Pain is Good

Hello everyone and welcome to another blog entry from yours truly.  Well today I am sore as heck from a great chest workout yesterday afternoon with Ulrick and Jen.  I am so proud of Jen today as yesterday Jen was able to accomplish one of her big fitness goals she set out to do from the start and that was to be able to do some push ups and not only was she able to do one she was able to do three whole sets and with perfect form not even the girlie push up's but straight up push up's, so today we are all very proud of Jen for accomplishing this feat and impressing us all.   I have improved my ability to do sort of a push up it's still quite hard because I am lifting so much weight off the ground it kind of comes up in two steps and kind of looks like I'm doing the worm break dance.  But hey at least I'm trying and improving from not even being able to lift myself at all.

It had been a long time since I had done any weight training when I started these workouts back in April but one thing I have learned is nothing beats  weight lifting for something being a good measure of how your body is changing.  Each time you go you will be sore you will hurt that's just the way it is and that aspect scares off so many people from ever trying to do strength training and they just stick with cardio but no type of cardio can give you what strength training can as a positive result in the way your body looks and feels and shapes.  So I have resigned myself to the fact that pain is good, each week will hurt because next week ill be stronger and the week after that the week after that. That's just the way muscles are you have to break down the old to build back new that are a little bit bigger and a little bit stronger but the process in between can be difficult and painful but remember pain is good if you can't feel the muscle the next day screaming at you then you didn't work hard enough.  I'm really starting to see a few changes in the shape of certain parts of my body which is good as I knew it would take a long time to show any muscle development as everything was covered in inches and in some spots more than a foot of fat and as the fat melts away I am hopeful that new muscles that I have been building over the last eight months will begin to show.  Another huge advantage and something I highly suggest for anyone who wants to lose over a hundred or more pounds id strength training because It is a life saver when it comes to skin If all you do is burn fat you get loose skin and droopy skin in areas that used to be round, but if you replace that area with new muscle growth it takes up that slack and you still look good and not droopy with flabby skin especially on the arms and belly, so loose the arm fat and replace with biceps and triceps and loose the belly fat and replace with abs and much like the Men's warehouse commercials "You will like the way you look I guarantee it"

So yesterday we had some good conversation about choices  that people and a diet have to make about food and the weighing of Risk vs Reward when it comes to situations we are in.  This time of year I think it is certainly harder for us as even more choices are given to us and we feel more pressure to give in because it's the Holidays and because it's tradition.  Well tradition is whatever it is you make it out to be you want to start a new one start a new one just because some has done something for decades a certain way  doesn't mean it is right for you and when it comes to eating we all have to realize we are the master of our own destiny only we decide what we eat and only we can raise that fork or that cup. So consider that next time you are deciding Risk vs Reward with all this Holiday food be master of your own destiny.

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