My motivations come from many directions.
The motivation to get on the treadmill last year around June 2017 came from a dear family member saying I had lost so much weight, I looked like an old man with nothing on my arms but skin and bones.
And all that time I was thinking that was a good thing. Hell, I want to lose 16 more pounds and be sure the visceral fat is gone from around my vital organs. But to someone near and dear to me, I looked …. wrong.
What ever the motivation or reason, or opinion, I got on the treadmill and found Bettys 2 and 3 pound hand weights, and both sets of ankle weights you strap around the ankle.
We came across some 30lb barbells, I bought some 10lb weights and then Joshua bought me the set of Powerblock Weights that adjust from 3 lbs up to 50lbs for each hand.
Ok, I bought some mirrors to watch my muscles on my shoulders while working out. In a year, that BETTER look different than it did on the day I started. Ok, I can see my thigh muscles on my right leg too, but everything else is blocked by the treadmill.
I follow several fellow on Facebook, who have incredible stories. They have become some of the motivation I hold to these days.
On fellow is Tim Kaufman, or Fatmanrants.com
He was one of my first heroes. His story is one the ‘guys’ in the warehouse could appreciate. He is a ‘real’ mans man. And his wife is really pretty and her ‘story’ equals Fatmans, if not surpasses. Find him on Facebook or Fatmanrants.com on line.
One of the others is a fellow named J Lanning Smith who you can follow on Facebook, of course, J Lanning Smith ,
… or his web site www.wfpbguy.com
This fellow has quite a story too…. (he is 76 years old, and has inspired me to run a marathon within the next year. He just did a 5K the other day and finished 5th among men in his age group.
I want to do that.
Looking back at where I was physically just a year ago… I was better overall physical shape than I had been for … decades.
In spite of all the ‘unknowns’ about why they had to search four places on my legs to find usable veins to complete the Triple By Pass, and COULD I HAVE REVERSED the whole blockage issue with a lifestyle change thus avoiding the Surgery and $300,000 surgery…. it seems the surgery was a success.
BUT! HEY! I have been a nearly PERFECT PATIENT too!
Well, except that I stopped going to the Doctor, Cardiologist, I self diagnosed to stop medications…. ALL medications….even Baby Aspirin… I replaced every medication with food as my medicine.
And so since I was/am not such a perfect patient, I need to tell you, do not do as I did/do … I AM NOT A DOCTOR…. I have been accused of being a loony toon more than once…. so I am not giving medical advice in any form or fashion.
Don’t sue me. You can’t get blood from a turnip.
So where would I like to find myself in a year…
Fit as a fiddle, running marathons, and having a body hard as a rock and rippled with good looking oldman muscles.
And no visceral fat anywhere to be found.
That stuff HAS GOT TO GO! ANY FAT left on my body is not welcome. Fat is not your friend, nor mine.
So, my 63rd birthday is next Friday, February 9th. I was born in 1955.
I am planning a 110th birthday party for the year 2065.
You are invited.
But next year, 2019, when I turn 64, I hope the jogging on the treadmill for almost 23 minutes non stop, at a speed of 2.5 mph is a fond memory, and thing of the past. That was the time I spent on the treadmill today… after about three sets of oldman gentle stuff I do before the treadmill and weights.
Let us hope, that I can double the time, speed, and /or distance…
Oh and by the way, what are some of the songs that you listen to to motivate you while you work out?
Share them…
Please…
Tell me why they motivate you…
Thanks.
Never counting, measuring, nor fearing, calories, proteins, carbs.
oldmanskinandbones.com
Yea, it BETTER look better come February 9th, 2019… a lot better!
… it will !