In the last two years, I've been told that I'm the most disciplined person that people know.  I don't think so.  I want to have a beer on a Friday night and I end up having three.  I want to get up earlier than everyone else to do my quiet time, but I don't.  Here's what I've been disciplined with for the past two years.

1)  Get up and go to Panera and do Bible Study and prep work for the day.

2)  Noon, go and workout.

3)  Be home by 5 and spend time with all kids until bedtime with no phones on.

4)  Hang with wife and work on laptop until midnight.  Pre-read next day's bible study.

5)  Pass out.

Now There's more to it than that, but it's been non-negotiable for me over the past two year.  What I'm finding new resurgance in is my health.  I have always eaten something after dinner.  If you think about it I'm done with dinner at 6 pm and am still working at midnight.  Well in 2008, after watching the biggest loser (I call it the fat people show since I'm not poitically correct), I decided that I was destined to be blessed to become a member of that show unless I took more proactive steps.  I quit eating after dinner.  It's been over a year and I'm starving (not really, but I am hungry) as I write this.

This past year, I had back surgery that sidelined me for a big part of this year.  However, I'm back (ba dump da) better than ever, but feel like Fat Albert even though everyone says that I look skinny.  the truth is that I'm out of shape for the first time in over 20 years.  But yes...I'm back.

The MAJOR MAJOR being added to diet is doing CROSSFIT.  See www.crossfit.com.  TOTALLY AWESOME.  I've gotten to the point that I love barking like a dog.   Crossfit.com is totally Free. 

Every day they give the WOD or the Workout of the Day.  Today's workout?

"Nate"

Complete as many rounds in twenty minutes as you can of:
2 Muscle-ups
4 Handstand Push-ups
8 2-Pood Kettlebell swings

 Each workout is named.  Here we learn about NATE.  Nate is pretty easy, I think, but there's a little "fine print" that I didn't include here.  The fine print says "do as many rounds as possible and report your results."  So is this 2 rounds, 10 rounds, 30 rounds?  Like I said....barking like a dog!

I do all my workouts at X Sport Fitness in Saint Charles (see www.xsportfitness.com) off of Randall Road.  It's a great facility and there are some younger studs and studettes who motivate just by looking at them when you're ready to quit or puke. 

Anyway, the premise of Crossfit is to shock the body.  So everytime that you load www.crossfit.com, it'll give you today's date and the WOD or Workout of the Day. There are 1 of three things that can happen. 

1)  You're given a task or group of exercises and you're told to complet them.  It doesn't matter if you get them done in 5 minutes or 5 hours.  You ain't leaving until they're done.

2)  You're giving a set amount of time to complete as many rounds of a ceratin exercise(s) as possible.  What's great is that your measure is yourself, so if you suck in the beginning, So what...you'll suck less later.

3)  Day of brutality.  Once or twice a month they give you what I call as the death workout.  It's like 1 billion actiivties to do.  I know that someone is secretly watching to see if someone is stupid enough to do them.  Then, if they're like me, people will sit around and laugh as I cry through the entire workout. 

4) Oh yeah, they give you a day off every 4 to 5 days. 

Here's the testimonial for today.  I hope to be one of tomorrow:

 "...The moral is, while I am not up to the standards of crossfit, I have only been training with the WOD and parallets for about four weeks. The difference four weeks made is incredible. I have easily surpassed the once thought "best shape of my life" marker. Plus, switching to a 40% protein, 40% fat, 20% carb diet has helped. I thought I would be tired as hell, but after 6 weeks on the diet, I am invigorated. Today I will run three miles and see how my endurance is. I bet I run the sucker in 22 minutes!...
Thanks so much for such a difference."

- Nick Glatz