New to this, so here it goes....
I don't usually like to "dump" it all out there for people but since that is something that I am working on I am going to give it a shot here. I recently turned 40, and in my "younger" day I was a swimmer and played volleyball. I'd always been able to maintain a decent condition (I'm not winning awards for body sculpting here) by just having those things available. When life and family set it, it became difficult to impossible to maintain doing those things...so...I let myself go. Over the course of a few years, and a few traumatic happenings in life I steeped into a depression that I have been in counseling for. I've decided that I am staunchly against medicating and want to get better thru behavioral/diet/exercise methods and techniques. A few months ago I started to go for long (4-6 mile) walks late at night thru my town. As I felt better and better about this I found myself wanting to offer up a challenge to myself. Midway thru a walk one night I downloaded the C25K app and decided that the next night I went out I would do that instead. I didn't realize the level of challenge that I was looking at but I am proud to say that I am midway thru the 3rd week. I know it is going to get to be more of a challenge from here on out but for the first time in a long while I can say that I am actually ready for, and looking forward to that challenge. I know that an app can't change my life, I have to do that. What I could not do that this app has been able to do is to set forth a series of guided steps to tell me what to do and when. I thank Zen Labs for this app, and thank myself for so far stepping up to the challenge of completing it. I'm totally into this for the impact it is going to have on my body both mentally and physically and have little desire to register and run an organized 5K. Maybe I'll decide one day down the road that it would be cool to do that but for now, I've still got some "Me" to work on...
I won't apologize for the long post, I've always felt that is a stupid thing to do! What I will do is promise myself that I am going to finish the program...for myself...to be a better version of me.
Anyway, that's my story. Thanks for taking the time to read.
Soculese
