Several people who saw my “time to move on blog” below wrote to ask me what I’m going to do next. Well, if my job doesn’t get any easier soon, I may just quietly go insane, and one day start screaming and never stop…..but I suspect that things will get better in the job front soon enough, so I do have some plans coming up for fitness activity.

First and foremost, I’m going to give P90X a complete tryout. I’m not just going to give it a bit of a shot–I’m actually going to do the full 90 days just like it is supposed to be done, and see whether it’s something that will work on a 63 year old guy. I’m in good enough condition to get started–I just need to make all the arrangements to truly do it right, and that means waiting until my current trip is over.

Looks like I’ll be kicking off on Tuesday, May 4. I’ll post updates and photos as I go along. From what I know about the program and about fitness in general, I expect great things from the exercise program of P90X and I’ll be following the nutrition program that looks much like the Body for Life or the “Zone approach” to eating.

I’m writing this from a hotel lobby in Grinnell Iowa on a stormy Saturday afternoon, on my way to Kansas to visit my mother. It’s pouring right now, so I’ll be putting off my exercise until later tonight when I get to my daughter’s house. They have a full gym and after a day of driving, I’m ready to kick it!

I just finished a transformation challenge for this year, and the results were predictably “good,” though perhaps not as good as years past. I’m 63 years old now, so nothing is really as easy to do as it was, especially staying fit. So, I’m still proud of the challenge results, but I also think it’s time to “move on” so far as fitness is concerned.

See, keeping muscle mass and staying generally fit will always be goals so long as I can continue to work out, and I will always return to the types of progressive resistance training I’ve done for years as part of my base fitness plan. But, I also plan on putting more functional types of exercises into my routine, exercises that will help me be a better bicyclist, a better golfer, a better swimmer, and a better runner. That likely means much more core work and much more in the way of body weight exercises, and less in terms of progressive resistance training volume.

I also plan on “moving on” insofar as time spent on writing, teaching and speaking concerning fitness. I think I’ve said most everything I really need to say in the Blogs I’ve written over the last three years, and the materials have all found their way into the hands of others who can continue to use them–to the extent that they might remain valuable for those who are just taking up the craft of transformation fitness athletics. I will continue to Blog on this site, but probably only on this site for the forseeable future. Reality is that I’m just slightly less than three years away from retirement, and until then my full-time job is still my biggest priority time-wise. The good news is that I have job security because of how my appointment works, and the not-so-good news is that those who didn’t have that security have been terminated and their work spread among the remainder of us. So, I have an embarrassment of riches insofar as my job duties and the time necessary to do the job. That’s another good reason to be spending less time Blogging and more time doing what I need to be doing.

So, thanks for the memories, as they say, and for the forseeable future please stop by this site if you want to see what I’m up to and how I’m progressing.

God bless!