Simple Answer: To live a strong and healthy life. I love my wife dearly and I want to be around a long time for her.
The Long Answer: As I've said before, I'm competitive. But I've always had the self-doubt in my mind. That makes for a mixed up brain on occasion! A competitive self-doubter. Talk about issues! LOL
I've had some health issues. Nothing super major, but things that could become major if I didn't address them. Blood pressure, cholesterol... you know, the silent killers. I can't fathom doing anything so stupid as to leave this world early and leave my wife behind. So my gym routine got underway in 2011 and I haven't looked back.
I did the usual cardio machines and weight machines, and got into a regimen with the YMCA trainers helping me get going. Cardio and weights. Repeat. Got kind of old. Then my wife started going to the gym too. She signed up for a Boot Camp class. I joined after the first week because it looked like fun. It was different. It was an ass-kicker. It was hard to get up at 4:45 to get there at 5:30a. My wife is not a morning person, so I helped her get up and to the Y. We did our workouts together. And it was more time together. And we did Boot Camp classes nearly all of 2012. Burpees, planks, pylometric exercises. A YMCA version of the Insanity workout. And it worked! But again, we wanted something different to mix in with it.
She's also the one that started doing Body Pump and Spin. I have my patterns and my habits, and change is NOT easy for me at all. So she blazed the trail and I saw her having fun and getting good results. So I tend to follow what she's doing, bitch and moan about it, then really see what she saw in it.
When she got the idea of getting into running, all my self-doubt came rushing back, but I wanted to finally conquer that doubt and said I wanted to do it too. Neither of us likes to sit on the sidelines and watch the other when we can be DOING it side by side.
She drives me and inspires me. I can only hope I inspire her some too.
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