Working Out

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - We must step up the stairs." ~Vance Havne

I actually have something to post that goes along with the quote I used today. For a great deal of my life I've wanted to have a better body, I just never had the ambition to do what I needed to do to have it. When I joined the Army I actually attained some tone and definition I was very proud of and when I came home I kept up the work out so that I could keep and better it. But I eventually lost the drive. If I don't have someone to keep me motivated then I'm doomed. My apartment in FL was right beside the fitness room and the pool so I had no excuse to not utilize them. Well I took advantage of the pool as my pictures prove, however, I did not use the fitness as much as I should have or would have liked. I needed motivation. I have a goal and a vision set but don't want to take the initiative. Well for the past two weeks that's changed. I got up one morning and decided that was the day. I did a 3 mile run to come home and do a work out. I jumped right into doing 50 sit-up and 50 push-ups every morning after my run and every night before my evening shower. As of yesterday I've upped them to 75 each every morning and night. There are a few other exercises I do as well. Things I learned in the military. I'm already noticing a slight difference but then when one doesn't have a lot of body fat to burn off it wouldn't take long to see a little something. =)

In my last post I had mentioned something about giving up. I just want to clarify what I was talking about. When I was in FL I had thought about giving up on my relationship but I didn't. I thought about quitting the program to come home so that I didn't have to give-up my relationship (there were other reasons as well) but I didn't. Since I've come there were a few times where I just wanted to give up on friendships and relationships with certain people but so far I've not. The thing that I was contemplating giving up on was trying to maintain anything with Daniel but I have not and will not. No matter how much I say I want to the truth is - I don't want to. It was just that Daniel and I had the worst fight we have ever had on Saturday and by that I mean some very nasty things were said. However we have talked since then and things seem to be going very well now. Things seem to be working out. Hopefully they continue to do such.

Things are looking up again. Hopefully they don't all blow up in my face like they did that last time -- like they usually do. By things I don't just mean with Daniel but I mean life in general. Tomorrow I am heading to Butler. I have finally decided on what it is exactly that I need and want to do. I want to move closer to Pittsburgh and to school so that means that I need to get a job closer to those areas as well. So I'm leaving the Clarion jobs behind and will commute to work for a little while until I can find a place to live. I think this move will benefit me in many ways. It will be a good thing. Hopefully it all works out as planned.