All posts by gshort@shortfam.com

Do you use a pre workout drink?

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I had someone yesterday asked me about getting energy for a workout. I do believe that pre workout drinks help you pick up your game but if you don’t have everything balanced it could just be dropping energy from you that you need later.

Make sure that you are using supplements wisely to increase your performance and not as a bandaid to mask things that you are not doing.

Eat, sleep, hydration and then supplements to fill in gaps and improve performance.

YOU ARE NOT A NUMBER!!!

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Recently there was a discussion on Facebook about how someone have been working out and eating right for 3 weeks and had lost 2 pounds, but she had lost 7.5 inches around her body.

I cannot stress enough my disdain for the bathroom scale and society’s obsession with weight.

Weight is just one measurement and is subpar at best to track one’s health especially when you get within 20 pounds of your supposed ideal weight. Please look at a more important measurements of functionality, inches, and before and after pictures in conjuction with your weight.

YOU ARE NOT A NUMBER!!!

Almost 40!!

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Yep, it is an ab day which means extra sweat, extra pushing, and extra just getting down and workout dirty!

Extra motivation never hurts when your body is tired and you just want to go shower. I am 18 days away from the big 4 – 0.

When I think about that milestone it makes me want to push even harder to make sure that I am in the best shape of my life at forty.

Do you have something that is pushing you today?

One of my most hated pictures.

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#ThrowbackThursday and I can’t believe I am sharing this.  I might be smiling but that’s only because I’m with friends and family.

This was a few years back before I had started my fitness journey, me and the family went to sea world and took a few pictures. There are very few pictures of me at this time in my life because I hated, absolutely hated looking at myself in the mirror.

I haven’t seen this picture in years but it’s a testament of no matter where your at you can change your future. Please don’t ever think that you are stuck where you are.