more you exercise, the more energy you actually have. It is the most paradoxical thing I’ve ever come across, but it works.

2. Have I been exercising at all or just sitting on the couch eating bon-bon’s?

Ok, so I don’t even think I’ve ever eaten a bon-bon, but I definitely have eaten my fair share of crap. When I went to my health-care convention last December in Orlando, FL, I weighed in at 256ish. This summer I gained almost all of the weight that I lost when I was getting married. I had had enough. What I was doing wasn’t working. Before I start into what has been going on in the last few months, here is the little that I was doing this summer.

From the beginning of May and throughout the summer my buddy, Jeff and I had been running/walking once per week-ish after I got off work. It was going okay...well it actually kinda sucked since that was the only exercise I was getting in a week. I liked exercising at night after work so I joined Planet Fitness in Ballwin and guess how many times I actually went? Once. The one time I went was good I did some running, but it ended up being too far from my house and I never went. There was nothing wrong with the gym, in fact, I liked the gym it was just too far from my house and thus I didn’t use it. The one thing that I did like about the gym that I was unable to use was their Planet Fitness Biggest Loser 30 min Express Workout. Basically, the workout is a giant circuit that is supposed to only take 30 min. You are given a timer in the form of a stop light. On green you work and red you rest. You alternate between the steppers and the circuit machines. It looked like a killer workout if you followed the whole thing from start to finish.


So where am I now? Well, after getting sick and tired of being this way and not doing anything about it, I decided to start up our Biggest Loser competition at work. It’s going ok. I’m not winning but I’m not losing either, the competition - I am losing weight very very very slowly.

I’ve been going to Gold’s Gym in St. Peters which has really helped me get back into the swing of working out. I went there because my wife and I got a 3 month groupon deal and figured we couldn’t pass it up. I’ve been doing cardio and circuit work including a few kettlebell swings. I think that I strained a muscle in my lower back from the kettlebell swings so I’ve taken a few days off. Hopefully this week I will be able to start working on my sprint triathlon training. I’ll let you all know in a few weeks how things are going.

Thanks for reading as always. Cheers!