Lost, and found

April 16, 2020 my mother fell down her stairs in her home and tragically passed. Fitness was her passion, at fifty four years old she still had plenty of time to continue that passion. After the news reached me, my grief wouldn't allow me to even look at my home gym. As weeks passed, and my grief subsided. I found myself back into bad eating habits. Eating too much, and not moving enough.

Last night, while listening to my nightly podcast. Maybe I'll write an article about my sleep routine some other time. I made the decision to get back after my goals. Specifically losing fat and gaining health.

Today I started a 48hr fast, and walked to work this morning. Fasting is a great way to reset the gut, and change directions on diet. I was really motivated to fast after listening to Cole Robinson on Mark Bell's Power Project. Cole founded the snake diet, and has some really excellent ideas on fasting. I'm not going to go into it, you can look it up yourself.

So here we go, losing fat, hopefully I'll post a good transformation in the future.

I'm getting old?

As my bad habits slowly pull my youth away from me I find myself in a world many have warned me of... Unsuccessfully, friends and family have been warning me about joint pain for many years. With youthful ignorance I continued walking into golds gym, crossfit gyms, my home gym and jumped feet first into a heavy lifting session, for many years with no problems. The last few years as my strength faded and my time spent on things other than the gym I've noticed that jumping right into lifting isn't working anymore.

With hockey season just around the corner, I've found myself completing 5km on the Concept2 rower daily, and feeling great doing it. I've also noticed by about 1500m I'm sweating pretty good. My latest extension to my workout routine is to use a 2km row before any workout, just to get warm. This addition feels great, I still find I have to warm up the joints in the movement but with the blood pumping it takes minimal time.

I know that this is preaching to the choir, of course warming up is going to help. Well I know this, I've taught this. But somehow always thought I was above it.

Today I had 10min to wright this article, hope it helps. As I prep for hockey season and powerlifting comp 2019