A Man Is No One's blog: "This & That"

So maybe you have noticed, or maybe you haven't, that a lot of my statuses lately have been fitness oriented. Needless to say I have become a little bit obsessed. But wait! There's a reason.

As many of you know, I spent from December of '09 until my surgery in July of '11 enduring rather nasty shoulder/arm pain due to a bone spur tearing up my rotator cuff. It only lasted so long because it took so long to find thanks to a few inept doctors who insisted it was my neck causing all my symptoms. But that is a whole other rant (see previous entries in Rants lol).

So finally this year I am able to get back into a regular fitness routine, and boy have I dug in with both feet and gone after it. Istarted withe a fitness program called Les Mills Pump. It uses light weights but tons of repetions. I chose it as a rehab program for my shoulder plus a way to start building back my endurance. I'll tell you what, people, the programs is a lot more challenging than it may look at first and it works. I highly recommend it to anyone, guys or girls, who are looking to build strength and endurance but maybe don't want to bulk up a lot.

As the program progresses and I am getting stronger I am swapping out some routines with those from P90X, which I had been doing prior to my shoulder shitting the bed. I also plan to start incorporating routines from the Insanity program, which is a high intensity cardio program. My goal this year is to get in the best shape I have even been in.

So why am I telling you all this? Who knows lol. I suppose if I can inspire even one person to try and improve themselves then it was worth it. It was very hard to not let the whole thing with my shoulder beat me down, though there were times when it succeeded. Its very hard to make one's self change after a while. We become accustomed to our routines and resist changes. But if you as me, the day we stop changing and growing is the day we may as well lay down and not get back up.

Its not about finding yourself. Its about creating yourself.

~nuff said~