A healthier me, a healthier you

After recently reading Tim Brownsons blog post, Forgive Me, For I Have Sinned I decided to do some of my own self reflection. A good reason for me starting this blog is to help hold myself accountable for my own life, and to help others learn to choose a path in life they can be happy and proud of living.

I the grand majority of my life have been athletic, soccer, baseball, track, and many of other sports, and “sporty things”. However, as my career as a System Administrator forged forward, I found myself becoming more and more physically lazy. For a while I had a good run meeting a friend at Lifetime Fitness every morning to do laps in the pool (which I have learned to love swimming) however, recently fell off of that boat. Recently though, I have felt my body talking to me, I am not very over weight, if over weight at all, but, I have quit smoking again about 1.5 months ago, and can’t say that my diet has been very healthy. As my stress factors in life lower, and I continue reorganizing my life to live the lifestyle path I choose, I am realizing that there are a lot of other decisions I need to make.

So I have decided to set some goals. I have decided that not the summer of 2009 (because what does 29 mean to anyone?) but the summer of 2010 I plan on participating in a triathlon.

Why a triathlon? I can’t decide what I like better, swimming, biking, or running. So I will do all 3. At once. In the meantime, I will train, find mentors, a prepare myself by running individual races of running, swimming, and bicycling.

In preparation I will need to do the following:

• Eat Better. I currently eat healthier than 99% of the public, fast food is a very rare occurance for me (however, there was a 6 month stint with Steak and Shake I had) But my wife and I tend to eat fairly healthy, she is a health nut and knows more about nutrition than the average person. The goal is to go back to our ways of using fresh ingredients and mainly organics. No soda, more water, and juice.
• Stick to a training regimen. I have done this in the past, I need to build in some rewards for sticking to the regimen, and some penalties for straying from the regimen. I am going to look to my wife, and my friends to keep me accountable, and maybe even implement and enforce the rewards and penalties.
• Publish what I do. Id love to build a following of others who would like to join me in this quest to be healthier. If your interested, let me know.

In doing this, I am going to launch two new web properties to my portfolio under the Lifestyle Partners, LLC brand. The first will be an extension of this blog, train.phillipbroberts.com. It will be a training jounral for myself. The second has been in the works for a couple of months now, however, it has new purpose and meaning now, Buy Better Health. The current Buy Better Health will go away and be replaced with a site regarding healthy food choices, healthy excersize choices, interviews with top health experts, and we have even considered an onling cooking show with yours truly as the chef. I may even consider launching a web property for the use of a group training journal, if there are enough who are interested.

I would like as many of you as possible to join me in this quest of healthiness. Engage your whole families to do so, it isn’t as hard as you think, and one of the greatest highs is the high of endorphines after a good work out, and food that is cooked healthy and natural, has a much better taste to it.

I am giving myself two weeks from today to put together the following deliverables:

• A training regimen
• My training jounal located at train.phillipbroberts.com
• The new Buy Better Health
• Rewards and Penalties
• A list of potential mentors and training helpers
• A budget for the costs associated
• A cashflow to cover costs associated

Hopefully I will see all of you at the finish line.

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