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The
Shape of Your Life - A New Strategy
by Paul Scott - from
OutsideOnline ONE FINE SPRING DAY not long
ago, I took a hard look in the mirror and realized that I had become a wide
load on the highway of sloth. The situation was not optimal. You see, I was 33,
at least 30 pounds overweight, and approaching my first-ever physical. Climbing
the stairs to visit the candy machines at work left me winded, which made it
hard to eat my Runts. Then there were the vacation photos, incriminating images
of a pie-faced man wearing my clothes and hanging out with my wife. I would
stare at them and wonder, Was it the bad lighting?
Thankfully, the
slide was arrested when a buddy in Manhattan challenged me to a long-distance
fit-a-thonan anything-goes, six-week crash exercise program that would force
the two of us into shape before we embarked on a midsummer surfing trip to
Ditch Plains Beach on Long Island. If I didn't do something quick, I was going
to look like a giant hors d'oeuvre up on that board.
My "plan,"
such as it was, involved a cobbled-together routine of aerobic exercise and
weight lifting. I threw myself into everything at once, thinking, naturally,
that I would explode into greatness. My wife and I registered for a
half-marathon, and I started running five days a week. I jumped rope 250 times
after breakfast, played basketball at noon, and skipped another 250 times in
the afternoon. I hit the gym and pushed weights around, though with little
rhyme or reason. I ate toast without butter, sandwiches without mayo, dinner
without beer. I gave up Chunky Monkey and Chips Ahoy and went to bed with my
stomach coiling.
After a month and a half,
my running peaked at 30 miles a week, my rope-jumping at 1,000 skips a day. I
lost the 30 pounds and—because my fingers had turned bony—my 18-karat
Tiffany wedding band, which was torn off by a breaker. (Sorry again about that,
Sweets.) I reported to my physical and got the thumbs-up from my doctor, though
I neglected to inform him that I craved naps, possessed no libido, cowered at
most foods, and had dizzy spells when I stood up.
You can guess what
happened next. I exploded all right, but not exactly into greatness. I was
chronically irritable, and during the half-marathon, my wife and I quarreled
for nine miles, pulled off our numbers, and hitched a ride to the finish. (No
one had told us there would be hills.) After a month or so, physiological
entropy returned like a bad habit. I hung up my jump rope, stopped showing up
for hoops, and reclaimed 15 pounds. I continued to run sporadically, but never
again with such purpose.
Maybe this was a good thing, this dark night
of my fitness soul. For if nothing else, it wised me up to the importancenay,
the necessityof a reliable, well-conceived training plan. As a journalist who
has written for years on health and fitness, I understood that athletic
training is a somewhat improvisational science. But I also knew that during the
last 25 years, enough time-tested, athlete-proven strategies, techniques, and
guidance had emerged that the editors of Outside and I could craft a
truly multifaceted, effective programone that would forge me (and you) into the
best shape possible, but more than that, one that would keep me (and you)
there.
You now hold in your hands the result of our quest, a five-month
all-purpose workout plan for the outdoor athlete: The Shape of Your
Life.
Coming up -
a five part series to get you in The Shape of Your Life - Part One, Step One is
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