I just finished 2 hours of doing a total body workout starting out with 20 minutes of HIT cardio; then with free weights & cable crossover weights, and kettlebell side lateral raises all for my upper body; then for my legs I did kettlebell squats & lunges, leg press, calf raises; and finished off with another 10 minutes of HIT cardio. ***Long blog tonight, but well worth your life to read!*** Some people out there and maybe even you think that exercise is a waste of your time to get healthy and fit. I hear it and see it all the time, especially for those that only seek a quick fix… If so I have a ***HOT NEWS FLASH*** You can… “TELL IT TO MY HEART!” The week of August 4th, 2005 I weighed 637 lbs at my heaviest with 3 decades of morbid obesity. This all happened after a series of tragic events that were the recipe for my disastrous health from 2 drunk drivers of which the 1st one nearly killed me with a combined speed of 114 mph that left me with permanent back injuries. I’ve had cancer 2 times, 7 heart attacks including 1 major heart attack. After the last heart attack my liver started showing signs of failure and developed ulcers all over my legs that were bone deep. Because of my health I was on 24 medications that cost at least 2 times what the average person pays for rent; developed major depressive disorder, had severe edema to both legs. Of which I winded up having everything except for sleep apnea and diabetes, my health started showing signs of failure and was given 5 years to live. All of the above except for the auto accidents were directly linked to my obesity and is the ULTIMATE price of everyone that is obese. At my milestone of losing half my weight my only son whom was 20 years old committed suicide, this family tragedy alone has affected me for the rest of my life but I still managed to lose my obese weight. “TOO MANY PEOPLE TODAY CLAIM WEIGHT LOSS IS JUST TOO HARD TO DO, I WOULDN’T DREAM OF TRADING YOU WITH WHAT YOU THINK IS HARD WITH MINE!” Then years later on January 28th, 2014 my wife found me collapsed in the shower, after she got some help to get me out I became unconscious. Later in the ER I could no longer breathe on my own and was on total life-support. Literally staring at death in the face given 10 hours to live from my skull fracturing open from a massive benign brain tumor called meningioma. I had emergency brain surgery in 5 hours of my diagnosis by a leading brain surgeon in Texas, to find out what I had growing in my brain took over 10 years to get to that size. Of which my weight loss journey started 9 years ago. This leads back to August 4th 2005, of which this was my daughter’s birthday and I took her to Bennigan’s in Round Rock after seeing a movie. There winded up being a group of people sitting behind me that were all drunk and were going to town on my huge body sitting on the restaurants small chair, being very loud with their insults and jokes trying to get to me. I was so severely depressed that I ignored them but my daughter got to the point that she couldn’t take it any longer by standing up, screaming and yelling at them with what I call daddy unapproved adjectives for a 16 year old at the time. And ran to the bathroom crying… When she got back, the fools that were insulting me already had left. But the pain and tears that were still flowing that I had seen in her eyes alone when she got back awakened my soul. I realized then that she was not upset over the idiots, my daughter was upset that she was going to lose her father, and that I just settled with my death sentence and was not attempting to do anything about my health and fitness to fight for my life. I tell people that night that I was staring at death in the face of my own daughters eyes of the reflection of myself. Later that night when I went home I went and looked at myself for the first time in my life I did not see the severely depressed man, I had seen the grossly morbid obese man that I had become wearing a size 8XL pants! That night I yelled at myself looking into the mirror saying, “NO MORE!!!” Now because of my entire weight loss journey that started August 5, 2005 weighing 637 lbs all the way to my finish line on June 14th, 2009 weighing 190 lbs. That my health & fitness level that I achieved after my weight loss over the years with body building. Besides the divine acts of God because He has a purpose of which is my calling in life “By paying my life forward” to help others with their own weight loss journey, or to get healthy and fit. That I’m still alive today after a major medical crisis that technically I should not even be alive, is how I have recovered so quickly 7 months post op because of my health & fitness! Now for those of you that believe health & fitness is a waste of your time? “THINK AGAIN!” Your body! Your vital organs! Your life! Cannot support you if none of it is healthy. “PERIOD!” Prescriptions are not the cure because they only prolonging the inedible of what is going to happen to you if you do not do something about your health. While the food you eat which should always be healthy clean nutrition and exercise on a daily basis is the cure to live a healthy, fit, and fulfilling life. Do whatever it takes for your life is worth it! “I made all these changes for one simple reason, because I wanted to live.” – Copyright © 2009 by John Beissert; And so do you! !!!!!!!WHATEVER IT TAKES YOU GOT TO BRING IT!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! John Beissert, CPT Certified Personal Trainer, Nutritional Consultant, & Independent Team Beachbody Coach PowerOfChampions https://youtube/watch?v=Ud6sU3AclT4
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 05:53:39 +0000
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