Mid Life Fitness

Today I updated the signature line of the blog to reflect my biggest challenge. Like everyone else I can make excuses, and I have some great ones, but the fact is that success or failure is measured by the result and not by the quality of the excuse.

Today I start a new challenge, one of taking action every day.

I’ve just deleted the paragraph I had typed because it was full of excuses about why I’ve not been taking action, excuses where I attempted to slide out from taking responsibility for the lack of improvement in my fitness.

Typically my approach is all or nothing. My attention is always taken by the latest shiny toy/ idea/ project and I find it really hard to build anything permanent into my life. I take something up, run it ragged then toss it aside. My challenge then isn’t to change that, because that is my nature, but instead it’s to find a way of working with that which will achieve what I need to do.

Workout Album: Disturbed – The Sickness

If like much of the Western world you’ve given in to temptation and over eaten, then rejoice! Mass building requires calories and in this world of obesity we constantly under attack by a media driven guilt trip over what we eat.

Now I don’t mean that you should eat just anything that comes to hand, but there is need to see the forest and not just the trees, something which is impossible if we just listen to a small and vocal minority whose aims are not the same as ours.

In the next couple of days keep your eyes on this blog or my newsletter because Vince Del Monte is releasing a co-authored report which might just open your eyes a little.

I don’t agree with everything that Vince says, and neither should you. Come to that you shouldn’t agree with everything I or anyone else says either! Come on, you are old enough now to realise that you need to tailor advice to what works for you.

But back on track, as I work out today, hitting a new Personal Record, at least for this cycle of training, I’m glad for the boost in calories which are in the process of adding muscle. Yes there is going to be some fat as well which I’ll need to deal with, but the Summer and Autumn of stripping back the fat has altered the balance in my favour. More of that in the report, but for now I need to get back to the presses and pull ups – I’m writing this in the rest pauses as I’m still taking it easy because I haven’t cleared the last of the cold from my system yet – the price of a crap immune system, but one which is sooo much better than it used to be!

Train hard.