On episode 3, we recap Josh'a last race of the year, the Novant Health Charlotte Half Marathon and discuss his plans for the off-season (will he ever sleep in???).  We also discuss Aaron's race plans for 2018 and Derek Murphy's site marathon investigations.  We wrap up with our race-day disasters and discuss which of us is so OCD that he won't stop a work-out until his Garmin is rounded to the tenth of a mile.  It's another jam-packed episode of the Up Off the Couch Podcast!

best advice I've ever heard on motivation is from my first personal trainer, Jim Guimond, who said that the reason why you work out has to be big enough in order for you to overcome the obstacles that will face you during the process. As Jim says, if your "why" is big enough, you will overcome the obstacles.  

I had a pretty big "why" when I started with Jim in May of 2015 the process that led me to triathlon. Having been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and few days earlier (with an A1c of 13.7%), I was all too aware of the horrible consequences that would befall me if I didn't change my life right then and there. So initially, it was a life and death decision to get into fitness activity.

On this episode of the Up Of the Couch Podcast, Jim and I discuss the early months the we started to work together, the big turning point, snd my progression, with is help and guidance, to my first sprint triathlon, and beyond.

What does it take to put a stake in the ground for your fitness and have an epic year?  Aaron and Josh talk about their epic years finishing their first IRONMAN 70.3 triathlons, their plans for an epic 2018, their struggles starting out, how Josh is medically incapable of sleeping in, and how they shamelessly lie to themselves to get through each workout . . . and lots more!  It's the debut Up Off the Couch podcast!