Is it possible to be out of shape if you've never been in shape?
I know, I know, I'm actually updating this thing, it's shocking and hopefully I still have faithful readers out there. I know, I'm always paranoid about that. :p
Either way, that question has been on my mind lately, and I felt the need to write about it and see what you all thought.
It all started after I went to watch some of my fraternity friends compete in a 3 on 3 Basketball charity tournament. Now, I joined the geeky, nerd house. I mean, we practically have a guild on WoW, and if you all know me well enough, you'd know that I'm not what you would think of as the fraternity type. But that withstanding, we don't have a lot of really athletic members so to be competing in a basketball tournament is really something. Either way, afterwards I went with two of them to have breakfast. During the meal, they both start sharing stories of their previous athletic acheivements. One used to play Rugby in High School, he was talking about all the crazy stuff he used to do in that. The other one still plays tennis, but use to play soccer and he's the most athletic person in the fraternity, he was telling his athletic stories. As they were swapping stories, it got me looking back on my life in athletics and how it mostly amounts to me hating gym and never really being that athletic. Then they start talking about their so out of shape now. They're so out of shape, but they're both pretty skinny and don't really look out of shape. It got me kind of angry because in my little world, if you're skinny then you can't be out of shape, but that just comes from a history of being overweight my entire life and always envying the skinny kids. So now when I feel I'm getting closer to how I've always wanted to look they got me thinking. I've always be in out of shape it seems, I can't remember if or when I was ever in shape. So it made it think, can I be out of shape if I've never been in shape to begin with? I don't know, technically compared to where I've been, I would be in shape now, but I still feel out of shape. The good thing about there conversation is that it's driven me to work harder on getting in shape, so that maybe one day I can join them in that basketball tournament or anything else athletic.
I apologize if what I just wrote doesn't make too much sense, it's late and I'm just rambling, but feel free to humor me with a response. :p
Either way, that question has been on my mind lately, and I felt the need to write about it and see what you all thought.
It all started after I went to watch some of my fraternity friends compete in a 3 on 3 Basketball charity tournament. Now, I joined the geeky, nerd house. I mean, we practically have a guild on WoW, and if you all know me well enough, you'd know that I'm not what you would think of as the fraternity type. But that withstanding, we don't have a lot of really athletic members so to be competing in a basketball tournament is really something. Either way, afterwards I went with two of them to have breakfast. During the meal, they both start sharing stories of their previous athletic acheivements. One used to play Rugby in High School, he was talking about all the crazy stuff he used to do in that. The other one still plays tennis, but use to play soccer and he's the most athletic person in the fraternity, he was telling his athletic stories. As they were swapping stories, it got me looking back on my life in athletics and how it mostly amounts to me hating gym and never really being that athletic. Then they start talking about their so out of shape now. They're so out of shape, but they're both pretty skinny and don't really look out of shape. It got me kind of angry because in my little world, if you're skinny then you can't be out of shape, but that just comes from a history of being overweight my entire life and always envying the skinny kids. So now when I feel I'm getting closer to how I've always wanted to look they got me thinking. I've always be in out of shape it seems, I can't remember if or when I was ever in shape. So it made it think, can I be out of shape if I've never been in shape to begin with? I don't know, technically compared to where I've been, I would be in shape now, but I still feel out of shape. The good thing about there conversation is that it's driven me to work harder on getting in shape, so that maybe one day I can join them in that basketball tournament or anything else athletic.
I apologize if what I just wrote doesn't make too much sense, it's late and I'm just rambling, but feel free to humor me with a response. :p