Resolution, shmesolution.
Exercise was not going to be part of 2013's, no matter what.
Two very verbal blessings - aka, my daughters - and a new baby who requires most of my attention had equaled - I'll be honest - a very welcome break from exercising in the year 2012.
I have been pumping my heart like mad since high school. I was never a star athlete, but I have always been an athlete who has enjoyed working out! I had the heart, if not the stats, to last forever. Finding running my senior year of high school helped that.
Running, I found, was a lifelong sport.
Running is an inclusive sport. Everyone wants you to do better! Everyone wants yout o get your best time! You push hard, I push hard, we both win! Loved it.
So it was natural to turn this hobby into something I could share. So went the launch of SLIMnasium in 2006, and it took off in 2011. I have many wonderful co-trainees to thank for that!
In the meantime, I learned that being a wife, then a mom, then a mom of two, now a mom of three, would be a lifelong process. Such as learning how to cook and clean. Like, regularly, not just when I felt like it! People depend on me now?! That in itself was rough.
But 2012 really whooped my tail.
I enjoyed making muffins... running? Not so much. Muffin top won.
Enter the weirdest feeling ever. Being comfortable on the couch. Frightening! And all year long!
And then, miraculously, after the clock hit 4 pm on New Year's Day, an even greater feeling: the itch to run again.
I thought, "I could record this. Or not. Okay, I will."
I won't share specific numbers. The premise of SLIMnasium has always been, and always will be, God made you in His perfect image, but I can help you find out who that is under any extra layers you have acquired over the years... And we are all made differently, so my numbers should never equal your numbers.
I might share percentages, though. You know, you have to have a way to judge progress!!
So come with me. This is set to be a great year. I am free to enjoy life, free to raise children, free to be a wife, and free to train others as they need me. Mostly, I am freed from my place on the couch, to run again.
But I know, each part of me - the home-based mom, the personal trainer, and their muffin top - will slug it the whole way. It will not be easy. And it shouldn't be! You can track it here, all year long.
I hope I can find joy in the struggle.
Exercise was not going to be part of 2013's, no matter what.
Two very verbal blessings - aka, my daughters - and a new baby who requires most of my attention had equaled - I'll be honest - a very welcome break from exercising in the year 2012.
I have been pumping my heart like mad since high school. I was never a star athlete, but I have always been an athlete who has enjoyed working out! I had the heart, if not the stats, to last forever. Finding running my senior year of high school helped that.
Running, I found, was a lifelong sport.
Running is an inclusive sport. Everyone wants you to do better! Everyone wants yout o get your best time! You push hard, I push hard, we both win! Loved it.
So it was natural to turn this hobby into something I could share. So went the launch of SLIMnasium in 2006, and it took off in 2011. I have many wonderful co-trainees to thank for that!
In the meantime, I learned that being a wife, then a mom, then a mom of two, now a mom of three, would be a lifelong process. Such as learning how to cook and clean. Like, regularly, not just when I felt like it! People depend on me now?! That in itself was rough.
But 2012 really whooped my tail.
I enjoyed making muffins... running? Not so much. Muffin top won.
Enter the weirdest feeling ever. Being comfortable on the couch. Frightening! And all year long!
And then, miraculously, after the clock hit 4 pm on New Year's Day, an even greater feeling: the itch to run again.
I thought, "I could record this. Or not. Okay, I will."
I won't share specific numbers. The premise of SLIMnasium has always been, and always will be, God made you in His perfect image, but I can help you find out who that is under any extra layers you have acquired over the years... And we are all made differently, so my numbers should never equal your numbers.
I might share percentages, though. You know, you have to have a way to judge progress!!
So come with me. This is set to be a great year. I am free to enjoy life, free to raise children, free to be a wife, and free to train others as they need me. Mostly, I am freed from my place on the couch, to run again.
But I know, each part of me - the home-based mom, the personal trainer, and their muffin top - will slug it the whole way. It will not be easy. And it shouldn't be! You can track it here, all year long.
I hope I can find joy in the struggle.
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