Day 1 Week 5 - Learning and growing.

Today I am feeling a little bit more confident about my progress. Parts of me do feel firmer, my bum is perkier, and overall I am getting stronger. I hope that this trend continues for the next 7 weeks which I think it should as long as I keep on track especially during Halloween season which is filled with sweets, alcohol, and pie.

I'm not sure how far exactly I want to go with my fitness journey but of course it won't stop at the end of this 12 week challenge with Gold's Gym. I'm pretty competitive so I don't know if I want to push for a chiseled body or if I want to push more for strength. Either way I choose I will continue to choose fitness which I hope I can maintain once I go back to pursuing my dreams which are currently on hold as I pay off student loans and hone my skills.

I highly suggest to my friends who are still in college get active while you can when you can. I made so many excuses while at school on why I don't need to work out or keep a healthy diet. It's too hard. I'm too busy. I'm tired. I have to study. I have to crew. I'm too poor. I love food too much. These are just some of the excuses that I had but what I did with the time that I had left over I was at home on the computer or watching TV snuggled up in my bed being sedentary. Sure I was sort of active during the day running up and down the stairs searching for my professor Lloyd or walking around campus or opting to park further away rather than parking closer or taking the stairs instead of the elevator. Those choices let me maintain my weight and encouraged my unhealthy obsession with processed foods, sweet tea, and diet soda. Now I realize that I could have pre-prepped my meals on the weekends and chosen to take the extra few minutes in the morning to make and eat breakfast. It's all about little choices that build you into a strong and powerful human being.

Lifting gives me mental and physical strength. The mental strength to overcome an enormous pressure and obstacles that I sometimes feel like I cannot fight through. The physical strength to fight new pressures and obstacles that are larger than those that came before them.

New exercise that I love Cable Squat Rows
Learn how to do them here.