Fitness Routine

Starting August 2017, I decided that I needed to take an effort to be more healthy in many areas of my life. I started thinking about the things that I could do now that would help me in the future. I am
not going to lie I had tried many times before to workout and I always stopped. I am going to explain a little bit of my history.

I started playing sports in 4th grade and I played all the way through my senior year of high school. I would pretty much be doing different things year around. Once I got into high school I was a three sport athlete. In the summer, I would do speed and agility camps, team camps, open gym, and weight lifting. This meant that I was naturally working out five to seven days a week. I was never the most happy with my body, but I mean I was pretty active. My junior year of high school during basketball season I had an injury to my foot. This caused me a lot of pain and to some extent causes me problems still.

Throughout college, I would try to work out and my foot would start bothering me and I would stop. Fast forward to August I finally decided I wanted to do this. Not just to lose weight which was a lot of motivation in the past, but to be heathier overall. Of course losing weight has happened, but it has been slow and I have been okay with it being sustainable.

Now you may be asking what I do to work out. I did something different this time I started out very slow to get my body back in shape. I started out taking walks. Then, I started doing some videos in my apartment that were indoor walking workouts. If you really try you can work up a sweat and trust me they will work. Then I tried more workouts that would not cause to much strain to my foot and side line me. I play volleyball once a week. I am currently doing a workout challenge with my best friend (if I like it I will tell you more about it). The other day when the weather was nice I went for a walk outside and I tried running a little and it went very well.

I try every day to get 30 minutes of activity. I think the most imposrtant thing you can do is to find workouts you enjoy and can do. They should definitely be challenging because the challenge helps you grow. I can also say in the begining you just need to force yourself to workout. Once you workout for a while it becomes part of your routine. Now I get to the point where I want to workout or I just feel weird. It is just about making these things routine.

The most important thing I can leave you with is even if you are just walking in place in front of the TV, moving is better than sitting there. You can do it. If you need encouragement, please contact me we can all use someone help encourage us.