Day 110

Week 1, Day 2 Upper Fix done. This workout was frustrating, not due to it's difficulty, but rather using the bands with a a couple of exercises were difficult and I don't feel I got the workout I needed in that area. I was able to overcome that issue, but I had to pause and get things all set and the short time in between some of the moves I will have to pause to get all set. It's not the end of the world, but it is a challenge and one that I will conquer next Tuesday for sure.

My knee felt pretty good, but I did feel it and I made sure not to over do it. Tomorrow I will not play basketball and I will think about playing Monday, but it might be good to take another whole week off to really allow that knee to strengthen. It's one thing to have a slight amount of soreness and work through it, but if you do have an injury, you need to really let it heal. Partial healing and re-injuring it is a horrible and vicious cycle to get into and I want to avoid it at all costs.

My coach, Mike Ryan, was on a cruise which he earned. As did all of the people who went on it. They are all Beach Body coaches. It has to be an awesome feeling to go to a free cruise with so many like minded people and better yet, they probably aren't all strangers either. Mike has a great and very large team under him. One of his team members is a highly successful woman named Erin Beckham. She posted a challenge in the team Facebook page and while I am not part of her direct team, she posted this up as a challenge for everyone on the team to do. I have been very slow with how I do the business side of things. I am trying to forge more friendships while expressing my new found love of fitness and clean eating. While I am no expert, I think I am doing pretty good. I have lost close to 60 lbs so far, but what I love better than that is that I have cheated and I didn't emotionally kill myself and give up on what I had done.

The last time I did this Beach Body thing, I lost more weight in my first round than I did this time by 4 lbs. My second round I lost maybe 15 lbs. The third round I gave up and blamed it on my situation. Everyone has situational issues, but they are just excuses. We are prone to allow our excuses stop our progress. It's just easier for us. This time I am doing a second round after doing at least one round of the 21 Day Fix. I am drinking Shakeology which they didn't have when I started the first time. I have no desire to eat junk and I think that is completely due to Shakeology.

Back to the challenge issued by Erin. She challenged people to explain why we do what we do. What do we do? We are coaches. Why is the biggest thing to understand. If you have a big enough why, the how doesn't matter. I see so much more of this around other people outside of Beach Body that say this. It has merit and it cannot be ignored. This is what I posted on my Facebook page.

I get excited when I talk about it, but others don't really understand why. Why? That is the big question. Why do anything? I do it because I love what has been done for me. I want to do that same thing for others. So what am I talking about?   Coaching!

This is what Wikipedia defines coaching as: Coaching is a training or development process via which an individual is supported while achieving a specific personal or professional competence result or goal. Narrow it down abit and you get this.

Coaching is a development process which an individual is supported while achieving a specific goal.

My goal was to lose weight, get healthy and be more fit. Not lofty goals, but very difficult in these times of convenience foods and fast food. I had horrible habits and had to change them. I was also older, not a spring chicken, and old injuries and nagging pains would be there. 

Guess what? I had a COACH.  My development process (working out with P90X3) the individual (me) was supported by my coach (private group on Facebook) to achieve a specific goal of losing weight, getting healthy and being more fit. ( I lost 54 lbs. I now eat more whole foods than I ever have and I enjoy working out beyond my end date of P90X3 and am adding monthly fitness challenges into my daily routine.)

Why do I Coach? I do it to repeat the process that took place for me. I do it for anyone that wants to change what they are into what they can be. I posted my workout blog earlier today with this quote and it sums it up for me. It's from John Wooden.

"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."

I want to be that success. I want to help others be that success. This is why I coach. I know how great it feels to lose 50 lbs. and soon enough I will know how great it feels to lose 100 lbs. We all have our own journey to take. For some it will be easier than others. I just want to be there to help the one's who need it. Motivate the one's who get discouraged and inspire the one's who feel hopeless, because there is always hope.

I am associated with an awesome team of people. They support me in all I do and continually challenge me to get out of my comfort zone. (ie this post about what I do and why I do it) I to want show others how this is done and be a mentor to them. I can only take on 2 or 3 people this month, but if you do take that chance, make the leap and be "All In",  you won't regret it.

This may or may not motivate others or inspire others to want to know what I do or even want to be involved with what I do. I do know this... It's honest and it's me. I allowed myself to be open to others in a way that is not guarded or close to the vest. I said what I felt and meant what I said. Yes I poured over this post and changed and altered things but that is more due to posting something that was constructed properly and made sense. I didn't want to talk in circles and sound like an idiot. The only thing I copy/pasted was that quote by John Wooden. The more I learn about him, the more I wish I could have met him. I knew he was a basketball coach at UCLA and called the Wizard of Westwood. I didn't know about the kind of man he was or the kind of leader he was. This I am learning now and it is easy to see how much of an inspirational and motivational person he was. If I could be like anyone, I would want to be like him.

I hope that everyone finds what motivates and inspires them to be better and then takes action to accomplish that.