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Fitness Friday? What Happened to FreePlay?
Posted on May 8th, 2009 in Fitness, Life and Family by Fred McKinnon
FreePlay Friday (temporarily discontinued – to resume soon)
Hey Everybody,
Today I’m doing “Fitness Friday” – a blog carnival hosted by my friend Bryan Patrick over at PursuingYahweh.Net. I met Bryan at the re:create conference in Franklin, TN in February.
In light of my recent commitment to fitness plan, I thought I’d take a break from “FreePlay Friday” and jump in with Patrick here. Don’t worry – you can always post your own random comments here, and I’ll throw in the family, life stuff in “Fitness Fridays” anyway!
Island Regimen Training
I first talked about this last week in my post “I Almost Died This Morning“. I’ve started a new training program called “Regimen Training” with a great group of men and women. It’s led by a guy named Eric Taylor who delights in kicking our butts twice a week. Eric just started a new blog called “The Fitness Forum”. If you’re interested in health and fitness, check it out.
We meet at 6:00 AM on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Our 6:00 AM warmups include stuff like:
* bunny hops back and forth across the workout area
* slow lunges
* faster lunge walks
* high knee kicks
* some kind of sideways shuffle thing
* quick sprints
* vertical leaps
Then, we move to any number of classic outdoor exercises like pushups, squats, lunges, dips, to some more “unique” exercises I can’t begin to describe. We’re doing some running, too. For example on Tuesday, we jogged to a nature trail that is 1/2 mile long, and loops all through the woods. (very few straightaways) We had to sprint through it, then rest a minute or so, then sprint through it again. Yesterday, we hit the same track but this time we ran and stopped at every stretch station along the way and did pushups or various exercises. We’re doing things like “bear crawls” and “crab walks” where you get down on your hands and toes (no knees on the ground) and crawl around, low to the ground. Man, that hurts.
So I’m starting this brutal nonsense in horrific shape. Topping the scales around 235 lbs (approx 6 ft tall), horrible eating habits, horrible resting habits, and no desire to exercise. I’m weak all over – I can barely do 10 pushups. I’m one of the youngest in the class, and definitely the most out of shape. You can see from the picture above – who looks the sweatiest? (I’m the guy in the grey Georgia Bulldog T-Shirt!).
I’ll be talking about it more … but the bottom line is that I have to make a change. Truth is, if I only do this 2 days a week, and I only have 6 more weeks to go … it won’t have the greatest impact. I will need to supplement this and change a lot of things. But I know God is telling me I have to do this. If I continue living the way I was living, I’m living in disobedience and rebellion. Not a good place.
If you’re interested in posting about your journey in Fitness (or if you’re inspired to START), join Bryan’s new “Fitness Fridays” blog carnival.
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Im busting a gut laughing ! Me , starting the “Fit Friday” conversation, now that’s Funny!!! I Sure do appreciate the great wheat wrapped subs with mustard only last night at church, much betterthan pizza!! – Thanks for that Fred-O== I am trying to shed a few TONS tooI lost 38 LBs. year before last but I think I have found that and more. I have the ole’ pacemaker so I am limited to Bike riding unfortunately.Have a great
“Fit Friday!!” RV
busting a gut … now THAT sounds messy!
Yeah, the subs were a nice, healthy change from that pizza, eh!?
Ouch! It hurts to just think about it. But I sure need to get back into fitness myself. I’ve gotten my weight back down to between 175 and 180, but I’m still out of shape!
Robert,
185 is my target – I’d love to be there by Christmas. “Phil 4:13″
Hey Fred!
you can do it!
I’ve got faith in you- trust me, I know the challenge that it is to get into shape.
I tipped the scale at 245 when I was only 18… (5’10″ -not good)
In 6 months, I lost over 75 pounds and have kept if off for going on 3 years!
Fred, you and I have the same weight target. Last one there buys dinner (water and salad of course!).
Hey man – this is an awesome start! Just doing this twice a week is definitely SOMETHING. Yeah, it takes a total makeover of life change to really get fit, but small steps add up. Take it from a guy who’s lost and re-gained the weight equal to a couple of super-models over the last decade. I always got discouraged when I got “off” the plan.
Now, the plan is to make a life change and not just diet. Dieting is a sport that is as risky as russian roulette and no one wins.
Stick with it man. Looking forward to the journey together and celebrating what God will do as we gather again next February!
-BP
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Man! I know I really need to get back into regular exercise.
Thanks for the inspiration.
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