I Am Fit

It has happened. I have gained a reasonable state of fitness and am
feeling great. Since my brain injury I have tried many times to attain some
sort of fitness level but always with the same result, I 'crash and burn'
and I have significant fatigue for about a week. You may remember in a
previous post that I was using jam jars and oyster sauce bottles to
strengthen my arms and walking the hills in the paddocks. It worked. I
have progressed to hand weights I purchased from a discount store and my
walks have included my dirt road which has some good hill climbs. I can
do 4km and not die in the butt.

A friend asked me to go to the gym with her and we go one day a week now,
along with our teenage sons. I do cardio and resistance training for
about 70 minutes and as much as I am exhausted afterwards it feels great.
Our boys enjoy it as much for the socialising with each other as they do
the exercise.

I have enrolled in tennis lessons (for a second time) which I go to with
another friend one night a week. It is run by a fitness trainer who does
not allow anyone to stand still for long. We work hard for an hour and a
half and again I am exhausted but feel great. What an achievement, I am
so proud of myself. I do however feel as if I have created a new
discomfort. Instead of tennis elbow I feel as if I have tennis butt. I
suffer stiffness and pain the next day after I sit still for too
long. No pain no gain eh?

One last thing; I have joined an online weight loss program and have lost
4.2kg over about six weeks. Again I feel so proud. It is slow but
successful and I am learning a lot more about good eating than I thought
was possible. We all think we know what the right diet is but we can
always learn more, and I have. Again I have two friends doing the same
and it makes it so much more interesting and supportive.

Woohoo, I think I am getting more of my life back!! Concentration is still a
challenge but I can live with that. I have a job that I love and I like to think I do it well. I hope this does not sound like a lovefest about myself but I just
had to share.