What’s Your Story?

What’s your story? To continue with our fitness talk this week. What was your defining moment for wanting to get in fit? What motivated you to start? Was it a lightning strike moment or a gradual thing?

For me, my story borderlines cheesiness but here it is. When I was 17 I decided to watch all five rocky movies. I had never seen them in their entirety so I sat down and over the course of a couple weeks (okay it may have just been one week), I watched them. It was then and there I decided I wanted to be in shape.

I bought a weight bench and a punching bag.

The boxing didn’t work out but the weight lifting stuck. I found my niche and loved it. I laugh when I look back at my beginning days. It was embarassing how small I was and how little I could lift. But it was my beginning. It was my START moment, and I am thankful for that.

Today my goals and why are completely different but my love/hate relationships with weight lifting has remained. I am still hooked on it, now more than ever.

For many years I just did the workouts. Then about 3 years ago I decided to start changing my diet. It was then that the biggest change started. I was very limited by how far I could go when I continued to eat in a way that didn’t propel my weight lifting. I still have cheat days (you have to), but my diet and workouts are completely different from before.

My goals change even from year to year, I always set goals for where I want to be by the end of the year, and this year I am half way there.

It’s good to set goals, good to constantly strive for more.

So what is your story? I’d love to hear when/why you began, or why you are beginning now. Comment or inbox me.