A friend messaged me this question yesterday...
"Ok... this is a burning question I've had for a while... How do you stay in shape? We're the same age, but you have the body of a 25 year old."
I gave him the link to my blog here, which gives pretty good detail on what I've done to get fit for myself, and I think it's been a winning plan - for me. But the more I think about it, we each work and achieve in different ways, and Google is full of great ideas and tips, many of which I have stolen and adopted as my own. Amazon, too, is full of good books with winning plans and ideas.
In reality, though, the how happens automatically (and your how to accomplish it might be a lot different than mine) when you can clearly see a picture of what the final desired result is.
That's where the photo above comes in.
I don't know who the photographer or the guy in the pic is, otherwise I would credit them both here. But, I found this picture several years ago, and said to myself, "I want to look and feel like that!" I looked at it often, visualized in my mind what it would be like to look that way, and what it would feel like to be in that kind of health.
Keeping that mental picture always near, concentrating, visualizing, seeing myself looking and feeling that way, is probably the single-biggest factor in my current physical condition. I wish I could find this guy and the photographer, for I would shake their hands, and offer my sincere and profound thanks! It is this photo that struck a nerve in me, and helped me really identify what I wanted.
I still analyze this image, because there are elements of this guy's fitness that I continue to strive for.
Find your picture, and then own it. The rest will take care of itself.
Cheers!
Marty
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