Jumping Right In

Sweet, thanks Serina for putting this together! Just some brief intro, in recent years I've become a total fitness/nutrition junkie as well as a blog lover. I love reading blogs and enjoy writing them too and there is a reason why I was not an English/writing major, but I do love sharing what I have to say :)
Anyway, briefly in the past few years I've spent way too much time trying to figure out fitness and diet and in most recent months finally feel like I'm headed down a truly healthy, balanced path in life (not to say I don't stray from time to time, but who doesn't?) and I love sharing what I've learned and how I've gotten there so I plan on slowly sharing things like how I've learned to generally crave healthy food more than junk (seriously, it is possible I always thought that was crap when people would say that) and how I've learned to work fitness into my busy 9-5 life. I guess you can say I like 2 different extremes - I love long distance running as well as living (semi) heavy weights. I love running races, Bodypump classes, and kettlebells. Those 3 probably make up the majority of my workouts. Things like pilates and the barre method don't appeal to me much, although I haven't given it much of a chance so maybe much like how I can convince myself to like the taste of something because it's healthy, maybe I can convince myself to enjoy those methods of exercise because it's, well, exercise. If all goes well, in a year or so I will be a certified personal trainer with a little experience and I strive to have that certification with some real knowledge to offer, rather than to have it just to tell people I'm certified. I would also love to one day get certified as a nutrition coach but I think that's putting way too much on my plate... so we'll see. I've been looking to connect with like minded people with a similar passion for awhile so I'm looking forward to being part of this!

I actually have a blog on the side I have just started for this stuff, mostly so I can keep myself accountable and to look back at so I will plan to post here regularly, but I'm thinking I may find myself linking back to that to expand on my posts. So for example...

Today's workout was approximately 45 minutes of a few strength training exercises I threw together plus a cardio Turbo Kickboxing class at 24 Hour Fitness. Read more here!