Owning My Life
This is a longish post, I know, but if you care about me, it's important for you to read this, as this is something very special to me. OK. I've been secretive (ish) about something, but now is the time to put it out there.
About a year ago, I decided I wanted to change some things. My health, how I live my life, my outlook, so forth and so on. I started looking at workout programs. Thanks to a friend, I even had (and attempted) P90X. I found out quickly that there was no way I was going to get through that.
I saw something (then) called YRG pop up. It was co-created by Diamond Dallas Page. Now, most everyone that knows me knows I'm a pretty big wrestling fan from way back in the day. Well, not knowing much about Page outside the ring (just that he was a 35 year old "rookie"), I was skeptical, probably even more so than because he was a former pro wrestler. Truth is I just didn't want to believe in myself, but more on that later.
Time goes by and I see this video about Arthur Boorman. I'm sure a lot of you have seen it. If not, the basics of it is this: He's a former paratrooper that, due to the nature of doing military jumps, had bad ankles, knees, hips, and back. He was walking with arm canes and wore LOTS of braces (knees, back, etc). His weight ballooned to 300+ pounds and he had squat for mobility. He said that no other yoga instructors would even talk to him. DDP did. In a year, he dropped 140 pounds and now is able to run (no supports, no anything).
I watched the video. I cried. I watched the video several more times and began to feel that familiar little flicker of flame starting. I snuffed it out. "Bullshit. No way.", I said. "Why not?", the little glowing ember replied. I snuffed it out again, but it still glowed, waiting.
I kept coming across the video, kept watching, kept feeling that ember slowly glow a bit more. Jake The Snake Roberts started doing it, getting himself clean, getting his life straight, and the voice had even more ammo. "He can do it. So can you..." "See, look at that. A year's time. You can do it." "What have you got to lose? If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work." On, and on this little voice kept preaching to me, then it asked the question. "He's a disabled veteran who was told he would never walk without crutches, and now he's running. If he can do it, why can't you? If Jake Roberts can overcome who knows how many years of abuse from addiction doing this, why can't you?" My inner voice just shut me up.
I was driving home from work at GoldMax, upset about something (clothes, awkward movement, something), and started crying. Didn't tell anyone. Didn't want what I saw as hollow sympathy, or folks feeling sorry for me. Little did I know that that stupid little ember just exploded into a blaze.
The next day I contacted another friend who's also diabetic. She and I had been talking about how to "get right" for a while. I showed her the video and told her I was doing it too. She replied that the video made her cry and that she believed in me. My old habits came back and I kinda brushed her off, and she said it again. And again. And again until I couldn't do anything but believe her.
I've told a few other select folks about this (Read 4-5 tops). Some for their advice, some for motivation. It was not my intent to exclude anyone, so please don't take it that way. However, as I've been at this for a few weeks now, am seeing results, and am actually sad when I DON'T get to work out (yeah, I know. Pick yer jaws up, folks.), I figured now was the time I could go ahead and let the cat out.
I am a member of Team DDPYoga. It is a real workout. It is intense cardio, and I feel better after just a few weeks than I have in 5 years, or better. That includes my rebuilt knee. This program is for real. It really is a ZERO impact, HIGH cardio workout. I don't hurt in the morning anymore. I move better. I feel better.
If you have any questions about the program, please don't hesitate to ask. I thought it was BS for almost a year. That whole time I could've been rebuilding myself and my life. Don't waste time like I did. Ask me. I'm not going to lie for someone else's product. It's your life, folks, you gotta own it.
If you want to follow my journey, I've created a separate twitter account just for it. @LaochBhriste, Gaelic for Broken Warrior.
Until next time, be cool, be awesome, love one another, and life life like you mean it.
About a year ago, I decided I wanted to change some things. My health, how I live my life, my outlook, so forth and so on. I started looking at workout programs. Thanks to a friend, I even had (and attempted) P90X. I found out quickly that there was no way I was going to get through that.
I saw something (then) called YRG pop up. It was co-created by Diamond Dallas Page. Now, most everyone that knows me knows I'm a pretty big wrestling fan from way back in the day. Well, not knowing much about Page outside the ring (just that he was a 35 year old "rookie"), I was skeptical, probably even more so than because he was a former pro wrestler. Truth is I just didn't want to believe in myself, but more on that later.
Time goes by and I see this video about Arthur Boorman. I'm sure a lot of you have seen it. If not, the basics of it is this: He's a former paratrooper that, due to the nature of doing military jumps, had bad ankles, knees, hips, and back. He was walking with arm canes and wore LOTS of braces (knees, back, etc). His weight ballooned to 300+ pounds and he had squat for mobility. He said that no other yoga instructors would even talk to him. DDP did. In a year, he dropped 140 pounds and now is able to run (no supports, no anything).
I watched the video. I cried. I watched the video several more times and began to feel that familiar little flicker of flame starting. I snuffed it out. "Bullshit. No way.", I said. "Why not?", the little glowing ember replied. I snuffed it out again, but it still glowed, waiting.
I kept coming across the video, kept watching, kept feeling that ember slowly glow a bit more. Jake The Snake Roberts started doing it, getting himself clean, getting his life straight, and the voice had even more ammo. "He can do it. So can you..." "See, look at that. A year's time. You can do it." "What have you got to lose? If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work." On, and on this little voice kept preaching to me, then it asked the question. "He's a disabled veteran who was told he would never walk without crutches, and now he's running. If he can do it, why can't you? If Jake Roberts can overcome who knows how many years of abuse from addiction doing this, why can't you?" My inner voice just shut me up.
I was driving home from work at GoldMax, upset about something (clothes, awkward movement, something), and started crying. Didn't tell anyone. Didn't want what I saw as hollow sympathy, or folks feeling sorry for me. Little did I know that that stupid little ember just exploded into a blaze.
The next day I contacted another friend who's also diabetic. She and I had been talking about how to "get right" for a while. I showed her the video and told her I was doing it too. She replied that the video made her cry and that she believed in me. My old habits came back and I kinda brushed her off, and she said it again. And again. And again until I couldn't do anything but believe her.
I've told a few other select folks about this (Read 4-5 tops). Some for their advice, some for motivation. It was not my intent to exclude anyone, so please don't take it that way. However, as I've been at this for a few weeks now, am seeing results, and am actually sad when I DON'T get to work out (yeah, I know. Pick yer jaws up, folks.), I figured now was the time I could go ahead and let the cat out.
I am a member of Team DDPYoga. It is a real workout. It is intense cardio, and I feel better after just a few weeks than I have in 5 years, or better. That includes my rebuilt knee. This program is for real. It really is a ZERO impact, HIGH cardio workout. I don't hurt in the morning anymore. I move better. I feel better.
If you have any questions about the program, please don't hesitate to ask. I thought it was BS for almost a year. That whole time I could've been rebuilding myself and my life. Don't waste time like I did. Ask me. I'm not going to lie for someone else's product. It's your life, folks, you gotta own it.
If you want to follow my journey, I've created a separate twitter account just for it. @LaochBhriste, Gaelic for Broken Warrior.
Until next time, be cool, be awesome, love one another, and life life like you mean it.