Overcome Fitness Hurdles, Like Starting At The End

This week I’m talking about your fitness and how to overcome the things that stop you from starting, and the other things you should start in order to stop stopping!

I had a friend who used to run. Then life happened and he didn’t for years while he raised a family and grew his career. When he was ready to start running again, he remembered exactly what to do, how hard to train, and on and on.

Long story short, he went out the first day as if ~10 years had not passed and promptly tore his Achilles tendon from his heel. BAM. Now he was out for 6 months of recovery in a cast. So much for his plans of qualifying for Boston by the end of the week.

And this is really the take-home message: you cannot start at the end. Start with an honest assessment of your current fitness level. Whatever you do, do not rush it.

Keep in mind that it took some time for you to achieve THIS level of non-fitness, LOL, so you should expect for it to take just as long to get fit again. Better to take an extra couple of weeks to ramp up so you don’t have to take an extra couple of months to recover.