Fight club

Today training begins. I’ve let myself go for the last year. I’ve not maintained myself and it’s evident from seeing the spare tire around the mid-section and how easily I’m winded, not to mention lack of endurance. This weekend certainly beared that out. In reflection, now that I’ve hit the floor, the only thing to do was look up, and keep looking up.

Since then I’ve rested and had a chance to think things thru and I know I’ve got to discipline myself, I’ve got to set goals, and I have to make proper choices. Today I’ve determined to clean up my eating habits and start physically training. In addition to Tae Kwon Do (TKD) twice a week, and during the other three days I’ll run on the treadmill (at least until this weather warms up), and do some Tae Bo, play some basketball, and free weight training. In addition to this, I’ll really strive to do 150 pushups a day (was doing this when I was at 187lbs.) and half as many crunches/situps, in addition to doing 25 pull-ups daily. Way I figure it, if I’m gonna enter the dragon, I’ve got to be prepared to slay it.

1 Corinthians9:24 (NKJV)
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. 25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. 26 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. 27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.