I’m about 30 minutes removed from my first workout at the time of this blog post. Over the weekend, I got a phone call from a very good friend of mine, Morris Jamison, who is a personal trainer gym owner at Marathon Fitness in Nashville, TN. I’ll make a long story short and just say that by the end of our conversation, he found a way to get my competitive juices going by challenging me to six months of exercise that would conclude with running a 1/2 marathon. I accepted.

You see, I have run five 1/2 marathons over the past several years. However, recently my exercise routine has gone straight to hell. I’ve had a few runs at it, where I would lose 15-20 lbs, but then I’d fall right back into the abyss. I always found a way to convince myself that it wasn’t as bad as it really was. I had me thinking that I could just hit the switch and out would jump this uber healthy version of me that would champion all of my bad habits and get the world spinning on its axis again. Strangely enough though, that guy hasn’t shown up. So now, its up to me to undo the damage that I have done.

Today was the first workout of this challenge consisting of:

1-mile walk (22 minutes today)
3 x 25 Standing Bench Press
3 x 10 Alternating Over Shoulder Pulls
3 x 15 Lat/ Trunk twists
3 x 15 Squats with band around waist.

A friend and mentor of mine turned me on to the resistance bands. After one workout with them, I really think I’m on to something. I felt the burn, but did not have the stress of hold weights in my hands. This is a great thing for me as I have grown to hat the clanking sound of weights. Time will tell though as its always easy coming out of the gate. Stay with me. This could turn out to be on heck of a ride!

Dreams mean work,

p.s.  Yes, my lower back was on fire to day from my first step into the mile run, until the very end of the workout!