The alarm clock went off at 4 a.m. and another 12-weeks of Paul Lacoste’s Fit4Change bootcamp had begun. I swung my feet around and touched the ground. I knew the drill — I needed to be at Madison Central High School at 5 a.m.
Yes, I know it is Labor Day. Yes, I know I should be sleeping in. But as I tweeted at 4:09: “If I want to become the best I can be, no one will do it for me. It’s up to me to make the change and do the work. I start right now.”
Today was the fitness test, which involves sit-ups, pushups, a one-mile run, a shuttle run, squats with a 45-lb. weight and step-ups with at 45-lb.run. I’m a step slower from where I was a few weeks ago when I ended the last 12-week program. And I’m a few pounds heavier.
But I’m back. And I’m out there. I have a tweaked achilles tendon, but other than that I am 100% and ready to go.
This is a blog about my journey. It’s about the daily successes and failures of one guy trying to achieve a goal. It’s my story — a story that will convince you that you can do this, too. That anyone can go from fit to fat to fit.