The most important aspect is the way I feel. I have never been in better shape. A close, and I mean very close, partner to that is the amazing people I have met and the many friends I have made.
__________________ In Fitness & Friendship, MAHLER
______________________________ __________________________ There is no light at the end of the tunnel. You carry the light with you.
Feeling good about yourself. Offering your best to your family and friends. And as Mahler pointed out.. all the friends I have made on this fitness journey.
I think Mahler said it all. There's nothing else like feeling your best. And the confidence you gain enables you to reach out and make friends. Exercise + strong socialization = healthy mind and body. It's a self-supporting path UP when it seems most of the world is spiraling down.
__________________ The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. -- Carlos Castaneda
Other than that - health and wanting to be able to live long enough to be functional enough to keep up wih my kids.
If I could be healthy and fit and look good naked without working out? I'd skip the workouts, even though they made me feel good. But that's just the stage of life I am at right now - I know JP can understand what I mean.
PS: Buster, I hear you had a baby with Kanye's g/f.
definately a state-of-mind thing. Working out has brought many positive lifestyle changes into my life, and many of you have much more powerful personal stories attesting to that fact than I do.
Introducing regular excercise, and specifically weight-lifting, into my life, has been a process. The process has been gradual, sometimes difficult, but definately worthwhile.
It has caused me to reevaluate what I put into my body, how much I value my body and the life I live. Most importantly for me, though, is that it's given me an increased sense of confidence and pride, and a feeling of success and enjoyment I didn't think was possible from simulated manual labor (that is, after all, what weight-lifting is).
Thanks for 2 years of constant inspiration and motivation, guys!
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Passing a 20 something on a stiff climb - Priceless!
Mastercard is having a contest right now I think, did yousubmit your entry?
Og.
__________________ 2009: No races, No times. Slow year. So, now you're 96 cals short. You're now in starvation mode. Doomed. - LostDog
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For me it's
1) knowing that I'm still enjoying life the way I want to,
2) that I'll probably stay independant much longer than if I didn't do anything and that
3) I'm giving an example to youger generations (read : "my son" and "the same 20 something that ODB is passing in a stiff climb" ) that life doesn't end at 40.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. -- Sidney J. Harris
At the moment I have a boring dead end job with no challenge and no long term proospects so for me its the personal challenge and the sense of achievement as the weights increase
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"The time for talking has passed, actions are speaking louder than words."
What do y'all think................
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