The Student becomes the Teacher...

Hello again friends!  I hope everyone had a great Christmas.  Watching my son play with his new guitar ALL DAY singing "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" was great.  But the best part was when my wife asked him what his favorite part of the Christmas was he said, Spending time with family and friends." What a guy!

Sorry no real random thoughts this time around.

It is amazing to me how much going to the gym has changed not only changed me physically but how I approach other aspects of my life.  It used to be that Christmas presents for me meant movies, movies and more movies.  I loved me some movies.  My brother in law sent me a text before Christmas asking what movies I would be interested in.  For the first time in 8 years I had no response.  I had bought the last movie I wanted (Iron Man 2) with a gift card I got for my birthday and that was the last movie I had really watched. (Side note; I tried to watch The Expendables one night, but I kept getting interrupted by someone. But I won't name names, she knows who she is!)  Movies just don't do too much for me anymore.  There are a couple I would watch if I came across them, but I won't go out of my way to see them

Now for the title of this Blog.  I worked out with some friends of mine the other day.  Jake is the one who took me to the gym for the first time in February and we worked out together for a couple of months before he bailed for another gym.  Jay and Jake both work with me at my part-time job.  Sunday was the first time that the three of us worked out together in at least 6 months.  The running joke for the better part of the night was that I needed to teach them something.  At long last I finally did.  It wasn't anything major, but it was the fact that I showed them both a new way to do a bicep exercise, it really made my night.  Also the fact that I was able to talk to them about sports supplements and do a little educating made the last 10 months of transforming myself worth while. Not to say that losing a small child (70 lbs OK a medium sized child) isn't reward enough, it is another small victory for me.

Have a safe New Years...Remember not to make a resolution to get in shape.  Do it for yourself...Resolutions are made to be broken

Here's to your 225,

Mike