First off, I want to thank you for taking the time to read this
original post. Hopefully you can get a good idea of what we are all about
and come back for more.
I wanted to start Push-Up
Diaries as a place for anyone who wanted to share the story about their fitness
journey and how they have either got there or plan to get there. The idea
for this blog is not a new one but for me, I was inspired while in the
middle of a set of push-ups during a monthly challenge my brother set out in front of our family(which will be a staple
for us if you want to join in).
I wanted a place to document and share and motivate and blah blah blah,
etc. No matter the stage in your journey, we'd love to hear it.
This is a safe (yet public) place to share all things ranging from
workouts, healthy recipes, progress photos, all the way to the story of your
path to fitness (whether goals were met or in-progress). With that, I
will start...
I need want to be good at sports. That's the long and
short of it. I don't care which sport either and it all stems from a long
standing battle with 7 brothers and 4 sisters for athletic supremacy while
growing up. We were all roughly average height and weight so naturally,
we thought beating each other at random (sometimes made up) sports changed
that. In our house, it did. You walked a little taller knowing you had won. It even got to the point where we developed the "Older Brother Advantage". This didn't just develop
with age, size and strength (even if you were bigger than the big), it was the fear of being the little beating the
big and having a target on your back. In most cases, you took your chance
if you had it to win but those were few and far between. The OBA
developed over time and became more of a psychological hurdle the littles had
overcome. As we got older, those hurdles became less and less on the physical
side but the psychological side remained. To this day, we still call our
littlest brother (12 of 12) "Drew Bledsoe" to try and remind him that when he
was younger, he was slower than us. He has seemingly got past that hurdle
as he has accomplished more in the running world than I could dare to take on.
This all leads to my present
day, 35 year old self. I was involved with random recreational sports but
found myself wanting more no matter how much I would win or put forth to try to win. No one could challenge me the way my family could.
Randomly, in roughly October of 2016, a few of my brothers and I started
up a text string that really pushed me to that next level. We got to
talking about what we were doing on a daily basis, what we were eating, etc.
This gave me the drive to make sure I didn't quit. I didn't want to
be the first person to break and that was an amazing motivator. Now that
we have all proven we can keep up, it has been a great source of motivation and
inspiration seeing what they are doing and how they got there. In the
time we have started the text string, I have joined a CrossFit gym, lost 30 lbs
and overhauled my eating to make sure it matches the effort I put in during a workout.
For me, no matter what
groceries I buy or who is next to me, pushing me to do more at the gym, having
someone to hold me accountable on a daily basis that I truly respect and admire has been the biggest piece to
my puzzle. And once I found that piece, everyday became more and more fun to see how far I could take it.
If you would like me to post
your story or want to be an admin for this blog, email me at
pushupdiaries@gmail.com. I look forward to hearing for you in the future.
-N
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