How have the past five months of your 2020 been?
From a fitness standpoint, mine have been dreadful.
It wasn’t until recently,
(when I found myself fighting for air
as I sprinted at 5.5mph
to the end of my 50 yard long street
to meet the food delivery service driver who had trouble finding our address
to retrieve my order consisting of pizza + dessert pizza + cheese balls + mozzarella sticks)
that I realized how out of shape I had become.
A week earlier when I experienced physical struggles lifting boards and climbing ladders while building an extension to our deck could have also been a hint, but I must have just blamed that day on the heat.
Over the last five months, it seems I have only been motivated to do two things…
Break all of my old good habits
Develop new bad habits
Since mid-March, I relapsed on soda - something I had very proudly not had a drip of for over 5 years prior to that. I went periods of up to 3 weeks of no working out at all. 80% of my meals have been junk.
Up until last Thursday, I have not been worthy of considering myself a promoter of health/personal trainer/coach/member of society.
But since then, I have worked out 6 out of 7 days (matching, maybe even exceeding the # of times I worked out in July). My eating has not been perfect, but under control.
This has been the most consistent 7 days I’ve had since the virus hit.
I’ve got some momentum built up.
You’ll hear more from me moving forward now that I am busy getting in shape.