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This journal entry provides a brief history of my life as it relates to fitness and nutrition:

July 1, 2007

My History

I was a three sport (football, basketball, baseball) varsity athlete in high school. My best sport was baseball. My senior year I was a team captain and the only player in the league to be unanimously selected to the all-star team (every coach voted for me). As far as I know, I still hold my high school’s record for stolen bases in a season (24 steals in 24 games).

I could have played college ball, but I decided to focus on academics instead and, after I graduated from H.S. in ’98, I wound up at a Great Books school, St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM. While going to St. John’s was the best decision that I have ever made (I would encourage all aspiring young scholars to check it out), I was too busy exercising my brain to spend much time exercising my body and my physical prowess slowly wasted away.

To make a long story short, in high school I suffered a rash of shoulder and neck injuries during my junior year that made me ineffective on the field and forced me to sit out my senior football and basketball seasons. Determined to make a come back and have a great baseball season, I did a ton of physical therapy and, for the first time, hit the weights pretty hard. When I graduated from high school, I was a muscular 5’ 9” and 190 lbs. As I sit here typing today, I am still 5’ 9”, and my weight fluctuates between a relatively weak 150-155 lbs.

However, attention to my physical health has hardly been entirely absent in the nine years since I graduated high school. In fact, my nutritional health has been quite good, much better than it was in high school. I have learned a great deal about nutrition, and I credit my current 11% body fat reading to my nutritional health over the past nine years. My nutritional health combined with the occasional hike/ski in the Santa Fe mountains (sometimes less occasional than others) has kept my feeling physically alive… but, all the while, I’ve been feeling increasingly weak.

That time that I mention during my junior year of high school where I seemed to be getting injured every week really impressed upon me the importance of physical fitness in order to avoid injuries. Today, I remember those injuries well because I am still affected by them. However, those problem spots, which I will get into in more detail later, aren’t as problematic as they were just over a month ago before I started P90X!

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