After undergoing a couple of very stressful weeks of job changes, mid-terms, and recovering from being sick, I am ready to really get back into the habit. The last few weeks have really been trying my patiences and the few AM Bootcamp Sessions I have been able to make have been great. Not only are we trying new excerises that I havent done, its nice to have some of the same consistancy in other drills we do more often. Im excited that today kicks off a new program with Anderson Training Systems called the “Body Fat Buy In”, I’m hoping this program will help me pick up a little of the modivation that I have been lacking lately. Plus it wouldnt be so bad to win the weekly $100-$200 prize at least once!!!
Something miraculous seems to happen around age 50.
When it come to fitness and health it unfortunately isn’t
a scenario of people reaching the apex of their
career and having more money and time to enjoy doing ’what they want’
and taking care of themselves as they have so often dreamed of.
What tends to happen is this weird set of excuse making and they
start to say things like.
‘I am too old to do that’
or
‘My body hurts too much to do…’
or the classic quote of entitlement
‘I am 50 and know my body better than anyone else’
Ultimately these are all flimsy excuses that are using
age as a reason not to do an activity(s) that have
been given resounding approval to have great benefit.
I can understand where they are coming from it can be
scary to start something knew especially somehting
that will be a shock to the system.
To take on the challenge of something like a bootcamp
workout at any age can be complete shock to the body;
however if you have been incremently adding an extra
30-50lbs over the last 25yrs and been doing little or
zero exercise other than the obligatory wallking of the
dog.
Then hell yeah taking on the challenge of the boot camp
workout is going to cause some serious soreness; but you
know what even at age 50 that soreness still goes away; and
guess what if you clean up your nutrition, drink some water,
and down some fish oil the soreness will go away even faster, AND
even better you will start to drop some of the extra weight that has YOU ‘feeling old’
Now the physical part is one thing but mental part is a complete
other bird I call it the ‘swallowing of the pride’ and it is another huge
step that has to be taken; this means that you are actually
willing to throw away the mindset that because you are 50 you know
everything and put your fitness and health development in someone
elses care and that take a lot of courage.
Because when you ARE 50 and SUPPOSED to be
older and wiser.
Sure there will be set backs, maybe even a nick, sprain, or strain all
of it in the name of the game of learning to using and move a body that has
been neglected or chronically misused over a period of years.
I would liken this to taking a car out storage after 25yrs and even taking it for
a little jaunt around the block is going to cause a need for some minor
tuning up.
To me the most interesting thing of is all is the
irony of the major disconnect in the “Because I am
50 mind”.
How old people feel physically vs mentally,
I have called these people ‘old’ they are quick to jump
to their own defense and say, ‘I am NOT old I am only 50′.
Yet on the same token when asked to
do something well within their physical capability
they are also quick to jump to their defense and
say, ‘I am too old to do that’
In my book we are ALL too OLD to have crappy excuses
and
We are ALL to capable of changing, improving, and challenging our bodies regardless of
physical age.
To end I think the quote goes something like this:“You can either get started living, or you can get started dying” the choice is yours
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