Category Archives: Fat-Fit-Fat

Failure — a : omission of occurrence or performance; specifically : a failing to perform a duty or expected action. When I do an exercise, I want to do it the best I possibly can.  I don’t want to let my coach down. I don’t want to … Continue reading →

“I’ve just run a whole hour. I’ve never done that before in my life and I’m nearly sixty.” The lady standing next to me was crying as she said that.  I don’t know her name, but I could feel her … Continue reading →

Here’s the deal with Fit4Change. You bust your, um, butt, Tuesday through Friday. Paul Lacoste wants you to exercise on Saturday and Monday on your own. On Sunday, you rest and take your family to church. Saturday’s are normally my … Continue reading →

I got home after midnight after a grueling six-hour drive from Nashville.  So I slept until six — thus missing my Fit4Change training today. I woke up feeling guilty and thinking about the poem that Paul Lacoste read called Man … Continue reading →

It was, to quote the great Yogi Berra, deja vu all over again. I couldn’t sleep and crawled out of bed before the alarm could rudely go off.  It was 3:45 and I didn’t want to be late.  I ran … Continue reading →

Today was the first day of Fit4Change. Both the 5 a.m. and the 6 a.m. groups met this afternoon at the Capitol to get tested so we could have a baseline to begin the program.  We heard from Fit4Change leader Paul … Continue reading →

While I ran this morning, I was greeted by a blanket of freezing fog. My lungs burned. My legs burned even more. I felt the lactic acid in my body shifting around.  Two days after the Mississippi Blues half-marathon, I … Continue reading →

It’s time to push the towels across the gym floor again. Next Tuesday, I’m restarting my Fit-to-Fat-to-Fit Blog.  I’ll be chronicling another 12-week session of Fit4Change, the Paul Lacoste fitness program that I successfully completed last year.  While I don’t … Continue reading →