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Well folks I tend to post these every so often, but they also serve as personal (anecdotal) experience to try to inspire you.
Well back in the day I was really over the top... weight wise. Partly that was Avandia but that's another story. So I decided that I needed to do something about it, but I got knee problems, so exercise machines can be tricky.
Well I went and bought a Gazelle...yeah found one at May Company and got it home. Back then, after assembling the damn thing, I could do three minutes on it, and I was done. Yes, I was in really bad shape.
Now like most people who are in bad shape I wanted to get fit like yesterday, but I knew better, from training cadets well in another life time. So I started at three... that is the MOST I could do, and started parking farther away at the store. Slowly but surely I increased my time as my endurance built. After a good two years, not only I lost over thirty pounds but the Gazelle stopped being a challenge. So I went ahead and replaced it with an Elliptical. Nothing fancy... in fact a base model on sale at Sears.
And I started on that slowly, since it was harder to do. Well I just got off the machine after a good 20 minute work out... and if you asked me back in the early days of the Gazelle about that I'd laugh.
Now I am not going to go into all the benefits of exercise, we all know they are well trodden. But what I am going to tell you is... you too can do this... slowly but surely, increase how far you park, carry an extra bag... or slightly more weight in a backpack, start SLOWLY on an aerobic machine. It is doable... just don't expect this to come overnight, I don't care how many snake oil salesmen tell you on the TEEVEE you can do this in 90 days...
And now for some resistance training... to build some muscle.
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