Operation: Fitness

 
I made a wild decision to join the newly opened gym and fitness center Powerhouse in Joplin Last week.  I chose to take an assessment for my benefit and know I need to do this.  Im not setting goals.  Im not saying I'm going to loose this much by this date, I just want to commit and dedicate myself to the gym.  I had gone to their grand opening for a project for my boss.  We are trying to land them for a client to do pr and marketing work for them.  When I went there, I saw all these trainers and staff all in shape and seeing something I didn't have (besides having their bodies).  They all had a purpose of what they did and why they were there.  I am tired of being myself as being overweight and winded all the time.  I know I embarrass my company of the way I look being overweight and all and for some reason, during the grand opening ribbon cutting, I made a decision to change all that.  I started over the weekend and went on Monday and on Tuesday, I was introduced to Alissa.  Alissa is a 20 something firm built competitive body builder.  She is serious about fitness and workouts.  Tuesday was a strong indicator that I had allot of work in front of me.  The thing was is that I felt good and cleansed that whole day and woke up in pain about 3 am Wednesday morning.  Of all things my arms were in a hurt pain and not sure what was happening. After calling the gym, it was obvious, I, for the first time in my life had a fitness workout.  I have made a commitment and I cant quit, but man did I hurt that day.  As the evening went on I decided to go back to the gym and at least stretch and get on the treadmill because I really did not want to sit and hurt all night.  Thursday morning I had woke up not as sore and was a bit more "movable" than I was the day before.  Alissa started me out in  squats and worked my arms and shoulders and for the first time in my life introduced me to the Stair-master.  Oh My God!!!!.....   I was disappointed in myself that a short time after being on there, I found myself totally winded and not able to keep up with the slowest speed on the machine.  Though during the time on the stair-master, my mind was just to be able to stay on and keep up.  I need to have the focus to push myself and not let it beat me and push myself harder to fitness if I want this.  We did a cool down on the tread mill and closed my session at that.  My stair-master experience not only embarrassing for Alissa but made me think I need to push myself and quit surviving and just getting it done and move on.  Focus is the key work I need in all my life today.  I need to focus to make this work and follow through with something for the first time in my life.  I believe Powerhouse is what i've been looking for to push myself to make all the changes Lance needs to make in Lance's life.