21 Sep
What do you mean by ‘fit’?
The September 2008 issue of Outside magazine has a feature on the fittest ‘Real Men’ in America. These guys are amazing, plain and simple! The articles’ opening paragraph makes an interesting point:
Forget what the mags with the shirtless, six-packed dudes on the cover tell you. Fitness is not about 20-inch guns and 10-minute full-body workouts. Nor is it about miracle diets or flashy sponsorships. And it’s certainly not about looking good at the gym. Fitness is about living at your peak, no matter what stands in your way. It’s about obeying the alarm clock, peeling yourself out of bed, and finding that extra hour most people think they’ll never have.
A number of the FatBloggers have accomplished tremendous personal fitness goals; Charles ran a 5k so did Johnny, Tony is out in front on the 5k’s and has even participated in a couple triathlons, I recently checked an item off my Bucket List and of course there is the mind blowing near 700 lbs of FAT that has been lost by all of us.
Are you shooting for the Gregg Avedon look? Or, is there something else driving you?
Posted by Will @ 4XLT on 21.09.08 at 7:20 am
Not successfully transitioning from a fat loss to a fitness improval mindset is what kills a lot of former fat guys.
There’s a lot of awesome life change done and weight lost, but once that weight is gone and you’re at a body fat percentage you’re happy with - then what happens?
You can’t exist in a vacuum - something has to fill the hole where all the energy went into loosing the weight. If it’s not changing your focus to something fitness related (the long distance biking guy in the article, power lifting, whatever), then it’s dangerously easy to slip back.
And that slipping back, whether it’s 5 pounds, 20 pounds, or a 100, sucks.
Posted by George on 21.09.08 at 7:20 am
It’s amazing how easy we can fall into the mindset of looking fit when in the end that’ll just lead us to sabotage our progress by letting our guards down.
Reading what you guys have done in your process of losing weight is really inspiring but the big part is as Will said, Focusing that new found energy by becoming something from it.