So one of my goals in getting my life together it to also get my health and fitness under control. I've never been one of those people who obsess about weight because I've always been athletic and active. Super skinny may look great in clothes, but I've never met a super skinny girl who could hit a volleyball harder or swim a 100 meters faster than one with muscle. But lately (like the last 4 years lately), I've been lazy. Even worse, my lazy food habits have caught up with me.
Freshman 15? Please. I decided to step up my game and gain those 15 lbs before I even stepped foot on my college campus. And then I gained another 10 for luck. In the last year I may have lost 5 of those 25 lbs. Now I'm aiming to lose the other 20, just enough to get me back where I was when I was mostly active and mostly healthy.
On the one hand it shouldn't be too hard: 3 months in Italy changed my palate so I no longer have a raging sweet tooth and most other junk food doesn't hold a draw for me either. Since I'm still summer-job-less I have plenty of extra time to get a workout in every day.
One of my biggest challenges is my aversion to running. I have never understood people who can just get up and run 5 miles. As far as sports go I've played volleyball, kicked ass as a soccer keeper, and spent the last two years of high school learning to be a fish on the swim team. See a trend? There's next to no running involved in any of them. Its the chicken and the egg question: what came first my love of these sports or my distaste for running?
So to try to get over this, I'm doing a modified version of the Couch to 5K program (check it out at the link below). Instead of going exactly with the time part of it, I do distance intervals since I usually run on the beach and have these nifty lifeguard towers as my check points. With any luck, by the end of the summer, I'll actually be able to run straight from one pier to the other.
http://www.c25k.com/
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