Our new gym, which opened on Friday, offers fitness assessments to determine how old your body feels versus hold old your body actually is. John and I took advantage of this opportunity, knowing that our results would probably not be ideal. I won't say what John's results were, but I learned that even though I just turned 28, my body age is 29. I attribute this more to my diet than to my fitness regimen. See, I know that I don't eat as well as I know I should, but I like to pretend the exercise I regularly engage in is enough to counterbalance my eating habits. I found out yesterday that it's not. Sure, my body doesn't feel that much older than it actually is, but it would appear that my 2-3 times a day chocolate indulgences are killing me slowly.
Without divluging how old John's body feels, I'll just say that John and I were both so taken aback by our results, that we signed up for the boot camp program at our gym. What this means is that we are paying our gym extra money for the privelage of waking up at 4:30am five days a week for 12 weeks in order to get to the gym by five to go through military-style training. Neither of us has the discipline to do this on our own, so hopefully the financial commitment will be what we need to get our acts together. My fitness assessment stated that I have the potential to go from body age of 29 to body age of 18 if I just take care of some problems (like body composition, VO2 max, and flexibility). This boot camp will supposedly help me on this path, even though I'm already a little nervous about how my body is going to react to having to run before the sun rises.
Posted by Kim at February 12, 2006 01:12 PM