September

My beau and I have been training together at the gym over the past few months. I’ve been pretty devoted to weight-lifting for a few years now, so I’ve been coaching my man to help him achieve his fitness goals. I’m always pushing him and challenging him to work hard at the gym and to carry out healthy eating habits. Now, he’s developed a couple of challenges for me for the month of September.

First, he’s challenged me to experiment each week and try something new with my body. Although I’m pretty fit, I don’t do much cross training; I basically lift weights everyday and maybe throw in a day of cardio or yoga every once in a while to spice things up. So over the next five weeks I’m going to explore five new ways to be active and stay fit. A few ideas I have include taking a ballet class and swimming laps; I even want to try out a swinging/flying trapeze! (I heard about a trapeze school in NYC where you can take beginner aerialist classes!) I’m really glad that he is pushing me to try out new things- this may be just what I need to take my fitness to the next level.

The second challenge is completely unrelated. He is asking me to spend time each week thinking and writing about someone else- it can be anyone- that is different from me or has made a decision different than what I would have decided. The idea is that this exercise will help me to better relate to and understand individuals different from myself. I guess sometimes I think that I know everything and think that my way is always the right way… well that’s what he says, anyway. LOL!

I’m not exactly sure what components of these challenges I will be sharing in my blog, but I’m pretty sure that you will see blogs throughout the next month focused on these two motivations: exploring new physical activities and reflecting on different people’s ideas and perspectives. Well, I guess I better get started- I have a lot of work to do!