It has been a while since my last post. Got to say getting in shape is hard. Much less trying to do it during the holidays. Who can resist all those delicious, mouth watering, stuff your face foods they serve up during the holiday season. With that second serving of turkey throw in more green bean casserole, some loaded mashed potatoes, stuffing, slice of pie, oh with whip cream and a side of ice cream. Yes in South Texas you can have ice cream in the winter time. Shoot you can even go to the beach with this weather we had. Unless your my friend Mike, who looks at fatty food as disgusting. This guy couldn't enjoy eating a cup cake cause of fear head become one of them!!! What is wrong with this guy? Just kidding Mike, don't take it serious.
Anyways, I shouldn't just blame the food. As a youngster one can run, jump, hit, be hit, fall, wreak bikes, jump off building(really), and not ever hurt a dam thing. Yes I would do all those things in no particular order but as we age the body can't take that. It just doesn't recover as fast. That what happened to me. I tried to be patient with the workouts. Take time and care to stretch properly and warm up. Then I got to impatient with the workouts and pushed it to hard. At my age and how in shape I am not in, muscle strains don't take days to heal, they are more like weeks. At that point why even try?
Well that is why I am here today. Trying, a little. Actually been doing well. I started by getting the body ready for 2 mile runs. I feel that 2 miles is a good starting point to develop good techniques in running. I believe I have said this before, but a good runner uses 90% mental preparation and 10 % physical. Key areas I focus on are breathing and form. Focusing the mind to work on these 2 areas have great impact in improving running distances and pace. Also keeping the distances short will hopefully prevent injury as I begin to build muscle and get rid of fat. I am also doing weight training between running days and watching how I eat. Such as, instead of the whole burger, cheese, fries and a coke, I just get a burger. 460 calories beats a 1200 calorie lunch any day. For now it works. Stay tuned, more to come as I progress to that 26.2 miler.
