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The best advice I've ever heard on motivation is from my first personal trainer, Jim Guimond of Kinetic Heights, 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 when we started to work together, Chris Crowley's excellent book, Younger Next Year, the big turning point, and my progression, with Jim's help and guidance, to my first sprint triathlon, and beyond.
I hope you all get as much out of Jim's insights as I did.
Jim at 24 Hours of Booty, July 2016