Vic Biberston knows what it’s like to be the fat guy, the last one chosen for sports teams. He knows what it’s like to ride the diet roller coaster of weight loss and gain.
As he says Let me be clear, I alone am responsible for my physical condition. My weight is the empirical evidence of simple nutritional mathematics, I have eaten more calories than I have burned. When calories in is greater than calories burned you gain weight. Do that year over year, and you end up shopping in the big and tall men’s store because the other stores simply don’t have your size.
Weight and the ability to control it has many causes but at the end of the day how you treat your body by what goes in and what measures you take to exercise will by the result you look at in the mirror.
One of his co-workers, a former triathlete, casually mentioned he’d like to get in shape to compete again.
For the past nine months, he has made it his goal to take part in a triathlon. He even created a Web site, www.obesetotriathlete.com, to share his experiences and track his progress.
I so encourage this sensible approach to using sport as motivational anchor to make positive changes to your life, when problems arise from weight challenges it is a tilt towards the real depression cycle that impacts a wider circle of people.
Any time you undertake a training program The list of general , specific training activities need to be organized.
With any program, skills must go from general to specific, basic to complex.
* Athletes must establish general conditioning , this is a most important factor I have seen so many athletes get hurt and disillusioned by not being prepared
before doing complex lactic acid workouts.
* You must develop the ability to accelerate before doing speed endurance. Again this could be a issue to be debated but I believe good form and the ability to
know how to run fast is the first and intrinsicely important element of training
* And beyond that these skills must be broken down further as well as addressing other biomotor abilities
Establish a clear, specific goal for the training plan.
Do you want to win a State Title ? beat joe bloggs on the bike who always trashed you last season, but you had him in the run.
You have to set your intention on a specific goal by focusing on the end result and then working backwards.
This is one of the most overlooked , difficult components of the training plan.
1. But if you don’t start with the end goal and end date and work backwards, you can’t get a true understanding of how to progress your training.
Don’t forget that competitions must be factored into the overall conditioning plan as well.
You can get going with out the surgery of gastric partitioning or gastric stapling that Joe went through.
I know diet is a four-letter word.But if you need something as a motivator and tie it in with your training remember though… If you’re dieting, that’s a temporary state of being. At some point, the diet has to end.’’ look at eating as nutrition: ‘‘Let’s call it that. It’s a lifestyle.’’
Go Joe and everyone else out there that has the courage to step up to the start line
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