3 Things That Took My Health To The Next Level
Here they are:
Now, here is how I did it.
As you know, I firmly believe your health is your wealth and I have shared that with you on my blog for a number of years now. However, over the last year and a bit I have taken my health to another level. As I grow older I am realizing how important health is. At least for me, I do not want to look back on life and say "what if I had of exercised more or ate better". With that in mind, last year I knew I could do better, so I amped it up!
How did I take my health to the next level?
Well it actually all started back on June 16th, 2009, when my bro and I filmed an episode with Gary Vaynerchuk on Wine Library TV. While we were filming and hangin' with the cool peeps at Wine Library TV, we met Kelly Olexa. At the time, I have to admit, I had no idea why Kelly was there, but she was. So, after we met and chatted, we connected online and I started reading and watching Kelly's workout blog. After talking with Kelly more, I found out that she was a Beachbody Coach and she recommended I give P90X a try. My wife Jodi and I decided to take Kelly's advice and give it a whirl. Thank you Kelly!
If you are not familiar with P90X watch this.
Now, for those of you that don't know, I used to train pretty hard back in the day to stay in shape for hockey, but after I retired in 2000 on a high note.
Sorry, I had to throw that in there, even though the video is so sketchy ;-). Where was I? Oh ya, I didn't train like I used to train, because I didn't think there was a need to. So fast forward to 2010 and now I realize I need to get my you know what together.
We started P90X and I have to say I never felt so sore in my life and the routines were extremely tough, but very enjoyable. It was something totally different then I had ever done before, so it was very refreshing. After going through the 90 day lean workout, I decided to do it again. I ended up doing the program 4 times. :-)
P90X gave me great results and it was exactly what I needed, however during the 4th time through, I did start noticing some tension in one of my shoulders. I went to get an xray and low and behold I found out I had an old fracture in my shoulder from back in my playing days that went undetected. Therefore I was recommended by my Dr. to stay away from the weights.
Oh, oh I said. Now what do I do? Well, I had been eyeing Insanity over the last little bit and I saw that it was all body exercises with no weights and pure cardio. Did some more research and checked with Jodi to see if she would be cool with it and we picked up Insanity.
Now I said I never felt so sore in my life like I did after doing P90X, well I lied. :-) Insanity took my overall fitness to another level. The workouts with Insanity are truly INSANE, but amazing. We are now going through it for the 2nd time, with 2 weeks remaining and health wise my body has never felt better.
Jamie Oliver - Food Revolution
Now that covers the exercising, however as we all know, it is important to eat well. Not that we hate poorly as a family, but we knew we could definitely improve. Luckily we stumbled upon Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution show which was taking place in Huntington, WV. After watching Jamie's show we decided to go out and buy his cookbook.
After buying his cookbook, we realized how easy it is to cook healthier meals for our family and not break the bank. We also love his yummy smoothie recipe, that we have adapted since last time I shared. We now use hemp/almond or rice milk instead of regular skim milk.
We also watched Food Inc., which my bro and mother shared with us and that really opened our eyes to eating local and organic.
Moving forward we get a lot of great information on food from Bruce Sweeney and his team at Simply For Life. If you are not following them on Facebook, you definitely should.
There you have it. My wife and I did all of this together. She’s my best friend, but now she’s also an at-home fitness partner. Plus, it’s great bonding time in the morning to kick start the day.
This is how we did it...how are you doing it? However you are doing it I wish you luck, and have a wonderful, healthy weekend! Best!
If You’re Interested…
I can help you if you’re interested in getting started with Insanity or P90X, Just click on my Amazon.com affiliate links above. Yes they are affiliate links and I just wanted to be honest about the links in this post, so feel free to go through my affiliate links for Insanity/P90X/Food Revolution if you’re interested. I won’t hold it against you if you don’t, but of course I’d be forever thankful if you did.
If you do purchase through my link, let me know if you need some motivation to get started or someone to hold you accountable during your program, and I’ll do my best to make sure you get where you want to be.
