(1164,1,'2017-05-18 12:37:00','2017-05-18 16:37:00','<h2><strong>We\'ve got some STRONG feelings about running... sometimes.</strong></h2>\r\nWhen you\'re hot, you\'re hot... and when you\'re into running... boy, you are INTO it! You pour yourself into training, you get your significant other to help out and pick up the slack... you give it everything you\'ve got! And God forbid something happens on race day to knock things out of orbit... <a href=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/05/2017-maine-coast-marathon.html\">like an extra half-mile added to your marathon...</a> You\'re going to be heartbroken. Or go ballistic. Y\'know, depending on your personality.\r\n\r\n<strong>But what happens when the love is gone?</strong>\r\n\r\nWe\'re not ALWAYS going to be in love with running... or fitness for that matter. The question is... what do YOU do when you <em>aren\'t </em>feeling it? Do you still do it? Or does it fall by the wayside?\r\n<h3><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the full chat with Darrell &amp; Megan about Maine Coast Marathon and \"feeling it\" (plus more!) check out the podcast episode on</span> <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, on</span> <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </span></em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #f54545;\"><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></span></strong></h3>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>This is something we ALL deal with from time to time.</strong></h2>\r\nWe get SUPER into a thing... running, fitness, that new tv show, a good book... and when you\'re on it, you\'re on it - you ride that high into oblivion. Eventually though... you\'re gonna fall out of love with it. You don\'t feel that same fire and passion for it. This might sound kinda stupid or obvious... but that\'s probably because <em>this is simply how real life works - <strong>we get bored. </strong></em>Normally, this is non-issue; we\'ve got enough things to do that demand our attention - maybe it\'s a GOOD thing we\'re off that previous fixation. Now we can direct our attention at other things, right?\r\n<h3><strong>But what happens when it\'s a GOOD habit? Fitness or nutrition?</strong></h3>\r\nAll of a sudden... we\'re NOT crazy about going to the gym. All of a sudden... we\'re REALLY not that excited about getting out for a run. So what do you do? Do you just let it go like the other things you\'re... <em>not crazy about?</em>\r\n<h3><strong>Not everyone does. Some people soldier on and do the thing.</strong></h3>\r\nJust because you\'re not loving it doesn\'t mean you\'re just gonna <em>stop</em>. I mean, <em>come on</em>, I know I\'m supposed to do this, I know it\'s good for me, I know it benefits me, and I know I\'ll feel better for having done it. I just... don\'t feel like it. So what? I don\'t feel like going to work today, but I did <strong>that</strong>. So yeah, I\'m gonna keep going and doing it.\r\n<h3><strong>Not everyone thinks that way, though.</strong></h3>\r\nUnfortunately.... many people DO give up and let it go. That\'s why I see people vanish from the gym for months at a time. When you\'ve lost the drive and motivation... it can be tough to get back into it. You\'ve gotta build up the momentum and the mental drive to do the thing again. <em>That</em>, arguably, is the hard part. You\'ve already been there and done it, so you know the thing itself... the gym, the running, the whatever... isn\'t the hard part.\r\n<h2><strong>Sometimes you burn out.</strong></h2>\r\nWe all know how it goes - you went too hard, burned too bright, and now you just don\'t have it in you. <strong>You need a break.</strong> It happens. This is something a lot of us do with races. We work so hard, we prep, we train, then the race comes and we give it everything we\'ve got... and at the end... there really is nothing left. And we fall off, hit post-marathon blues, just... drift away. Whatever the case may be.\r\n<h2><strong>So... DO you FEEL it? Now?</strong></h2>\r\nDo you feel that fire, that passion, right now? What\'s it focused on? Is it the running, the fitness, the healthy habits? If so... <em>good!</em> Ride that feeling, but harness it and channel it. Don\'t go too hard and burn it out. And if you <em>don\'t </em>feel it... try your hardest to get moving with the things you know you should. You\'ll be glad you did - trust me.\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our weekend working the Maine Coast Marathon</li>\r\n 	<li>The accidental .5 mlie detour at that marathon</li>\r\n 	<li>The difference between Trail/Ultra and Road runners</li>\r\n 	<li>Do we take things a little too seriously?</li>\r\n 	<li>DO You FEEL it?! And what happens... if you don\'t?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/podcast\">Podcast Companion Blog Archives</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - Podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5366966/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','','','inherit','closed','closed','','1161-revision-v1','','','2017-05-18 12:37:00','2017-05-18 16:37:00','',1161,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/05/1161-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1165,1,'2017-05-18 12:39:32','2017-05-18 16:39:32','<h2><strong>We\'ve got some STRONG feelings about running... sometimes.</strong></h2>\r\nWhen you\'re hot, you\'re hot... and when you\'re into running... boy, you are INTO it! You pour yourself into training, you get your significant other to help out and pick up the slack... you give it everything you\'ve got! And God forbid something happens on race day to knock things out of orbit... <a href=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/05/2017-maine-coast-marathon.html\">like an extra half-mile added to your marathon...</a> You\'re going to be heartbroken. Or go ballistic. Y\'know, depending on your personality.\r\n\r\n<strong>But what happens when the love is gone?</strong>\r\n\r\nWe\'re not ALWAYS going to be in love with running... or fitness for that matter. The question is... what do YOU do when you <em>aren\'t </em>feeling it? Do you still do it? Or does it fall by the wayside?\r\n<h3><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the full chat with Darrell &amp; Megan about Maine Coast Marathon and \"feeling it\" (plus more!) check out the podcast episode on</span> <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, on</span> <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </span></em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #f54545;\"><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></span></strong></h3>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>This is something we ALL deal with from time to time.</strong></h2>\r\nWe get SUPER into a thing... running, fitness, that new tv show, a good book... and when you\'re on it, you\'re on it - you ride that high into oblivion. Eventually though... you\'re gonna fall out of love with it. You don\'t feel that same fire and passion for it. This might sound kinda stupid or obvious... but that\'s probably because <em>this is simply how real life works - <strong>we get bored. </strong></em>Normally, this is non-issue; we\'ve got enough things to do that demand our attention - maybe it\'s a GOOD thing we\'re off that previous fixation. Now we can direct our attention at other things, right?\r\n<h3><strong>But what happens when it\'s a GOOD habit? Fitness or nutrition?</strong></h3>\r\nAll of a sudden... we\'re NOT crazy about going to the gym. All of a sudden... we\'re REALLY not that excited about getting out for a run. So what do you do? Do you just let it go like the other things you\'re... <em>not crazy about?</em>\r\n<h3><strong>Not everyone does. Some people soldier on and do the thing.</strong></h3>\r\nJust because you\'re not loving it doesn\'t mean you\'re just gonna <em>stop</em>. I mean, <em>come on</em>, I know I\'m supposed to do this, I know it\'s good for me, I know it benefits me, and I know I\'ll feel better for having done it. I just... don\'t feel like it. So what? I don\'t feel like going to work today, but I did <strong>that</strong>. So yeah, I\'m gonna keep going and doing it.\r\n<h3><strong>Not everyone thinks that way, though.</strong></h3>\r\nUnfortunately.... many people DO give up and let it go. That\'s why I see people vanish from the gym for months at a time. When you\'ve lost the drive and motivation... it can be tough to get back into it. You\'ve gotta build up the momentum and the mental drive to do the thing again. <em>That</em>, arguably, is the hard part. You\'ve already been there and done it, so you know the thing itself... the gym, the running, the whatever... isn\'t the hard part.\r\n<h2><strong>Sometimes you burn out.</strong></h2>\r\nWe all know how it goes - you went too hard, burned too bright, and now you just don\'t have it in you. <strong>You need a break.</strong> It happens. This is something a lot of us do with races. We work so hard, we prep, we train, then the race comes and we give it everything we\'ve got... and at the end... there really is nothing left. And we fall off, hit post-marathon blues, just... drift away. Whatever the case may be.\r\n<h2><strong>So... DO you FEEL it? Now?</strong></h2>\r\nDo you feel that fire, that passion, right now? What\'s it focused on? Is it the running, the fitness, the healthy habits? If so... <em>good!</em> Ride that feeling, but harness it and channel it. Don\'t go too hard and burn it out. And if you <em>don\'t </em>feel it... try your hardest to get moving with the things you know you should. You\'ll be glad you did - trust me.\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our weekend working the Maine Coast Marathon</li>\r\n 	<li>The accidental .5 mlie detour at that marathon</li>\r\n 	<li>The difference between Trail/Ultra and Road runners</li>\r\n 	<li>Do we take things a little too seriously?</li>\r\n 	<li>DO You FEEL it?! And what happens... if you don\'t?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/podcast\">Podcast Companion Blog Archives</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - Podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5366966/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Do You FEEL It?! (Podcast #38)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1161-revision-v1','','','2017-05-18 12:39:32','2017-05-18 16:39:32','',1161,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/05/1161-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1169,1,'2017-05-25 09:57:22','2017-05-25 13:57:22','<h2><strong>On the eve of a great battle... there is much to do.</strong></h2>\r\nThere are plans to be finalized and preparations to be made. Warriors must to gear up and mentally prepare for what they\'re about to do. <em><strong>Wait... wait...</strong></em> this seems a little... over the top... for a fitness blog.\r\n<h3><strong>Is it, though?</strong></h3>\r\nWhen we\'re about to take on a new phase of our journey... well... we\'re no different from those warriors. Instead of swords and shields, we\'re donning running shoes and a water bottle, or cross-trainers and a sweat towel. And yes, we ARE about to do battle... just in a different way. It\'s wholly appropriate to hunker down and view it as such in order to get your head right for what\'s to come. And that\'s exactly what I\'m here to talk about... I don\'t know about YOU... but I\'VE got something big coming this weekend...\r\n\r\n<strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the full chat on this, the conversation with Katrina White (plus more!) check out the podcast episode on</span> <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, on</span> <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </span></em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #f54545;\"><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></span></strong>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Sometimes the enormity of our task doesn\'t occur to us.</strong></h2>\r\n<h3><strong>Perhaps a \"warrior\'s mindset\" is appropriate, then.</strong></h3>\r\nJust as it\'s important for the warrior to mentally prepare for the rigors of battle, and just as he\'s got no choice but to envision total victory... so too must you. When we\'re about to take on a new phase in our fitness journey, we HAVE to believe it\'s going to be successful. We MUST have confidence in our ability to succeed! And we simply CANNOT doubt ourselves. It\'s that simple. And that\'s the topic of discussion today, kids - how to handle yourself on the eve of battle. However hyperbolic that might sound.\r\n<h3><strong>But what happens when it\'s a GOOD habit? Fitness or nutrition?</strong></h3>\r\nAll of a sudden... we\'re NOT crazy about going to the gym. All of a sudden... we\'re REALLY not that excited about getting out for a run. So what do you do? Do you just let it go like the other things you\'re... <em>not crazy about?</em>\r\n<h3><strong>Not everyone does. Some people soldier on and do the thing.</strong></h3>\r\nJust because you\'re not loving it doesn\'t mean you\'re just gonna <em>stop</em>. I mean, <em>come on</em>, I know I\'m supposed to do this, I know it\'s good for me, I know it benefits me, and I know I\'ll feel better for having done it. I just... don\'t feel like it. So what? I don\'t feel like going to work today, but I did <strong>that</strong>. So yeah, I\'m gonna keep going and doing it.\r\n<h3><strong>Not everyone thinks that way, though.</strong></h3>\r\nUnfortunately.... many people DO give up and let it go. That\'s why I see people vanish from the gym for months at a time. When you\'ve lost the drive and motivation... it can be tough to get back into it. You\'ve gotta build up the momentum and the mental drive to do the thing again. <em>That</em>, arguably, is the hard part. You\'ve already been there and done it, so you know the thing itself... the gym, the running, the whatever... isn\'t the hard part.\r\n<h2><strong>Sometimes you burn out.</strong></h2>\r\nWe all know how it goes - you went too hard, burned too bright, and now you just don\'t have it in you. <strong>You need a break.</strong> It happens. This is something a lot of us do with races. We work so hard, we prep, we train, then the race comes and we give it everything we\'ve got... and at the end... there really is nothing left. And we fall off, hit post-marathon blues, just... drift away. Whatever the case may be.\r\n<h2><strong>So... DO you FEEL it? Now?</strong></h2>\r\nDo you feel that fire, that passion, right now? What\'s it focused on? Is it the running, the fitness, the healthy habits? If so... <em>good!</em> Ride that feeling, but harness it and channel it. Don\'t go too hard and burn it out. And if you <em>don\'t </em>feel it... try your hardest to get moving with the things you know you should. You\'ll be glad you did - trust me.\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Our weekend working the Maine Coast Marathon</li>\r\n 	<li>The accidental .5 mlie detour at that marathon</li>\r\n 	<li>The difference between Trail/Ultra and Road runners</li>\r\n 	<li>Do we take things a little too seriously?</li>\r\n 	<li>DO You FEEL it?! And what happens... if you don\'t?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/podcast\">Podcast Companion Blog Archives</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - Podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5388134/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','On The Eve Of Battle (Podcast #39)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1167-revision-v1','','','2017-05-25 09:57:22','2017-05-25 13:57:22','',1167,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/05/1167-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1168,1,'2017-05-25 09:00:39','2017-05-25 13:00:39','','On the eve of battle','','inherit','open','closed','','wordswag_1495687643456','','','2017-05-25 09:58:08','2017-05-25 13:58:08','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/wordswag_1495687643456.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1170,1,'2017-05-25 09:57:46','2017-05-25 13:57:46','','wordswag_1495687643456','','inherit','open','closed','','wordswag_1495687643456-2','','','2017-05-25 09:57:46','2017-05-25 13:57:46','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/wordswag_1495687643456-1.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1171,1,'2017-05-25 11:45:49','2017-05-25 15:45:49','<h2><strong>On the eve of a great battle... there is much to do.</strong></h2>\r\nThere are plans to be finalized and preparations to be made. Warriors must to gear up and mentally prepare for what they\'re about to do. <em><strong>Wait... wait...</strong></em> this seems a little... over the top... for a fitness blog.\r\n<h3><strong>Is it, though?</strong></h3>\r\nWhen we\'re about to take on a new phase of our journey... well... we\'re no different from those warriors. Instead of swords and shields, we\'re donning running shoes and a water bottle, or cross-trainers and a sweat towel. And yes, we ARE about to do battle... just in a different way. It\'s wholly appropriate to hunker down and view it as such in order to get your head right for what\'s to come. And that\'s exactly what I\'m here to talk about... I don\'t know about YOU... but I\'VE got something big coming this weekend...\r\n\r\n<strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the full chat on this, the conversation with Katrina White (plus more!) check out the podcast episode on</span> <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, on</span> <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </span></em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #f54545;\"><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></span></strong>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Sometimes the enormity of our task doesn\'t occur to us.</strong></h2>\r\nSometimes we get so used to what it is we\'re doing... that we kind of lose sight of the bigger picture. This weekend, I\'ll be going back to New Gloucester, Maine to run the Pineland Farms Trail Festival 50 Miler. A year ago, this race was my first 50 miler... my first <em>ultramarathon</em>. I\'m pretty excited to get back there and...\r\n<h3><em><strong>Wait... I\'m about to do a 50 MILE ULTRAMARATHON...crap...</strong></em></h3>\r\nYeah... that\'s the realization I had while recording episode 39 of the So THIS Is Fitness podcast. And it hit me just like that. I\'m about to go do an event that ties for 2nd longest and most challenging endurance event <em>I\'ve ever done</em>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">This is serious business.</span> Regardless of how much of a badass I think I am... this is going to push me pretty hard... mentally, physically, physiologically... I\'m gonna be out there, chugging along... one foot in front of the other... for over 10 hours. 50 miles... <strong><em>fifty freaking miles...</em></strong><em> </em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Yeah, I\'d say I\'m about to do battle.</span>\r\n<h3><strong>Perhaps it <em>is </em>approppriate, then, to <em>prepare</em> for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">battle</span>, as a warrior would.</strong></h3>\r\n<em>That means the total package, kids. </em>If you\'re going to battle you\'ve gotta come armed to the teeth and ready to fight. In this case, I\'ve gotta come prepared to fight for every mile, every inch. Mental and physical preparation have to be excellent and they are equally important. Maybe your battle is different - maybe you\'re not running a race. Perhaps you\'re about to join the gym... or take your currently <em>unused </em>gym membership seriously. Maybe you\'re gonna clean up your nutrition and stop eating like a jerk (hey, call it what it is - I did for myself). Maybe you\'re going to finally take on a toxic personal relationship situation... whatever it is, you\'ve got to be ready. Physically and mentally. Whatever those might mean for you.\r\n<h3><strong>Physical preparation - your weapons, armor, and supplies.</strong></h3>\r\nFor me, or any of us with a race or endurance event... the weapons with which we will conquer the course are simple - our shoes... our bike... our<em> feet and legs</em>. Our armor serves to protect us through our endeavor - specialty athletic clothing... sunglasses, sunscreen, and bug spray... our hydration vest, belt, or handheld...  We fill our pack with supplies meant to sustain us through the battle - gels, chews, chomps and food... water and electrolytes... salt tabs, bandages, headlamps and more... Just as the warrior sharpens and shines his blade, lays out his armor, and readies his supplies, so, too, do we in the days and nights before the battle. The pre-race selfies and pictures of our laid-out gear serve as a sign to all who may see or hear that we\'re ready for the fight and intend to emerge victorious.\r\n<h3><em><strong>\"Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.\" - Sun Tzu</strong></em></h3>\r\nJust as it\'s important for the warrior to mentally prepare for the rigors of battle, and just as he\'s got no choice but to envision total victory... so too must we when we\'re facing down something like this. When we\'re about to take on a new phase in our fitness journey, we HAVE to believe it\'s going to be successful. We MUST have confidence in our ability to succeed! And we simply CANNOT doubt ourselves. When we step up to the start line of the race, we <em>must </em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">know</span> that we can succeed, and we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">must</span> allow only one possibility - total victory. Be prepared for what happens when you hit that dark place and fall into your pain cave... whether it happens at mile 2, or 20, or 80... you have to be ready for it and know how to fight your way through to the other side. Only then can you achieve victory.\r\n\r\nIt\'s that simple. And that\'s the topic of discussion today, kids - how to handle yourself on the eve of battle. However hyperbolic that might sound.\r\n<h3></h3>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Interesting happenings at the gym</li>\r\n 	<li>Life is actually pretty good right now</li>\r\n 	<li>What to do when you\'re about to embark on a major journey\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>including a conversation with Katrina White all about the upcoming Pineland Farms 50 Mile Ultramarathon</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/podcast\">Podcast Companion Blog Archives</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - Podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5388134/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','On The Eve Of Battle (Podcast #39)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1167-revision-v1','','','2017-05-25 11:45:49','2017-05-25 15:45:49','',1167,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/05/1167-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1172,1,'2017-05-25 12:05:35','2017-05-25 16:05:35','<h2><strong>On the eve of a great battle... there is much to do.</strong></h2>\r\nThere are plans to be finalized and preparations to be made. Warriors must gear up and mentally prepare for what they\'re about to do. <em><strong>Wait... wait...</strong></em> this seems a little... over the top... for a fitness blog.\r\n<h3><strong>Is it, though?</strong></h3>\r\nWhen we\'re about to take on a new phase of our journey... well... we\'re no different from those warriors. Instead of swords and shields, we\'re donning running shoes and a water bottle, or cross-trainers and a sweat towel. And yes, we ARE about to do battle... just in a different way. It\'s wholly appropriate to hunker down and view it as such in order to get your head right for what\'s to come. And that\'s exactly what I\'m here to talk about... I don\'t know about YOU... but I\'VE got something big coming this weekend...\r\n\r\n<strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the full chat on this, the conversation with Katrina White, and more... check out the podcast episode on</span> <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, on</span> <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </span></em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #f54545;\"><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></span></strong>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Sometimes the enormity of our task doesn\'t occur to us.</strong></h2>\r\nSometimes we get so used to what it is we\'re doing... that we kind of lose sight of the bigger picture. This weekend, I\'ll be going back to New Gloucester, Maine to run the Pineland Farms Trail Festival 50 Miler. A year ago, this race was my first 50 miler... my first <em>ultramarathon</em>. I\'m pretty excited to get back there and...\r\n<h3><em><strong>Wait... I\'m about to do a 50 MILE ULTRAMARATHON...crap...</strong></em></h3>\r\nYeah... that\'s the realization I had while recording episode 39 of the So THIS Is Fitness podcast. And it hit me just like that. I\'m about to go do an event that ties for 2nd longest and most challenging endurance event <em>I\'ve ever done</em>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">This is serious business.</span> Regardless of how much of a badass I think I am... this is going to push me pretty hard... mentally, physically, physiologically... I\'m gonna be out there, chugging along... one foot in front of the other... for over 10 hours. 50 miles... <strong><em>fifty freaking miles...</em></strong><em> </em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Yeah, I\'d say I\'m about to do battle.</span>\r\n<h3><strong>Perhaps it <em>is </em>approppriate, then, to <em>prepare</em> for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">battle</span>, as a warrior would.</strong></h3>\r\n<em>That means the total package, kids. </em>If you\'re going to battle you\'ve gotta come armed to the teeth and ready to fight. In this case, I\'ve gotta come prepared to fight for every mile, every inch. Mental and physical preparation have to be excellent and they are equally important. Maybe your battle is different - maybe you\'re not running a race. Perhaps you\'re about to join the gym... or take your currently <em>unused </em>gym membership seriously. Maybe you\'re gonna clean up your nutrition and stop eating like a jerk (hey, call it what it is - I did for myself). Maybe you\'re going to finally take on a toxic personal relationship situation... whatever it is, you\'ve got to be ready. Physically and mentally. Whatever those might mean for you.\r\n<h3><strong>Physical preparation - your weapons, armor, and supplies.</strong></h3>\r\nFor me, or any of us with a race or endurance event... the weapons with which we will conquer the course are simple - our shoes... our bike... our<em> feet and legs</em>. Our armor serves to protect us through our endeavor - specialty athletic clothing... sunglasses, sunscreen, and bug spray... our hydration vest, belt, or handheld...  We fill our pack with supplies meant to sustain us through the battle - gels, chews, chomps and food... water and electrolytes... salt tabs, bandages, headlamps and more... Just as the warrior sharpens and shines his blade, lays out his armor, and readies his supplies, so, too, do we in the days and nights before the battle. The pre-race selfies and pictures of our laid-out gear serve as a sign to all who may see or hear that we\'re ready for the fight and intend to emerge victorious.\r\n<h3><em><strong>\"Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.\" - Sun Tzu</strong></em></h3>\r\nJust as it\'s important for the warrior to mentally prepare for the rigors of battle, and just as he\'s got no choice but to envision total victory... so too must we when we\'re facing down something like this. When we\'re about to take on a new phase in our fitness journey, we HAVE to believe it\'s going to be successful. We MUST have confidence in our ability to succeed! And we simply CANNOT doubt ourselves. When we step up to the start line of the race, we <em>must </em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">know</span> that we can succeed, and we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">must</span> allow only one possibility - total victory. Be prepared for what happens when you hit that dark place and fall into your pain cave... whether it happens at mile 2, or 20, or 80... you have to be ready for it and know how to fight your way through to the other side. Only then can you achieve victory.\r\n<h2><strong>Be the warrior - claim your victory.</strong></h2>\r\nSo as you wake up on race day, keep this in the forefront of your mind. As you don your armor and wield your blade... <strong>know</strong> that victory is assured. You are prepared, you are well trained, and you <em>will </em>win the battle.\r\n\r\nIt\'s that simple. And that\'s the topic of discussion today, kids - how to handle yourself on the eve of battle. However hyperbolic that might sound. Join me for episode 39 for more. Go be a badass - crush it, and #LiveLifeLimitless.\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Interesting happenings at the gym</li>\r\n 	<li>Life is actually pretty good right now</li>\r\n 	<li>What to do when you\'re about to embark on a major journey\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>including a conversation with Katrina White all about the upcoming Pineland Farms 50 Mile Ultramarathon</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/podcast\">Podcast Companion Blog Archives</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - Podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5388134/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','On The Eve Of Battle (Podcast #39)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1167-revision-v1','','','2017-05-25 12:05:35','2017-05-25 16:05:35','',1167,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/05/1167-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1173,1,'2017-05-25 12:10:22','2017-05-25 16:10:22','','IMG_20170525_120418','','inherit','open','closed','','img_20170525_120418','','','2017-05-25 12:15:11','2017-05-25 16:15:11','',1167,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_20170525_120418.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1174,1,'2017-05-25 12:14:00','2017-05-25 16:14:00','','race_1769_photo_37112737','','inherit','open','closed','','race_1769_photo_37112737','','','2017-05-25 12:14:00','2017-05-25 16:14:00','',1167,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/race_1769_photo_37112737.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1175,1,'2017-05-25 12:14:38','2017-05-25 16:14:38','<h2><strong>On the eve of a great battle... there is much to do.</strong></h2>\r\nThere are plans to be finalized and preparations to be made. Warriors must gear up and mentally prepare for what they\'re about to do. <em><strong>Wait... wait...</strong></em> this seems a little... over the top... for a fitness blog.\r\n<h3><strong>Is it, though?</strong></h3>\r\nWhen we\'re about to take on a new phase of our journey... well... we\'re no different from those warriors. Instead of swords and shields, we\'re donning running shoes and a water bottle, or cross-trainers and a sweat towel. And yes, we ARE about to do battle... just in a different way. It\'s wholly appropriate to hunker down and view it as such in order to get your head right for what\'s to come. And that\'s exactly what I\'m here to talk about... I don\'t know about YOU... but I\'VE got something big coming this weekend...\r\n\r\n<strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the full chat on this, the conversation with Katrina White, and more... check out the podcast episode on</span> <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, on</span> <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </span></em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #f54545;\"><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></span></strong>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Sometimes the enormity of our task doesn\'t occur to us.</strong></h2>\r\nSometimes we get so used to what it is we\'re doing... that we kind of lose sight of the bigger picture. This weekend, I\'ll be going back to New Gloucester, Maine to run the Pineland Farms Trail Festival 50 Miler. A year ago, this race was my first 50 miler... my first <em>ultramarathon</em>. I\'m pretty excited to get back there and...\r\n<h3><em><strong>Wait... I\'m about to do a 50 MILE ULTRAMARATHON...crap...</strong></em></h3>\r\nYeah... that\'s the realization I had while recording episode 39 of the So THIS Is Fitness podcast. And it hit me just like that. I\'m about to go do an event that ties for 2nd longest and most challenging endurance event <em>I\'ve ever done</em>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">This is serious business.</span> Regardless of how much of a badass I think I am... this is going to push me pretty hard... mentally, physically, physiologically... I\'m gonna be out there, chugging along... one foot in front of the other... for over 10 hours. 50 miles... <strong><em>fifty freaking miles...</em></strong><em> </em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Yeah, I\'d say I\'m about to do battle.</span>\r\n<h3><strong>Perhaps it <em>is </em>approppriate, then, to <em>prepare</em> for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">battle</span>, as a warrior would.</strong></h3>\r\n<em>That means the total package, kids. </em>If you\'re going to battle you\'ve gotta come armed to the teeth and ready to fight. In this case, I\'ve gotta come prepared to fight for every mile, every inch. Mental and physical preparation have to be excellent and they are equally important. Maybe your battle is different - maybe you\'re not running a race. Perhaps you\'re about to join the gym... or take your currently <em>unused </em>gym membership seriously. Maybe you\'re gonna clean up your nutrition and stop eating like a jerk (hey, call it what it is - I did for myself). Maybe you\'re going to finally take on a toxic personal relationship situation... whatever it is, you\'ve got to be ready. Physically and mentally. Whatever those might mean for you.\r\n<h3><strong>Physical preparation - your weapons, armor, and supplies.</strong></h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1174\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/race_1769_photo_37112737-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" />For me, or any of us with a race or endurance event... the weapons with which we will conquer the course are simple - our shoes... our bike... our<em> feet and legs</em>. Our armor serves to protect us through our endeavor - specialty athletic clothing... sunglasses, sunscreen, and bug spray... our hydration vest, belt, or handheld...  We fill our pack with supplies meant to sustain us through the battle - gels, chews, chomps and food... water and electrolytes... salt tabs, bandages, headlamps and more... Just as the warrior sharpens and shines his blade, lays out his armor, and readies his supplies, so, too, do we in the days and nights before the battle. The pre-race selfies and pictures of our laid-out gear serve as a sign to all who may see or hear that we\'re ready for the fight and intend to emerge victorious.\r\n<h3><em><strong>\"Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.\" - Sun Tzu</strong></em></h3>\r\nJust as it\'s important for the warrior to mentally prepare for the rigors of battle, and just as he\'s got no choice but to envision total victory... so too must we when we\'re facing down something like this. When we\'re about to take on a new phase in our fitness journey, we HAVE to believe it\'s going to be successful. We MUST have confidence in our ability to succeed! And we simply CANNOT doubt ourselves. When we step up to the start line of the race, we <em>must </em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">know</span> that we can succeed, and we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">must</span> allow only one possibility - total victory. Be prepared for what happens when you hit that dark place and fall into your pain cave... whether it happens at mile 2, or 20, or 80... you have to be ready for it and know how to fight your way through to the other side. Only then can you achieve victory.\r\n<h2><strong>Be the warrior - claim your victory.</strong></h2>\r\nSo as you wake up on race day, keep this in the forefront of your mind. As you don your armor and wield your blade... <strong>know</strong> that victory is assured. You are prepared, you are well trained, and you <em>will </em>win the battle.\r\n\r\nIt\'s that simple. And that\'s the topic of discussion today, kids - how to handle yourself on the eve of battle. However hyperbolic that might sound. Join me for episode 39 for more. Go be a badass - crush it, and #LiveLifeLimitless.\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Interesting happenings at the gym</li>\r\n 	<li>Life is actually pretty good right now</li>\r\n 	<li>What to do when you\'re about to embark on a major journey\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>including a conversation with Katrina White all about the upcoming Pineland Farms 50 Mile Ultramarathon</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/podcast\">Podcast Companion Blog Archives</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - Podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5388134/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','On The Eve Of Battle (Podcast #39)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1167-revision-v1','','','2017-05-25 12:14:38','2017-05-25 16:14:38','',1167,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/05/1167-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1176,1,'2017-05-25 12:15:33','2017-05-25 16:15:33','<h2><strong>On the eve of a great battle... there is much to do.</strong></h2>\r\nThere are plans to be finalized and preparations to be made. Warriors must gear up and mentally prepare for what they\'re about to do. <em><strong>Wait... wait...</strong></em> this seems a little... over the top... for a fitness blog.\r\n<h3><strong>Is it, though?</strong></h3>\r\nWhen we\'re about to take on a new phase of our journey... well... we\'re no different from those warriors. Instead of swords and shields, we\'re donning running shoes and a water bottle, or cross-trainers and a sweat towel. And yes, we ARE about to do battle... just in a different way. It\'s wholly appropriate to hunker down and view it as such in order to get your head right for what\'s to come. And that\'s exactly what I\'m here to talk about... I don\'t know about YOU... but I\'VE got something big coming this weekend...\r\n\r\n<strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the full chat on this, the conversation with Katrina White, and more... check out the podcast episode on</span> <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, on</span> <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </span></em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #f54545;\"><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></span></strong>\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Sometimes the enormity of our task doesn\'t occur to us.</strong></h2>\r\nSometimes we get so used to what it is we\'re doing... that we kind of lose sight of the bigger picture. This weekend, I\'ll be going back to New Gloucester, Maine to run the Pineland Farms Trail Festival 50 Miler. A year ago, this race was my first 50 miler... my first <em>ultramarathon</em>. I\'m pretty excited to get back there and...\r\n<h3><em><strong>Wait... I\'m about to do a 50 MILE ULTRAMARATHON...crap...</strong></em></h3>\r\nYeah... that\'s the realization I had while recording episode 39 of the So THIS Is Fitness podcast. And it hit me just like that. I\'m about to go do an event that ties for 2nd longest and most challenging endurance event <em>I\'ve ever done</em>. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">This is serious business.</span> Regardless of how much of a badass I think I am... this is going to push me pretty hard... mentally, physically, physiologically... I\'m gonna be out there, chugging along... one foot in front of the other... for over 10 hours. 50 miles... <strong><em>fifty freaking miles...</em></strong><em> </em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Yeah, I\'d say I\'m about to do battle.</span>\r\n<h3><strong>Perhaps it <em>is </em>approppriate, then, to <em>prepare</em> for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">battle</span>, as a warrior would.</strong></h3>\r\n<em>That means the total package, kids. </em>If you\'re going to battle you\'ve gotta come armed to the teeth and ready to fight. In this case, I\'ve gotta come prepared to fight for every mile, every inch. Mental and physical preparation have to be excellent and they are equally important. Maybe your battle is different - maybe you\'re not running a race. Perhaps you\'re about to join the gym... or take your currently <em>unused </em>gym membership seriously. Maybe you\'re gonna clean up your nutrition and stop eating like a jerk (hey, call it what it is - I did for myself). Maybe you\'re going to finally take on a toxic personal relationship situation... whatever it is, you\'ve got to be ready. Physically and mentally. Whatever those might mean for you.\r\n<h3><strong>Physical preparation - your weapons, armor, and supplies.</strong></h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1174\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/race_1769_photo_37112737-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" />For me, or any of us with a race or endurance event... the weapons with which we will conquer the course are simple - our shoes... our bike... our<em> feet and legs</em>. Our armor serves to protect us through our endeavor - specialty athletic clothing... sunglasses, sunscreen, and bug spray... our hydration vest, belt, or handheld...  We fill our pack with supplies meant to sustain us through the battle - gels, chews, chomps and food... water and electrolytes... salt tabs, bandages, headlamps and more... Just as the warrior sharpens and shines his blade, lays out his armor, and readies his supplies, so, too, do we in the days and nights before the battle. The pre-race selfies and pictures of our laid-out gear serve as a sign to all who may see or hear that we\'re ready for the fight and intend to emerge victorious.\r\n<h3><em><strong>\"Know thyself, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.\" - Sun Tzu</strong></em></h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1173\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/IMG_20170525_120418-e1495728745984-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" />Just as it\'s important for the warrior to mentally prepare for the rigors of battle, and just as he\'s got no choice but to envision total victory... so too must we when we\'re facing down something like this. When we\'re about to take on a new phase in our fitness journey, we HAVE to believe it\'s going to be successful. We MUST have confidence in our ability to succeed! And we simply CANNOT doubt ourselves. When we step up to the start line of the race, we <em>must </em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">know</span> that we can succeed, and we <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">must</span> allow only one possibility - total victory. Be prepared for what happens when you hit that dark place and fall into your pain cave... whether it happens at mile 2, or 20, or 80... you have to be ready for it and know how to fight your way through to the other side. Only then can you achieve victory.\r\n<h2><strong>Be the warrior - claim your victory.</strong></h2>\r\nSo as you wake up on race day, keep this in the forefront of your mind. As you don your armor and wield your blade... <strong>know</strong> that victory is assured. You are prepared, you are well trained, and you <em>will </em>win the battle.\r\n\r\nIt\'s that simple. And that\'s the topic of discussion today, kids - how to handle yourself on the eve of battle. However hyperbolic that might sound. Join me for episode 39 for more. Go be a badass - crush it, and #LiveLifeLimitless.\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Interesting happenings at the gym</li>\r\n 	<li>Life is actually pretty good right now</li>\r\n 	<li>What to do when you\'re about to embark on a major journey\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>including a conversation with Katrina White all about the upcoming Pineland Farms 50 Mile Ultramarathon</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/podcast\">Podcast Companion Blog Archives</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - Podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5388134/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','On The Eve Of Battle (Podcast #39)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1167-revision-v1','','','2017-05-25 12:15:33','2017-05-25 16:15:33','',1167,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/05/1167-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1178,1,'2017-06-01 12:05:57','2017-06-01 16:05:57','<h2><strong>We are capable of incredible things.</strong></h2>\r\nSometimes I think we lose sight of... how BIG of a deal some of what we do is. We go out there and we do things that... days, weeks, months, or years prior... never would\'ve been possible... or even <em>conceivable</em>.  This past weekend... I went back to the site of one of those things - my first Ultramarathon. I went back to Pineland Farms Trail Festival not only for <em>my own</em> new accomplishment... but to help a friend achieve <em>her </em>first Ultramarathon finish too.\r\n\r\nDuring the race... particularly in the final 7.7 miles... I was reminded of what it <em>really</em> means to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">push</span>. <em><strong>To dig deep inside yourself... </strong></em>to a place that, perhaps, we didn\'t know existed (or maybe forgot was there). Somewhere we can only tap into during the most extreme moments...\r\n<h3><strong>When we dig that deep, and push that hard... we discover who we truly are.</strong></h3>\r\n<strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the full chat on this (and more) check out the podcast episode on</span> <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, on</span> <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </span></em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #f54545;\"><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></span></strong><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>We throw around phrases like \"push!\" and \"dig deep!\" a lot...</strong></h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1189\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170528_114401_779-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />Those of us in sports and the fitness industry are <em>particularly</em> guilty of this. We encourage our friends, our clients, our teammates, even our<em>selves...</em> to push just a little harder, dig a little deeper, and find just a little more effort than we think we can give. In that moment, we\'re simply trying to help someone achieve that last rep, that last few minutes or few plays on the field, perhaps that last quarter mile of the race.\r\n<h3><strong>We understand people can push a little harder despite themselves...</strong></h3>\r\nso we encourage them to do so. We want others to see they\'re capable of something more. And, perhaps, we want to see others achieve it to remind ourselves that we, too, are always able to push just a little bit more than we think we can. That is the very reason I beat people over the head with my belief on \"limits\"...\r\n<blockquote>The only limits we <strong>truly</strong> have are the ones we set for ourselves.</blockquote>\r\nSo we, too, go out there... and encourage <em>ourselves </em>to push a little harder... dig a little deeper. Maybe that\'s why we run farther, run faster. Maybe that\'s why we do things like run a marathon (or more)\r\n<h2><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1195\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/race_3467_photo_53186068-e1496332024228-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" /><strong>Or are we in it for the self-discovery?</strong></h2>\r\nI get asked a lot why I would ever do the things that I do. Sometimes its asked with a sense of bafflement at the apparent idiocy and self-torture of the thing I\'m doing. Other times it\'s asked with an utter lack of comprehension of what it is I\'ve managed to do... not just \"why\"... but <em>\"how is someone ABLE to do that?\". </em>I find I have a few answers to these questions, and they are always the same...\r\n\r\n<strong><em>I want to see what I can do. Because I couldn\'t do it before. Because... why NOT?</em>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\nAnd I know there are other answers, too. Answers I\'m not necessarily prepared to give out loud to the casual inquisitor. Something a little more personal. Perhaps... I want to feel... that certain something that only comes when you <em>really </em>need it... something that only shows itself, now, in the most serious of events. I had just scratched the surface with my first marathon... and I knew there was something to it... something <em>more</em>. And then... I found it... in the <em>ultramarathon.</em>\r\n<h2><strong>Ultra-endurance events reveal something... rare.</strong></h2>\r\nWhen you push hard enough for long enough... you reach the usual bounds of human capability. Some ultramarathoners (including myself) call this their \"pain cave\" or \"dark place\". It\'s something akin to \"the wall\" that marathoners experience, except in this case... it\'s wholly mental, and <em>wholly</em> different. It\'s both thrilling and terrifying to know that the vast majority of people will walk this earth their whole lives and not only never <em>visit</em> this place... but never even know it <em>exists. </em>\r\n\r\nThose of us who find ourselves there, however... well, once we <em>do </em>find ourselves there we\'re certainly neither thrilled <em>nor</em> terrified. What we experience when we visit that place... there are no words for. No <em>singular</em> emotion to describe it. There, in that desolate, desperate, rarely-visited place... you experience something very difficult to describe... something that isn\'t normally witnessed in the usual course of human existence. You experience your deepest, most vulnerable, most <em>raw </em>version of yourself. In that place... in that moment... you discover who you really are.\r\n<h2><strong><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1198\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/race_3467_photo_53183355-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />In that moment... you have a choice to make.</strong></h2>\r\nThat choice is <em>how </em>we discover who we really are. It\'s a pretty simple choice, too - you must either fight, and carry on... or not. You can choose to give in, and give up, and allow everything that\'s working against you to win.... or you can fight. You can choose to rise up, to battle the demons and beat back the darkness you face, and to ultimately claw your way to victory. There are an awful lot of things working against you inside that dark palce... how you choose to react, how you fight the battle (or not), and what you allow your final outcome to be are all how those of us who choose this sport discover ourselves.\r\n<h3><strong>Katrina and I both had a choice to make.</strong></h3>\r\nWith 7.7 miles remaining of our 50 mile day, our pacer Tom pulled ahead with Katrina until they were just out of my sight. At that point, we both had a choice to make. Hers - to either break down and succumb to not just the crushing weight of this effort but also the emotional weight of leaving me behind... or to soldier on and trust that even if leav<img class=\"alignright wp-image-1192 size-medium\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/received_1274166269340554-e1496332357764-217x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" />ing me behind cost me my race... I wouldn\'t have wanted her to sacrifice hers just to go down with me. My choice to make? Whether this was it - if I was going to fall apart and find my first DNF... or if I was going to pull it together, find the gas pedal, and punch my way through to the end of this thing despite being solo with nobody to lean on. It was heavy, and it was hard, for both of us...\r\n<h2><strong>In the end... <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we did it</span></em>.</strong></h2>\r\nKatrina and I, in that moment, had to dive deep down to find what we needed. I had to revisit a place I\'d only been a scant couple of times before... and Katrina had to find her way to a place deep within herself that, perhaps, she had never before visited. And in the end... we found what we needed, and with it, we found ourselves, the finish line, and each other on the other side of it. I\'m <em>so </em>proud of Katrina for getting through all of that and achieving her first ultramarathon finish, and I\'m thrilled to have shared that experience with her. You learn a lot about a person when you endure something like that together... and now I\'ve seen Katrina in the final 10K of her first marathon and all but the tail end of her first 50 mile ultramarathon. I learned that not only is she one <em>tough</em> lady... but she has incredible physical, mental, and emotional resolve. She has what it takes to make tough decisions... to push past boundaries both implied, blatant, and imaginary. I learned that if there\'s something this woman needs... <em>there\'s no stopping her.</em> And we <em>both</em> got to that finish... and got our cowbell. What will you learn about YOURself when you fight through the dark place?<img class=\"wp-image-1188 alignright\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170528_190127233-e1496332170267-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"380\" />\r\n<h2><strong>Never forget - <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you are capable of incredible things.</span></strong></h2>\r\nWhether it\'s an ultramarathon, a 5k, weight loss success, muscle gains, or simply getting started in the gym... we are capable of so much more than we think. It just takes the courage to <em>try</em>. You need to learn how to dig deep. One day, you might find yourself in a position where you\'ve not only learned how... but decided that you\'ve glimpsed that deeper place... and you want to find a way to tap into it. <strong>When you reach that place, </strong>know that what you\'ve already accomplished still matters and is still significant. Take everything you\'ve learned and keep moving forward. Dig. Push. Achieve. Live Life <em>Limitless.</em>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this has gotta be FUN!</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sharing the experience with friends and family</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back to Pineland Farms Trail Festival</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digging Deeper than “deep”</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"list-style: none; display: inline;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what’s really in it for those of us who choose ultra endurance sports.  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/podcast\">Podcast Companion Blog Archives</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - Podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5408329/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Digging Deeper Than Deep (Podcast #40)','','publish','open','open','','digging-deeper-than-deep-podcast-40','','','2017-06-01 12:06:41','2017-06-01 16:06:41','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/?p=1178',0,'post','',0),(1201,1,'2017-06-01 11:58:18','2017-06-01 15:58:18','<h2><strong>We are capable of incredible things.</strong></h2>\r\nSometimes I think we lose sight of... how BIG of a deal some of what we do is. We go out there and we do things that... days, weeks, months, or years prior... never would\'ve been possible... or even <em>conceivable</em>.  This past weekend... I went back to the site of one of those things - my first Ultramarathon. I went back to Pineland Farms Trail Festival not only for <em>my own</em> new accomplishment... but to help a friend achieve <em>her </em>first Ultramarathon finish too.\r\n\r\nDuring the race... particularly in the final 7.7 miles... I was reminded of what it <em>really</em> means to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">push</span>. <em><strong>To dig deep inside yourself... </strong></em>to a place that, perhaps, we didn\'t know existed (or maybe forgot was there). Somewhere we can only tap into during the most extreme moments...\r\n<h3><strong>When we dig that deep, and push that hard... we discover who we truly are.</strong></h3>\r\n<strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the full chat on this (and more) check out the podcast episode on</span> <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, on</span> <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </span></em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #f54545;\"><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></span></strong><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>We throw around phrases like \"push!\" and \"dig deep!\" a lot...</strong></h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1189\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170528_114401_779-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />Those of us in sports and the fitness industry are <em>particularly</em> guilty of this. We encourage our friends, our clients, our teammates, even our<em>selves...</em> to push just a little harder, dig a little deeper, and find just a little more effort than we think we can give. In that moment, we\'re simply trying to help someone achieve that last rep, that last few minutes or few plays on the field, perhaps that last quarter mile of the race.\r\n<h3><strong>We understand people can push a little harder despite themselves...</strong></h3>\r\nso we encourage them to do so. We want others to see they\'re capable of something more. And, perhaps, we want to see others achieve it to remind ourselves that we, too, are always able to push just a little bit more than we think we can. That is the very reason I beat people over the head with my belief on \"limits\"...\r\n<blockquote>The only limits we <strong>truly</strong> have are the ones we set for ourselves.</blockquote>\r\nSo we, too, go out there... and encourage <em>ourselves </em>to push a little harder... dig a little deeper. Maybe that\'s why we run farther, run faster. Maybe that\'s why we do things like run a marathon (or more)\r\n<h2><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1195\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/race_3467_photo_53186068-e1496332024228-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" /><strong>Or are we in it for the self-discovery?</strong></h2>\r\nI get asked a lot why I would ever do the things that I do. Sometimes its asked with a sense of bafflement at the apparent idiocy and self-torture of the thing I\'m doing. Other times it\'s asked with an utter lack of comprehension of what it is I\'ve managed to do... not just \"why\"... but <em>\"how is someone ABLE to do that?\". </em>I find I have a few answers to these questions, and they are always the same...\r\n\r\n<strong><em>I want to see what I can do. Because I couldn\'t do it before. Because... why NOT?</em>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\nAnd I know there are other answers, too. Answers I\'m not necessarily prepared to give out loud to the casual inquisitor. Something a little more personal. Perhaps... I want to feel... that certain something that only comes when you <em>really </em>need it... something that only shows itself, now, in the most serious of events. I had just scratched the surface with my first marathon... and I knew there was something to it... something <em>more</em>. And then... I found it... in the <em>ultramarathon.</em>\r\n<h2><strong>Ultra-endurance events reveal something... rare.</strong></h2>\r\nWhen you push hard enough for long enough... you reach the usual bounds of human capability. Some ultramarathoners (including myself) call this their \"pain cave\" or \"dark place\". It\'s something akin to \"the wall\" that marathoners experience, except in this case... it\'s wholly mental, and <em>wholly</em> different. It\'s both thrilling and terrifying to know that the vast majority of people will walk this earth their whole lives and not only never <em>visit</em> this place... but never even know it <em>exists. </em>\r\n\r\nThose of us who find ourselves there, however... well, once we <em>do </em>find ourselves there we\'re certainly neither thrilled <em>nor</em> terrified. What we experience when we visit that place... there are no words for. No <em>singular</em> emotion to describe it. There, in that desolate, desperate, rarely-visited place... you experience something very difficult to describe... something that isn\'t normally witnessed in the usual course of human existence. You experience your deepest, most vulnerable, most <em>raw </em>version of yourself. In that place... in that moment... you discover who you really are.\r\n<h2><strong><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1198\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/race_3467_photo_53183355-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />In that moment... you have a choice to make.</strong></h2>\r\nThat choice is <em>how </em>we discover who we really are. It\'s a pretty simple choice, too - you must either fight, and carry on... or not. You can choose to give in, and give up, and allow everything that\'s working against you to win.... or you can fight. You can choose to rise up, to battle the demons and beat back the darkness you face, and to ultimately claw your way to victory. There are an awful lot of things working against you inside that dark palce... how you choose to react, how you fight the battle (or not), and what you allow your final outcome to be are all how those of us who choose this sport discover ourselves.\r\n<h3><strong>Katrina and I both had a choice to make.</strong></h3>\r\nAt 7.7 miles, our pacer Tom pulled ahead with Katrina until they were just out of my sight. At that point, we both had a choice to make. Hers - to either break down and succumb to not just the crushing weight of this effort but also the emotional weight of leaving me behind... or to soldier on and trust that even if leav<img class=\"alignright wp-image-1192 size-medium\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/received_1274166269340554-e1496332357764-217x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" />ing me behind cost me my race... I wouldn\'t have wanted her to sacrifice hers just to go down with me. My choice to make? Whether this was it - if I was going to fall apart and find my first DNF... or if I was going to pull it together, find the gas pedal, and punch my way through to the end of this thing despite being solo with nobody to lean on. It was heavy, and it was hard, for both of us...\r\n<h2><strong>In the end... <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we did it</span></em>.</strong></h2>\r\nKatrina and I, in that moment, had to dive deep down to find what we needed. I had to revisit a place I\'d only been a scant couple of times before... and Katrina had to find her way to a place deep within herself that, perhaps, she had never before visited. And in the end... we found what we needed, and with it, we found ourselves, the finish line, and each other on the other side of it. I\'m <em>so </em>proud of Katrina for getting through all of that and achieving her first ultramarathon finish, and I\'m thrilled to have shared that experience with her. You learn a lot about a person when you endure something like that together... and now I\'ve seen Katrina in the final 10K of her first marathon and all but the tail end of her first 50 mile ultramarathon. I learned that not only is she one <em>tough</em> lady... but she has incredible physical, mental, and emotional resolve. She has what it takes to make tough decisions... to push past boundaries both implied, blatant, and imaginary. I learned that if there\'s something this woman needs... <em>there\'s no stopping her.</em> What will you learn about YOURself when you fight through the dark place?<img class=\"wp-image-1188 alignright\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170528_190127233-e1496332170267-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"380\" />\r\n<h2><strong>Never forget - <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you are capable of incredible things.</span></strong></h2>\r\nWhether it\'s an ultramarathon, a 5k, weight loss success, muscle gains, or simply getting started in the gym... we are capable of so much more than we think. It just takes the courage to <em>try</em>. You need to learn how to dig deep. One day, you might find yourself in a position where you\'ve not only learned how... but decided that you\'ve glimpsed that deeper place... and you want to find a way to tap into it. <strong>When you reach that place, </strong>know that what you\'ve already accomplished still matters and is still significant. Take everything you\'ve learned and keep moving forward. Dig. Push. Achieve.\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this has gotta be FUN!</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sharing the experience with friends and family</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back to Pineland Farms Trail Festival</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digging Deeper than “deep”</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"list-style: none; display: inline;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what’s really in it for those of us who choose ultra endurance sports.  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/podcast\">Podcast Companion Blog Archives</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - Podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5408329/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Digging Deeper Than Deep (Podcast #40)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1178-revision-v1','','','2017-06-01 11:58:18','2017-06-01 15:58:18','',1178,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1178-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1195,1,'2017-06-01 11:46:20','2017-06-01 15:46:20','','race_3467_photo_53186068','','inherit','open','closed','','race_3467_photo_53186068','','','2017-06-01 11:46:20','2017-06-01 15:46:20','',1178,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/race_3467_photo_53186068.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1196,1,'2017-06-01 11:46:26','2017-06-01 15:46:26','','race_3467_photo_53186087','','inherit','open','closed','','race_3467_photo_53186087','','','2017-06-01 11:46:26','2017-06-01 15:46:26','',1178,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/race_3467_photo_53186087.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1197,1,'2017-06-01 11:46:34','2017-06-01 15:46:34','','race_3467_photo_53183385','','inherit','open','closed','','race_3467_photo_53183385','','','2017-06-01 11:46:34','2017-06-01 15:46:34','',1178,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/race_3467_photo_53183385.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1198,1,'2017-06-01 11:46:40','2017-06-01 15:46:40','','race_3467_photo_53183355','','inherit','open','closed','','race_3467_photo_53183355','','','2017-06-01 11:46:40','2017-06-01 15:46:40','',1178,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/race_3467_photo_53183355.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1192,1,'2017-06-01 08:58:50','2017-06-01 12:58:50','','received_1274166269340554','','inherit','open','closed','','received_1274166269340554','','','2017-06-01 11:52:17','2017-06-01 15:52:17','',1178,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/received_1274166269340554.jpeg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1193,1,'2017-06-01 08:58:59','2017-06-01 12:58:59','','received_1274166369340544','','inherit','open','closed','','received_1274166369340544','','','2017-06-01 08:58:59','2017-06-01 12:58:59','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/received_1274166369340544.mp4',0,'attachment','video/mp4',0),(1202,1,'2017-06-01 12:05:57','2017-06-01 16:05:57','<h2><strong>We are capable of incredible things.</strong></h2>\r\nSometimes I think we lose sight of... how BIG of a deal some of what we do is. We go out there and we do things that... days, weeks, months, or years prior... never would\'ve been possible... or even <em>conceivable</em>.  This past weekend... I went back to the site of one of those things - my first Ultramarathon. I went back to Pineland Farms Trail Festival not only for <em>my own</em> new accomplishment... but to help a friend achieve <em>her </em>first Ultramarathon finish too.\r\n\r\nDuring the race... particularly in the final 7.7 miles... I was reminded of what it <em>really</em> means to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">push</span>. <em><strong>To dig deep inside yourself... </strong></em>to a place that, perhaps, we didn\'t know existed (or maybe forgot was there). Somewhere we can only tap into during the most extreme moments...\r\n<h3><strong>When we dig that deep, and push that hard... we discover who we truly are.</strong></h3>\r\n<strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the full chat on this (and more) check out the podcast episode on</span> <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, on</span> <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </span></em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #f54545;\"><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></span></strong><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>We throw around phrases like \"push!\" and \"dig deep!\" a lot...</strong></h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1189\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170528_114401_779-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />Those of us in sports and the fitness industry are <em>particularly</em> guilty of this. We encourage our friends, our clients, our teammates, even our<em>selves...</em> to push just a little harder, dig a little deeper, and find just a little more effort than we think we can give. In that moment, we\'re simply trying to help someone achieve that last rep, that last few minutes or few plays on the field, perhaps that last quarter mile of the race.\r\n<h3><strong>We understand people can push a little harder despite themselves...</strong></h3>\r\nso we encourage them to do so. We want others to see they\'re capable of something more. And, perhaps, we want to see others achieve it to remind ourselves that we, too, are always able to push just a little bit more than we think we can. That is the very reason I beat people over the head with my belief on \"limits\"...\r\n<blockquote>The only limits we <strong>truly</strong> have are the ones we set for ourselves.</blockquote>\r\nSo we, too, go out there... and encourage <em>ourselves </em>to push a little harder... dig a little deeper. Maybe that\'s why we run farther, run faster. Maybe that\'s why we do things like run a marathon (or more)\r\n<h2><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1195\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/race_3467_photo_53186068-e1496332024228-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" /><strong>Or are we in it for the self-discovery?</strong></h2>\r\nI get asked a lot why I would ever do the things that I do. Sometimes its asked with a sense of bafflement at the apparent idiocy and self-torture of the thing I\'m doing. Other times it\'s asked with an utter lack of comprehension of what it is I\'ve managed to do... not just \"why\"... but <em>\"how is someone ABLE to do that?\". </em>I find I have a few answers to these questions, and they are always the same...\r\n\r\n<strong><em>I want to see what I can do. Because I couldn\'t do it before. Because... why NOT?</em>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\nAnd I know there are other answers, too. Answers I\'m not necessarily prepared to give out loud to the casual inquisitor. Something a little more personal. Perhaps... I want to feel... that certain something that only comes when you <em>really </em>need it... something that only shows itself, now, in the most serious of events. I had just scratched the surface with my first marathon... and I knew there was something to it... something <em>more</em>. And then... I found it... in the <em>ultramarathon.</em>\r\n<h2><strong>Ultra-endurance events reveal something... rare.</strong></h2>\r\nWhen you push hard enough for long enough... you reach the usual bounds of human capability. Some ultramarathoners (including myself) call this their \"pain cave\" or \"dark place\". It\'s something akin to \"the wall\" that marathoners experience, except in this case... it\'s wholly mental, and <em>wholly</em> different. It\'s both thrilling and terrifying to know that the vast majority of people will walk this earth their whole lives and not only never <em>visit</em> this place... but never even know it <em>exists. </em>\r\n\r\nThose of us who find ourselves there, however... well, once we <em>do </em>find ourselves there we\'re certainly neither thrilled <em>nor</em> terrified. What we experience when we visit that place... there are no words for. No <em>singular</em> emotion to describe it. There, in that desolate, desperate, rarely-visited place... you experience something very difficult to describe... something that isn\'t normally witnessed in the usual course of human existence. You experience your deepest, most vulnerable, most <em>raw </em>version of yourself. In that place... in that moment... you discover who you really are.\r\n<h2><strong><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1198\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/race_3467_photo_53183355-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />In that moment... you have a choice to make.</strong></h2>\r\nThat choice is <em>how </em>we discover who we really are. It\'s a pretty simple choice, too - you must either fight, and carry on... or not. You can choose to give in, and give up, and allow everything that\'s working against you to win.... or you can fight. You can choose to rise up, to battle the demons and beat back the darkness you face, and to ultimately claw your way to victory. There are an awful lot of things working against you inside that dark palce... how you choose to react, how you fight the battle (or not), and what you allow your final outcome to be are all how those of us who choose this sport discover ourselves.\r\n<h3><strong>Katrina and I both had a choice to make.</strong></h3>\r\nWith 7.7 miles remaining of our 50 mile day, our pacer Tom pulled ahead with Katrina until they were just out of my sight. At that point, we both had a choice to make. Hers - to either break down and succumb to not just the crushing weight of this effort but also the emotional weight of leaving me behind... or to soldier on and trust that even if leav<img class=\"alignright wp-image-1192 size-medium\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/received_1274166269340554-e1496332357764-217x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" />ing me behind cost me my race... I wouldn\'t have wanted her to sacrifice hers just to go down with me. My choice to make? Whether this was it - if I was going to fall apart and find my first DNF... or if I was going to pull it together, find the gas pedal, and punch my way through to the end of this thing despite being solo with nobody to lean on. It was heavy, and it was hard, for both of us...\r\n<h2><strong>In the end... <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we did it</span></em>.</strong></h2>\r\nKatrina and I, in that moment, had to dive deep down to find what we needed. I had to revisit a place I\'d only been a scant couple of times before... and Katrina had to find her way to a place deep within herself that, perhaps, she had never before visited. And in the end... we found what we needed, and with it, we found ourselves, the finish line, and each other on the other side of it. I\'m <em>so </em>proud of Katrina for getting through all of that and achieving her first ultramarathon finish, and I\'m thrilled to have shared that experience with her. You learn a lot about a person when you endure something like that together... and now I\'ve seen Katrina in the final 10K of her first marathon and all but the tail end of her first 50 mile ultramarathon. I learned that not only is she one <em>tough</em> lady... but she has incredible physical, mental, and emotional resolve. She has what it takes to make tough decisions... to push past boundaries both implied, blatant, and imaginary. I learned that if there\'s something this woman needs... <em>there\'s no stopping her.</em> And we <em>both</em> got to that finish... and got our cowbell. What will you learn about YOURself when you fight through the dark place?<img class=\"wp-image-1188 alignright\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170528_190127233-e1496332170267-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"380\" />\r\n<h2><strong>Never forget - <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you are capable of incredible things.</span></strong></h2>\r\nWhether it\'s an ultramarathon, a 5k, weight loss success, muscle gains, or simply getting started in the gym... we are capable of so much more than we think. It just takes the courage to <em>try</em>. You need to learn how to dig deep. One day, you might find yourself in a position where you\'ve not only learned how... but decided that you\'ve glimpsed that deeper place... and you want to find a way to tap into it. <strong>When you reach that place, </strong>know that what you\'ve already accomplished still matters and is still significant. Take everything you\'ve learned and keep moving forward. Dig. Push. Achieve. Live Life <em>Limitless.</em>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this has gotta be FUN!</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sharing the experience with friends and family</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back to Pineland Farms Trail Festival</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digging Deeper than “deep”</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"list-style: none; display: inline;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what’s really in it for those of us who choose ultra endurance sports.  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/podcast\">Podcast Companion Blog Archives</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - Podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5408329/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Digging Deeper Than Deep (Podcast #40)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1178-revision-v1','','','2017-06-01 12:05:57','2017-06-01 16:05:57','',1178,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1178-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1187,1,'2017-06-01 08:50:23','2017-06-01 12:50:23','','digging deeper than deep','','inherit','open','closed','','wordswag_1496295159092','','','2017-06-01 09:15:30','2017-06-01 13:15:30','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/wordswag_1496295159092.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1188,1,'2017-06-01 08:50:48','2017-06-01 12:50:48','','IMG_20170528_190127233','','inherit','open','closed','','img_20170528_190127233','','','2017-06-01 11:49:41','2017-06-01 15:49:41','',1178,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170528_190127233.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1189,1,'2017-06-01 08:51:02','2017-06-01 12:51:02','','IMG_20170528_114401_779','','inherit','open','closed','','img_20170528_114401_779','','','2017-06-01 11:51:52','2017-06-01 15:51:52','',1178,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170528_114401_779.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1190,1,'2017-06-01 08:51:24','2017-06-01 12:51:24','','IMG_20170528_114401_779','','inherit','open','closed','','img_20170528_114401_779-2','','','2017-06-01 08:51:24','2017-06-01 12:51:24','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170528_114401_779-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1191,1,'2017-06-01 08:51:39','2017-06-01 12:51:39','','IMG_20170528_055435','','inherit','open','closed','','img_20170528_055435','','','2017-06-01 08:51:39','2017-06-01 12:51:39','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170528_055435.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1200,1,'2017-06-01 11:54:08','2017-06-01 15:54:08','<h2><strong>We are capable of incredible things.</strong></h2>\r\nSometimes I think we lose sight of... how BIG of a deal some of what we do is. We go out there and we do things that... days, weeks, months, or years prior... never would\'ve been possible... or even <em>conceivable</em>.  This past weekend... I went back to the site of one of those things - my first Ultramarathon. I went back to Pineland Farms Trail Festival not only for <em>my own</em> new accomplishment... but to help a friend achieve <em>her </em>first Ultramarathon finish too.\r\n\r\nDuring the race... particularly in the final 7.7 miles... I was reminded of what it <em>really</em> means to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">push</span>. <em><strong>To dig deep inside yourself... </strong></em>to a place that, perhaps, we didn\'t know existed (or maybe forgot was there). Somewhere we can only tap into during the most extreme moments...\r\n<h3><strong>When we dig that deep, and push that hard... we discover who we truly are.</strong></h3>\r\n<strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the full chat on this (and more) check out the podcast episode on</span> <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, on</span> <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </span></em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #f54545;\"><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></span></strong><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>We throw around phrases like \"push!\" and \"dig deep!\" a lot...</strong></h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1189\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170528_114401_779-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />Those of us in sports and the fitness industry are <em>particularly</em> guilty of this. We encourage our friends, our clients, our teammates, even our<em>selves...</em> to push just a little harder, dig a little deeper, and find just a little more effort than we think we can give. In that moment, we\'re simply trying to help someone achieve that last rep, that last few minutes or few plays on the field, perhaps that last quarter mile of the race.\r\n<h3><strong>We understand people can push a little harder despite themselves...</strong></h3>\r\nso we encourage them to do so. We want others to see they\'re capable of something more. And, perhaps, we want to see others achieve it to remind ourselves that we, too, are always able to push just a little bit more than we think we can. That is the very reason I beat people over the head with my belief on \"limits\"...\r\n<blockquote>The only limits we <strong>truly</strong> have are the ones we set for ourselves.</blockquote>\r\nSo we, too, go out there... and encourage <em>ourselves </em>to push a little harder... dig a little deeper. Maybe that\'s why we run farther, run faster. Maybe that\'s why we do things like run a marathon (or more)\r\n<h2><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1195\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/race_3467_photo_53186068-e1496332024228-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" />Or are we in it for the self-discovery?</h2>\r\nI get asked a lot why I would ever do the things that I do. Sometimes its asked with a sense of bafflement at the apparent idiocy and self-torture of the thing I\'m doing. Other times it\'s asked with an utter lack of comprehension of what it is I\'ve managed to do... not just \"why\"... but <em>\"how is someone ABLE to do that?\". </em>I find I have a few answers to these questions, and they are always the same...\r\n\r\n<strong><em>I want to see what I can do. Because I couldn\'t do it before. Because... why NOT?</em>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\nAnd I know there are other answers, too. Answers I\'m not necessarily prepared to give out loud to the casual inquisitor. Something a little more personal. Perhaps... I want to feel... that certain something that only comes when you <em>really </em>need it... something that only shows itself, now, in the most serious of events. I had just scratched the surface with my first marathon... and I knew there was something to it... something <em>more</em>. And then... I found it... in the <em>ultramarathon.</em>\r\n<h2><strong>Ultra-endurance events reveal something... rare.</strong></h2>\r\nWhen you push hard enough for long enough... you reach the usual bounds of human capability. Some ultramarathoners (including myself) call this their \"pain cave\" or \"dark place\". It\'s something akin to \"the wall\" that marathoners experience, except in this case... it\'s wholly mental, and <em>wholly</em> different. It\'s both thrilling and terrifying to know that the vast majority of people will walk this earth their whole lives and not only never <em>visit</em> this place... but never even know it <em>exists. </em>\r\n\r\nThose of us who find ourselves there, however... well, once we <em>do </em>find ourselves there we\'re certainly neither thrilled <em>nor</em> terrified. What we experience when we visit that place... there are no words for. No <em>singular</em> emotion to describe it. There, in that desolate, desperate, rarely-visited place... you experience something very difficult to describe... something that isn\'t normally witnessed in the usual course of human existence. You experience your deepest, most vulnerable, most <em>raw </em>version of yourself. In that place... in that moment... you discover who you really are.\r\n<h2><strong><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1198\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/race_3467_photo_53183355-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />In that moment... you have a choice to make.</strong></h2>\r\nThat choice is <em>how </em>we discover who we really are. It\'s a pretty simple choice, too - you must either fight, and carry on... or not. You can choose to give in, and give up, and allow everything that\'s working against you to win.... or you can fight. You can choose to rise up, to battle the demons and beat back the darkness you face, and to ultimately claw your way to victory. There are an awful lot of things working against you inside that dark palce... how you choose to react, how you fight the battle (or not), and what you allow your final outcome to be are all how those of us who choose this sport discover ourselves.\r\n<h3><strong>Katrina and I both had a choice to make.</strong></h3>\r\nAt 7.7 miles, our pacer Tom pulled ahead with Katrina until they were just out of my sight. At that point, we both had a choice to make. Hers - to either break down and succumb to not just the crushing weight of this effort but also the emotional weight of leaving me behind... or to soldier on and trust that even if leaving me behind cost me my race... I wouldn\'t have wanted her to sacrifice hers just to go down with me. My choice to make? Whether this was it - if I was going to fall apart and find my first DNF... or if I was going to pull it together, find the gas pedal, and punch my way through to the end of this thing despite being solo with nobody to lean on. It was heavy, and it was hard, for both of us...\r\n<h2><strong><img class=\"alignright wp-image-1192 size-medium\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/received_1274166269340554-e1496332357764-217x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" />In the end... <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we did it</span></em>.</strong></h2>\r\nKatrina and I, in that moment, had to dive deep down to find what we needed. I had to revisit a place I\'d only been a scant couple of times before... and Katrina had to find her way to a place deep within herself that, perhaps, she had never before visited. And in the end... we found what we needed, and with it, we found ourselves, the finish line, and each other on the other side of it. I\'m <em>so </em>proud of Katrina for getting through all of that and achieving her first ultramarathon finish, and I\'m thrilled to have shared that experience with her. You learn a lot about a person when you endure something like that together... and now I\'ve seen Katrina in the final 10K of her first marathon and all but the tail end of her first 50 mile ultramarathon. I learned that not only is she one <em>tough</em> lady... but she has incredible physical, mental, and emotional resolve. She has what it takes to make tough decisions... to push past boundaries both implied, blatant, and imaginary. I learned that if there\'s something this woman needs... <em>there\'s no stopping her.</em> What will you learn about YOURself when you fight through the dark place?<img class=\"wp-image-1188 alignleft\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170528_190127233-e1496332170267-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"380\" />\r\n<h2><strong>Never forget - <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you are capable of incredible things.</span></strong></h2>\r\nWhether it\'s an ultramarathon, a 5k, weight loss success, muscle gains, or simply getting started in the gym... we are capable of so much more than we think. It just takes the courage to <em>try</em>. You need to learn how to dig deep. One day, you might find yourself in a position where you\'ve not only learned how... but decided that you\'ve glimpsed that deeper place... and you want to find a way to tap into it. <strong>When you reach that place, </strong>know that what you\'ve already accomplished still matters and is still significant. Take everything you\'ve learned and keep moving forward. Dig. Push. Achieve.\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this has gotta be FUN!</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sharing the experience with friends and family</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back to Pineland Farms Trail Festival</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digging Deeper than “deep”</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"list-style: none; display: inline;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what’s really in it for those of us who choose ultra endurance sports.  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/podcast\">Podcast Companion Blog Archives</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - Podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5408329/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Digging Deeper Than Deep (Podcast #40)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1178-revision-v1','','','2017-06-01 11:54:08','2017-06-01 15:54:08','',1178,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1178-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1199,1,'2017-06-01 11:53:23','2017-06-01 15:53:23','<h2><strong>We are capable of incredible things.</strong></h2>\r\nSometimes I think we lose sight of... how BIG of a deal some of what we do is. We go out there and we do things that... days, weeks, months, or years prior... never would\'ve been possible... or even <em>conceivable</em>.  This past weekend... I went back to the site of one of those things - my first Ultramarathon. I went back to Pineland Farms Trail Festival not only for <em>my own</em> new accomplishment... but to help a friend achieve <em>her </em>first Ultramarathon finish too.\r\n\r\nDuring the race... particularly in the final 7.7 miles... I was reminded of what it <em>really</em> means to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">push</span>. <em><strong>To dig deep inside yourself... </strong></em>to a place that, perhaps, we didn\'t know existed (or maybe forgot was there). Somewhere we can only tap into during the most extreme moments...\r\n<h3><strong>When we dig that deep, and push that hard... we discover who we truly are.</strong></h3>\r\n<strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the full chat on this, the conversation with Katrina White, and more... check out the podcast episode on</span> <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, on</span> <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </span></em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #f54545;\"><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></span></strong><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>We throw around phrases like \"push!\" and \"dig deep!\" a lot...</strong></h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1189\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170528_114401_779-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />Those of us in sports and the fitness industry are <em>particularly</em> guilty of this. We encourage our friends, our clients, our teammates, even our<em>selves...</em> to push just a little harder, dig a little deeper, and find just a little more effort than we think we can give. In that moment, we\'re simply trying to help someone achieve that last rep, that last few minutes or few plays on the field, perhaps that last quarter mile of the race.\r\n<h3><strong>We understand people can push a little harder despite themselves...</strong></h3>\r\nso we encourage them to do so. We want others to see they\'re capable of something more. And, perhaps, we want to see others achieve it to remind ourselves that we, too, are always able to push just a little bit more than we think we can. That is the very reason I beat people over the head with my belief on \"limits\"...\r\n<blockquote>The only limits we <strong>truly</strong> have are the ones we set for ourselves.</blockquote>\r\nSo we, too, go out there... and encourage <em>ourselves </em>to push a little harder... dig a little deeper. Maybe that\'s why we run farther, run faster. Maybe that\'s why we do things like run a marathon (or more)\r\n<h2><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1195\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/race_3467_photo_53186068-e1496332024228-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" />Or are we in it for the self-discovery?</h2>\r\nI get asked a lot why I would ever do the things that I do. Sometimes its asked with a sense of bafflement at the apparent idiocy and self-torture of the thing I\'m doing. Other times it\'s asked with an utter lack of comprehension of what it is I\'ve managed to do... not just \"why\"... but <em>\"how is someone ABLE to do that?\". </em>I find I have a few answers to these questions, and they are always the same...\r\n\r\n<strong><em>I want to see what I can do. Because I couldn\'t do it before. Because... why NOT?</em>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\nAnd I know there are other answers, too. Answers I\'m not necessarily prepared to give out loud to the casual inquisitor. Something a little more personal. Perhaps... I want to feel... that certain something that only comes when you <em>really </em>need it... something that only shows itself, now, in the most serious of events. I had just scratched the surface with my first marathon... and I knew there was something to it... something <em>more</em>. And then... I found it... in the <em>ultramarathon.</em>\r\n<h2><strong>Ultra-endurance events reveal something... rare.</strong></h2>\r\nWhen you push hard enough for long enough... you reach the usual bounds of human capability. Some ultramarathoners (including myself) call this their \"pain cave\" or \"dark place\". It\'s something akin to \"the wall\" that marathoners experience, except in this case... it\'s wholly mental, and <em>wholly</em> different. It\'s both thrilling and terrifying to know that the vast majority of people will walk this earth their whole lives and not only never <em>visit</em> this place... but never even know it <em>exists. </em>\r\n\r\nThose of us who find ourselves there, however... well, once we <em>do </em>find ourselves there we\'re certainly neither thrilled <em>nor</em> terrified. What we experience when we visit that place... there are no words for. No <em>singular</em> emotion to describe it. There, in that desolate, desperate, rarely-visited place... you experience something very difficult to describe... something that isn\'t normally witnessed in the usual course of human existence. You experience your deepest, most vulnerable, most <em>raw </em>version of yourself. In that place... in that moment... you discover who you really are.\r\n<h2><strong><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1198\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/race_3467_photo_53183355-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />In that moment... you have a choice to make.</strong></h2>\r\nThat choice is <em>how </em>we discover who we really are. It\'s a pretty simple choice, too - you must either fight, and carry on... or not. You can choose to give in, and give up, and allow everything that\'s working against you to win.... or you can fight. You can choose to rise up, to battle the demons and beat back the darkness you face, and to ultimately claw your way to victory. There are an awful lot of things working against you inside that dark palce... how you choose to react, how you fight the battle (or not), and what you allow your final outcome to be are all how those of us who choose this sport discover ourselves.\r\n<h3><strong>Katrina and I both had a choice to make.</strong></h3>\r\nAt 7.7 miles, our pacer Tom pulled ahead with Katrina until they were just out of my sight. At that point, we both had a choice to make. Hers - to either break down and succumb to not just the crushing weight of this effort but also the emotional weight of leaving me behind... or to soldier on and trust that even if leaving me behind cost me my race... I wouldn\'t have wanted her to sacrifice hers just to go down with me. My choice to make? Whether this was it - if I was going to fall apart and find my first DNF... or if I was going to pull it together, find the gas pedal, and punch my way through to the end of this thing despite being solo with nobody to lean on. It was heavy, and it was hard, for both of us...\r\n<h2><strong><img class=\"alignright wp-image-1192 size-medium\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/received_1274166269340554-e1496332357764-217x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" />In the end... <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we did it</span></em>.</strong></h2>\r\nKatrina and I, in that moment, had to dive deep down to find what we needed. I had to revisit a place I\'d only been a scant couple of times before... and Katrina had to find her way to a place deep within herself that, perhaps, she had never before visited. And in the end... we found what we needed, and with it, we found ourselves, the finish line, and each other on the other side of it. I\'m <em>so </em>proud of Katrina for getting through all of that and achieving her first ultramarathon finish, and I\'m thrilled to have shared that experience with her. You learn a lot about a person when you endure something like that together... and now I\'ve seen Katrina in the final 10K of her first marathon and all but the tail end of her first 50 mile ultramarathon. I learned that not only is she one <em>tough</em> lady... but she has incredible physical, mental, and emotional resolve. She has what it takes to make tough decisions... to push past boundaries both implied, blatant, and imaginary. I learned that if there\'s something this woman needs... <em>there\'s no stopping her.</em> What will you learn about YOURself when you fight through the dark place?<img class=\"wp-image-1188 alignleft\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170528_190127233-e1496332170267-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"380\" />\r\n<h2><strong>Never forget - <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you are capable of incredible things.</span></strong></h2>\r\nWhether it\'s an ultramarathon, a 5k, weight loss success, muscle gains, or simply getting started in the gym... we are capable of so much more than we think. It just takes the courage to <em>try</em>. You need to learn how to dig deep. One day, you might find yourself in a position where you\'ve not only learned how... but decided that you\'ve glimpsed that deeper place... and you want to find a way to tap into it. <strong>When you reach that place, </strong>know that what you\'ve already accomplished still matters and is still significant. Take everything you\'ve learned and keep moving forward. Dig. Push. Achieve.\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this has gotta be FUN!</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sharing the experience with friends and family</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Back to Pineland Farms Trail Festival</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digging Deeper than “deep”</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"list-style: none; display: inline;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">what’s really in it for those of us who choose ultra endurance sports.  </span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/podcast\">Podcast Companion Blog Archives</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - Podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5408329/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Digging Deeper Than Deep (Podcast #40)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1178-revision-v1','','','2017-06-01 11:53:23','2017-06-01 15:53:23','',1178,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1178-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1194,1,'2017-06-01 09:31:34','2017-06-01 13:31:34','<h2><strong>We are capable of incredible things.</strong></h2>\r\nSometimes I think we lose sight of... how BIG of a deal some of what we do is. We go out there and we do things that... days, weeks, months, or years prior... never would\'ve been possible... or even <em>conceivable</em>.  This past weekend... I went back to the site of one of those things - my first Ultramarathon. I went back to Pineland Farms Trail Festival not only for <em>my own</em> new accomplishment... but to help a friend achieve <em>her </em>first Ultramarathon finish too.\r\n\r\nDuring the race... particularly in the final 7.7 miles... I was reminded of what it <em>really</em> means to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">push</span>. <em><strong>To dig deep inside yourself... </strong></em>to a place that, perhaps, we didn\'t know existed (or maybe forgot was there). Somewhere we can only tap into during the most extreme moments...\r\n<h3><strong>When we dig that deep, and push that hard... we discover who we truly are.</strong></h3>\r\n<strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For the full chat on this, the conversation with Katrina White, and more... check out the podcast episode on</span> <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, on</span> <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </span></em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #f54545;\"><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></span></strong><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>We throw around phrases like \"push!\" and \"dig deep!\" a lot...</strong></h2>\r\nThose of us in sports and the fitness industry are <em>particularly</em> guilty of this. We encourage our friends, our clients, our teammates, even our<em>selves...</em> to push just a little harder, dig a little deeper, and find just a little more effort than we think we can give. In that moment, we\'re simply trying to help someone achieve that last rep, that last few minutes or few plays on the field, perhaps that last quarter mile of the race.\r\n<h3><strong>We understand people can push a little harder despite themselves...</strong></h3>\r\nso we encourage them to do so. We want others to see they\'re capable of something more. And, perhaps, we want to see others achieve it to remind ourselves that we, too, are always able to push just a little bit more than we think we can. That is the very reason I beat people over the head with my belief on \"limits\"...\r\n<blockquote>The only limits we <strong>truly</strong> have are the ones we set for ourselves.</blockquote>\r\nSo we, too, go out there... and encourage <em>ourselves </em>to push a little harder... dig a little deeper. Maybe that\'s why we run farther, run faster. Maybe that\'s why we do things like run a marathon (or more)\r\n<h2>Or are we in it for the self-discovery?</h2>\r\nI get asked a lot why I would ever do the things that I do. Sometimes its asked with a sense of bafflement at the apparent idiocy and self-torture of the thing I\'m doing. Other times it\'s asked with an utter lack of comprehension of what it is I\'ve managed to do... not just \"why\"... but <em>\"how is someone ABLE to do that?\". </em>I find I have a few answers to these questions, and they are always the same...\r\n\r\n<strong><em>I want to see what I can do. Because I couldn\'t do it before. Because... why NOT?</em>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\nAnd I know there are other answers, too. Answers I\'m not necessarily prepared to give out loud to the casual inquisitor. Something a little more personal. Perhaps... I want to feel... that certain something that only comes when you <em>really </em>need it... something that only shows itself, now, in the most serious of events. I had just scratched the surface with my first marathon... and I knew there was something to it... something <em>more</em>. And then... I found it... in the <em>ultramarathon.</em>\r\n<h2><strong>Ultra-endurance events reveal something... rare.</strong></h2>\r\nWhen you push hard enough for long enough... you reach the usual bounds of human capability. Some ultramarathoners (including myself) call this their \"pain cave\" or \"dark place\". It\'s something akin to \"the wall\" that marathoners experience, except in this case... it\'s wholly mental, and <em>wholly</em> different. It\'s both thrilling and terrifying to know that the vast majority of people will walk this earth their whole lives and not only never <em>visit</em> this place... but never even know it <em>exists. </em>\r\n\r\nThose of us who find ourselves there, however... well, once we <em>do </em>find ourselves there we\'re certainly neither thrilled <em>nor</em> terrified. What we experience when we visit that place... there are no words for. No <em>singular</em> emotion to describe it. There, in that desolate, desperate, rarely-visited place... you experience something very difficult to describe... something that isn\'t normally witnessed in the usual course of human existence. You experience your deepest, most vulnerable, most <em>raw </em>version of yourself. In that place... in that moment... you discover who you really are.\r\n<h2><strong>In that moment... you have a choice to make.</strong></h2>\r\nThat choice is <em>how </em>we discover who we really are. It\'s a pretty simple choice, too - you must either fight, and carry on... or not. You can choose to give in, and give up, and allow everything that\'s working against you to win.... or you can fight. You can choose to rise up, to battle the demons and beat back the darkness you face, and to ultimately claw your way to victory. There are an awful lot of things working against you inside that dark palce... how you choose to react, how you fight the battle (or not), and what you allow your final outcome to be are all how those of us who choose this sport discover ourselves.\r\n<h3><strong>Katrina and I both had a choice to make.</strong></h3>\r\nAt 7.7 miles, our pacer Tom pulled ahead with Katrina until they were just out of my sight. At that point, we both had a choice to make. Hers - to either break down and succumb to not just the crushing weight of this effort but also the emotional weight of leaving me behind... or to soldier on and trust that even if leaving me behind cost me my race... I wouldn\'t have wanted her to sacrifice hers just to go down with me. My choice to make? Whether this was it - if I was going to fall apart and find my first DNF... or if I was going to pull it together, find the gas pedal, and punch my way through to the end of this thing despite being solo with nobody to lean on. It was heavy, and it was hard, for both of us...\r\n<h2><strong>In the end... <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we did it</span></em>.</strong></h2>\r\nKatrina and I, in that moment, had to dive deep down to find what we needed. I had to revisit a place I\'d only been a scant couple of times before... and Katrina had to find her way to a place deep within herself that, perhaps, she had never before visited. And in the end... we found what we needed, and with it, we found ourselves, the finish line, and each other on the other side of it. I\'m <em>so </em>proud of Katrina for getting through all of that and achieving her first ultramarathon finish, and I\'m thrilled to have shared that experience with her. You learn a lot about a person when you endure something like that together... and now I\'ve seen Katrina in the final 10K of her first marathon and all but the tail end of her first 50 mile ultramarathon. I learned that not only is she one <em>tough</em> lady... but she has incredible physical, mental, and emotional resolve. She has what it takes to make tough decisions... to push past boundaries both implied, blatant, and imaginary. I learned that if there\'s something this woman needs... <em>there\'s no stopping her.</em> What will you learn about YOURself when you fight through the dark place?\r\n<h2><strong>Never forget - <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you are capable of incredible things.</span></strong></h2>\r\nWhether it\'s an ultramarathon, a 5k, weight loss success, muscle gains, or simply getting started in the gym... we are capable of so much more than we think. It just takes the courage to <em>try</em>. You need to learn how to dig deep. One day, you might find yourself in a position where you\'ve not only learned how... but decided that you\'ve glimpsed that deeper place... and you want to find a way to tap into it. <strong>When you reach that place, </strong>know that what you\'ve already accomplished still matters and is still significant. Take everything you\'ve learned and keep moving forward. Dig. Push. 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And expecting a different result. Why do we expect that our same cycle of failure at the gym is eventually going to result in success? Something we\'re doing is not working.\r\n\r\n<strong>Its time to try a new approach.</strong>\r\n\r\nWe need a new way. A plan that will work. Something that\'s proven. Times have changed, we have changed, and the fitness industry has changed. I\'d like to propose \"The New Workout Plan\". It\'s time we finally get somewhere.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this (and more) check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2>The game\'s no fun when you\'re losing.</h2>\r\nIt\'s tough to win the game when you don\'t know how to play. Frankly, I think that\'s a large part of the problem with fitness today - people simply don\'t know how to play the game! When you\'re losing, you get frustrated, you get discouraged, and you lose interest. Then, all of a sudden, you\'re cancelling your gym membership. Wouldn\'t it be so much easier if you had a plan you knew would work?\r\n<h2><strong>That\'s where \"The New Workout Plan\" comes in.</strong></h2>\r\nIt\'s simple, really, and it\'s what I do with my clients at the gym! It\'s all about what you\'re actually doing at the gym and with your workouts. Simply spending your time on a little cardio isn\'t gonna get you there... neither is farting around on a couple of machines with no real goal, aim, or formula. There\'s a few components that a good solid workout plan should have.\r\n<h3><strong>Step 1 - Warm-Up</strong></h3>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Yes, it DOES matter.</span> Warming up prior to your workout serves several purposes, from helping prevent injury to warming up cold muscles to all the biological processes that happen. The long and the short of it is... it REALLY <em>DOES</em> MATTER! <strong>So what, exactly, should a warm-up look like?</strong> A good dynamic warm-up is going to simulate the workout you\'re about to do - it should be a very watered down version of what\'s coming. Some non-weighted movements, some mobility, some agility... a little of everything. NOT just cardio on the treadmill/bike and NOT just static stretching.\r\n<h3><strong>Step 2 - Strength Training</strong></h3>\r\nYes, that includes you. FOR THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF PEOPLE, strength is going to help you get to your goals. Want to lose weight/burn fat? Run farther or faster? Get stronger or bigger? Guess what - strength training is going to help (yes, even to LOSE weight). There\'s lots of sciencey explanation to it, but just trust me here (if you don\'t, ok... go research it!).\r\n\r\n<strong>This doesn\'t mean just bench, squad, deadlift.</strong>\r\n\r\nThere\'s SO much more to strength training than the old standbys. You don\'t need a barbell, heck, you don\'t even need dumbbells... and you CERTAINLY do NOT need machines. As a matter of fact, stay the heck away from the \"strength machines\" - your time is better spent elsewhere. Use kettlebells, medicine balls, resistance bands, TRX, heck, use your BODYWEIGHT! There are SO many different ways to train strength... functional training, circuit training, metabolic training... oh the fun you can have! I STRONGLY, <strong>strongly, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">strongly</span></em></strong> recommend you enlist the help of a personal trainer or coach. There ARE so many ways to train... and often, in order to get the best, fastest, and most efficient, effective results... you need a knowledgable guide to help you find your way. Make the investment... it\'s worth it.\r\n<h3><strong>Step 3 - Cardio</strong></h3>\r\nYes, cardio does have a place here, but it\'s not always the main event, k? Your cardio needs will vary based on MANY factors, but in general, for most people, 15 to 30 minutes at a 7 out of 10 effort level will do you a lot of good. This can be treadmill, bike, elliptical, whatever you like. Heck, go outside for a run, enjoy the weather! Depending on how you do your strength training, there might even be cardio involved there, too! It doesn\'t have to suck, and it doesn\'t have to be boring.\r\n<h3><strong>Step 4 - Cool-Down</strong></h3>\r\nDepending on how hard you\'re going and what, exactly, your workout was... it\'s more than likely that a cooldown of some kind is advisable. It won\'t take long, and it isn\'t complicated - a cooldown is just an opportunity for your body to come down gently from what you just did... bring that heart rate down gently, don\'t lock up and get stiff, etc. Walk gently stepping down the intensity over the course of like 5 minutes - that sort of thing. Again, there\'s science to it... but unless you feel like researching, trust me here.\r\n<h3><strong>Step 5 - Mobility &amp; Flexibility</strong></h3>\r\nThis is SO BEYOND CRUCIAL. I can\'t even TELL you how important this is. When you\'re done with your workout you simply MUST work on mobility and flexibility. If you don\'t know what foam rolling is, it\'s time to get educated. The short version here is, it\'s basically self-massage, and it is massively important. Do it. Seriously. It\'s going to be awful WHILE you\'re doing it, but it\'s well worth it in the end, and you\'ll feel SO much better after. This is so important I\'m going to do a whole blog post dedicated just to foam rolling and mobility in the near future.\r\n<h2><strong>The old way is out - time for The New Workout Plan</strong></h2>\r\nGone are the days of the past - a brisk walk on the treadmill for 40 minutes, or absolutely crushing the elliptical for 30 minutes... just isn\'t gonna cut it. I chat all about this a little more in-depth in Podcast Episode 41, but a real easy way to succeed here? Enlist the help of a coach or personal trainer.\r\n<h3><strong>If you\'re interested in MY help...</strong></h3>\r\nWell, we can do that too. I AM now accepting Virtual Training clients. What\'s that mean? What\'s involved? Shoot me a message at Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com with the subject \"virtual coaching\" and let\'s chat :)\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Joy of Running</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\'ve got to make things easier on myself</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New Workout Plan</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"list-style: none; display: inline;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How we\'ve failed in the past, how to build the new plan, and how to succeed</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/podcast\">Podcast Companion Blog Archives</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - Podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5430674/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','The New Workout Plan (Podcast #41)','','publish','open','open','','the-new-workout-plan-podcast-41','','','2017-06-09 15:33:58','2017-06-09 19:33:58','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/?p=1204',0,'post','',0),(1206,0,'2017-06-09 10:51:56','2017-06-09 14:51:56','This is a sample post.','Hello World!','','trash','open','open','','__trashed','','','2017-06-09 10:51:56','2017-06-09 14:51:56','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/?p=1206',0,'post','',0),(1207,0,'2017-06-09 10:51:56','2017-06-09 14:51:56','This is a sample post.','Hello World!','','inherit','closed','closed','','1206-revision-v1','','','2017-06-09 10:51:56','2017-06-09 14:51:56','',1206,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1206-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1208,1,'2017-06-09 11:49:16','2017-06-09 15:49:16','','The New Workout Plan Podcast Ep 41','','inherit','open','closed','','wordswag_1496978880818','','','2017-06-09 11:50:38','2017-06-09 15:50:38','',1204,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/wordswag_1496978880818.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1209,1,'2017-06-09 12:09:18','2017-06-09 16:09:18','<h2>Our fitness routine is insane.</h2>\r\nSeriously - the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over... And expecting a different result. Why do we expect that our same cycle of failure at the gym is eventually going to result in success? Something we\'re doing is not working.\r\n\r\n<strong>Its time to try a new approach.</strong>\r\n\r\nWe need a new way. A plan that will work. Something that\'s proven. Times have changed, we have changed, and the fitness industry has changed. I\'d like to propose \"The New Workout Plan\". It\'s time we finally get somewhere.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this (and more) check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2>The game\'s no fun when you\'re losing.</h2>\r\nIt\'s tough to win the game when you don\'t know how to play. Frankly, I think that\'s a large part of the problem with fitness today - people simply don\'t know how to play the game! When you\'re losing, you get frustrated, you get discouraged, and you lose interest. Then, all of a sudden, you\'re cancelling your gym membership. Wouldn\'t it be so much easier if you had a plan you knew would work?\r\n<h2><strong>That\'s where \"The New Workout Plan\" comes in.</strong></h2>\r\nIt\'s simple, really, and it\'s what I do with my clients at the gym! It\'s all about what you\'re actually doing at the gym and with your workouts. Simply spending your time on a little cardio isn\'t gonna get you there... neither is farting around on a couple of machines with no real goal, aim, or formula.\r\n\r\nYour workout should consist of: Dynamic Warm-Up, Strength, Cardio, Cool-down and Mobility/Flexibility work. What\'s that all mean? It\'ll take a little longer than just one blog for THAT, unless you want to be here all day. We can break this out into chunks on the blog soon, but for now - know that simply a brisk walk on the treadmill for 40 minutes, or absolutely crushing the elliptical for 30 minutes... just isn\'t gonna cut it. I chat all about this in Podcast Episode 41, but a real easy way to succeed here? Enlist the help of a coach or personal trainer.\r\n<h3><strong>If you\'re interested in MY help...</strong></h3>\r\nWell, we can do that too. I AM now accepting Virtual Training clients. What\'s that mean? What\'s involved? Shoot me a message at Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com with the subject \"virtual coaching\" and let\'s chat :)\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Joy of Running</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\'ve got to make things easier on myself</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New Workout Plan</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"list-style: none; display: inline;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How we\'ve failed in the past, how to build the new plan, and how to succeed</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/podcast\">Podcast Companion Blog Archives</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - Podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5430674/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','The New Workout Plan (Podcast #41)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1204-revision-v1','','','2017-06-09 12:09:18','2017-06-09 16:09:18','',1204,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1204-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1205,1,'2017-06-09 10:01:22','2017-06-09 14:01:22','<h2>Our fitness routine is insane.</h2>\r\nSeriously - the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over... And expecting a different result. Why do we expect that our same cycle of failure at the gym is eventually thing to result in success? Something we\'re doing is not working.\r\n\r\n<strong>Its time to try a new approach.</strong>\r\n\r\nWe need a new way. A plan that will work. Something that\'s proven. Times have changed, we have changed, and the fitness industry has changed. I\'d like to propose \"The New Workout Plan\". It\'s time we finally get somewhere.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this (and more) check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>We throw around phrases like \"push!\" and \"dig deep!\" a lot...</strong></h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1189\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170528_114401_779-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />Those of us in sports and the fitness industry are <em>particularly</em> guilty of this. We encourage our friends, our clients, our teammates, even our<em>selves...</em> to push just a little harder, dig a little deeper, and find just a little more effort than we think we can give. In that moment, we\'re simply trying to help someone achieve that last rep, that last few minutes or few plays on the field, perhaps that last quarter mile of the race.\r\n<h3><strong>We understand people can push a little harder despite themselves...</strong></h3>\r\nso we encourage them to do so. We want others to see they\'re capable of something more. And, perhaps, we want to see others achieve it to remind ourselves that we, too, are always able to push just a little bit more than we think we can. That is the very reason I beat people over the head with my belief on \"limits\"...\r\n<blockquote>The only limits we <strong>truly</strong> have are the ones we set for ourselves.</blockquote>\r\nSo we, too, go out there... and encourage <em>ourselves </em>to push a little harder... dig a little deeper. Maybe that\'s why we run farther, run faster. Maybe that\'s why we do things like run a marathon (or more)\r\n<h2><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1195\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/race_3467_photo_53186068-e1496332024228-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" /><strong>Or are we in it for the self-discovery?</strong></h2>\r\nI get asked a lot why I would ever do the things that I do. Sometimes its asked with a sense of bafflement at the apparent idiocy and self-torture of the thing I\'m doing. Other times it\'s asked with an utter lack of comprehension of what it is I\'ve managed to do... not just \"why\"... but <em>\"how is someone ABLE to do that?\". </em>I find I have a few answers to these questions, and they are always the same...\r\n\r\n<strong><em>I want to see what I can do. Because I couldn\'t do it before. Because... why NOT?</em>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\nAnd I know there are other answers, too. Answers I\'m not necessarily prepared to give out loud to the casual inquisitor. Something a little more personal. Perhaps... I want to feel... that certain something that only comes when you <em>really </em>need it... something that only shows itself, now, in the most serious of events. I had just scratched the surface with my first marathon... and I knew there was something to it... something <em>more</em>. And then... I found it... in the <em>ultramarathon.</em>\r\n<h2><strong>Ultra-endurance events reveal something... rare.</strong></h2>\r\nWhen you push hard enough for long enough... you reach the usual bounds of human capability. Some ultramarathoners (including myself) call this their \"pain cave\" or \"dark place\". It\'s something akin to \"the wall\" that marathoners experience, except in this case... it\'s wholly mental, and <em>wholly</em> different. It\'s both thrilling and terrifying to know that the vast majority of people will walk this earth their whole lives and not only never <em>visit</em> this place... but never even know it <em>exists. </em>\r\n\r\nThose of us who find ourselves there, however... well, once we <em>do </em>find ourselves there we\'re certainly neither thrilled <em>nor</em> terrified. What we experience when we visit that place... there are no words for. No <em>singular</em> emotion to describe it. There, in that desolate, desperate, rarely-visited place... you experience something very difficult to describe... something that isn\'t normally witnessed in the usual course of human existence. You experience your deepest, most vulnerable, most <em>raw </em>version of yourself. In that place... in that moment... you discover who you really are.\r\n<h2><strong><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1198\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/race_3467_photo_53183355-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" />In that moment... you have a choice to make.</strong></h2>\r\nThat choice is <em>how </em>we discover who we really are. It\'s a pretty simple choice, too - you must either fight, and carry on... or not. You can choose to give in, and give up, and allow everything that\'s working against you to win.... or you can fight. You can choose to rise up, to battle the demons and beat back the darkness you face, and to ultimately claw your way to victory. There are an awful lot of things working against you inside that dark palce... how you choose to react, how you fight the battle (or not), and what you allow your final outcome to be are all how those of us who choose this sport discover ourselves.\r\n<h3><strong>Katrina and I both had a choice to make.</strong></h3>\r\nWith 7.7 miles remaining of our 50 mile day, our pacer Tom pulled ahead with Katrina until they were just out of my sight. At that point, we both had a choice to make. Hers - to either break down and succumb to not just the crushing weight of this effort but also the emotional weight of leaving me behind... or to soldier on and trust that even if leav<img class=\"alignright wp-image-1192 size-medium\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/received_1274166269340554-e1496332357764-217x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" />ing me behind cost me my race... I wouldn\'t have wanted her to sacrifice hers just to go down with me. My choice to make? Whether this was it - if I was going to fall apart and find my first DNF... or if I was going to pull it together, find the gas pedal, and punch my way through to the end of this thing despite being solo with nobody to lean on. It was heavy, and it was hard, for both of us...\r\n<h2><strong>In the end... <em>we did it</em>.</strong></h2>\r\nKatrina and I, in that moment, had to dive deep down to find what we needed. I had to revisit a place I\'d only been a scant couple of times before... and Katrina had to find her way to a place deep within herself that, perhaps, she had never before visited. And in the end... we found what we needed, and with it, we found ourselves, the finish line, and each other on the other side of it. I\'m <em>so </em>proud of Katrina for getting through all of that and achieving her first ultramarathon finish, and I\'m thrilled to have shared that experience with her. You learn a lot about a person when you endure something like that together... and now I\'ve seen Katrina in the final 10K of her first marathon and all but the tail end of her first 50 mile ultramarathon. I learned that not only is she one <em>tough</em> lady... but she has incredible physical, mental, and emotional resolve. She has what it takes to make tough decisions... to push past boundaries both implied, blatant, and imaginary. I learned that if there\'s something this woman needs... <em>there\'s no stopping her.</em> And we <em>both</em> got to that finish... and got our cowbell. What will you learn about YOURself when you fight through the dark place?<img class=\"wp-image-1188 alignright\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170528_190127233-e1496332170267-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"380\" />\r\n<h2><strong>Never forget - you are capable of incredible things.</strong></h2>\r\nWhether it\'s an ultramarathon, a 5k, weight loss success, muscle gains, or simply getting started in the gym... we are capable of so much more than we think. It just takes the courage to <em>try</em>. You need to learn how to dig deep. One day, you might find yourself in a position where you\'ve not only learned how... but decided that you\'ve glimpsed that deeper place... and you want to find a way to tap into it. <strong>When you reach that place, </strong>know that what you\'ve already accomplished still matters and is still significant. Take everything you\'ve learned and keep moving forward. Dig. Push. Achieve. Live Life <em>Limitless.</em>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>this has gotta be FUN!</li>\r\n 	<li>Sharing the experience with friends and family</li>\r\n 	<li>Back to Pineland Farms Trail Festival</li>\r\n 	<li>Digging Deeper than “deep”</li>\r\n 	<li>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>what’s really in it for those of us who choose ultra endurance sports.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/podcast\">Podcast Companion Blog Archives</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - Podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n<iframe src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5408329/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"></iframe>','The New Workout Plan (Podcast #41)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1204-revision-v1','','','2017-06-09 10:01:22','2017-06-09 14:01:22','',1204,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1204-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1210,1,'2017-06-09 15:33:58','2017-06-09 19:33:58','<h2>Our fitness routine is insane.</h2>\r\nSeriously - the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over... And expecting a different result. Why do we expect that our same cycle of failure at the gym is eventually going to result in success? Something we\'re doing is not working.\r\n\r\n<strong>Its time to try a new approach.</strong>\r\n\r\nWe need a new way. A plan that will work. Something that\'s proven. Times have changed, we have changed, and the fitness industry has changed. I\'d like to propose \"The New Workout Plan\". It\'s time we finally get somewhere.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this (and more) check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2>The game\'s no fun when you\'re losing.</h2>\r\nIt\'s tough to win the game when you don\'t know how to play. Frankly, I think that\'s a large part of the problem with fitness today - people simply don\'t know how to play the game! When you\'re losing, you get frustrated, you get discouraged, and you lose interest. Then, all of a sudden, you\'re cancelling your gym membership. Wouldn\'t it be so much easier if you had a plan you knew would work?\r\n<h2><strong>That\'s where \"The New Workout Plan\" comes in.</strong></h2>\r\nIt\'s simple, really, and it\'s what I do with my clients at the gym! It\'s all about what you\'re actually doing at the gym and with your workouts. Simply spending your time on a little cardio isn\'t gonna get you there... neither is farting around on a couple of machines with no real goal, aim, or formula. There\'s a few components that a good solid workout plan should have.\r\n<h3><strong>Step 1 - Warm-Up</strong></h3>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Yes, it DOES matter.</span> Warming up prior to your workout serves several purposes, from helping prevent injury to warming up cold muscles to all the biological processes that happen. The long and the short of it is... it REALLY <em>DOES</em> MATTER! <strong>So what, exactly, should a warm-up look like?</strong> A good dynamic warm-up is going to simulate the workout you\'re about to do - it should be a very watered down version of what\'s coming. Some non-weighted movements, some mobility, some agility... a little of everything. NOT just cardio on the treadmill/bike and NOT just static stretching.\r\n<h3><strong>Step 2 - Strength Training</strong></h3>\r\nYes, that includes you. FOR THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF PEOPLE, strength is going to help you get to your goals. Want to lose weight/burn fat? Run farther or faster? Get stronger or bigger? Guess what - strength training is going to help (yes, even to LOSE weight). There\'s lots of sciencey explanation to it, but just trust me here (if you don\'t, ok... go research it!).\r\n\r\n<strong>This doesn\'t mean just bench, squad, deadlift.</strong>\r\n\r\nThere\'s SO much more to strength training than the old standbys. You don\'t need a barbell, heck, you don\'t even need dumbbells... and you CERTAINLY do NOT need machines. As a matter of fact, stay the heck away from the \"strength machines\" - your time is better spent elsewhere. Use kettlebells, medicine balls, resistance bands, TRX, heck, use your BODYWEIGHT! There are SO many different ways to train strength... functional training, circuit training, metabolic training... oh the fun you can have! I STRONGLY, <strong>strongly, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">strongly</span></em></strong> recommend you enlist the help of a personal trainer or coach. There ARE so many ways to train... and often, in order to get the best, fastest, and most efficient, effective results... you need a knowledgable guide to help you find your way. Make the investment... it\'s worth it.\r\n<h3><strong>Step 3 - Cardio</strong></h3>\r\nYes, cardio does have a place here, but it\'s not always the main event, k? Your cardio needs will vary based on MANY factors, but in general, for most people, 15 to 30 minutes at a 7 out of 10 effort level will do you a lot of good. This can be treadmill, bike, elliptical, whatever you like. Heck, go outside for a run, enjoy the weather! Depending on how you do your strength training, there might even be cardio involved there, too! It doesn\'t have to suck, and it doesn\'t have to be boring.\r\n<h3><strong>Step 4 - Cool-Down</strong></h3>\r\nDepending on how hard you\'re going and what, exactly, your workout was... it\'s more than likely that a cooldown of some kind is advisable. It won\'t take long, and it isn\'t complicated - a cooldown is just an opportunity for your body to come down gently from what you just did... bring that heart rate down gently, don\'t lock up and get stiff, etc. Walk gently stepping down the intensity over the course of like 5 minutes - that sort of thing. Again, there\'s science to it... but unless you feel like researching, trust me here.\r\n<h3><strong>Step 5 - Mobility &amp; Flexibility</strong></h3>\r\nThis is SO BEYOND CRUCIAL. I can\'t even TELL you how important this is. When you\'re done with your workout you simply MUST work on mobility and flexibility. If you don\'t know what foam rolling is, it\'s time to get educated. The short version here is, it\'s basically self-massage, and it is massively important. Do it. Seriously. It\'s going to be awful WHILE you\'re doing it, but it\'s well worth it in the end, and you\'ll feel SO much better after. This is so important I\'m going to do a whole blog post dedicated just to foam rolling and mobility in the near future.\r\n<h2><strong>The old way is out - time for The New Workout Plan</strong></h2>\r\nGone are the days of the past - a brisk walk on the treadmill for 40 minutes, or absolutely crushing the elliptical for 30 minutes... just isn\'t gonna cut it. I chat all about this a little more in-depth in Podcast Episode 41, but a real easy way to succeed here? Enlist the help of a coach or personal trainer.\r\n<h3><strong>If you\'re interested in MY help...</strong></h3>\r\nWell, we can do that too. I AM now accepting Virtual Training clients. What\'s that mean? What\'s involved? Shoot me a message at Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com with the subject \"virtual coaching\" and let\'s chat :)\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Joy of Running</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\'ve got to make things easier on myself</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New Workout Plan</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"list-style: none; display: inline;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How we\'ve failed in the past, how to build the new plan, and how to succeed</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/podcast\">Podcast Companion Blog Archives</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - Podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5430674/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','The New Workout Plan (Podcast #41)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1204-revision-v1','','','2017-06-09 15:33:58','2017-06-09 19:33:58','',1204,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1204-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1212,1,'2017-06-25 07:50:37','0000-00-00 00:00:00','<h2>The running community is not immune to evil.</h2>\r\nRunning is a lot of things to a lot of people. It\'s a place to get away, escape, and relax. It\'s a place to turn up the heat and test yourself. Whatever it may be to you... GENERALLY, those of us who enjoy it (or at least, <em>choose</em> it) tend to think of it in <em>positive</em> terms. Every once in a while, though... the bad, negative, and what you could consider <strong><em>evil</em> </strong>finds its way into our peaceful little running community. This very thing has been festering and growing in a local running community close to me, and it\'s finally reached a head. So much so that it made the local news. <strong>Guess it\'s time to finally address it head-on, eh?</strong>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<h2>Wait... what even <em>happened?</em></h2>\r\nImagine you\'re a runner who\'s just signed up for their first half-marathon.','Race Director Lies, Runners Get Cheated. 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So much so that it made the local news. <strong>Guess it\'s time to finally address it head-on, eh?</strong>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<h2>Wait... what even <em>happened?</em></h2>\r\nImagine you\'re a runner who\'s just signed up for their first half-marathon.','Race Director Lies, Runners Get Cheated. 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It\'s that time when seemingly everyone complains about the heat, even though we just got done complaining that we couldn\'t <em>wait</em> for summer.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if, though... instead of complaining... we just took steps to make this <strong><em>the best summer EVER</em></strong>? Wouldn\'t THAT be great? I\'ve got 5 easy ways you can do exactly that :) <em>(OK, so some might be a little more challenging than that...)</em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Summer is a HUGE opportunity</strong></h2>\r\nThere\'s SO much to DO in the summer if you\'re willing to just get out there and <em>go find it</em>. Instead of complaining about the heat, get out there and embrace it! I\'ve got 5 easy ways for you to get the most out of summer and really have the <em>best </em>summer <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ever</span>.\r\n<h3><strong>1.) Pick an activity - prioritize fun!</strong></h3>\r\nIt\'s tough to act without a plan - plain and simple. When we don\'t come up with fun things to go do... well, that\'s how we fall into the trap of simply filling any free time we have with household chores. It\'s important to pick a thing to go do to enjoy the season!\r\n\r\nTake a look around and see what there is to do. You can look in your neighborhood, within a 30 or 60 minute drive, or maybe far enough for a day trip. It could be activities like biking, running, or hiking. It could be a beach day or a trip to the zoo! <strong>Get creative</strong> and think of what you\'d <em>really </em>enjoy.\r\n\r\n<strong>Make sure you consider the wife and kids! </strong>What\'s fun for <em>you </em>might not be <em>their </em>cup of tea... so make sure you\'ve got some family-friendly ideas too!\r\n<h3><strong>2.) HYDRATE!</strong></h3>\r\nThis one\'s important not just for your enjoyment factor... but your health and safety! With the increased heat and humidity of the summer comes increased risk of dehydration. The more active you are, the more you\'ll sweat and deplete your body\'s stores (of everything, not just water), so the more that risk increases. It\'s CRITICALLY important that you get enough water throughout the course of the day! <em><strong>But how much is enough?</strong></em>\r\n\r\nMost places you\'ll look will tell you at least 8 glasses a day, meaning 64 ounces. Again, the more active you are, the more you need. I\'ve got a [amazon_textlink asin=\'B0107YYSEC\' text=\'1 liter Camelbak Eddy bottle\' template=\'ProductLink\' store=\'so0d2-20\' marketplace=\'US\' link_id=\'0bb5456c-5826-11e7-aebe-b996946cc2d1\'] - I try to drink 3 or 4 full ones. You don\'t necessarily need to drink THAT much, but you get the idea.\r\n\r\nWith proper hydration you\'ll have less to worry about, helping you have an awesome time doing whatever you\'re doing (not to mention you won\'t be thirsty)!\r\n<h3><strong>3.) Protect yourself from the sun</strong></h3>\r\nJust like you\'re protecting yourself from dehydration... it\'s important to protect against the sun as well! If you\'re going to be out in the bright, hot summer sun for an extended period of time, it\'s VERY important you wear sunscreen! If you\'re anything like me, you\'ll burn to a crisp after 20 unprotected minutes in the sun, and I know <strong><em>I </em></strong>certainly am not having fun when I\'m busy dealing with the pain of a sunburn.\r\n\r\nI\'d recommend using at least SPF 30 sunscreen, and you should consider finding a good <em>sport </em>sunscreen. Sport sunscreen is designed (so they say) to be about as sweat-resistant as possible... which... if it\'s hot out... should be kind of a no-brainer. You also need to decide between a traditional rub-in lotion or a spray. Supposedly they each work just as well as the other, so this one\'s all personal preference. Right now I\'m using both [amazon_textlink asin=\'B00NR1YL2C\' text=\'Neutrogena CoolDry SPF 70 Spray\' template=\'ProductLink\' store=\'so0d2-20\' marketplace=\'US\' link_id=\'33b87751-5829-11e7-971b-4b7669fff86a\'] and [amazon_textlink asin=\'B0173G3AY6\' text=\'Coppertone Sport SPF 50 Lotion\' template=\'ProductLink\' store=\'so0d2-20\' marketplace=\'US\' link_id=\'620eea34-5828-11e7-935d-33a4d2cea0b5\']. Be smart in the sun, folks... <em>and take care of the kids, too!!!</em>\r\n<h3><strong>4.) Don\'t worry about everybody else</strong></h3>\r\nThis is a big one, folks! It\'s tough to get out there and <em>have fun</em> if you\'re worried about what everyone else sees and thinks. Summer-appropriate clothing is typically very light and... at the risk of sounding like an stuffy mom from the 50\'s... very <em>revealing</em> and unforgiving. If we\'re uncomfortable with how we look in that clothing we might be hesitant to go out in public... much less a place like <em>the beach </em>or a pool. GOD FORBID someone sees us, right? Or if we feel like we look stupid playing volleyball or rollerblading or what have you... that worry about judgement from outside eyes can be downright debilitating.\r\n\r\n<strong>Try not to worry!</strong> First off... you\'re probably imagining and perceiving a lot more judgement than you\'re <em>really </em>getting. Realistically, you\'re probably not getting <em>any </em>judgement at all! And <strong><em>even if you were</em></strong>... even IF someone looks at you and thinks \"ew\" or \"wowww\"... <em><strong>so what?!</strong></em> If that person\'s got the stones to look at YOU sideways, maybe they\'re not so nice of a person anyway... and if THAT\'S the case, well, their opinion shouldn\'t really count for much. At the end of the day... how does their opinion affect your life? <strong>It doesn\'t.</strong> So why give it the time of day?\r\n\r\nHave fun, and <em>enjoy yourself</em>. Haters gonna hate. If you catch someone looking... throw \'em a smile and move on. If they\'re ACTUALLY judging you, that\'ll probably piss \'em off, and that\'s the best way to win ;)\r\n<h3><strong>5.) GET OUT THERE!</strong></h3>\r\nIn the end, none of the first 4 ways to have the best summer ever REALLY matter... if you don\'t actually GET OUT THERE! Any good plan is nothing if you don\'t <em>execute</em> the plan and put it into action. So do yourself a favor... <strong>get out there</strong> and go have some fun!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Things are FINALLY coming together</li>\r\n 	<li>Western States, and other impressive feats</li>\r\n 	<li>5 easy ways to have the BEST summer <em>ever</em></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5472107/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','5 Easy Ways To Have The Best Summer EVER','','inherit','closed','closed','','1229-revision-v1','','','2017-06-23 11:33:07','2017-06-23 15:33:07','',1229,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1229-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1223,1,'2017-06-15 12:50:22','2017-06-15 16:50:22','<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>What stands out, really, in the fitness industry?</strong></span></h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s a question I’m sure almost nobody thinks to ask, but I’m asking it. Does your gym really love you?</span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And do YOU love it back?</span></em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s weird, right? To think of it like that? What does that even mean? It’s a place with stuff you pick up and put down. A place with stuff you run on. You swipe a key card or fob or id badge or something and you do fitness-type stuff. Sometimes I go. Sometimes I don’t. Where’s the “love” in that?</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\r\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\r\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isn’t that the problem? SHOULDN’T there be more to it than that? Well, once again I’m reminded…</span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. There</span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">should</span></em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be. And there <em><strong>is</strong></em> a place where <em>that\'s how it is.\r\n</em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this, including my conversation with Chuck Runyon (co-founder of Anytime Fitness) check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n</span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Fitness should be more than a chore.</strong></h2>\r\nUnfortunately, for what seems like the vast majority of people... it\'s just that - a chore. Fitness is a task to be completed, a time-suck... a <strong>burden.</strong> It\'s <em>work</em>. You go to a place you may or may not feel comfortable in with equipment you may or may not know how to use... and you may or may not be <em>doing this whole thing right</em>. The random high school kid at the counter may or may not look up at you as you walk in, and you\'re probably not getting a whole lot of human interaction while you\'re at the gym. <em><strong>Yeah, you\'re right... that DOES suck...</strong></em>\r\n<h3>But what if things were different?</h3>\r\nWhat if the gym was a pleasant environment? A place where you\'re familiar and comfortable with the equipment. Would a smiling face and a hello upon entry make you feel more at ease? What could a friendly offer of guidance mid-set from cheerful, approachable staff do for you? How would a bright, fun, non-judgemental atmosphere make you feel... and what about that high-five at the end of a hard-fought workout? Wouldn\'t THAT be nice? I imagine you... *gasp*... might even look forward to it!\r\n<h3><strong>Therein lies the problem - most gyms just see you as a number.</strong></h3>\r\nMost gyms in the fitness industry simply see you as a monthly dues payment (or paid-in-full lump sum). Maybe they even get to see you as a personal training package! What they <em>don\'t </em>see you as is <strong>a person.</strong> They don\'t see or care about your goals, your hopes, your needs, your struggles, and your obstacles. They just see your money coming in every month.\r\n<h3><strong>I found a place that\'s different.</strong></h3>\r\nI\'ve said it before and I\'ll say it again - MY gym... the place I go to work out, and to WORK... they get it. Anytime Fitness gets it. Virtually every location I\'ve visited, every staff member I\'ve talked to... they all <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">get it</span>. The staff sees their members as people. They take a genuine interest in who you are as a person and what\'s important to you. They want to know what makes you tick, and where you want to get.  They\'re interested in how your past gym experiences have gone so they can help you have a <em>better one</em> this time. They want to make sure you ACTUALLY achieve your goals rather than just spinning your wheels and wasting time and effort.\r\n<h3><strong>So what does it look like when your gym \"loves you\"?</strong></h3>\r\nIt looks like that hello and a smile when you walk in from the owner or manager. The fist bump or non-threatening, non-judgemental piece of advice or guidance from the personal trainer who KNOWS you\'re not paying for his/her services and <em>doesn\'t let that stop him from guiding you</em>. Better yet - that trainer <a href=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/the-new-workout-plan-podcast-41.html\"><em>teaches you how to work out effectively</em></a> and sets you up with a plan... even though you\'re not signing a training package. The lesson on how to use the equipment from the manager so you can be comfortable in the facility. The phone call or text when you haven\'t been to the gym in a while. The celebration of your success when you hit a milestone or achieve a goal.\r\n\r\n<strong>That </strong>is why I love my job. At the end of the day... it\'s not really <em>work</em> at all for me. I get to help people do what I did - change their life. And I get to help make it <em>fun</em> in the process. I love my members... and I think that maybe, just maybe... they might love us back.\r\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></span></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking some \"you\" time</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Runner\'s High</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does Your Gym REALLY Love You?\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A conversation with Anytime Fitness Co-Founder Chuck Runyon</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JP, Shelly, and Trista from Antime Fitness HQ join the conversation!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5450271/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Does Your Gym REALLY Love You? (Podcast #42)','','publish','open','open','','gym-really-love-podcast-42','','','2017-06-15 13:05:21','2017-06-15 17:05:21','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/?p=1223',0,'post','',0),(1224,1,'2017-06-15 12:22:24','2017-06-15 16:22:24','','does your gym really love you','','inherit','open','closed','','wordswag_1497502754187','','','2017-06-15 12:24:02','2017-06-15 16:24:02','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/wordswag_1497502754187.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1225,1,'2017-06-15 12:23:09','2017-06-15 16:23:09','<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>What stands out, really, in the fitness industry?</strong></span></h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s a question I’m sure almost nobody things to ask, but I’m asking it. Does your gym really love you?</span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And do YOU love it back?</span></em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s weird, right? To think of it like that? What does that even mean? It’s a place with stuff you pick up and put down. A place with stuff you run on. You swipe a key card or fob or id badge or something and you do stuff. Sometimes I go. Sometimes I don’t. Where’s the “love” in that?</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\r\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\r\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isn’t that the problem? SHOULDN’T there be more to it than that? Well, once again I’m reminded…</span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. There</span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">should</span></em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be. And I have, in fact, found a place that</span> <strong><em>gets it</em></strong><strong>.</strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join me, won’t you?\r\n</span><!--more-->\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></span></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking some \"you\" time</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Runner\'s High</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does Your Gym REALLY Love You?\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A conversation with Anytime Fitness Co-Founder Chuck Runyon</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JP, Shelly, and Trista from Antime Fitness HQ join the conversation!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Email - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>','Does Your Gym REALLY Love You? 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Where’s the “love” in that?</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\r\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\r\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isn’t that the problem? SHOULDN’T there be more to it than that? Well, once again I’m reminded…</span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. There</span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">should</span></em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be. And there <em><strong>is</strong></em> a place where <em>that\'s how it is.</em></span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\r\n</span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Fitness should be more than a chore.</strong></h2>\r\nUnfortunately, for what seems like the vast majority of people... it\'s just that - a chore. Fitness is a task to be completed, a time-suck... a <strong>burden.</strong> It\'s <em>work</em>. You go to a place you may or may not feel comfortable in with equipment you may or may not know how to use... and you may or may not be <em>doing this whole thing right</em>. The random high school kid at the counter may or may not look up at you as you walk in, and you\'re probably not getting a whole lot of human interaction while you\'re at the gym. <em><strong>Yeah, you\'re right... that DOES suck...</strong></em>\r\n<h3>But what if things were different?</h3>\r\nWhat if the gym was a pleasant environment? A place where you\'re familiar and comfortable with the equipment. Would a smiling face and a hello upon entry make you feel more at ease? What could a friendly offer of guidance mid-set from cheerful, approachable staff do for you? How would a bright, fun, non-judgemental atmosphere make you feel... and what about that high-five at the end of a hard-fought workout? Wouldn\'t THAT be nice? I imagine you... *gasp*... might even look forward to it!\r\n<h3><strong>Therein lies the problem - most gyms just see you as a number.</strong></h3>\r\nMost gyms in the fitness industry simply see you as a monthly dues payment (or paid-in-full lump sum). Maybe they even get to see you as a personal training package! What they <em>don\'t </em>see you as is <strong>a person.</strong> They don\'t see or care about your goals, your hopes, your needs, your struggles, and your obstacles. They just see your money coming in every month.\r\n<h3><strong>I found a place that\'s different.</strong></h3>\r\nI\'ve said it before and I\'ll say it again - MY gym... the place I go to work out, and to WORK... they get it. Anytime Fitness gets it. Virtually every location I\'ve visited, every staff member I\'ve talked to... they all <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">get it</span>. The staff sees their members as people. They take a genuine interest in who you are as a person and what\'s important to you. They want to know what makes you tick, and where you want to get.  They\'re interested in how your past gym experiences have gone so they can help you have a <em>better one</em> this time. They want to make sure you ACTUALLY achieve your goals rather than just spinning your wheels and wasting time and effort.\r\n<h3><strong>So what does it look like when your gym \"loves you\"?</strong></h3>\r\nIt looks like that hello and a smile when you walk in from the owner or manager. The fist bump or non-threatening, non-judgemental piece of advice or guidance from the personal trainer who KNOWS you\'re not paying for his/her services and <em>doesn\'t let that stop him from guiding you</em>. Better yet - that trainer <a href=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/the-new-workout-plan-podcast-41.html\"><em>teaches you how to work out effectively</em></a> and sets you up with a plan... even though you\'re not signing a training package. The lesson on how to use the equipment from the manager so you can be comfortable in the facility. The phone call or text when you haven\'t been to the gym in a while. The celebration of your success when you hit a milestone or achieve a goal.\r\n\r\n<strong>That </strong>is why I love my job. At the end of the day... it\'s not really <em>work</em> at all for me. I get to help people do what I did - change their life. And I get to help make it <em>fun</em> in the process. I love my members... and I think that maybe, just maybe... they might love us back.\r\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></span></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking some \"you\" time</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Runner\'s High</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does Your Gym REALLY Love You?\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A conversation with Anytime Fitness Co-Founder Chuck Runyon</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JP, Shelly, and Trista from Antime Fitness HQ join the conversation!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5450271/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Does Your Gym REALLY Love You? (Podcast #42)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1223-revision-v1','','','2017-06-15 12:50:22','2017-06-15 16:50:22','',1223,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1223-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1227,1,'2017-06-15 13:04:55','2017-06-15 17:04:55','<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>What stands out, really, in the fitness industry?</strong></span></h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s a question I’m sure almost nobody thinks to ask, but I’m asking it. Does your gym really love you?</span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And do YOU love it back?</span></em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s weird, right? To think of it like that? What does that even mean? It’s a place with stuff you pick up and put down. A place with stuff you run on. You swipe a key card or fob or id badge or something and you do fitness-type stuff. Sometimes I go. Sometimes I don’t. Where’s the “love” in that?</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isn’t that the problem? SHOULDN’T there be more to it than that? Well, once again I’m reminded…</span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. There</span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">should</span></em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be. And there <em><strong>is</strong></em> a place where <em>that\'s how it is.\n</em></span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this (and more) check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\n</span><!--more-->\n<h2><strong>Fitness should be more than a chore.</strong></h2>\nUnfortunately, for what seems like the vast majority of people... it\'s just that - a chore. Fitness is a task to be completed, a time-suck... a <strong>burden.</strong> It\'s <em>work</em>. You go to a place you may or may not feel comfortable in with equipment you may or may not know how to use... and you may or may not be <em>doing this whole thing right</em>. The random high school kid at the counter may or may not look up at you as you walk in, and you\'re probably not getting a whole lot of human interaction while you\'re at the gym. <em><strong>Yeah, you\'re right... that DOES suck...</strong></em>\n<h3>But what if things were different?</h3>\nWhat if the gym was a pleasant environment? A place where you\'re familiar and comfortable with the equipment. Would a smiling face and a hello upon entry make you feel more at ease? What could a friendly offer of guidance mid-set from cheerful, approachable staff do for you? How would a bright, fun, non-judgemental atmosphere make you feel... and what about that high-five at the end of a hard-fought workout? Wouldn\'t THAT be nice? I imagine you... *gasp*... might even look forward to it!\n<h3><strong>Therein lies the problem - most gyms just see you as a number.</strong></h3>\nMost gyms in the fitness industry simply see you as a monthly dues payment (or paid-in-full lump sum). Maybe they even get to see you as a personal training package! What they <em>don\'t </em>see you as is <strong>a person.</strong> They don\'t see or care about your goals, your hopes, your needs, your struggles, and your obstacles. They just see your money coming in every month.\n<h3><strong>I found a place that\'s different.</strong></h3>\nI\'ve said it before and I\'ll say it again - MY gym... the place I go to work out, and to WORK... they get it. Anytime Fitness gets it. Virtually every location I\'ve visited, every staff member I\'ve talked to... they all <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">get it</span>. The staff sees their members as people. They take a genuine interest in who you are as a person and what\'s important to you. They want to know what makes you tick, and where you want to get.  They\'re interested in how your past gym experiences have gone so they can help you have a <em>better one</em> this time. They want to make sure you ACTUALLY achieve your goals rather than just spinning your wheels and wasting time and effort.\n<h3><strong>So what does it look like when your gym \"loves you\"?</strong></h3>\nIt looks like that hello and a smile when you walk in from the owner or manager. The fist bump or non-threatening, non-judgemental piece of advice or guidance from the personal trainer who KNOWS you\'re not paying for his/her services and <em>doesn\'t let that stop him from guiding you</em>. Better yet - that trainer <a href=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/the-new-workout-plan-podcast-41.html\"><em>teaches you how to work out effectively</em></a> and sets you up with a plan... even though you\'re not signing a training package. The lesson on how to use the equipment from the manager so you can be comfortable in the facility. The phone call or text when you haven\'t been to the gym in a while. The celebration of your success when you hit a milestone or achieve a goal.\n\n<strong>That </strong>is why I love my job. At the end of the day... it\'s not really <em>work</em> at all for me. I get to help people do what I did - change their life. And I get to help make it <em>fun</em> in the process. I love my members... and I think that maybe, just maybe... they might love us back.\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></span></h3>\n<ul>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking some \"you\" time</li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Runner\'s High</li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does Your Gym REALLY Love You?\n<ul>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A conversation with Anytime Fitness Co-Founder Chuck Runyon</li>\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JP, Shelly, and Trista from Antime Fitness HQ join the conversation!</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\n<ul>\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\n</ul>\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\n<ul>\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\n</ul>\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\n\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5450271/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Does Your Gym REALLY Love You? (Podcast #42)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1223-autosave-v1','','','2017-06-15 13:04:55','2017-06-15 17:04:55','',1223,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1223-autosave-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1228,1,'2017-06-15 13:05:21','2017-06-15 17:05:21','<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>What stands out, really, in the fitness industry?</strong></span></h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s a question I’m sure almost nobody thinks to ask, but I’m asking it. Does your gym really love you?</span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And do YOU love it back?</span></em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s weird, right? To think of it like that? What does that even mean? It’s a place with stuff you pick up and put down. A place with stuff you run on. You swipe a key card or fob or id badge or something and you do fitness-type stuff. Sometimes I go. Sometimes I don’t. Where’s the “love” in that?</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\r\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\r\n</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isn’t that the problem? SHOULDN’T there be more to it than that? Well, once again I’m reminded…</span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes</span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. There</span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">should</span></em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">be. And there <em><strong>is</strong></em> a place where <em>that\'s how it is.\r\n</em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this, including my conversation with Chuck Runyon (co-founder of Anytime Fitness) check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n</span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Fitness should be more than a chore.</strong></h2>\r\nUnfortunately, for what seems like the vast majority of people... it\'s just that - a chore. Fitness is a task to be completed, a time-suck... a <strong>burden.</strong> It\'s <em>work</em>. You go to a place you may or may not feel comfortable in with equipment you may or may not know how to use... and you may or may not be <em>doing this whole thing right</em>. The random high school kid at the counter may or may not look up at you as you walk in, and you\'re probably not getting a whole lot of human interaction while you\'re at the gym. <em><strong>Yeah, you\'re right... that DOES suck...</strong></em>\r\n<h3>But what if things were different?</h3>\r\nWhat if the gym was a pleasant environment? A place where you\'re familiar and comfortable with the equipment. Would a smiling face and a hello upon entry make you feel more at ease? What could a friendly offer of guidance mid-set from cheerful, approachable staff do for you? How would a bright, fun, non-judgemental atmosphere make you feel... and what about that high-five at the end of a hard-fought workout? Wouldn\'t THAT be nice? I imagine you... *gasp*... might even look forward to it!\r\n<h3><strong>Therein lies the problem - most gyms just see you as a number.</strong></h3>\r\nMost gyms in the fitness industry simply see you as a monthly dues payment (or paid-in-full lump sum). Maybe they even get to see you as a personal training package! What they <em>don\'t </em>see you as is <strong>a person.</strong> They don\'t see or care about your goals, your hopes, your needs, your struggles, and your obstacles. They just see your money coming in every month.\r\n<h3><strong>I found a place that\'s different.</strong></h3>\r\nI\'ve said it before and I\'ll say it again - MY gym... the place I go to work out, and to WORK... they get it. Anytime Fitness gets it. Virtually every location I\'ve visited, every staff member I\'ve talked to... they all <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">get it</span>. The staff sees their members as people. They take a genuine interest in who you are as a person and what\'s important to you. They want to know what makes you tick, and where you want to get.  They\'re interested in how your past gym experiences have gone so they can help you have a <em>better one</em> this time. They want to make sure you ACTUALLY achieve your goals rather than just spinning your wheels and wasting time and effort.\r\n<h3><strong>So what does it look like when your gym \"loves you\"?</strong></h3>\r\nIt looks like that hello and a smile when you walk in from the owner or manager. The fist bump or non-threatening, non-judgemental piece of advice or guidance from the personal trainer who KNOWS you\'re not paying for his/her services and <em>doesn\'t let that stop him from guiding you</em>. Better yet - that trainer <a href=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/the-new-workout-plan-podcast-41.html\"><em>teaches you how to work out effectively</em></a> and sets you up with a plan... even though you\'re not signing a training package. The lesson on how to use the equipment from the manager so you can be comfortable in the facility. The phone call or text when you haven\'t been to the gym in a while. The celebration of your success when you hit a milestone or achieve a goal.\r\n\r\n<strong>That </strong>is why I love my job. At the end of the day... it\'s not really <em>work</em> at all for me. I get to help people do what I did - change their life. And I get to help make it <em>fun</em> in the process. I love my members... and I think that maybe, just maybe... they might love us back.\r\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></span></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking some \"you\" time</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Runner\'s High</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Does Your Gym REALLY Love You?\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A conversation with Anytime Fitness Co-Founder Chuck Runyon</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">JP, Shelly, and Trista from Antime Fitness HQ join the conversation!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5450271/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Does Your Gym REALLY Love You? (Podcast #42)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1223-revision-v1','','','2017-06-15 13:05:21','2017-06-15 17:05:21','',1223,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1223-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1229,1,'2017-06-23 18:35:35','2017-06-23 22:35:35','<h2><strong>You\'ve noticed, I\'m sure... that it\'s now HOT out there.</strong></h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, friends... it\'s SUMMER - a time of sweat, sunburns, and tourist traffic (depending on where you live). Air Conditioners nationwide are cranking up the cool while the beating sun cranks up the sunburns. It\'s that time when seemingly everyone complains about the heat, even though we just got done complaining that we couldn\'t <em>wait</em> for summer.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if, though... instead of complaining... we just took steps to make this <strong><em>the best summer EVER</em></strong>? Wouldn\'t THAT be great? I\'ve got 5 easy ways you can do exactly that :) <em>(OK, so some might be a little more challenging than that...)</em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Summer is a HUGE opportunity</strong></h2>\r\nThere\'s SO much to DO in the summer if you\'re willing to just get out there and <em>go find it</em>. Instead of complaining about the heat, get out there and embrace it! I\'ve got 5 easy ways for you to get the most out of summer and really have the <em>best </em>summer <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ever</span>.\r\n<h3><strong>1.) Pick an activity - prioritize fun!</strong></h3>\r\nIt\'s tough to act without a plan - plain and simple. When we don\'t come up with fun things to go do... well, that\'s how we fall into the trap of simply filling any free time we have with household chores. It\'s important to pick a thing to go do to enjoy the season!\r\n\r\nTake a look around and see what there is to do. You can look in your neighborhood, within a 30 or 60 minute drive, or maybe far enough for a day trip. It could be activities like biking, running, or hiking. It could be a beach day or a trip to the zoo! <strong>Get creative</strong> and think of what you\'d <em>really </em>enjoy.\r\n\r\n<strong>Make sure you consider the wife and kids! </strong>What\'s fun for <em>you </em>might not be <em>their </em>cup of tea... so make sure you\'ve got some family-friendly ideas too!\r\n<h3><strong>2.) HYDRATE!</strong></h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1246\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170623_113439-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Camelbak eddy 1 liter bottle\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />This one\'s important not just for your enjoyment factor... but your health and safety! With the increased heat and humidity of the summer comes increased risk of dehydration. The more active you are, the more you\'ll sweat and deplete your body\'s stores (of everything, not just water), so the more that risk increases. It\'s CRITICALLY important that you get enough water throughout the course of the day! <em><strong>But how much is enough?</strong></em>\r\n\r\nMost places you\'ll look will tell you at least 8 glasses a day, meaning 64 ounces. Again, the more active you are, the more you need. I\'ve got a [amazon_textlink asin=\'B0107YYSEC\' text=\'1 liter Camelbak Eddy bottle\' template=\'ProductLink\' store=\'so0d2-20\' marketplace=\'US\' link_id=\'0bb5456c-5826-11e7-aebe-b996946cc2d1\'] - I try to drink 3 or 4 full ones. You don\'t necessarily need to drink THAT much, but you get the idea.\r\n\r\nWith proper hydration you\'ll have less to worry about, helping you have an awesome time doing whatever you\'re doing (not to mention you won\'t be thirsty)!\r\n<h3><strong>3.) Protect yourself from the sun</strong></h3>\r\nJust like you\'re protecting yourself from dehydration... it\'s important to protect against the sun as well! If you\'re going to be out in the bright, hot summer sun for an extended period of time, it\'s VERY important you wear sunscreen! If you\'re anything like me, you\'ll burn to a crisp after 20 unprotected minutes in the sun, and I know <strong><em>I </em></strong>certainly am not having fun when I\'m busy dealing with the pain of a sunburn.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1247\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170623_113512-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"sunscreen spray and lotion\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />I\'d recommend using at least SPF 30 sunscreen, and you should consider finding a good <em>sport </em>sunscreen. Sport sunscreen is designed (so they say) to be about as sweat-resistant as possible... which... if it\'s hot out... should be kind of a no-brainer. You also need to decide between a traditional rub-in lotion or a spray. Supposedly they each work just as well as the other, so this one\'s all personal preference. Right now I\'m using both [amazon_textlink asin=\'B00NR1YL2C\' text=\'Neutrogena CoolDry SPF 70 Spray\' template=\'ProductLink\' store=\'so0d2-20\' marketplace=\'US\' link_id=\'33b87751-5829-11e7-971b-4b7669fff86a\'] and [amazon_textlink asin=\'B0173G3AY6\' text=\'Coppertone Sport SPF 50 Lotion\' template=\'ProductLink\' store=\'so0d2-20\' marketplace=\'US\' link_id=\'620eea34-5828-11e7-935d-33a4d2cea0b5\']. Be smart in the sun, folks... <em>and take care of the kids, too!!!</em>\r\n<h3><strong>4.) Don\'t worry about everybody else</strong></h3>\r\nThis is a big one, folks! It\'s tough to get out there and <em>have fun</em> if you\'re worried about what everyone else sees and thinks. Summer-appropriate clothing is typically very light and... at the risk of sounding like an stuffy mom from the 50\'s... very <em>revealing</em> and unforgiving. If we\'re uncomfortable with how we look in that clothing we might be hesitant to go out in public... much less a place like <em>the beach </em>or a pool. GOD FORBID someone sees us, right? Or if we feel like we look stupid playing volleyball or rollerblading or what have you... that worry about judgement from outside eyes can be downright debilitating.\r\n\r\n<strong>Try not to worry!</strong> First off... you\'re probably imagining and perceiving a lot more judgement than you\'re <em>really </em>getting. Realistically, you\'re probably not getting <em>any </em>judgement at all! And <strong><em>even if you were</em></strong>... even IF someone looks at you and thinks \"ew\" or \"wowww\"... <em><strong>so what?!</strong></em> If that person\'s got the stones to look at YOU sideways, maybe they\'re not so nice of a person anyway... and if THAT\'S the case, well, their opinion shouldn\'t really count for much. At the end of the day... how does their opinion affect your life? <strong>It doesn\'t.</strong> So why give it the time of day?\r\n\r\nHave fun, and <em>enjoy yourself</em>. Haters gonna hate. If you catch someone looking... throw \'em a smile and move on. If they\'re ACTUALLY judging you, that\'ll probably piss \'em off, and that\'s the best way to win ;)\r\n<h3><strong>5.) GET OUT THERE!</strong></h3>\r\nIn the end, none of the first 4 ways to have the best summer ever REALLY matter... if you don\'t actually GET OUT THERE! Any good plan is nothing if you don\'t <em>execute</em> the plan and put it into action. So do yourself a favor... <strong>get out there</strong> and go have some fun!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Things are FINALLY coming together</li>\r\n 	<li>Western States, and other impressive feats</li>\r\n 	<li>5 easy ways to have the BEST summer <em>ever</em></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5472107/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','5 Easy Ways To Have The Best Summer EVER (Podcast #43)','','publish','open','open','','5-easy-ways-best-summer-ever','','','2017-06-23 18:35:35','2017-06-23 22:35:35','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/?p=1229',0,'post','',9),(1246,1,'2017-06-23 11:57:21','2017-06-23 15:57:21','','Camelbak eddy 1 liter bottle','','inherit','open','closed','','img_20170623_113439','','','2017-06-23 11:58:27','2017-06-23 15:58:27','',1229,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170623_113439.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(1248,1,'2017-06-23 12:04:32','2017-06-23 16:04:32','','','','inherit','open','closed','','photogrid_1498152785203','','','2017-06-23 12:04:51','2017-06-23 16:04:51','',1229,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/PhotoGrid_1498152785203.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1249,1,'2017-06-23 12:37:28','2017-06-23 16:37:28','','5 easy ways to have the best summer ever','','inherit','open','closed','','wordswag_1498235700512','','','2017-06-23 12:38:00','2017-06-23 16:38:00','',1229,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/wordswag_1498235700512.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1251,1,'2017-06-23 18:35:35','2017-06-23 22:35:35','<h2><strong>You\'ve noticed, I\'m sure... that it\'s now HOT out there.</strong></h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, friends... it\'s SUMMER - a time of sweat, sunburns, and tourist traffic (depending on where you live). Air Conditioners nationwide are cranking up the cool while the beating sun cranks up the sunburns. It\'s that time when seemingly everyone complains about the heat, even though we just got done complaining that we couldn\'t <em>wait</em> for summer.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if, though... instead of complaining... we just took steps to make this <strong><em>the best summer EVER</em></strong>? Wouldn\'t THAT be great? I\'ve got 5 easy ways you can do exactly that :) <em>(OK, so some might be a little more challenging than that...)</em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Summer is a HUGE opportunity</strong></h2>\r\nThere\'s SO much to DO in the summer if you\'re willing to just get out there and <em>go find it</em>. Instead of complaining about the heat, get out there and embrace it! I\'ve got 5 easy ways for you to get the most out of summer and really have the <em>best </em>summer <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ever</span>.\r\n<h3><strong>1.) Pick an activity - prioritize fun!</strong></h3>\r\nIt\'s tough to act without a plan - plain and simple. When we don\'t come up with fun things to go do... well, that\'s how we fall into the trap of simply filling any free time we have with household chores. It\'s important to pick a thing to go do to enjoy the season!\r\n\r\nTake a look around and see what there is to do. You can look in your neighborhood, within a 30 or 60 minute drive, or maybe far enough for a day trip. It could be activities like biking, running, or hiking. It could be a beach day or a trip to the zoo! <strong>Get creative</strong> and think of what you\'d <em>really </em>enjoy.\r\n\r\n<strong>Make sure you consider the wife and kids! </strong>What\'s fun for <em>you </em>might not be <em>their </em>cup of tea... so make sure you\'ve got some family-friendly ideas too!\r\n<h3><strong>2.) HYDRATE!</strong></h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1246\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170623_113439-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Camelbak eddy 1 liter bottle\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />This one\'s important not just for your enjoyment factor... but your health and safety! With the increased heat and humidity of the summer comes increased risk of dehydration. The more active you are, the more you\'ll sweat and deplete your body\'s stores (of everything, not just water), so the more that risk increases. It\'s CRITICALLY important that you get enough water throughout the course of the day! <em><strong>But how much is enough?</strong></em>\r\n\r\nMost places you\'ll look will tell you at least 8 glasses a day, meaning 64 ounces. Again, the more active you are, the more you need. I\'ve got a [amazon_textlink asin=\'B0107YYSEC\' text=\'1 liter Camelbak Eddy bottle\' template=\'ProductLink\' store=\'so0d2-20\' marketplace=\'US\' link_id=\'0bb5456c-5826-11e7-aebe-b996946cc2d1\'] - I try to drink 3 or 4 full ones. You don\'t necessarily need to drink THAT much, but you get the idea.\r\n\r\nWith proper hydration you\'ll have less to worry about, helping you have an awesome time doing whatever you\'re doing (not to mention you won\'t be thirsty)!\r\n<h3><strong>3.) Protect yourself from the sun</strong></h3>\r\nJust like you\'re protecting yourself from dehydration... it\'s important to protect against the sun as well! If you\'re going to be out in the bright, hot summer sun for an extended period of time, it\'s VERY important you wear sunscreen! If you\'re anything like me, you\'ll burn to a crisp after 20 unprotected minutes in the sun, and I know <strong><em>I </em></strong>certainly am not having fun when I\'m busy dealing with the pain of a sunburn.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1247\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170623_113512-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"sunscreen spray and lotion\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />I\'d recommend using at least SPF 30 sunscreen, and you should consider finding a good <em>sport </em>sunscreen. Sport sunscreen is designed (so they say) to be about as sweat-resistant as possible... which... if it\'s hot out... should be kind of a no-brainer. You also need to decide between a traditional rub-in lotion or a spray. Supposedly they each work just as well as the other, so this one\'s all personal preference. Right now I\'m using both [amazon_textlink asin=\'B00NR1YL2C\' text=\'Neutrogena CoolDry SPF 70 Spray\' template=\'ProductLink\' store=\'so0d2-20\' marketplace=\'US\' link_id=\'33b87751-5829-11e7-971b-4b7669fff86a\'] and [amazon_textlink asin=\'B0173G3AY6\' text=\'Coppertone Sport SPF 50 Lotion\' template=\'ProductLink\' store=\'so0d2-20\' marketplace=\'US\' link_id=\'620eea34-5828-11e7-935d-33a4d2cea0b5\']. Be smart in the sun, folks... <em>and take care of the kids, too!!!</em>\r\n<h3><strong>4.) Don\'t worry about everybody else</strong></h3>\r\nThis is a big one, folks! It\'s tough to get out there and <em>have fun</em> if you\'re worried about what everyone else sees and thinks. Summer-appropriate clothing is typically very light and... at the risk of sounding like an stuffy mom from the 50\'s... very <em>revealing</em> and unforgiving. If we\'re uncomfortable with how we look in that clothing we might be hesitant to go out in public... much less a place like <em>the beach </em>or a pool. GOD FORBID someone sees us, right? Or if we feel like we look stupid playing volleyball or rollerblading or what have you... that worry about judgement from outside eyes can be downright debilitating.\r\n\r\n<strong>Try not to worry!</strong> First off... you\'re probably imagining and perceiving a lot more judgement than you\'re <em>really </em>getting. Realistically, you\'re probably not getting <em>any </em>judgement at all! And <strong><em>even if you were</em></strong>... even IF someone looks at you and thinks \"ew\" or \"wowww\"... <em><strong>so what?!</strong></em> If that person\'s got the stones to look at YOU sideways, maybe they\'re not so nice of a person anyway... and if THAT\'S the case, well, their opinion shouldn\'t really count for much. At the end of the day... how does their opinion affect your life? <strong>It doesn\'t.</strong> So why give it the time of day?\r\n\r\nHave fun, and <em>enjoy yourself</em>. Haters gonna hate. If you catch someone looking... throw \'em a smile and move on. If they\'re ACTUALLY judging you, that\'ll probably piss \'em off, and that\'s the best way to win ;)\r\n<h3><strong>5.) GET OUT THERE!</strong></h3>\r\nIn the end, none of the first 4 ways to have the best summer ever REALLY matter... if you don\'t actually GET OUT THERE! Any good plan is nothing if you don\'t <em>execute</em> the plan and put it into action. So do yourself a favor... <strong>get out there</strong> and go have some fun!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Things are FINALLY coming together</li>\r\n 	<li>Western States, and other impressive feats</li>\r\n 	<li>5 easy ways to have the BEST summer <em>ever</em></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5472107/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','5 Easy Ways To Have The Best Summer EVER (Podcast #43)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1229-revision-v1','','','2017-06-23 18:35:35','2017-06-23 22:35:35','',1229,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1229-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1250,1,'2017-06-23 12:38:25','2017-06-23 16:38:25','<h2><strong>You\'ve noticed, I\'m sure... that it\'s now HOT out there.</strong></h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, friends... it\'s SUMMER - a time of sweat, sunburns, and tourist traffic (depending on where you live). Air Conditioners nationwide are cranking up the cool while the beating sun cranks up the sunburns. It\'s that time when seemingly everyone complains about the heat, even though we just got done complaining that we couldn\'t <em>wait</em> for summer.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if, though... instead of complaining... we just took steps to make this <strong><em>the best summer EVER</em></strong>? Wouldn\'t THAT be great? I\'ve got 5 easy ways you can do exactly that :) <em>(OK, so some might be a little more challenging than that...)</em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Summer is a HUGE opportunity</strong></h2>\r\nThere\'s SO much to DO in the summer if you\'re willing to just get out there and <em>go find it</em>. Instead of complaining about the heat, get out there and embrace it! I\'ve got 5 easy ways for you to get the most out of summer and really have the <em>best </em>summer <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ever</span>.\r\n<h3><strong>1.) Pick an activity - prioritize fun!</strong></h3>\r\nIt\'s tough to act without a plan - plain and simple. When we don\'t come up with fun things to go do... well, that\'s how we fall into the trap of simply filling any free time we have with household chores. It\'s important to pick a thing to go do to enjoy the season!\r\n\r\nTake a look around and see what there is to do. You can look in your neighborhood, within a 30 or 60 minute drive, or maybe far enough for a day trip. It could be activities like biking, running, or hiking. It could be a beach day or a trip to the zoo! <strong>Get creative</strong> and think of what you\'d <em>really </em>enjoy.\r\n\r\n<strong>Make sure you consider the wife and kids! </strong>What\'s fun for <em>you </em>might not be <em>their </em>cup of tea... so make sure you\'ve got some family-friendly ideas too!\r\n<h3><strong>2.) HYDRATE!</strong></h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1246\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170623_113439-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Camelbak eddy 1 liter bottle\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />This one\'s important not just for your enjoyment factor... but your health and safety! With the increased heat and humidity of the summer comes increased risk of dehydration. The more active you are, the more you\'ll sweat and deplete your body\'s stores (of everything, not just water), so the more that risk increases. It\'s CRITICALLY important that you get enough water throughout the course of the day! <em><strong>But how much is enough?</strong></em>\r\n\r\nMost places you\'ll look will tell you at least 8 glasses a day, meaning 64 ounces. Again, the more active you are, the more you need. I\'ve got a [amazon_textlink asin=\'B0107YYSEC\' text=\'1 liter Camelbak Eddy bottle\' template=\'ProductLink\' store=\'so0d2-20\' marketplace=\'US\' link_id=\'0bb5456c-5826-11e7-aebe-b996946cc2d1\'] - I try to drink 3 or 4 full ones. You don\'t necessarily need to drink THAT much, but you get the idea.\r\n\r\nWith proper hydration you\'ll have less to worry about, helping you have an awesome time doing whatever you\'re doing (not to mention you won\'t be thirsty)!\r\n<h3><strong>3.) Protect yourself from the sun</strong></h3>\r\nJust like you\'re protecting yourself from dehydration... it\'s important to protect against the sun as well! If you\'re going to be out in the bright, hot summer sun for an extended period of time, it\'s VERY important you wear sunscreen! If you\'re anything like me, you\'ll burn to a crisp after 20 unprotected minutes in the sun, and I know <strong><em>I </em></strong>certainly am not having fun when I\'m busy dealing with the pain of a sunburn.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1247\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_20170623_113512-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"sunscreen spray and lotion\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" />I\'d recommend using at least SPF 30 sunscreen, and you should consider finding a good <em>sport </em>sunscreen. Sport sunscreen is designed (so they say) to be about as sweat-resistant as possible... which... if it\'s hot out... should be kind of a no-brainer. You also need to decide between a traditional rub-in lotion or a spray. Supposedly they each work just as well as the other, so this one\'s all personal preference. Right now I\'m using both [amazon_textlink asin=\'B00NR1YL2C\' text=\'Neutrogena CoolDry SPF 70 Spray\' template=\'ProductLink\' store=\'so0d2-20\' marketplace=\'US\' link_id=\'33b87751-5829-11e7-971b-4b7669fff86a\'] and [amazon_textlink asin=\'B0173G3AY6\' text=\'Coppertone Sport SPF 50 Lotion\' template=\'ProductLink\' store=\'so0d2-20\' marketplace=\'US\' link_id=\'620eea34-5828-11e7-935d-33a4d2cea0b5\']. Be smart in the sun, folks... <em>and take care of the kids, too!!!</em>\r\n<h3><strong>4.) Don\'t worry about everybody else</strong></h3>\r\nThis is a big one, folks! It\'s tough to get out there and <em>have fun</em> if you\'re worried about what everyone else sees and thinks. Summer-appropriate clothing is typically very light and... at the risk of sounding like an stuffy mom from the 50\'s... very <em>revealing</em> and unforgiving. If we\'re uncomfortable with how we look in that clothing we might be hesitant to go out in public... much less a place like <em>the beach </em>or a pool. GOD FORBID someone sees us, right? Or if we feel like we look stupid playing volleyball or rollerblading or what have you... that worry about judgement from outside eyes can be downright debilitating.\r\n\r\n<strong>Try not to worry!</strong> First off... you\'re probably imagining and perceiving a lot more judgement than you\'re <em>really </em>getting. Realistically, you\'re probably not getting <em>any </em>judgement at all! And <strong><em>even if you were</em></strong>... even IF someone looks at you and thinks \"ew\" or \"wowww\"... <em><strong>so what?!</strong></em> If that person\'s got the stones to look at YOU sideways, maybe they\'re not so nice of a person anyway... and if THAT\'S the case, well, their opinion shouldn\'t really count for much. At the end of the day... how does their opinion affect your life? <strong>It doesn\'t.</strong> So why give it the time of day?\r\n\r\nHave fun, and <em>enjoy yourself</em>. Haters gonna hate. If you catch someone looking... throw \'em a smile and move on. If they\'re ACTUALLY judging you, that\'ll probably piss \'em off, and that\'s the best way to win ;)\r\n<h3><strong>5.) GET OUT THERE!</strong></h3>\r\nIn the end, none of the first 4 ways to have the best summer ever REALLY matter... if you don\'t actually GET OUT THERE! Any good plan is nothing if you don\'t <em>execute</em> the plan and put it into action. So do yourself a favor... <strong>get out there</strong> and go have some fun!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Things are FINALLY coming together</li>\r\n 	<li>Western States, and other impressive feats</li>\r\n 	<li>5 easy ways to have the BEST summer <em>ever</em></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5472107/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','5 Easy Ways To Have The Best Summer EVER','','inherit','closed','closed','','1229-revision-v1','','','2017-06-23 12:38:25','2017-06-23 16:38:25','',1229,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1229-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1243,1,'2017-06-23 11:10:25','2017-06-23 15:10:25','<h2>You\'ve noticed, I\'m sure... that it\'s now HOT out there.</h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, friends... it\'s SUMMER - a time of sweat, sunburns, and tourist traffic (depending on where you live). Air Conditioners nationwide are cranking up the cool while the beating sun cranks up the sunburns. It\'s that time when seemingly everyone complains about the heat, even though we just got done complaining that we couldn\'t <em>wait</em> for summer.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if, though... instead of complaining... we just took steps to make this <strong><em>the best summer EVER</em></strong>? Wouldn\'t THAT be great? I\'ve got 5 easy ways you can do exactly that :) <em>(OK, so some might be a little more challenging than that...)</em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<h2>Summer is a HUGE opportunity</h2>\r\nThere\'s SO much to DO in the summer if you\'re willing to just get out there and <em>go find it</em>. Instead of complaining about the heat, get out there and embrace it! I\'ve got 5 easy ways for you to get the most out of summer and really have the <em>best </em>summer <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ever</span>.\r\n<h3><strong>1.) Pick an activity - prioritize fun!</strong></h3>\r\nIt\'s tough to act without a plan - plain and simple. When we don\'t come up with fun things to go do... well, that\'s how we fall into the trap of simply filling any free time we have with household chores. It\'s important to pick a thing to go do to enjoy the season!\r\n\r\nTake a look around and see what there is to do. You can look in your neighborhood, within a 30 or 60 minute drive, or maybe far enough for a day trip. It could be activities like biking, running, or hiking. It could be a beach day or a trip to the zoo! <strong>Get creative</strong> and think of what you\'d <em>really </em>enjoy.\r\n\r\n<strong>Make sure you consider the wife and kids! </strong>What\'s fun for <em>you </em>might not be <em>their </em>cup of tea... so make sure you\'ve got some family-friendly ideas too!\r\n<h3><strong>2.) HYDRATE!</strong></h3>\r\nThis one\'s important not just for your enjoyment factor... but your health and safety! With the increased heat and humidity of the summer comes increased risk of dehydration. The more active you are, the more you\'ll sweat and deplete your body\'s stores (of everything, not just water), so the more that risk increases. It\'s CRITICALLY important that you get enough water throughout the course of the day! <em><strong>But how much is enough?</strong></em>\r\n\r\nMost places you\'ll look will tell you at least 8 glasses a day, meaning 64 ounces. Again, the more active you are, the more you need. I\'ve got a [amazon_textlink asin=\'B0107YYSEC\' text=\'1 liter Camelbak Eddy bottle\' template=\'ProductLink\' store=\'so0d2-20\' marketplace=\'US\' link_id=\'0bb5456c-5826-11e7-aebe-b996946cc2d1\'] - I try to drink 3 or 4 full ones. You don\'t necessarily need to drink THAT much, but you get the idea.\r\n\r\nWith proper hydration you\'ll have less to worry about, helping you have an awesome time doing whatever you\'re doing (not to mention you won\'t be thirsty)!\r\n<h3><strong>3.) Protect yourself from the sun</strong></h3>\r\nJust like you\'re protecting yourself from dehydration... it\'s important to protect against the sun as well! If you\'re going to be out in the bright, hot summer sun for an extended period of time, it\'s VERY important you wear sunscreen! If you\'re anything like me, you\'ll burn to a crisp after 20 unprotected minutes in the sun, and I know <strong><em>I </em></strong>certainly am not having fun when I\'m busy dealing with the pain of a sunburn.\r\n\r\nI\'d recommend using at least SPF 30 sunscreen, and you should consider finding a good <em>sport </em>sunscreen. Sport sunscreen is designed (so they say) to be about as sweat-resistant as possible... which... if it\'s hot out... should be kind of a no-brainer. You also need to decide between a traditional rub-in lotion or a spray. Supposedly they each work just as well as the other, so this one\'s all personal preference. Right now I\'m using Be smart in the sun, folks... <em>and take care of the kids, too!!!</em>\r\n<h3><strong>4.) Don\'t worry about everybody else</strong></h3>\r\nThis is a big one, folks! It\'s tough to get out there and <em>have fun</em> if you\'re worried about what everyone else sees and thinks. Summer-appropriate clothing is typically very light and... at the risk of sounding like an stuffy mom from the 50\'s... very <em>revealing</em> and unforgiving. If we\'re uncomfortable with how we look in that clothing we might be hesitant to go out in public... much less a place like <em>the beach </em>or a pool. GOD FORBID someone sees us, right? Or if we feel like we look stupid playing volleyball or rollerblading or what have you... that worry about judgement from outside eyes can be downright debilitating.\r\n\r\n<strong>Try not to worry!</strong> First off... you\'re probably imagining and perceiving a lot more judgement than you\'re <em>really </em>getting. Realistically, you\'re probably not getting <em>any </em>judgement at all! And <strong><em>even if you were</em></strong>... even IF someone looks at you and thinks \"ew\" or \"wowww\"... <em><strong>so what?!</strong></em> If that person\'s got the stones to look at YOU sideways, maybe they\'re not so nice of a person anyway... and if THAT\'S the case, well, their opinion shouldn\'t really count for much. At the end of the day... how does their opinion affect your life? <strong>It doesn\'t.</strong> So why give it the time of day?\r\n\r\nHave fun, and <em>enjoy yourself</em>. Haters gonna hate. If you catch someone looking... throw \'em a smile and move on. If they\'re ACTUALLY judging you, that\'ll probably piss \'em off, and that\'s the best way to win ;)\r\n<h3><strong>5.) GET OUT THERE!</strong></h3>\r\nIn the end, none of the first 4 ways to have the best summer ever REALLY matter... if you don\'t actually GET OUT THERE! Any good plan is nothing if you don\'t <em>execute</em> the plan and put it into action. So do yourself a favor... <strong>get out there</strong> and go have some fun!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Things are FINALLY coming together</li>\r\n 	<li>Western States, and other impressive feats</li>\r\n 	<li>5 easy ways to have the BEST summer <em>ever</em></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5472107/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','5 Easy Ways To Have The Best Summer EVER','','inherit','closed','closed','','1229-revision-v1','','','2017-06-23 11:10:25','2017-06-23 15:10:25','',1229,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1229-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1244,1,'2017-06-23 11:27:05','2017-06-23 15:27:05','<h2>You\'ve noticed, I\'m sure... that it\'s now HOT out there.</h2>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, friends... it\'s SUMMER - a time of sweat, sunburns, and tourist traffic (depending on where you live). Air Conditioners nationwide are cranking up the cool while the beating sun cranks up the sunburns. It\'s that time when seemingly everyone complains about the heat, even though we just got done complaining that we couldn\'t <em>wait</em> for summer.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What if, though... instead of complaining... we just took steps to make this <strong><em>the best summer EVER</em></strong>? Wouldn\'t THAT be great? I\'ve got 5 easy ways you can do exactly that :) <em>(OK, so some might be a little more challenging than that...)</em></span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<h2>Summer is a HUGE opportunity</h2>\r\nThere\'s SO much to DO in the summer if you\'re willing to just get out there and <em>go find it</em>. Instead of complaining about the heat, get out there and embrace it! I\'ve got 5 easy ways for you to get the most out of summer and really have the <em>best </em>summer <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ever</span>.\r\n<h3><strong>1.) Pick an activity - prioritize fun!</strong></h3>\r\nIt\'s tough to act without a plan - plain and simple. When we don\'t come up with fun things to go do... well, that\'s how we fall into the trap of simply filling any free time we have with household chores. It\'s important to pick a thing to go do to enjoy the season!\r\n\r\nTake a look around and see what there is to do. You can look in your neighborhood, within a 30 or 60 minute drive, or maybe far enough for a day trip. It could be activities like biking, running, or hiking. It could be a beach day or a trip to the zoo! <strong>Get creative</strong> and think of what you\'d <em>really </em>enjoy.\r\n\r\n<strong>Make sure you consider the wife and kids! </strong>What\'s fun for <em>you </em>might not be <em>their </em>cup of tea... so make sure you\'ve got some family-friendly ideas too!\r\n<h3><strong>2.) HYDRATE!</strong></h3>\r\nThis one\'s important not just for your enjoyment factor... but your health and safety! With the increased heat and humidity of the summer comes increased risk of dehydration. The more active you are, the more you\'ll sweat and deplete your body\'s stores (of everything, not just water), so the more that risk increases. It\'s CRITICALLY important that you get enough water throughout the course of the day! <em><strong>But how much is enough?</strong></em>\r\n\r\nMost places you\'ll look will tell you at least 8 glasses a day, meaning 64 ounces. Again, the more active you are, the more you need. I\'ve got a [amazon_textlink asin=\'B0107YYSEC\' text=\'1 liter Camelbak Eddy bottle\' template=\'ProductLink\' store=\'so0d2-20\' marketplace=\'US\' link_id=\'0bb5456c-5826-11e7-aebe-b996946cc2d1\'] - I try to drink 3 or 4 full ones. You don\'t necessarily need to drink THAT much, but you get the idea.\r\n\r\nWith proper hydration you\'ll have less to worry about, helping you have an awesome time doing whatever you\'re doing (not to mention you won\'t be thirsty)!\r\n<h3><strong>3.) Protect yourself from the sun</strong></h3>\r\nJust like you\'re protecting yourself from dehydration... it\'s important to protect against the sun as well! If you\'re going to be out in the bright, hot summer sun for an extended period of time, it\'s VERY important you wear sunscreen! If you\'re anything like me, you\'ll burn to a crisp after 20 unprotected minutes in the sun, and I know <strong><em>I </em></strong>certainly am not having fun when I\'m busy dealing with the pain of a sunburn.\r\n\r\nI\'d recommend using at least SPF 30 sunscreen, and you should consider finding a good <em>sport </em>sunscreen. Sport sunscreen is designed (so they say) to be about as sweat-resistant as possible... which... if it\'s hot out... should be kind of a no-brainer. You also need to decide between a traditional rub-in lotion or a spray. Supposedly they each work just as well as the other, so this one\'s all personal preference. Right now I\'m using both Coppertone Sport SPF 50 [amazon_textlink asin=\'B00E4MMJQS\' text=\'Spray\' template=\'ProductLink\' store=\'so0d2-20\' marketplace=\'US\' link_id=\'4a1dc397-5828-11e7-8c57-6baf88287d53\'] and [amazon_textlink asin=\'B0173G3AY6\' text=\'Lotion\' template=\'ProductLink\' store=\'so0d2-20\' marketplace=\'US\' link_id=\'620eea34-5828-11e7-935d-33a4d2cea0b5\']. Be smart in the sun, folks... <em>and take care of the kids, too!!!</em>\r\n<h3><strong>4.) Don\'t worry about everybody else</strong></h3>\r\nThis is a big one, folks! It\'s tough to get out there and <em>have fun</em> if you\'re worried about what everyone else sees and thinks. Summer-appropriate clothing is typically very light and... at the risk of sounding like an stuffy mom from the 50\'s... very <em>revealing</em> and unforgiving. If we\'re uncomfortable with how we look in that clothing we might be hesitant to go out in public... much less a place like <em>the beach </em>or a pool. GOD FORBID someone sees us, right? Or if we feel like we look stupid playing volleyball or rollerblading or what have you... that worry about judgement from outside eyes can be downright debilitating.\r\n\r\n<strong>Try not to worry!</strong> First off... you\'re probably imagining and perceiving a lot more judgement than you\'re <em>really </em>getting. Realistically, you\'re probably not getting <em>any </em>judgement at all! And <strong><em>even if you were</em></strong>... even IF someone looks at you and thinks \"ew\" or \"wowww\"... <em><strong>so what?!</strong></em> If that person\'s got the stones to look at YOU sideways, maybe they\'re not so nice of a person anyway... and if THAT\'S the case, well, their opinion shouldn\'t really count for much. At the end of the day... how does their opinion affect your life? <strong>It doesn\'t.</strong> So why give it the time of day?\r\n\r\nHave fun, and <em>enjoy yourself</em>. Haters gonna hate. If you catch someone looking... throw \'em a smile and move on. If they\'re ACTUALLY judging you, that\'ll probably piss \'em off, and that\'s the best way to win ;)\r\n<h3><strong>5.) GET OUT THERE!</strong></h3>\r\nIn the end, none of the first 4 ways to have the best summer ever REALLY matter... if you don\'t actually GET OUT THERE! Any good plan is nothing if you don\'t <em>execute</em> the plan and put it into action. So do yourself a favor... <strong>get out there</strong> and go have some fun!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Things are FINALLY coming together</li>\r\n 	<li>Western States, and other impressive feats</li>\r\n 	<li>5 easy ways to have the BEST summer <em>ever</em></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5472107/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','5 Easy Ways To Have The Best Summer EVER','','inherit','closed','closed','','1229-revision-v1','','','2017-06-23 11:27:05','2017-06-23 15:27:05','',1229,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1229-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1252,1,'2017-06-28 13:13:27','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','How To Succeed In Fitness Without Really Trying','','draft','open','open','','','','','2017-06-28 13:13:27','2017-06-28 17:13:27','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/?p=1252',0,'post','',0),(1253,1,'2017-06-28 13:13:27','2017-06-28 17:13:27','','How To Succeed In Fitness Without Really Trying','','inherit','closed','closed','','1252-revision-v1','','','2017-06-28 13:13:27','2017-06-28 17:13:27','',1252,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1252-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1254,1,'2017-06-30 11:05:18','2017-06-30 15:05:18','<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The dead still have plenty to teach u</strong><strong>s</strong>.</span></h2>\r\nI had a plan. It was going to be a good 10 mile mid-week run and I was going to brainstorm for the podcast. I had a topic and I was gonna flesh it out. Then I ran through a graveyard. I don\'t know what possessed me to do so... but I did. I\'m glad, too. I learned a few powerful things that might not otherwise have occurred to me...\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Sometimes stuff just kinda smacks you in the face.</strong></h2>\r\nI really was trying to flesh out a podcast idea while I was on that 10 mile run Wednesday... and sure, I was kinda figuring stuff out... but I\'ve learned, and I\'m reminded... time and time again... my brain seems to work best when I just let it kind of wander. I can\'t always <del>force</del> intentionally write about a specific topic. That\'s one of the things I love so much about running - that\'s where those ideas come flowing out... just have to manage to capture them and get them into text or on a mic...\r\n<h3><strong>which would be why I\'m glad I ran through that graveyard.</strong></h3>\r\nWhen I turned and started running through I kind of just figured I\'d run the perimeter, get as much distance out of it as I could, and hit it again on my way back. As I was running, though... some things began to occur to me. And the more it all ran through my head, the more important it seemed... and the deeper I went into thought. So what did I pick up in that graveyard? A few simple, but powerful, life lessons...\r\n<h2><strong>1. Family, Friends, and Community are what matter.</strong></h2>\r\nI couldn\'t tell a whole lot about the people laid to rest in that graveyard. Hopefully you wouldn\'t know... but headstones are expensive. The more they say on them, the more expensive they are. Needless to say... only the most important information makes it there. Know what I saw on them? Words like <em>mother, father, sister, brother. </em>I saw military service. Fraternal and civic organizations. I saw <em>the relationships</em> these people built and the impact they made on those close to them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Know what I didn\'t see?</strong>\r\n\r\nI didn\'t see the <em>terrible</em> or <em>amazing</em> gym clothing choices they made. Nor did I see what people at the gym did or didn\'t think of them. Not how they DNF\'d a race. I saw the things that mattered. It made me realize something that should be obvious: \"it\" doesn\'t matter. Whatever \"it\" is that\'s holding you back... in the end... is it really going to matter?\r\n<h2><strong>2. There is love... or there is nothing</strong></h2>\r\nIn a graveyard... there\'s not much of anything except stone, dirt, and silence. Not a whole lot of decoration or excitement in there. There <em>is </em>a bit of color that sticks out, though. Occasionally, family, friends, loved ones... those people from the first lesson... they\'ll show up and leave something at the grave. Maybe flowers... maybe a photo... I even saw some colorful pinwheels planted in the dirt. Sometimes someone will even leave some other sentimental thing.\r\n\r\n<strong>What do those all have in common?</strong>\r\n\r\nThey\'re all a means of expressing their love and care for the departed. You either go to a graveyard to bring love... or nothing. People aren\'t exactly lining up to head to a graveyard to spew hate, judgement, and negativity. Why can\'t we live LIFE that way? How is it that when it\'s all over... all of a sudden it\'s only love (or nothing at all)? It\'s like your parents (hopefully) taught you... if you don\'t have anything nice to say...\r\n<h2><strong>3. Live Life NOW.</strong></h2>\r\nSomething really sad, unfortunate, and frankly a little sobering hit me as I cruised through that graveyard... Some of the \"born\" and \"departed\" dates on those headstones were pretty damned close together. Some recent, and some a while ago... but people... life is short. There\'s just no time for the bad. Every day in this life is a gift, and each moment you spend spreading negativity is a moment irrevocably wasted. I\'m certainly not trying to be an alarmist by this... but you or I or the guy next door could be gone tomorrow.\r\n\r\nOne of the greatest lessons the dead can teach us... is it is IMPERATIVE that we <em>live our life NOW.</em> If there\'s something you want to do... to accomplish... If you want to get into the gym and improve your quality of life... if you want to have a kid... if you want to run a marathon... what are you waiting for?\r\n\r\nSo... yeah... though I still don\'t know why I did it... I\'m glad I took that right turn into the graveyard. Maybe you should take a run and see what you come up with.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>The FitWife and I FINALLY have a date day!</li>\r\n 	<li>Running is finally in full swing</li>\r\n 	<li>My undiagnosed injury (?)... is healing itself!</li>\r\n 	<li>What I learned on an impulsive run through a graveyard</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5492624/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','3 Powerful Life Lessons I Learned... 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It was going to be a good 10 mile mid-week run and I was going to brainstorm for the podcast. I had a topic and I was gonna flesh it out. Then I ran through a graveyard. I don\'t know what possessed me to do so... but I did. I\'m glad, too. I learned a few powerful things that might not otherwise have occurred to me...\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2>Sometimes stuff just kinda smacks you in the face.</h2>\r\nI really was trying to flesh out a podcast idea while I was on that 10 mile run Wednesday... and sure, I was kinda figuring stuff out... but I\'ve learned, and I\'m reminded... time and time again... my brain seems to work best when I just let it kind of wander. I can\'t always <del>force</del> intentionally write about a specific topic. That\'s one of the things I love so much about running - that\'s where those ideas come flowing out... just have to manage to capture them and get them into text or on a mic...\r\n<h3>which would be why I\'m glad I ran through that graveyard.</h3>\r\nWhen I turned and started running through I kind of just figured I\'d run the perimeter, get as much distance out of it as I could, and hit it again on my way back. As I was running, though... some things began to occur to me. And the more it all ran through my head, the more important it seemed... and the deeper I went into thought. So what did I pick up in that graveyard? A few simple, but powerful, life lessons...\r\n<h2>1. Family, Friends, and Community are what matter.</h2>\r\n<h2>2. There is love... or there is nothing</h2>\r\n<h2>3. Live Life NOW.</h2>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>The FitWife and I FINALLY have a date day!</li>\r\n 	<li>Running is finally in full swing</li>\r\n 	<li>My undiagnosed injury (?)... is healing itself!</li>\r\n 	<li>What I learned on an impulsive run through a graveyard</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5492624/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','3 Powerful Life Lessons I Learned... In A Graveyard.','','inherit','closed','closed','','1254-revision-v1','','','2017-06-30 10:06:20','2017-06-30 14:06:20','',1254,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/06/1254-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1258,1,'2017-06-30 11:02:58','2017-06-30 15:02:58','<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The dead still have plenty to teach u</strong><strong>s</strong>.</span></h2>\r\nI had a plan. It was going to be a good 10 mile mid-week run and I was going to brainstorm for the podcast. I had a topic and I was gonna flesh it out. Then I ran through a graveyard. I don\'t know what possessed me to do so... but I did. I\'m glad, too. I learned a few powerful things that might not otherwise have occurred to me...\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2>Sometimes stuff just kinda smacks you in the face.</h2>\r\nI really was trying to flesh out a podcast idea while I was on that 10 mile run Wednesday... and sure, I was kinda figuring stuff out... but I\'ve learned, and I\'m reminded... time and time again... my brain seems to work best when I just let it kind of wander. I can\'t always <del>force</del> intentionally write about a specific topic. That\'s one of the things I love so much about running - that\'s where those ideas come flowing out... just have to manage to capture them and get them into text or on a mic...\r\n<h3>which would be why I\'m glad I ran through that graveyard.</h3>\r\nWhen I turned and started running through I kind of just figured I\'d run the perimeter, get as much distance out of it as I could, and hit it again on my way back. As I was running, though... some things began to occur to me. And the more it all ran through my head, the more important it seemed... and the deeper I went into thought. So what did I pick up in that graveyard? A few simple, but powerful, life lessons...\r\n<h2>1. Family, Friends, and Community are what matter.</h2>\r\nI couldn\'t tell a whole lot about the people laid to rest in that graveyard. Hopefully you wouldn\'t know... but headstones are expensive. The more they say on them, the more expensive they are. Needless to say... only the most important information makes it there. Know what I saw on them? Words like <em>mother, father, sister, brother. </em>I saw military service. Fraternal and civic organizations. I saw <em>the relationships</em> these people built and the impact they made on those close to them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Know what I didn\'t see?</strong>\r\n\r\nI didn\'t see the <em>terrible</em> or <em>amazing</em> gym clothing choices they made. Nor did I see what people at the gym did or didn\'t think of them. Not how they DNF\'d a race. I saw the things that mattered. It made me realize something that should be obvious: \"it\" doesn\'t matter. Whatever \"it\" is that\'s holding you back... in the end... is it really going to matter?\r\n<h2>2. There is love... or there is nothing</h2>\r\nIn a graveyard... there\'s not much of anything except stone, dirt, and silence. Not a whole lot of decoration or excitement in there. There <em>is </em>a bit of color that sticks out, though. Occasionally, family, friends, loved ones... those people from the first lesson... they\'ll show up and leave something at the grave. Maybe flowers... maybe a photo... I even saw some colorful pinwheels planted in the dirt. Sometimes someone will even leave some other sentimental thing.\r\n\r\n<strong>What do those all have in common?</strong>\r\n\r\nThey\'re all a means of expressing their love and care for the departed. You either go to a graveyard to bring love... or nothing. People aren\'t exactly lining up to head to a graveyard to spew hate, judgement, and negativity. Why can\'t we live LIFE that way? How is it that when it\'s all over... all of a sudden it\'s only love (or nothing at all)? It\'s like your parents (hopefully) taught you... if you don\'t have anything nice to say...\r\n<h2>3. Live Life NOW.</h2>\r\nSomething really sad, unfortunate, and frankly a little sobering hit me as I cruised through that graveyard... Some of the \"born\" and \"departed\" dates on those headstones were pretty damned close together. Some recent, and some a while ago... but people... life is short. There\'s just no time for the bad. Every day in this life is a gift, and each moment you spend spreading negativity is a moment irrevocably wasted. I\'m certainly not trying to be an alarmist by this... but you or I or the guy next door could be gone tomorrow.\r\n\r\nOne of the greatest lessons the dead can teach us... is it is IMPERATIVE that we <em>live our life NOW.</em> If there\'s something you want to do... to accomplish... If you want to get into the gym and improve your quality of life... if you want to have a kid... if you want to run a marathon... what are you waiting for?\r\n\r\nSo... yeah... though I still don\'t know why I did it... I\'m glad I took that right turn into the graveyard. Maybe you should take a run and see what you come up with.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>The FitWife and I FINALLY have a date day!</li>\r\n 	<li>Running is finally in full swing</li>\r\n 	<li>My undiagnosed injury (?)... is healing itself!</li>\r\n 	<li>What I learned on an impulsive run through a graveyard</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5492624/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','3 Powerful Life Lessons I Learned... 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I learned a few powerful things that might not otherwise have occurred to me...\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Sometimes stuff just kinda smacks you in the face.</strong></h2>\r\nI really was trying to flesh out a podcast idea while I was on that 10 mile run Wednesday... and sure, I was kinda figuring stuff out... but I\'ve learned, and I\'m reminded... time and time again... my brain seems to work best when I just let it kind of wander. I can\'t always <del>force</del> intentionally write about a specific topic. That\'s one of the things I love so much about running - that\'s where those ideas come flowing out... just have to manage to capture them and get them into text or on a mic...\r\n<h3><strong>which would be why I\'m glad I ran through that graveyard.</strong></h3>\r\nWhen I turned and started running through I kind of just figured I\'d run the perimeter, get as much distance out of it as I could, and hit it again on my way back. As I was running, though... some things began to occur to me. And the more it all ran through my head, the more important it seemed... and the deeper I went into thought. So what did I pick up in that graveyard? A few simple, but powerful, life lessons...\r\n<h2><strong>1. Family, Friends, and Community are what matter.</strong></h2>\r\nI couldn\'t tell a whole lot about the people laid to rest in that graveyard. Hopefully you wouldn\'t know... but headstones are expensive. The more they say on them, the more expensive they are. Needless to say... only the most important information makes it there. Know what I saw on them? Words like <em>mother, father, sister, brother. </em>I saw military service. Fraternal and civic organizations. I saw <em>the relationships</em> these people built and the impact they made on those close to them.\r\n\r\n<strong>Know what I didn\'t see?</strong>\r\n\r\nI didn\'t see the <em>terrible</em> or <em>amazing</em> gym clothing choices they made. Nor did I see what people at the gym did or didn\'t think of them. Not how they DNF\'d a race. I saw the things that mattered. It made me realize something that should be obvious: \"it\" doesn\'t matter. Whatever \"it\" is that\'s holding you back... in the end... is it really going to matter?\r\n<h2><strong>2. There is love... or there is nothing</strong></h2>\r\nIn a graveyard... there\'s not much of anything except stone, dirt, and silence. Not a whole lot of decoration or excitement in there. There <em>is </em>a bit of color that sticks out, though. Occasionally, family, friends, loved ones... those people from the first lesson... they\'ll show up and leave something at the grave. Maybe flowers... maybe a photo... I even saw some colorful pinwheels planted in the dirt. Sometimes someone will even leave some other sentimental thing.\r\n\r\n<strong>What do those all have in common?</strong>\r\n\r\nThey\'re all a means of expressing their love and care for the departed. You either go to a graveyard to bring love... or nothing. People aren\'t exactly lining up to head to a graveyard to spew hate, judgement, and negativity. Why can\'t we live LIFE that way? How is it that when it\'s all over... all of a sudden it\'s only love (or nothing at all)? It\'s like your parents (hopefully) taught you... if you don\'t have anything nice to say...\r\n<h2><strong>3. Live Life NOW.</strong></h2>\r\nSomething really sad, unfortunate, and frankly a little sobering hit me as I cruised through that graveyard... Some of the \"born\" and \"departed\" dates on those headstones were pretty damned close together. Some recent, and some a while ago... but people... life is short. There\'s just no time for the bad. Every day in this life is a gift, and each moment you spend spreading negativity is a moment irrevocably wasted. I\'m certainly not trying to be an alarmist by this... but you or I or the guy next door could be gone tomorrow.\r\n\r\nOne of the greatest lessons the dead can teach us... is it is IMPERATIVE that we <em>live our life NOW.</em> If there\'s something you want to do... to accomplish... If you want to get into the gym and improve your quality of life... if you want to have a kid... if you want to run a marathon... what are you waiting for?\r\n\r\nSo... yeah... though I still don\'t know why I did it... I\'m glad I took that right turn into the graveyard. Maybe you should take a run and see what you come up with.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>The FitWife and I FINALLY have a date day!</li>\r\n 	<li>Running is finally in full swing</li>\r\n 	<li>My undiagnosed injury (?)... is healing itself!</li>\r\n 	<li>What I learned on an impulsive run through a graveyard</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5492624/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','3 Powerful Life Lessons I Learned... 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For some people, it\'s about very real, very important changes. Physical and emotional health and well-being could be at stake. This is <em>important... </em><em><strong>crucial</strong></em>... and in some very extreme cases... even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>life or death</strong></span>. So naturally, while I do enjoy my job... I also take it very seriously. <strong>Which is why</strong> I have absolutely <strong>no </strong>tolerance for those who would play the system and play the people for a quick buck...\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>It was another week of principles reinforced...</strong></h2>\r\nIt really has been quite a week for me, Fit Friends. Lots of emotional ups and downs. I witnessed one of my members and training clients getting to celebrate some real, genuine, hard-earned success. And once the happy happy high from that wore off for me... I had a moment of reflection, contemplation, and ultimately anger. I couldn\'t NOT say anything anymore.\r\n<h3><strong>You hear me? I\'m done being PC and nice.</strong></h3>\r\nFor as many positive things as there are to talk about, and as much as I\'m willing to call out my own shortcomings and missteps... someone\'s gotta call out the other shortcomings, missteps, and faux pas happening in the fitness world... especially the <strong>big</strong> ones that interfere with peoples\' success, happiness, and positive forward progress in life.\r\n<h2><strong>So THAT\'S what this podcast episode is about.</strong></h2>\r\nI\'m celebrating some serious success... and calling out some big honkin\' failures. In about the most objective, non-ranty way I can. So let\'s talk about hard work, making a quick buck off the suffering of others, and 4 big things that are majorly wrong with all of these \"amazing\" health &amp; fitness companies out there.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>I have witnessed TRUE success!</li>\r\n 	<li>The \"back pain industry\" is mostly unnecessary</li>\r\n 	<li>Why those \"amazing\" wellness companies are doing everyone a disservice</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5514924/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Snake Oil and Deception in the Fitness World (Podcast #45)','','publish','open','open','','snake-oil-deception-fitness-world-podcast-45','','','2017-07-07 07:36:10','2017-07-07 11:36:10','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/?p=1265',0,'post','',0),(1268,1,'2017-07-07 00:18:43','2017-07-07 04:18:43','','snake oil and deception in the fitness world','','inherit','open','closed','','wordswag_1499399700735','','','2017-07-07 00:26:32','2017-07-07 04:26:32','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/wordswag_1499399700735.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1269,1,'2017-07-07 00:21:22','2017-07-07 04:21:22','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5514924/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2>I love what I do, and I take it seriously.</h2>\r\nFitness isn\'t just narcissism, gym selfies, and aesthetics. For some people, it\'s about very real, very important changes. Physical and emotional health and well-being could be at stake. This is <em>important... </em><em><strong>crucial</strong></em>... and in some very extreme cases... even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>life or death</strong></span>. So naturally, while I do enjoy my job... I also take it very seriously. <strong>Which is why</strong> I have absolutely <strong>no </strong>tolerance for those who would play the system and play the people for a quick buck...\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>It was another week of principles reinforced...</strong></h2>\r\nIt really has been quite a week for me, Fit Friends. Lots of emotional ups and downs. I witnessed one of my members and training clients getting to celebrate some real, genuine, hard-earned success. And once the happy happy high from that wore off for me... I had a moment of reflection, contemplation, and ultimately anger. I couldn\'t NOT say anything anymore.\r\n<h3>You hear me? I\'m done being PC and nice.</h3>\r\nFor as many positive things as there are to talk about, and as much as I\'m willing to call out my own shortcomings and missteps... someone\'s gotta call out the other shortcomings, missteps, and faux pas happening in the fitness world... especially the <strong>big</strong> ones that interfere with peoples\' success, happiness, and positive forward progress in life.\r\n<h2>So THAT\'S what this podcast episode is about.</h2>\r\nI\'m celebrating some serious success... and calling out some big honkin\' failures. In about the most objective, non-ranty way I can. So let\'s talk about hard work, making a quick buck off the suffering of others, and 4 big things that are majorly wrong with all of these \"amazing\" health &amp; fitness companies out there.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>I have witnessed TRUE success!</li>\r\n 	<li>The \"back pain industry\" is mostly unnecessary</li>\r\n 	<li>Why those \"amazing\" wellness companies are doing everyone a disservice</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>','Snake Oil and Deception in the Fitness World (Podcast #45)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1265-revision-v1','','','2017-07-07 00:21:22','2017-07-07 04:21:22','',1265,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/07/1265-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1270,1,'2017-07-07 07:30:39','2017-07-07 11:30:39','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5514924/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>I love what I do, and I take it seriously.</strong></h2>\r\nFitness isn\'t just narcissism, gym selfies, and aesthetics. For some people, it\'s about very real, very important changes. Physical and emotional health and well-being could be at stake. This is <em>important... </em><em><strong>crucial</strong></em>... and in some very extreme cases... even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>life or death</strong></span>. So naturally, while I do enjoy my job... I also take it very seriously. <strong>Which is why</strong> I have absolutely <strong>no </strong>tolerance for those who would play the system and play the people for a quick buck...\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>It was another week of principles reinforced...</strong></h2>\r\nIt really has been quite a week for me, Fit Friends. Lots of emotional ups and downs. I witnessed one of my members and training clients getting to celebrate some real, genuine, hard-earned success. And once the happy happy high from that wore off for me... I had a moment of reflection, contemplation, and ultimately anger. I couldn\'t NOT say anything anymore.\r\n<h3><strong>You hear me? I\'m done being PC and nice.</strong></h3>\r\nFor as many positive things as there are to talk about, and as much as I\'m willing to call out my own shortcomings and missteps... someone\'s gotta call out the other shortcomings, missteps, and faux pas happening in the fitness world... especially the <strong>big</strong> ones that interfere with peoples\' success, happiness, and positive forward progress in life.\r\n<h2><strong>So THAT\'S what this podcast episode is about.</strong></h2>\r\nI\'m celebrating some serious success... and calling out some big honkin\' failures. In about the most objective, non-ranty way I can. So let\'s talk about hard work, making a quick buck off the suffering of others, and 4 big things that are majorly wrong with all of these \"amazing\" health &amp; fitness companies out there.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>I have witnessed TRUE success!</li>\r\n 	<li>The \"back pain industry\" is mostly unnecessary</li>\r\n 	<li>Why those \"amazing\" wellness companies are doing everyone a disservice</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>','Snake Oil and Deception in the Fitness World (Podcast #45)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1265-revision-v1','','','2017-07-07 07:30:39','2017-07-07 11:30:39','',1265,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/07/1265-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1271,1,'2017-07-07 07:36:10','2017-07-07 11:36:10','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5514924/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>I love what I do, and I take it seriously.</strong></h2>\r\nFitness isn\'t just narcissism, gym selfies, and aesthetics. For some people, it\'s about very real, very important changes. Physical and emotional health and well-being could be at stake. This is <em>important... </em><em><strong>crucial</strong></em>... and in some very extreme cases... even <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>life or death</strong></span>. So naturally, while I do enjoy my job... I also take it very seriously. <strong>Which is why</strong> I have absolutely <strong>no </strong>tolerance for those who would play the system and play the people for a quick buck...\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>It was another week of principles reinforced...</strong></h2>\r\nIt really has been quite a week for me, Fit Friends. Lots of emotional ups and downs. I witnessed one of my members and training clients getting to celebrate some real, genuine, hard-earned success. And once the happy happy high from that wore off for me... I had a moment of reflection, contemplation, and ultimately anger. I couldn\'t NOT say anything anymore.\r\n<h3><strong>You hear me? I\'m done being PC and nice.</strong></h3>\r\nFor as many positive things as there are to talk about, and as much as I\'m willing to call out my own shortcomings and missteps... someone\'s gotta call out the other shortcomings, missteps, and faux pas happening in the fitness world... especially the <strong>big</strong> ones that interfere with peoples\' success, happiness, and positive forward progress in life.\r\n<h2><strong>So THAT\'S what this podcast episode is about.</strong></h2>\r\nI\'m celebrating some serious success... and calling out some big honkin\' failures. In about the most objective, non-ranty way I can. So let\'s talk about hard work, making a quick buck off the suffering of others, and 4 big things that are majorly wrong with all of these \"amazing\" health &amp; fitness companies out there.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>I have witnessed TRUE success!</li>\r\n 	<li>The \"back pain industry\" is mostly unnecessary</li>\r\n 	<li>Why those \"amazing\" wellness companies are doing everyone a disservice</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5514924/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Snake Oil and Deception in the Fitness World (Podcast #45)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1265-revision-v1','','','2017-07-07 07:36:10','2017-07-07 11:36:10','',1265,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/07/1265-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1274,1,'2017-08-15 13:20:04','2017-08-15 17:20:04','<em>(FTC Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links - I may receive compensation. All opinions are my own, never bought or sold.)</em>\r\n<h2><strong>I\'m not perfect... <em>but I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">know</span> it.</em></strong></h2>\r\nI\'m well aware that sometimes my life is a mess. There\'s nothing wrong with admitting that. What\'s wrong is <em>pretending</em> you\'re awesome when you\'re <strong>not</strong>. Ignoring a problem does not make it go away... it makes it worse. If you need help... <em><strong>seek it out</strong></em>. THAT is <em>exactly</em> what I did with my blogging life. Organization, timeliness, and promotion are not always my strongest suits... and then I found CoSchedule. <!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Organization is the key to the universe</strong></h2>\r\nI\'ve said it before and I\'ll say it again - the first step in ANY successful venture... and reaching ANY goal... is a solid plan. A plan is gonna be pretty flimsy without good organizational systems and structure. Now, I don\'t talk much about the behind-the-scenes stuff that goes on with blogging, podcasting, and social media promotion... but the fact that I\'m a world-class procrastinator doesn\'t help me in the slightest. I\'m also... <em>thrifty</em>... to a fault... so historically when I try to implement organizational tools to help myself... I try every free route I can go. While they\'re great in theory... well... to put it lightly... <em>t</em><em>hose have been less than successful for me. </em>So, finally, I caved - I looked into paid options... and came across CoSchedule.\r\n\r\nSo far, it has totally changed the game for me. I\'m still in the process of getting things situated and set up... but it\'s <em>already </em>made life so much easier. They\'ve got a nice little overview video that explains what they\'re about:\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/166544659\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://vimeo.com/166544659\">CoSchedule</a> from <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/user52179426\">Garrett Moon</a> on <a href=\"https://vimeo.com\">Vimeo</a>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h2><strong>Managing Drafts Made Easy</strong></h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1298\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CoSchedule_Drafts-300x160.png\" alt=\"CoSchedule Drafts\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" />\r\n\r\nI read something very smart... and I think <a href=\"http://www.relentlessforwardcommotion.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it came from the blog of a friend of mine</a>... <em>\"you don\'t have to publish everything you write.\"</em>. That\'s some of the best advice for a blogger/writer... for a number of reasons (that I won\'t get into right now). Now... just because I\'m not <strong>publishing</strong> everything I write... doesn\'t necessarily mean it should get lost into the void once I\'m done writing it. Looking through my \"all posts\" section on WordPress... I have <em>32 post drafts</em>. THIRTY TWO! Some of them are farther along than others, some are just titles... but <em>thirty two!</em> With CoSchedule... I can finally organize them. Tagging, color coding, and some visual organization... I can actually keep it straight! And, oh, there\'s another useful bit here to help organize things and keep it all moving forward...\r\n<h3><strong>Speed things up with pre-set \"profiles\"</strong></h3>\r\nThose of you who don\'t do this kind of thing might not realize... there\'s an awfully long, time-consuming road between thinking up an idea and having John Q. Public read a blog post or listen to a podcast. For each and every post, article, or episode there\'s a lengthy brainstorming, creation, post-production and promotion process, and honestly, it can be easy to forget something or miss a step. In the normal course of things there\'s only so much you can do to REALLY automate/fast-track that process and all those steps without everything feeling... automated and robotic.\r\n\r\n<strong>Enter \"profiles\" and \"social helpers\"</strong>\r\n\r\nI LOVE the \"profiles\" and \"social helpers\" features CoSchedule provides. \"Profiles\" allow me to set up custom task-lists I can apply to different types of posts. Got a recipe to post? A race recap? Product review? Each different type of post has a different list of things that need to be accomplished - \"profile\" act as a template, with all the tasks I need to accomplish for each different type of post right there. Profiles allows me to specify what needs to happen, and at what point in the production process, ensuring I don\'t move on to the next step without accomplishing everything that needs doing. \"Social helpers\" come into play when the production work is done, the piece is published, and it\'s time to promote.\r\n<h2><strong><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1299\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CoSchedule_Social-Campaign-300x160.png\" alt=\"CoSchedule Social Campaign\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" />Social campaigns all in one place</strong></h2>\r\nOne of the most challenging, scattered, and disorganized parts of blogging and podcasting (for me at least) is the social media side of things. Each different platform (Facebook, IG, Pinterest, etc) all exist in their own little world. You\'ve got to individually visit each one, create your posts, ensure image size is correct, format them correctly, remember your hashtags or @ tags or links or what have you. If you want to schedule out posts, well, most platforms you need 3rd party help to do it, and not every 3rd party scheduling tool works for every social platform (especially not the free 3rd party tools.\r\n<h3><strong>And then there\'s CoSchedule.</strong></h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1301\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CoSchedule_Wordpress-Edit-Post-300x162.png\" alt=\"CoSchedule Wordpress Edit Post\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" />Everything is <em>right there.</em> Nice and easy, readily accessible, and easy to manage. CoSchedule is so well-connected and integrated with each social platform, particularly Facebook and Instagram, that I can tag people, pages, and profiles right from within the social campaign editor - YES, no doubling back into the Facebook or Instagram apps to tag people or delete hashtags that carried over and I didn\'t need. There\'s also a handy \"preview\" function, where you can actually see what the final post will look like on each social network before you finish and schedule it to post!\r\n<h3><strong>CoSchedule even has a WordPress plugin!</strong></h3>\r\nIt\'s literally built right into my blog/website - beneath each blog post is the social campaign function. I get to see a nice pretty timeline of the social posts for every blog post I create. I can even template out how, where, and when those posts will go with the \"profiles\" feature. Oh - and those \"social helpers\"? You can basically create shortcuts for things you typically include in a social post, like a set of hashtags, a sponsor credit, an FTC disclosure, or anything else you can think of. Instead of having to type the whole thing out each time, you simply pre-program it - when it\'s time to post, you simply type something like {FTCDisclosure}, {healthyeating}, or {thanksponsors}. You can even include those as a part of the \"profile\" so based on your blog post type... <em>it\'s already there</em>. They\'ve just... made it so... <em>easy!</em>\r\n<h2><strong><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1339\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/coschedule-email-screenshot-286x300.png\" alt=\"coschedule email screenshot\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" />Weekly recaps right in your email</strong></h2>\r\nAfter all that work on blog posts, podcast episodes, social campaigns and more... it\'d be nice to have an easy way to keep track of everything you\'ve done... right? Well, it would appear CoSchedule gives you exactly that - and in a nice, neat little package too. I\'ll admit, when I looked through the available features on CoSchedule\'s website... I more or less \"read the headlines\" - I didn\'t notice they provided weekly e-mail recaps of your activity.\r\n<h3><strong>It\'s more than just a recap.</strong></h3>\r\nNot only do I get a recap of the blog posts and social \"campaigns\" I\'ve published throughout the week... I get updated engagement numbers as well! It\'s pretty handy for an at-a-glance look at how my posts are doing. This insight gives me an idea of where to take a closer look... to really figure out what people are responding to. It\'s crucial to know where to look so I can create more of what people <em>want</em> to see, hear, and read... and <em>less of what they don\'t.</em> This is, after all, both an outlet for me and a resource for others... so it\'s gotta be useful for BOTH of us, right?\r\n<h2><strong>This is a game-changer.</strong></h2>\r\nAs cheesy as it sounds, CoSchedule has totally turned my blogging &amp; podcasting game on its head - <em>for the better</em>. I\'m so happy I took the leap and gave it a shot. This stuff is hard enough... every tool we can get our hands on to make it a little easier... well, it makes a difference! If you\'re a blogger (or podcaster) and you feel like you could use a hand... Give CoSchedule a shot! <a href=\"http://coschedule.com/r/119415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow this link and start your free trial now :)</a>','Getting my (blog) life together with CoSchedule','','publish','open','open','','getting-my-blog-life-together-with-coschedule','','\nhttps://vimeo.com/166544659','2017-08-17 08:53:41','2017-08-17 12:53:41','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/?p=1274',0,'post','',0),(1276,1,'2017-07-14 11:40:43','2017-07-14 15:40:43','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5537579/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"400\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>There is REAL power deep inside you</strong></h2>\r\nI feel like I talk about this every single day... I also feel like it\'s not really given the weight and consideration it deserves. \"Belief\" has incredible power and weight. Simply believing something hard enough can make it real. <em>Yes, really</em>. I\'m saying that belief, attitude, and how you approach life can have real, physical manifestations. Don\'t believe me? I\'ve got some food for thought that might just change your mind...\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>If a con artist can figure it out, so can we.</strong></h2>\r\nThis thing I\'m talking about... this secret weapon... it\'s the very same thing that con artists the world over have tapped into and leverage to power their devious schemes and scams. They believe their product, scam, service, whatever... is <em>what you need</em> and they believe that their plan or system or whatever <em>works.</em> They believe it so hard that you can\'t help but believe them too and roll with it. If these evil-doers can make use of it for malicious purposes... why can\'t we use it for good? <strong>We can.</strong>\r\n<h3><strong>The trick is... it\'s not just about belief.</strong></h3>\r\nThis requires more than just conviction in the cause... it requires the determination to get it done and the sheer force of <em>will </em>to accomplish the task. Ask any endurance runner... they\'ll tell you. Honestly, there\'s a lot to this... so let\'s chat, eh? This is exactly what we get into in this episode, with a couple of relevant tangents to help kind of explain.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Cure your acid reflux... at the cost of DEATH?!</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What Gwenyth Paltrow\'s new gym and The Food Babe have in common</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A thought on personal trainers</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How YOU can embrace that POWERFUL secret weapon hidden inside you</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5537579/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','How To Embrace The Powerful Secret Weapon Inside You (Podcast #46)','','publish','open','open','','embrace-powerful-secret-weapon-inside-podcast-46','','','2017-07-14 11:40:43','2017-07-14 15:40:43','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/?p=1276',0,'post','',0),(1277,1,'2017-07-14 11:37:37','2017-07-14 15:37:37','','How To Embrace The Powerful Secret Weapon Inside You.','','inherit','open','closed','','wordswag_1500006082462','','','2017-07-14 11:38:05','2017-07-14 15:38:05','',1276,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/wordswag_1500006082462.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1278,1,'2017-07-14 11:38:14','2017-07-14 15:38:14','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5537579/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>There is REAL power deep inside you</strong></h2>\r\nI feel like I talk about this every single day... I also feel like it\'s not really given the weight and consideration it deserves. \"Belief\" has incredible power and weight. Simply believing something hard enough can make it real. <em>Yes, really</em>. I\'m saying that belief, attitude, and how you approach life can have real, physical manifestations. Don\'t believe me? I\'ve got some food for thought that might just change your mind...\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>If a con artist can figure it out, so can we.</strong></h2>\r\nThis thing I\'m talking about... this secret weapon... it\'s the very same thing that con artists the world over have tapped into and leverage to power their devious schemes and scams. They believe their product, scam, service, whatever... is <em>what you need</em> and they believe that their plan or system or whatever <em>works.</em> They believe it so hard that you can\'t help but believe them too and roll with it. If these evil-doers can make use of it for malicious purposes... why can\'t we use it for good? <strong>We can.</strong>\r\n<h3><strong>The trick is... it\'s not just about belief.</strong></h3>\r\nThis requires more than just conviction in the cause... it requires the determination to get it done and the sheer force of <em>will </em>to accomplish the task. Ask any endurance runner... they\'ll tell you. Honestly, there\'s a lot to this... so let\'s chat, eh? This is exactly what we get into in this episode, with a couple of relevant tangents to help kind of explain.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Cure your acid reflux... at the cost of DEATH?!</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What Gwenyth Paltrow\'s new gym and The Food Babe have in common</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A thought on personal trainers</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How YOU can embrace that POWERFUL secret weapon hidden inside you</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5537579/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','How To Embrace The Powerful Secret Weapon Inside You (Podcast #46)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1276-revision-v1','','','2017-07-14 11:38:14','2017-07-14 15:38:14','',1276,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/07/1276-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1279,1,'2017-07-14 11:39:27','2017-07-14 15:39:27','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5537579/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"300\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>There is REAL power deep inside you</strong></h2>\r\nI feel like I talk about this every single day... I also feel like it\'s not really given the weight and consideration it deserves. \"Belief\" has incredible power and weight. Simply believing something hard enough can make it real. <em>Yes, really</em>. I\'m saying that belief, attitude, and how you approach life can have real, physical manifestations. Don\'t believe me? I\'ve got some food for thought that might just change your mind...\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>If a con artist can figure it out, so can we.</strong></h2>\r\nThis thing I\'m talking about... this secret weapon... it\'s the very same thing that con artists the world over have tapped into and leverage to power their devious schemes and scams. They believe their product, scam, service, whatever... is <em>what you need</em> and they believe that their plan or system or whatever <em>works.</em> They believe it so hard that you can\'t help but believe them too and roll with it. If these evil-doers can make use of it for malicious purposes... why can\'t we use it for good? <strong>We can.</strong>\r\n<h3><strong>The trick is... it\'s not just about belief.</strong></h3>\r\nThis requires more than just conviction in the cause... it requires the determination to get it done and the sheer force of <em>will </em>to accomplish the task. Ask any endurance runner... they\'ll tell you. Honestly, there\'s a lot to this... so let\'s chat, eh? This is exactly what we get into in this episode, with a couple of relevant tangents to help kind of explain.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Cure your acid reflux... at the cost of DEATH?!</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What Gwenyth Paltrow\'s new gym and The Food Babe have in common</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A thought on personal trainers</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How YOU can embrace that POWERFUL secret weapon hidden inside you</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5537579/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','How To Embrace The Powerful Secret Weapon Inside You (Podcast #46)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1276-revision-v1','','','2017-07-14 11:39:27','2017-07-14 15:39:27','',1276,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/07/1276-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1280,1,'2017-07-14 11:39:54','2017-07-14 15:39:54','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5537579/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"400\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>There is REAL power deep inside you</strong></h2>\r\nI feel like I talk about this every single day... I also feel like it\'s not really given the weight and consideration it deserves. \"Belief\" has incredible power and weight. Simply believing something hard enough can make it real. <em>Yes, really</em>. I\'m saying that belief, attitude, and how you approach life can have real, physical manifestations. Don\'t believe me? I\'ve got some food for thought that might just change your mind...\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>If a con artist can figure it out, so can we.</strong></h2>\r\nThis thing I\'m talking about... this secret weapon... it\'s the very same thing that con artists the world over have tapped into and leverage to power their devious schemes and scams. They believe their product, scam, service, whatever... is <em>what you need</em> and they believe that their plan or system or whatever <em>works.</em> They believe it so hard that you can\'t help but believe them too and roll with it. If these evil-doers can make use of it for malicious purposes... why can\'t we use it for good? <strong>We can.</strong>\r\n<h3><strong>The trick is... it\'s not just about belief.</strong></h3>\r\nThis requires more than just conviction in the cause... it requires the determination to get it done and the sheer force of <em>will </em>to accomplish the task. Ask any endurance runner... they\'ll tell you. Honestly, there\'s a lot to this... so let\'s chat, eh? This is exactly what we get into in this episode, with a couple of relevant tangents to help kind of explain.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Cure your acid reflux... at the cost of DEATH?!</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What Gwenyth Paltrow\'s new gym and The Food Babe have in common</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A thought on personal trainers</li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How YOU can embrace that POWERFUL secret weapon hidden inside you</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.foolproofbrewing.com\">Foolproof Brewing Company\'s website</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a>\r\n\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5537579/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','How To Embrace The Powerful Secret Weapon Inside You (Podcast #46)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1276-revision-v1','','','2017-07-14 11:39:54','2017-07-14 15:39:54','',1276,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/07/1276-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1283,1,'2017-07-25 12:56:26','2017-07-25 16:56:26','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5561817/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>Run a marathon and change your life...</strong></h2>\r\nIt\'s no secret that I TRULY believe in the transformative power of running. When I go running for long enough I find my happy place, my mind can wander stress-free, and I can just... be. I realize it doesn\'t work for everyone this way, but it does for me, and it does for many others. I\'d love for more people to discover this... problem is, so many people out there don\'t just think marathons are crazy... they simply think they\'re not capable.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>That\'s why I\'m so excited about this interview!</strong></h2>\r\nI was THRILLED to have Angie and Trevor of the Marathon Training Academy podcast on the show. Their whole \"thing\" is based around empowering you to run a marathon and change your life. Their SLOGAN is \"you HAVE WHAT IT TAKES to run a marathon and change your life\". I absolutely love this, and I thought we had a great chat all about it.\r\n\r\nIt was really cool to get to know them a bit. We dug into their show, what the idea is, and what it\'s all about... but we also got personal. We talked about how the show has influenced and directed their own personal lives. Angie and Trevor discuss not just their philosophies on running and coaching, but their own fitness, running, and life in general.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>ICYMI… IT’S HOT AND GROSS OUT!</li>\r\n 	<li>The internet RUINED my day!</li>\r\n 	<li>What’s In the box</li>\r\n 	<li>The joy of Yoga!</li>\r\n 	<li>A chat with Angie and Trevor of the Marathon Training Academy podcast!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.marathontrainingacademy.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marathon Training Academy website</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=359208879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marathon Training Academy Podcast</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Audible (by Amazon) - Start your free 30 day trial of Audible now and get a free e-book!\r\n<a href=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/click.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\"><img src=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/impression.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\" border=\"0\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5561817/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Yes, you DO have what it takes... (Podcast #47)','','publish','open','open','','yes-you-do-have-what-it-takes','','','2017-07-25 12:56:26','2017-07-25 16:56:26','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/?p=1283',0,'post','',0),(1284,1,'2017-07-25 12:47:15','2017-07-25 16:47:15','','yes you do have what it takes','','inherit','open','closed','','wordswag_1500653402209','','','2017-07-25 12:47:49','2017-07-25 16:47:49','',1283,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/wordswag_1500653402209.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1285,1,'2017-07-25 12:52:16','2017-07-25 16:52:16','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5561817/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>Run a marathon and change your life...</strong></h2>\r\nIt\'s no secret that I TRULY believe in the transformative power of running. When I go running for long enough I find my happy place, my mind can wander stress-free, and I can just... be. I realize it doesn\'t work for everyone this way, but it does for me, and it does for many others. I\'d love for more people to discover this... problem is, so many people out there don\'t just think marathons are crazy... they simply think they\'re not capable.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>That\'s why I\'m so excited about this interview!</strong></h2>\r\nI was THRILLED to have Angie and Trevor of the Marathon Training Academy podcast on the show. Their whole \"thing\" is based around empowering you to run a marathon and change your life. Their SLOGAN is \"you HAVE WHAT IT TAKES to run a marathon and change your life\". I absolutely love this, and I thought we had a great chat all about it.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>ICYMI… IT’S HOT AND GROSS OUT!</li>\r\n 	<li>The internet RUINED my day!</li>\r\n 	<li>What’s In the box</li>\r\n 	<li>The joy of Yoga!</li>\r\n 	<li>A chat with Angie and Trevor of the Marathon Training Academy podcast!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.marathontrainingacademy.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marathon Training Academy website</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=359208879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marathon Training Academy Podcast</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Audible (by Amazon) - Start your free 30 day trial of Audible now and get a free e-book!\r\n<a href=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/click.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\"><img src=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/impression.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\" border=\"0\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5561817/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Yes, you DO have what it takes...','','inherit','closed','closed','','1283-revision-v1','','','2017-07-25 12:52:16','2017-07-25 16:52:16','',1283,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/07/1283-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1286,1,'2017-07-25 12:56:26','2017-07-25 16:56:26','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5561817/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>Run a marathon and change your life...</strong></h2>\r\nIt\'s no secret that I TRULY believe in the transformative power of running. When I go running for long enough I find my happy place, my mind can wander stress-free, and I can just... be. I realize it doesn\'t work for everyone this way, but it does for me, and it does for many others. I\'d love for more people to discover this... problem is, so many people out there don\'t just think marathons are crazy... they simply think they\'re not capable.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>That\'s why I\'m so excited about this interview!</strong></h2>\r\nI was THRILLED to have Angie and Trevor of the Marathon Training Academy podcast on the show. Their whole \"thing\" is based around empowering you to run a marathon and change your life. Their SLOGAN is \"you HAVE WHAT IT TAKES to run a marathon and change your life\". I absolutely love this, and I thought we had a great chat all about it.\r\n\r\nIt was really cool to get to know them a bit. We dug into their show, what the idea is, and what it\'s all about... but we also got personal. We talked about how the show has influenced and directed their own personal lives. Angie and Trevor discuss not just their philosophies on running and coaching, but their own fitness, running, and life in general.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>ICYMI… IT’S HOT AND GROSS OUT!</li>\r\n 	<li>The internet RUINED my day!</li>\r\n 	<li>What’s In the box</li>\r\n 	<li>The joy of Yoga!</li>\r\n 	<li>A chat with Angie and Trevor of the Marathon Training Academy podcast!</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.marathontrainingacademy.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marathon Training Academy website</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=359208879\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marathon Training Academy Podcast</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.hopheadevents.com\">Hophead Events website</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Audible (by Amazon) - Start your free 30 day trial of Audible now and get a free e-book!\r\n<a href=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/click.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\"><img src=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/impression.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\" border=\"0\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5561817/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Yes, you DO have what it takes... 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There is a larger community you are a part of whether you realize it or not, and there are many smaller communities still that you can become a part of intentionally. Ted Spiker joins me on Episode 48 of the podcast to talk about exactly that.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>You DO belong, and you\'re doing great!</strong></h2>\r\nTed, through his interest in and passion for fitness and running, has created what has become quite the community. He\'s created a vehicle for people to identify with someone, or many someones, who are dealing with and fighting through the same struggles they are themselves. Maybe, with a little bit of a hand reaching out, we can all make it a little more do-able to achieve our goals and reach that next success... whether it\'s a sub-30 5k... or something else.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dealing with a potential injury close to race day</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EXERCISE MIGHT KILL YOU!</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Too much of a good thing is bad for you!</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We chat with Professor Ted Spiker about</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writing for health and fitness</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Runner’s World Big Guy Blog</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sub-30 Club</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the fact that YOU are not alone.</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.runnersworld.com/tag/the-big-guy-blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Runner\'s World Big Guy Blog</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/223573647748267/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sub-30 Club on Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.tedspiker.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ted Spiker\'s Website</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/profspiker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find Ted on Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/profspiker/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find Ted on Instagram</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/bed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get $100 off your new Leesa Mattress! Sleep better, recover better.</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Audible (by Amazon) - Start your free 30 day trial of Audible now and get a free e-book!\r\n<a href=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/click.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\"><img src=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/impression.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\" border=\"0\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5586592/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','The \"Big Guy\" And The Power Of Community (Podcast #48)','','publish','open','open','','big-guy-power-of-community','','','2017-07-28 16:58:12','2017-07-28 20:58:12','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/?p=1288',0,'post','',0),(1289,1,'2017-07-28 09:46:06','2017-07-28 13:46:06','','The big guy and the power of community','','inherit','open','closed','','wordswag_1501218310713','','','2017-07-28 09:47:00','2017-07-28 13:47:00','',1288,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/wordswag_1501218310713.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1290,1,'2017-07-28 09:54:08','2017-07-28 13:54:08','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5586592/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>You are not alone.</strong></h2>\r\nIt can be easy to think you\'re all alone, on a little island, whether you\'re struggling with nutrition, fitness, or specifically running. I\'m here to tell you... <em>you are not alone</em>. There is a larger community you are a part of whether you realize it or not, and there are many smaller communities still that you can become a part of intentionally. Ted Spiker joins me on Episode 48 of the podcast to talk about exactly that.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>You DO belong, and you\'re doing great!</strong></h2>\r\nTed, through his interest in and passion for fitness and running, has created what has become quite the community. He\'s created a vehicle for people to identify with someone, or many someones, who are dealing with and fighting through the same struggles they are themselves. Maybe, with a little bit of a hand reaching out, we can all make it a little more do-able to achieve our goals and reach that next success... whether it\'s a sub-30 5k... or something else.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dealing with a potential injury close to race day</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EXERCISE MIGHT KILL YOU!</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Too much of a good thing is bad for you!</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We chat with Professor Ted Spiker about</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writing for health and fitness</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Runner’s World Big Guy Blog</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sub-30 Club</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the fact that YOU are not alone.</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.runnersworld.com/tag/the-big-guy-blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Runner\'s World Big Guy Blog</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/223573647748267/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sub-30 Club on Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.tedspiker.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ted Spiker\'s Website</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/profspiker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find Ted on Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/profspiker/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find Ted on Instagram</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/bed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get $100 off your new Leesa Mattress! Sleep better, recover better.</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Audible (by Amazon) - Start your free 30 day trial of Audible now and get a free e-book!\r\n<a href=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/click.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\"><img src=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/impression.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\" border=\"0\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5586592/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','The \"Big Guy\" And The Power Of Community','','inherit','closed','closed','','1288-revision-v1','','','2017-07-28 09:54:08','2017-07-28 13:54:08','',1288,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/07/1288-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1291,1,'2017-07-28 16:57:40','2017-07-28 20:57:40','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5586592/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>You are not alone.</strong></h2>\r\nIt can be easy to think you\'re all alone, on a little island, whether you\'re struggling with nutrition, fitness, or specifically running. I\'m here to tell you... <em>you are not alone</em>. There is a larger community you are a part of whether you realize it or not, and there are many smaller communities still that you can become a part of intentionally. Ted Spiker joins me on Episode 48 of the podcast to talk about exactly that.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>You DO belong, and you\'re doing great!</strong></h2>\r\nTed, through his interest in and passion for fitness and running, has created what has become quite the community. He\'s created a vehicle for people to identify with someone, or many someones, who are dealing with and fighting through the same struggles they are themselves. Maybe, with a little bit of a hand reaching out, we can all make it a little more do-able to achieve our goals and reach that next success... whether it\'s a sub-30 5k... or something else.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dealing with a potential injury close to race day</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EXERCISE MIGHT KILL YOU!</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Too much of a good thing is bad for you!</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We chat with Professor Ted Spiker about</span>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writing for health and fitness</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Runner’s World Big Guy Blog</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sub-30 Club</span></li>\r\n 	<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the fact that YOU are not alone.</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.runnersworld.com/tag/the-big-guy-blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Runner\'s World Big Guy Blog</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/223573647748267/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sub-30 Club on Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.tedspiker.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ted Spiker\'s Website</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://twitter.com/profspiker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find Ted on Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/profspiker/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find Ted on Instagram</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/bed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get $100 off your new Leesa Mattress! Sleep better, recover better.</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Audible (by Amazon) - Start your free 30 day trial of Audible now and get a free e-book!\r\n<a href=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/click.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\"><img src=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/impression.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\" border=\"0\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5586592/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','The \"Big Guy\" And The Power Of Community (Podcast #48)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1288-revision-v1','','','2017-07-28 16:57:40','2017-07-28 20:57:40','',1288,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/07/1288-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1338,1,'2017-08-15 13:03:33','2017-08-15 17:03:33','<em>(FTC Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links - I may receive compensation. All opinions are my own, never bought or sold.)</em>\r\n<h2><strong>I\'m not perfect... <em>but I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">know</span> it.</em></strong></h2>\r\nI\'m well aware that sometimes my life is a mess. There\'s nothing wrong with admitting that. What\'s wrong is <em>pretending</em> you\'re awesome when you\'re <strong>not</strong>. Ignoring a problem does not make it go away... it makes it worse. If you need help... <em><strong>seek it out</strong></em>. THAT is <em>exactly</em> what I did with my blogging life. Organization, timeliness, and promotion are not always my strongest suits... and then I found CoSchedule. <!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Organization is the key to the universe</strong></h2>\r\nI\'ve said it before and I\'ll say it again - the first step in ANY successful venture... and reaching ANY goal... is a solid plan. A plan is gonna be pretty flimsy without good organizational systems and structure. Now, I don\'t talk much about the behind-the-scenes stuff that goes on with blogging, podcasting, and social media promotion... but the fact that I\'m a world-class procrastinator doesn\'t help me in the slightest. I\'m also... <em>thrifty</em>... to a fault... so historically when I try to implement organizational tools to help myself... I try every free route I can go. While they\'re great in theory... well... to put it lightly... <em>t</em><em>hose have been less than successful for me. </em>So, finally, I caved - I looked into paid options... and came across <a href=\"http://www.CoSchedule.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CoSchedule</a>.\r\n\r\nSo far, it has totally changed the game for me. I\'m still in the process of getting things situated and set up... but it\'s <em>already </em>made life so much easier. They\'ve got a nice little overview video that explains what they\'re about:\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/166544659\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://vimeo.com/166544659\">CoSchedule</a> from <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/user52179426\">Garrett Moon</a> on <a href=\"https://vimeo.com\">Vimeo</a>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h2><strong>Managing Drafts Made Easy</strong></h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1298\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CoSchedule_Drafts-300x160.png\" alt=\"CoSchedule Drafts\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" />\r\n\r\nI read something very smart... and I think <a href=\"http://www.relentlessforwardcommotion.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it came from the blog of a friend of mine</a>... <em>\"you don\'t have to publish everything you write.\"</em>. That\'s some of the best advice for a blogger/writer... for a number of reasons (that I won\'t get into right now). Now... just because I\'m not <strong>publishing</strong> everything I write... doesn\'t necessarily mean it should get lost into the void once I\'m done writing it. Looking through my \"all posts\" section on WordPress... I have <em>32 post drafts</em>. THIRTY TWO! Some of them are farther along than others, some are just titles... but <em>thirty two!</em> With CoSchedule... I can finally organize them. Tagging, color coding, and some visual organization... I can actually keep it straight! And, oh, there\'s another useful bit here to help organize things and keep it all moving forward...\r\n<h3>Speed things up with pre-set \"profiles\"</h3>\r\nThose of you who don\'t do this kind of thing might not realize... there\'s an awfully long, time-consuming road between thinking up an idea and having John Q. Public read a blog post or listen to a podcast. For each and every post, article, or episode there\'s a lengthy brainstorming, creation, post-production and promotion process, and honestly, it can be easy to forget something or miss a step. In the normal course of things there\'s only so much you can do to REALLY automate/fast-track that process and all those steps without everything feeling... automated and robotic.\r\n\r\n<strong>Enter \"profiles\" and \"social helpers\"</strong>\r\n\r\nI LOVE the \"profiles\" and \"social helpers\" features CoSchedule provides. \"Profiles\" allow me to set up custom task-lists I can apply to different types of posts. Got a recipe to post? A race recap? Product review? Each different type of post has a different list of things that need to be accomplished - \"profile\" act as a template, with all the tasks I need to accomplish for each different type of post right there. Profiles allows me to specify what needs to happen, and at what point in the production process, ensuring I don\'t move on to the next step without accomplishing everything that needs doing. \"Social helpers\" come into play when the production work is done, the piece is published, and it\'s time to promote.\r\n<h2>Social campaigns all in one place</h2>\r\nOne of the most challenging, scattered, and disorganized parts of blogging and podcasting (for me at least) is the social media side of things. Each different platform (Facebook, IG, Pinterest, etc) all exist in their own little world. You\'ve got to individually visit each one, create your posts, ensure image size is correct, format them correctly, remember your hashtags or @ tags or links or what have you. If you want to schedule out posts, well, most platforms you need 3rd party help to do it, and not every 3rd party scheduling tool works for every social platform (especially not the free 3rd party tools.\r\n<h3><strong>And then there\'s CoSchedule.</strong></h3>\r\nEverything is <em>right there.</em> Nice and easy, readily accessible, and easy to manage. CoSchedule is so well-connected and integrated with each social platform, particularly Facebook and Instagram, that I can tag people, pages, and profiles right from within the social campaign editor - YES, no doubling back into the Facebook or Instagram apps to tag people or delete hashtags that carried over and I didn\'t need. There\'s also a handy \"preview\" function, where you can actually see what the final post will look like on each social network before you finish and schedule it to post! CoSchedule even has a WordPress plugin, so it\'s literally built right into my blog/website - beneath each blog post is the social campaign function. I get to see a nice pretty timeline of the social posts for every blog post I create, and I can even template out how, where, and when those posts will go with the \"profiles\" feature. Oh - and those \"social helpers\"? You can basically create shortcuts for things you typically include in a social post, like a set of hashtags, a sponsor credit, an FTC disclosure, or anything else you can think of. Instead of having to type the whole thing out each time, you simply pre-program it - when it\'s time to post, you simply type something like {FTCDisclosure}, {healthyeating}, or {thanksponsors}. You can even include those as a part of the \"profile\" so based on your blog post type... <em>it\'s already there</em>. They\'ve just... made it so... <em>easy!</em>\r\n<h2>Weekly recaps right in your email</h2>\r\nAfter all that work on blog posts, podcast episodes, social campaigns and more... it\'d be nice to have an easy way to keep track of everything you\'ve done... right? Well, it would appear CoSchedule gives you exactly that - and in a nice, neat little package too. I\'ll admit, when I looked through the available features on CoSchedule\'s website... I more or less \"read the headlines\" - I didn\'t notice they provided weekly e-mail recaps of your activity.\r\n<h3><strong>It\'s more than just a recap.</strong></h3>\r\nNot only do I get a recap of the blog posts and social \"campaigns\" I\'ve published throughout the week... I get updated engagement numbers as well! Pretty handy for an at-a-glance look at how my posts are doing - gives me an idea of where to take a closer look to really figure out what people are responding to. It\'s crucial to know where to look so I can create more of what people <em>want </em> to see, hear, and read... and <em>less of what they don\'t.</em> This is, after all, both an outlet for me and a resource for others... so it\'s gotta be useful for BOTH of us, right?\r\n<h2><strong>This is a game-changer.</strong></h2>\r\nAs cheesy as it sounds, CoSchedule has totally turned my blogging &amp; podcasting game on its head - <em>for the better</em>. I\'m so happy I took the leap and gave it a shot - this stuff is hard enough... every tool we can get our hands on to make it a little easier and spread the knowledge we\'ve got to give... well, it makes a difference! If you\'re a blogger (or podcaster) and you feel like you could use a hand... 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Since I\'ve gotten REALLY personal... and shared about when I learned how to succeed and transform.\r\n<h2><!--more--><strong>It\'s been 5 years.</strong></h2>\r\nHard to believe (for me, anyway)... but it really has been <em>5 years</em> since my journey began and 4 years since I reached my \"peak\". That\'s an awfully long time, and certainly long enough for people who don\'t know me... to not KNOW I was ever <strong>big</strong>. I kind of have to remind myself it\'s OK to talk about it... that it\'s not an \"attention grab\". Just because it\'s not \"new\" and \"fresh\" anymore doesn\'t make it any less relevant to the very same people it was relevant to 4 years ago - the people trying to do the same thing I did: make a change they think is impossible. <strong>And maybe that\'s you.</strong>\r\n<h2><strong>YES, it\'s OK!</strong></h2>\r\nIt\'s unfortunate, but it seems one of the biggest things stopping people from reaching success is... they think it\'s not OK. People think it\'s not ok to take time away from family or friends to take care of themselves. It\'s not OK to be unhappy with their body. We\'re told we should \"love our body\"... often at the expense of health. And sure, self-love is great, and the mental health benefits are great I\'m sure... but self-love can\'t be at the expense of your actual <em>physical</em> <strong>health</strong>.\r\n<h2><strong>It\'s the same old song and dance. </strong></h2>\r\nI find, pretty often, I end up talking to the men in the room about this. Historically, we\'ve always been expected to be tough, strong, <em>masculine</em>. That didn\'t necessarily mean we needed to be <em>healthy. </em>Heck, I bet you\'ve met plenty of \"big guys\" who are overweight &amp; unhealthy, but strong enough to knock your lights out if you tell them so. And then there\'s our lovely ladies - some women like their men \"soft\" or \"cushy\" like a teddy bear. Most of those women <em>tell </em>their man that. Don\'t worry, this isn\'t a manifesto about the ideals of \"masculinity\" and what it is... it\'s simply a friendly voice who\'s been there telling you...\r\n<h2><strong>YES! It\'s OK!!</strong></h2>\r\nIt IS OK to be less than pleased with where you\'re at! It\'s OK to be unhappy with the state of your health! Now, I realize this is a dangerous conversation to have. Today, we live in a culture of political correctness, hyper-sensitivity, and over-acceptance. When you rock the boat and contradict the \"self-love\" idea people often accuse you of promoting something negative. It\'s as if, by telling you it\'s OK to want more... that I\'m telling you <em>you\'re not good enough</em>. It\'s important to distinguish between the two. Maybe people are so afraid of offending someone that they\'d rather just not broach the topic. So I\'m here to say... YES! It\'s OK!\r\n<h2><strong><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-515\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/beforebefore2-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"Before it all - 305ish lbs\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" />Take a look at your life, your body, and your health.</strong></h2>\r\nAre you happy with where you are? Would a doctor consider you healthy? Are your friends and family concerned for you? These are all important questions to ask, and they (and more questions) are all very important to have a <em>complete</em> picture and make a decision. In July 2012 I did exactly this - I hit a breaking point. I realized I was SUPREMELY unhappy. I was overweight, I had been told for years by my doctor I was obese, and my mom expressed on many occasions that she was concerned. The way I was living was not healthy, and when I reached that breaking point <strong>I was 305 lbs.</strong> It was <em>not good, and not healthy</em>. So I made a choice. August 1st my journey began, and one year later I had lost 130 lbs and completely changed my life. I got <em>healthy</em>, I was no longer obese. My resting heart rate had plummeted to a level my doctor classified as \"athlete\". My blood pressure was solid and I saved my knees. All because I reached a point where <strong>I made it OK to make the decision.</strong>\r\n<h2><strong>Now, I can do <em>incredible, incomprehensible </em>things.</strong></h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-654\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_20161024_153016-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Train Finisher Buckle\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />In about 7 hours (from when I\'m writing this) I\'m going to be toeing the start line of the Anchor Down 24 Hour Ultramarathon in pursuit of my 2nd 100 mile ultramarathon finish. Most people don\'t even know endurance runs like that <em>exist</em>... and when this all started... unhealthy Darrell wouldn\'t have even <em>dreamed</em> of running ONE mile, never mind one HUNDRED. I write my blog (www.SoTHISIsFitness.com) and speak on my podcast (www.SoTHISIsFitness.com/podcast) to spread this around all in the hopes that one more person will hear it. All you have to do is make it OK... and you can transform your health, your body, your mindset and your<em>self</em> and achieve incredible things. So, as I say at the end of every podcast episode...\r\n<h3><strong>The only limits we <em>truly</em> have are the ones we set for ourselves. Get out of your own way, GET OUT THERE, and <em>live life <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">limitless.</span></em></strong></h3>\r\n<em>You can follow Darrell at www.SoTHISIsFitness.com, hear the \"So THIS Is Fitness\" podcast on your favorite app, and on social media - www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness | www.instagram.com/snuffydx | www.twitter.com/snuffydx |<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1352 aligncenter\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/PhotoGrid_1487957447633-300x300.png\" alt=\"podcast cover photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></em>','How to succeed and transform - YES, it\'s OK!','','draft','open','open','','yes-its-ok','','','2017-08-18 11:54:37','2017-08-18 15:54:37','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/?p=1348',0,'post','',0),(1350,1,'2017-08-17 18:15:06','2017-08-17 22:15:06','<h2><strong>It\'s OK... really.</strong></h2>\r\n<h2>I talk about myself and what I\'m doing a lot. 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Really, pick up any self-help book or even well-respected and famous texts like Sun Tsu\'s \"The Art Of War\" - they all agree on this point. Most of us probably think we really do know ourselves... but there\'s a problem. Most of us go through life more or less going through the motions. We don\'t typically question our situation, our \"lot in life\", so to speak. Instead, we tend to accept what we\'re given and be pleased with where we get. We don\'t stop to think if we really get it, and if we\'ve dug deep enough.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holy Crap - 50 episodes!</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What’s new and in development for me, the fitwife, and So THIS Is Fitness</span></li>\r\n 	<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And we answer the questions of Who are you… why are you here, and what do you REALLY want?</span></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/bed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get $100 off your new Leesa Mattress! Sleep better, recover better.</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Audible (by Amazon) - Start your free 30 day trial of Audible now and get a free e-book!\r\n<a href=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/click.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\"><img src=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/impression.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\" border=\"0\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5629193/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Who are you, and what do you REALLY want?','','publish','open','open','','who-are-you-and-what-do-you-really-want','','','2017-08-11 08:59:54','2017-08-11 12:59:54','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/?p=1332',0,'post','',0),(1334,1,'2017-08-11 08:59:36','2017-08-11 12:59:36','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5629193/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>Do you REALLY know yourself?</strong></h2>\r\nEvery once in a while... it\'s important to stop and \"check yourself\". 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Really, pick up any self-help book or even well-respected and famous texts like Sun Tsu\'s \"The Art Of War\" - they all agree on this point. Most of us probably think we really do know ourselves... but there\'s a problem. Most of us go through life more or less going through the motions. We don\'t typically question our situation, our \"lot in life\", so to speak. Instead, we tend to accept what we\'re given and be pleased with where we get. 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I made a bold statement. I said, just like I did before Ghost Train Rail Trail Race last year, that I was coming for a belt buckle. The only acceptable outcome of the race was a 100 mile finish. I did not finish 100 miles at Anchor Down... and I had to figure something out - how to define success and failure. In recapping the event... I\'m pretty sure, at least in this instance, I\'ve managed to map out the gray area and do just that.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Anchor Down Ultra is an incredible event.</strong></h2>\r\nThis was my second showing at Anchor Down, and it did not disappoint. With a beautiful course, top notch support, and a supportive atmosphere, it\'s tough to go wrong with this race. I could go on for days about this race, but the bottom line is... it\'s simply superb. The course is 2.45 miles through Colt State Park in Bristol, Rhode Island - .95 miles of it is trail while the remaining 1.5 is paved walkways in the park. There\'s minimal elevation gain and a large chunk of the course overlooks Narragansett Bay - yes, right up along the water. It\'s a beautiful course that, despite its relatively short length, you will not get tired of looking at. The aid stations are fully stocked and the volunteers &amp; crew are amazingly helpful - even the vendors show up ready to go! Anchor Down provides all of this in 6, 12, and 24 hour flavors, giving runners an excellent opportunity to flex their muscles and see what they\'re made of. At Anchor Down, you\'ve got one of the best chances you could ask for to succeed. But... what is success here, really?\r\n<h2><strong>Success and failure dance together in the gray area a lot.</strong></h2>\r\nIt always seems so black and white, right? You either did or you didn\'t. You finished or not. Sure, that\'s easy enough to delineate in, say, a marathon - you either crossed the finish and ran 26.2 miles... or you didn\'t. In a 100 mile ultramarathon... you either crossed the finish line having finished 100 miles or not. Sometimes, though... it\'s not that easy.\r\n<h3><strong>The \"24 hour ultramarathon\" is a perfect example.</strong></h3>\r\nIn a 24 hour ultramarathon... there is no set distance you must hit in order to \"finish\". There is not typically a pre-determined, hard-and-fast threshold you must pass in order to achieve success in such an event. So, in a race where you \"finish\" when you simply do not continue running, whether by choice or by time limit... how do you define success? How, in that situation, do you determine if you have failed or not?\r\n<h2><strong>It\'s all about the objective... and whether you \"did it\" or not.</strong></h2>\r\nIn a 24 hour ultramarathon, the goal is to \"go\" for as long as you can... get <em>as far as you can</em>... inside the given time allotment. So... ultimately... success depends on whether or not you did that. <em>Did you</em> go as far as you could? Can you say with confidence that, within reason, you gave it a complete, whole, uncompromising effort? Or did you stop when you still had something left to give.\r\n<blockquote><strong>\"I wanted to quit because I was suffering. That was not a good enough reason.\" - Marshall Ulrich</strong></blockquote>\r\n<h2><strong>That\'s the difference - that\'s what defines \"failure\".</strong></h2>\r\nWe can\'t quit just because something is difficult. We can\'t give up, stop, and go home because we\'re uncomfortable. There\'s a cheesy line that flies around the fitness industry - \"success lies outside your comfort zone\". It\'s so prevalent because it\'s so true - we don\'t progress, grow, and change for the better by sticking to the safe and comfortable. Without challenge, adversity, and discomfort... there\'s no need, no <em>imperative</em>... to improve. If we never have something more difficult to achieve, there\'s no need to rise to the occasion... because there IS no occasion TO rise to. SO, in the dark, ugly depths of your ultramarathon \"pain cave\"... that dark place that only those of us who take on endurance sport have discovered... that is where some of the most profound change in the human experience can occur. The rest of the population, those who DON\'T do endurance sport, can experience it too - in a less extreme, more attainable way. None of us, however, can experience it... if we quit. If we... give up because we\'re suffering, and it\'s hard, and it hurts... even though we could have kept putting one foot in front of the other. THAT would be to fail - to give less than we\'ve got to give, and to forfeit the change and growth we were fighting for. To be and to do less than we are capable of.\r\n<blockquote><strong>\"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.\" - Steve Prefontaine</strong></blockquote>\r\n<h3><strong>Maybe that\'s why I keep running marathons and ultramarathons. </strong></h3>\r\nBecause I not only want to give it my best... but I want to see what my best really is. I want to fight for success and know what it really means. I want to experience it, viscerally - to feel the demons of failure clawing at my heels as I kick them off and crawl towards success. Perhaps, in some sick way... I enjoy the challenge, the fight, and the exhausted heap I become at the end - the state in which I finally enjoy the fruits of my labor. And so... here I find myself... preparing for my next endeavor - my return to Ghost Train Rail Trail Race on October 21st. Because despite the pain I know full well waits for me between the start and finish lines... I just can\'t shake how badly I want to fight through it to earn success.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A recap of my race at Anchor Down 24 Hour Ultra</li>\r\n 	<li>How to define success and failure</li>\r\n 	<li>A roundtable discussion on the overall experience at Anchor Down Ultra, and big Ultra in general, with my crew - FitWife Megan, Mom and Dad</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.AnchorDownUltra.com\">www.AnchorDownUltra.com</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/08/why-do-we-run-and-what-does-it-take.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">So THIS Is Fitness Podcast #51 - \"Why do we run... and what does it take?\" (Anchor Down preview &amp; interview with Jay Paganelli) </a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/bed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get $100 off your new Leesa Mattress! Sleep better, recover better.</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Audible (by Amazon) - Start your free 30 day trial of Audible now and get a free e-book!\r\n<a href=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/click.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\"><img src=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/impression.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\" border=\"0\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5673175/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','How to define success and failure - Anchor Down Recap (Podcast #52)','','publish','open','open','','how-to-define-success-and-failure-anchor-down-recap','','','2017-08-25 01:22:06','2017-08-25 05:22:06','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/?p=1357',0,'post','',0),(1337,1,'2017-08-15 12:28:50','2017-08-15 16:28:50','<h2><strong>I\'m not perfect... <em>but I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">know</span> it.</em></strong></h2>\r\nI\'m well aware that sometimes my life is a mess. There\'s nothing wrong with admitting that. What\'s wrong is <em>pretending</em> you\'re awesome when you\'re <strong>not</strong>. Ignoring a problem does not make it go away... it makes it worse. If you need help... <em><strong>seek it out</strong></em>. THAT is <em>exactly</em> what I did with my blogging life. Organization, timeliness, and promotion are not always my strongest suits... and then I found CoSchedule. <!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Organization is the key to the universe</strong></h2>\r\nI\'ve said it before and I\'ll say it again - the first step in ANY successful venture... and reaching ANY goal... is a solid plan. A plan is gonna be pretty flimsy without good organizational systems and structure. Now, I don\'t talk much about the behind-the-scenes stuff that goes on with blogging, podcasting, and social media promotion... but the fact that I\'m a world-class procrastinator doesn\'t help me in the slightest. I\'m also... <em>thrifty</em>... to a fault... so historically when I try to implement organizational tools to help myself... I try every free route I can go. While they\'re great in theory... well... to put it lightly... <em>t</em><em>hose have been less than successful for me. </em>So, finally, I caved - I looked into paid options... and came across <a href=\"http://www.CoSchedule.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CoSchedule</a>.\r\n\r\nSo far, it has totally changed the game for me. I\'m still in the process of getting things situated and set up... but it\'s <em>already </em>made life so much easier. They\'ve got a nice little overview video that explains what they\'re about:\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/166544659\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://vimeo.com/166544659\">CoSchedule</a> from <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/user52179426\">Garrett Moon</a> on <a href=\"https://vimeo.com\">Vimeo</a>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h2><strong>Managing Drafts Made Easy</strong></h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1298\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CoSchedule_Drafts-300x160.png\" alt=\"CoSchedule Drafts\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" />\r\n\r\nI read something very smart... and I think <a href=\"http://www.relentlessforwardcommotion.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it came from the blog of a friend of mine</a>... <em>\"you don\'t have to publish everything you write.\"</em>. That\'s some of the best advice for a blogger/writer... for a number of reasons (that I won\'t get into right now). Now... just because I\'m not <strong>publishing</strong> everything I write... doesn\'t necessarily mean it should get lost into the void once I\'m done writing it. Looking through my \"all posts\" section on WordPress... I have <em>32 post drafts</em>. THIRTY TWO! Some of them are farther along than others, some are just titles... but <em>thirty two!</em> With CoSchedule... I can finally organize them. Tagging, color coding, and some visual organization... I can actually keep it straight! And, oh, there\'s another useful bit here to help organize things and keep it all moving forward...\r\n<h3>Speed things up with pre-set \"profiles\"</h3>\r\nThose of you who don\'t do this kind of thing might not realize... there\'s an awfully long, time-consuming road between thinking up an idea and having John Q. Public read a blog post or listen to a podcast. For each and every post, article, or episode there\'s a lengthy brainstorming, creation, post-production and promotion process, and honestly, it can be easy to forget something or miss a step. In the normal course of things there\'s only so much you can do to REALLY automate/fast-track that process and all those steps without everything feeling... automated and robotic.\r\n\r\n<strong>Enter \"profiles\" and \"social helpers\"</strong>\r\n\r\nI LOVE the \"profiles\" and \"social helpers\" features CoSchedule provides. \"Profiles\" allow me to set up custom task-lists I can apply to different types of posts. Got a recipe to post? A race recap? Product review? Each different type of post has a different list of things that need to be accomplished - \"profile\" act as a template, with all the tasks I need to accomplish for each different type of post right there. Profiles allows me to specify what needs to happen, and at what point in the production process, ensuring I don\'t move on to the next step without accomplishing everything that needs doing. \"Social helpers\" come into play when the production work is done, the piece is published, and it\'s time to promote.\r\n<h2>Social campaigns all in one place</h2>\r\nOne of the most challenging, scattered, and disorganized parts of blogging and podcasting (for me at least) is the social media side of things. Each different platform (Facebook, IG, Pinterest, etc) all exist in their own little world. You\'ve got to individually visit each one, create your posts, ensure image size is correct, format them correctly, remember your hashtags or @ tags or links or what have you. If you want to schedule out posts, well, most platforms you need 3rd party help to do it, and not every 3rd party scheduling tool works for every social platform (especially not the free 3rd party tools.\r\n<h3><strong>And then there\'s CoSchedule.</strong></h3>\r\nEverything is <em>right there.</em> Nice and easy, readily accessible, and easy to manage. CoSchedule is so well-connected and integrated with each social platform, particularly Facebook and Instagram, that I can tag people, pages, and profiles right from within the social campaign editor - YES, no doubling back into the Facebook or Instagram apps to tag people or delete hashtags that carried over and I didn\'t need. There\'s also a handy \"preview\" function, where you can actually see what the final post will look like on each social network before you finish and schedule it to post! CoSchedule even has a WordPress plugin, so it\'s literally built right into my blog/website - beneath each blog post is the social campaign function. I get to see a nice pretty timeline of the social posts for every blog post I create, and I can even template out how, where, and when those posts will go with the \"profiles\" feature. Oh - and those \"social helpers\"? You can basically create shortcuts for things you typically include in a social post, like a set of hashtags, a sponsor credit, an FTC disclosure, or anything else you can think of. Instead of having to type the whole thing out each time, you simply pre-program it - when it\'s time to post, you simply type something like {FTCDisclosure}, {healthyeating}, or {thanksponsors}. You can even include those as a part of the \"profile\" so based on your blog post type... <em>it\'s already there</em>. They\'ve just... made it so... <em>easy!</em>\r\n<h2>Weekly recaps right in your email</h2>\r\nAfter all that work on blog posts, podcast episodes, social campaigns and more... it\'d be nice to have an easy way to keep track of everything you\'ve done... right? Well, it would appear CoSchedule gives you exactly that - and in a nice, neat little package too. I\'ll admit, when I looked through the available features on CoSchedule\'s website... I more or less \"read the headlines\" - I didn\'t notice they provided weekly e-mail recaps of your activity.\r\n<h3><strong>It\'s more than just a recap.</strong></h3>\r\nNot only do I get a recap of the blog posts and social \"campaigns\" I\'ve published throughout the week... I get updated engagement numbers as well! Pretty handy for an at-a-glance look at how my posts are doing - gives me an idea of where to take a closer look to really figure out what people are responding to. It\'s crucial to know where to look so I can create more of what people <em>want </em> to see, hear, and read... and <em>less of what they don\'t.</em> This is, after all, both an outlet for me and a resource for others... so it\'s gotta be useful for BOTH of us, right?\r\n<h2><strong>This is a game-changer.</strong></h2>\r\nCoSchedule','Getting my (blog) life together with CoSchedule','','inherit','closed','closed','','1274-revision-v1','','','2017-08-15 12:28:50','2017-08-15 16:28:50','',1274,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/08/1274-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1343,1,'2017-08-17 08:37:28','2017-08-17 12:37:28','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5650836/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>There\'s more to a race than you think.</strong></h2>\r\nThere\'s so much that goes into a race, yes, of course, from the participant\'s side... but from the Race Director, too. I was fortunate enough to have a chat with a buddy of mine, Jay, who is both a runner AND a race director (I find the best ones are) about exactly what\'s involved. Jay joined us in the studio to chat about runners, both \"normal distance\" and ultra distance... the differences between the two, and what makes us tick. He also talks about what it takes to be a race director for both crowds (and in general). We talk about Anchor Down 24 hour too... but there\'s so much more than that... We talk about <em>endurance</em>... the beauty of running... and, really... the human spirit.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>The deeper you go... the deeper it gets.</strong></h2>\r\nI\'m talking about ALL of it. The deeper you get into this thing, the deeper everything runs. The connections you make with people... the stories you share... the emotion you feel when people succeed and the crushing blow you feel when they fail. You get invested in the journey and the ending to the story. And that\'s exactly what happens on this episode... and in our chat... and undoubtedly... it\'s what will happen this weekend at Anchor Down 24 Hour Ultramarathon.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Reflecting as I stare destiny in the face again</li>\r\n 	<li>Jay Paganelli joins us in the studio to talk:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>The difference between \"normal\" runners and Ultra runners</li>\r\n 	<li>What it\'s like to be a Race Director</li>\r\n 	<li>Why we run and what it takes to make a race happen</li>\r\n 	<li>What to expect in a 24 hour ultramarathon, and more specifically - Anchor Down</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n 	<li>The 10 Commandments of Endurance</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with Jay Paganelli and his races</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.RunTrueNorth.com\">www.RunTrueNorth.com</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.GansettSummer.com\">www.GansettSummer.com</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.AnchorDownUltra.com\">www.AnchorDownUltra.com</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR/Walk/Walk?pg=entry&amp;fr_id=73371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Jude\'s Walk To End Childhood Cancer - Greater Boston</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/bed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get $100 off your new Leesa Mattress! Sleep better, recover better.</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Audible (by Amazon) - Start your free 30 day trial of Audible now and get a free e-book!\r\n<a href=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/click.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\"><img src=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/impression.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\" border=\"0\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5650836/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Why Do We Run... And What Does It Take? (Podcast #51)','','publish','open','open','','why-do-we-run-and-what-does-it-take','','','2017-08-17 08:37:28','2017-08-17 12:37:28','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/?p=1343',0,'post','',0),(1344,1,'2017-08-16 23:37:26','2017-08-17 03:37:26','','why do we run and what does it take','','inherit','open','closed','','stif-podcast-cover-photo-ep-51','','','2017-08-16 23:38:12','2017-08-17 03:38:12','',1343,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/STIF-Podcast-cover-photo-ep-51.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1345,1,'2017-08-16 23:39:35','2017-08-17 03:39:35','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5650836/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>There\'s more to a race than you think.</strong></h2>\r\nThere\'s so much that goes into a race, yes, of course, from the participant\'s side... but from the Race Director, too. I was fortunate enough to have a chat with a buddy of mine, Jay, who is both a runner AND a race director (I find the best ones are) about exactly what\'s involved. Jay joined us in the studio to chat about runners, both \"normal distance\" and ultra distance... the differences between the two, and what makes us tick. He also talks about what it takes to be a race director for both crowds (and in general). We talk about Anchor Down 24 hour too... but there\'s so much more than that... We talk about <em>endurance</em>... the beauty of running... and, really... the human spirit.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>The deeper you go... the deeper it gets.</strong></h2>\r\nI\'m talking about ALL of it. The deeper you get into this thing, the deeper everything runs. The connections you make with people... the stories you share... the emotion you feel when people succeed and the crushing blow you feel when they fail. You get invested in the journey and the ending to the story. And that\'s exactly what happens on this episode... and in our chat... and undoubtedly... it\'s what will happen this weekend at Anchor Down 24 Hour Ultramarathon.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Reflecting as I stare destiny in the face again</li>\r\n 	<li>Jay Paganelli joins us in the studio to talk:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>The difference between \"normal\" runners and Ultra runners</li>\r\n 	<li>What it\'s like to be a Race Director</li>\r\n 	<li>Why we run and what it takes to make a race happen</li>\r\n 	<li>What to expect in a 24 hour ultramarathon, and more specifically - Anchor Down</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n 	<li>The 10 Commandments of Endurance</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with Jay Paganelli and his races</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.RunTrueNorth.com\">www.RunTrueNorth.com</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.GansettSummer.com\">www.GansettSummer.com</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.AnchorDownUltra.com\">www.AnchorDownUltra.com</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR/Walk/Walk?pg=entry&amp;fr_id=73371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Jude\'s Walk To End Childhood Cancer - Greater Boston</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/bed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get $100 off your new Leesa Mattress! Sleep better, recover better.</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Audible (by Amazon) - Start your free 30 day trial of Audible now and get a free e-book!\r\n<a href=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/click.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\"><img src=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/impression.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\" border=\"0\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5650836/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Why Do We Run... And What Does It Take?','','inherit','closed','closed','','1343-revision-v1','','','2017-08-16 23:39:35','2017-08-17 03:39:35','',1343,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/08/1343-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1346,1,'2017-08-17 08:37:28','2017-08-17 12:37:28','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5650836/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>There\'s more to a race than you think.</strong></h2>\r\nThere\'s so much that goes into a race, yes, of course, from the participant\'s side... but from the Race Director, too. I was fortunate enough to have a chat with a buddy of mine, Jay, who is both a runner AND a race director (I find the best ones are) about exactly what\'s involved. Jay joined us in the studio to chat about runners, both \"normal distance\" and ultra distance... the differences between the two, and what makes us tick. He also talks about what it takes to be a race director for both crowds (and in general). We talk about Anchor Down 24 hour too... but there\'s so much more than that... We talk about <em>endurance</em>... the beauty of running... and, really... the human spirit.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>The deeper you go... the deeper it gets.</strong></h2>\r\nI\'m talking about ALL of it. The deeper you get into this thing, the deeper everything runs. The connections you make with people... the stories you share... the emotion you feel when people succeed and the crushing blow you feel when they fail. You get invested in the journey and the ending to the story. And that\'s exactly what happens on this episode... and in our chat... and undoubtedly... it\'s what will happen this weekend at Anchor Down 24 Hour Ultramarathon.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Reflecting as I stare destiny in the face again</li>\r\n 	<li>Jay Paganelli joins us in the studio to talk:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>The difference between \"normal\" runners and Ultra runners</li>\r\n 	<li>What it\'s like to be a Race Director</li>\r\n 	<li>Why we run and what it takes to make a race happen</li>\r\n 	<li>What to expect in a 24 hour ultramarathon, and more specifically - Anchor Down</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n 	<li>The 10 Commandments of Endurance</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with Jay Paganelli and his races</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.RunTrueNorth.com\">www.RunTrueNorth.com</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.GansettSummer.com\">www.GansettSummer.com</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.AnchorDownUltra.com\">www.AnchorDownUltra.com</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR/Walk/Walk?pg=entry&amp;fr_id=73371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Jude\'s Walk To End Childhood Cancer - Greater Boston</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/bed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get $100 off your new Leesa Mattress! Sleep better, recover better.</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Audible (by Amazon) - Start your free 30 day trial of Audible now and get a free e-book!\r\n<a href=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/click.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\"><img src=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/impression.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\" border=\"0\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5650836/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>','Why Do We Run... And What Does It Take? (Podcast #51)','','inherit','closed','closed','','1343-revision-v1','','','2017-08-17 08:37:28','2017-08-17 12:37:28','',1343,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/08/1343-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1347,1,'2017-08-17 08:53:41','2017-08-17 12:53:41','<em>(FTC Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links - I may receive compensation. All opinions are my own, never bought or sold.)</em>\r\n<h2><strong>I\'m not perfect... <em>but I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">know</span> it.</em></strong></h2>\r\nI\'m well aware that sometimes my life is a mess. There\'s nothing wrong with admitting that. What\'s wrong is <em>pretending</em> you\'re awesome when you\'re <strong>not</strong>. Ignoring a problem does not make it go away... it makes it worse. If you need help... <em><strong>seek it out</strong></em>. THAT is <em>exactly</em> what I did with my blogging life. Organization, timeliness, and promotion are not always my strongest suits... and then I found CoSchedule. <!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Organization is the key to the universe</strong></h2>\r\nI\'ve said it before and I\'ll say it again - the first step in ANY successful venture... and reaching ANY goal... is a solid plan. A plan is gonna be pretty flimsy without good organizational systems and structure. Now, I don\'t talk much about the behind-the-scenes stuff that goes on with blogging, podcasting, and social media promotion... but the fact that I\'m a world-class procrastinator doesn\'t help me in the slightest. I\'m also... <em>thrifty</em>... to a fault... so historically when I try to implement organizational tools to help myself... I try every free route I can go. While they\'re great in theory... well... to put it lightly... <em>t</em><em>hose have been less than successful for me. </em>So, finally, I caved - I looked into paid options... and came across CoSchedule.\r\n\r\nSo far, it has totally changed the game for me. I\'m still in the process of getting things situated and set up... but it\'s <em>already </em>made life so much easier. They\'ve got a nice little overview video that explains what they\'re about:\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://player.vimeo.com/video/166544659\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://vimeo.com/166544659\">CoSchedule</a> from <a href=\"https://vimeo.com/user52179426\">Garrett Moon</a> on <a href=\"https://vimeo.com\">Vimeo</a>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h2><strong>Managing Drafts Made Easy</strong></h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1298\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CoSchedule_Drafts-300x160.png\" alt=\"CoSchedule Drafts\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" />\r\n\r\nI read something very smart... and I think <a href=\"http://www.relentlessforwardcommotion.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it came from the blog of a friend of mine</a>... <em>\"you don\'t have to publish everything you write.\"</em>. That\'s some of the best advice for a blogger/writer... for a number of reasons (that I won\'t get into right now). Now... just because I\'m not <strong>publishing</strong> everything I write... doesn\'t necessarily mean it should get lost into the void once I\'m done writing it. Looking through my \"all posts\" section on WordPress... I have <em>32 post drafts</em>. THIRTY TWO! Some of them are farther along than others, some are just titles... but <em>thirty two!</em> With CoSchedule... I can finally organize them. Tagging, color coding, and some visual organization... I can actually keep it straight! And, oh, there\'s another useful bit here to help organize things and keep it all moving forward...\r\n<h3><strong>Speed things up with pre-set \"profiles\"</strong></h3>\r\nThose of you who don\'t do this kind of thing might not realize... there\'s an awfully long, time-consuming road between thinking up an idea and having John Q. Public read a blog post or listen to a podcast. For each and every post, article, or episode there\'s a lengthy brainstorming, creation, post-production and promotion process, and honestly, it can be easy to forget something or miss a step. In the normal course of things there\'s only so much you can do to REALLY automate/fast-track that process and all those steps without everything feeling... automated and robotic.\r\n\r\n<strong>Enter \"profiles\" and \"social helpers\"</strong>\r\n\r\nI LOVE the \"profiles\" and \"social helpers\" features CoSchedule provides. \"Profiles\" allow me to set up custom task-lists I can apply to different types of posts. Got a recipe to post? A race recap? Product review? Each different type of post has a different list of things that need to be accomplished - \"profile\" act as a template, with all the tasks I need to accomplish for each different type of post right there. Profiles allows me to specify what needs to happen, and at what point in the production process, ensuring I don\'t move on to the next step without accomplishing everything that needs doing. \"Social helpers\" come into play when the production work is done, the piece is published, and it\'s time to promote.\r\n<h2><strong><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1299\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CoSchedule_Social-Campaign-300x160.png\" alt=\"CoSchedule Social Campaign\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" />Social campaigns all in one place</strong></h2>\r\nOne of the most challenging, scattered, and disorganized parts of blogging and podcasting (for me at least) is the social media side of things. Each different platform (Facebook, IG, Pinterest, etc) all exist in their own little world. You\'ve got to individually visit each one, create your posts, ensure image size is correct, format them correctly, remember your hashtags or @ tags or links or what have you. If you want to schedule out posts, well, most platforms you need 3rd party help to do it, and not every 3rd party scheduling tool works for every social platform (especially not the free 3rd party tools.\r\n<h3><strong>And then there\'s CoSchedule.</strong></h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1301\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/CoSchedule_Wordpress-Edit-Post-300x162.png\" alt=\"CoSchedule Wordpress Edit Post\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" />Everything is <em>right there.</em> Nice and easy, readily accessible, and easy to manage. CoSchedule is so well-connected and integrated with each social platform, particularly Facebook and Instagram, that I can tag people, pages, and profiles right from within the social campaign editor - YES, no doubling back into the Facebook or Instagram apps to tag people or delete hashtags that carried over and I didn\'t need. There\'s also a handy \"preview\" function, where you can actually see what the final post will look like on each social network before you finish and schedule it to post!\r\n<h3><strong>CoSchedule even has a WordPress plugin!</strong></h3>\r\nIt\'s literally built right into my blog/website - beneath each blog post is the social campaign function. I get to see a nice pretty timeline of the social posts for every blog post I create. I can even template out how, where, and when those posts will go with the \"profiles\" feature. Oh - and those \"social helpers\"? You can basically create shortcuts for things you typically include in a social post, like a set of hashtags, a sponsor credit, an FTC disclosure, or anything else you can think of. Instead of having to type the whole thing out each time, you simply pre-program it - when it\'s time to post, you simply type something like {FTCDisclosure}, {healthyeating}, or {thanksponsors}. You can even include those as a part of the \"profile\" so based on your blog post type... <em>it\'s already there</em>. They\'ve just... made it so... <em>easy!</em>\r\n<h2><strong><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1339\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/coschedule-email-screenshot-286x300.png\" alt=\"coschedule email screenshot\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" />Weekly recaps right in your email</strong></h2>\r\nAfter all that work on blog posts, podcast episodes, social campaigns and more... it\'d be nice to have an easy way to keep track of everything you\'ve done... right? Well, it would appear CoSchedule gives you exactly that - and in a nice, neat little package too. I\'ll admit, when I looked through the available features on CoSchedule\'s website... I more or less \"read the headlines\" - I didn\'t notice they provided weekly e-mail recaps of your activity.\r\n<h3><strong>It\'s more than just a recap.</strong></h3>\r\nNot only do I get a recap of the blog posts and social \"campaigns\" I\'ve published throughout the week... I get updated engagement numbers as well! It\'s pretty handy for an at-a-glance look at how my posts are doing. This insight gives me an idea of where to take a closer look... to really figure out what people are responding to. It\'s crucial to know where to look so I can create more of what people <em>want</em> to see, hear, and read... and <em>less of what they don\'t.</em> This is, after all, both an outlet for me and a resource for others... so it\'s gotta be useful for BOTH of us, right?\r\n<h2><strong>This is a game-changer.</strong></h2>\r\nAs cheesy as it sounds, CoSchedule has totally turned my blogging &amp; podcasting game on its head - <em>for the better</em>. I\'m so happy I took the leap and gave it a shot. This stuff is hard enough... every tool we can get our hands on to make it a little easier... well, it makes a difference! If you\'re a blogger (or podcaster) and you feel like you could use a hand... Give CoSchedule a shot! <a href=\"http://coschedule.com/r/119415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow this link and start your free trial now :)</a>','Getting my (blog) life together with CoSchedule','','inherit','closed','closed','','1274-revision-v1','','','2017-08-17 08:53:41','2017-08-17 12:53:41','',1274,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/08/1274-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1352,1,'2017-08-18 11:40:25','2017-08-18 15:40:25','','podcast cover photo','','inherit','open','closed','','photogrid_1487957447633','','','2017-08-18 11:40:51','2017-08-18 15:40:51','',1348,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/PhotoGrid_1487957447633.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1353,1,'2017-08-18 11:41:17','2017-08-18 15:41:17','<h2><strong>It\'s OK... really.</strong></h2>\r\nI talk about myself and what I\'m doing a lot. I suppose it kind of comes with the territory of being a health &amp; fitness blogger / podcaster. I\'m out there to spread info and guidance, much of which comes from personal experience. As much as I talk about myself, though... it\'s been a while since I\'ve really talked about the roots of this whole thing. Since I\'ve gotten REALLY personal... and shared about when I learned how to succeed and transform.\r\n<h2><!--more--><strong>It\'s been 5 years.</strong></h2>\r\nHard to believe (for me, anyway)... but it really has been <em>5 years</em> since my journey began and 4 years since I reached my \"peak\". That\'s an awfully long time, and certainly long enough for people who don\'t know me... to not KNOW I was ever <strong>big</strong>. I kind of have to remind myself it\'s OK to talk about it... that it\'s not an \"attention grab\". Just because it\'s not \"new\" and \"fresh\" anymore doesn\'t make it any less relevant to the very same people it was relevant to 4 years ago - the people trying to do the same thing I did: make a change they think is impossible. <strong>And maybe that\'s you.</strong>\r\n<h2>YES, it\'s OK!</h2>\r\nIt\'s unfortunate, but it seems one of the biggest things stopping people from reaching success is... they think it\'s not OK. People think it\'s not ok to take time away from family or friends to take care of themselves. It\'s not OK to be unhappy with their body. We\'re told we should \"love our body\"... often at the expense of health. And sure, self-love is great, and the mental health benefits are great I\'m sure... but self-love can\'t be at the expense of your actual <em>physical</em> <strong>health</strong>.\r\n<h2>It\'s the same old song and dance.</h2>\r\nI find, pretty often, I end up talking to the men in the room about this. Historically, we\'ve always been expected to be tough, strong, <em>masculine</em>. That didn\'t necessarily mean we needed to be <em>healthy. </em>Heck, I bet you\'ve met plenty of \"big guys\" who are overweight &amp; unhealthy, but strong enough to knock your lights out if you tell them so. And then there\'s our lovely ladies - some women like their men \"soft\" or \"cushy\" like a teddy bear. Most of those women <em>tell </em>their man that. Don\'t worry, this isn\'t a manifesto about the ideals of \"masculinity\" and what it is... it\'s simply a friendly voice who\'s been there telling you...\r\n<h2><strong>YES! It\'s OK!!</strong></h2>\r\nIt IS OK to be less than pleased with where you\'re at! It\'s OK to be unhappy with the state of your health! Now, I realize this is a dangerous conversation to have. Today, we live in a culture of political correctness, hyper-sensitivity, and over-acceptance. When you rock the boat and contradict the \"self-love\" idea people often accuse you of promoting something negative. It\'s as if, by telling you it\'s OK to want more... that I\'m telling you <em>you\'re not good enough</em>. It\'s important to distinguish between the two. Maybe people are so afraid of offending someone that they\'d rather just not broach the topic. So I\'m here to say... YES! It\'s OK!\r\n<h2><strong><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-515\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/beforebefore2-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"Before it all - 305ish lbs\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" />Take a look at your life, your body, and your health.</strong></h2>\r\nAre you happy with where you are? Would a doctor consider you healthy? Are your friends and family concerned for you? These are all important questions to ask, and they (and more questions) are all very important to have a <em>complete</em> picture and make a decision. In July 2012 I did exactly this - I hit a breaking point. I realized I was SUPREMELY unhappy. I was overweight, I had been told for years by my doctor I was obese, and my mom expressed on many occasions that she was concerned. The way I was living was not healthy, and when I reached that breaking point <strong>I was 305 lbs.</strong> It was <em>not good, and not healthy</em>. So I made a choice. August 1st my journey began, and one year later I had lost 130 lbs and completely changed my life. I got <em>healthy</em>, I was no longer obese. My resting heart rate had plummeted to a level my doctor classified as \"athlete\". My blood pressure was solid and I saved my knees. All because I reached a point where <strong>I made it OK to make the decision.</strong>\r\n<h2><strong>Now, I can do <em>incredible, incomprehensible </em>things.</strong></h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-654\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_20161024_153016-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Train Finisher Buckle\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />In about 7 hours (from when I\'m writing this) I\'m going to be toeing the start line of the Anchor Down 24 Hour Ultramarathon in pursuit of my 2nd 100 mile ultramarathon finish. Most people don\'t even know endurance runs like that <em>exist</em>... and when this all started... unhealthy Darrell wouldn\'t have even <em>dreamed</em> of running ONE mile, never mind one HUNDRED. I write my blog (www.SoTHISIsFitness.com) and speak on my podcast (www.SoTHISIsFitness.com/podcast) to spread this around all in the hopes that one more person will hear it. All you have to do is make it OK... and you can transform your health, your body, your mindset and your<em>self</em> and achieve incredible things. So, as I say at the end of every podcast episode...\r\n<h3>The only limits we <em>truly</em> have are the ones we set for ourselves. Get out of your own way, GET OUT THERE, and <em>live life <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">limitless.</span></em></h3>\r\n<em>You can follow Darrell at www.SoTHISIsFitness.com, hear the \"So THIS Is Fitness\" podcast on your favorite app, and on social media - www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness | www.instagram.com/snuffydx | www.twitter.com/snuffydx |<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1352\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/PhotoGrid_1487957447633-300x300.png\" alt=\"podcast cover photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></em>','How to succeed and transform - YES, it\'s OK!','','inherit','closed','closed','','1348-revision-v1','','','2017-08-18 11:41:17','2017-08-18 15:41:17','',1348,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/08/1348-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1354,1,'2017-08-18 11:41:39','2017-08-18 15:41:39','<h2><strong>It\'s OK... really.</strong></h2>\r\nI talk about myself and what I\'m doing a lot. I suppose it kind of comes with the territory of being a health &amp; fitness blogger / podcaster. I\'m out there to spread info and guidance, much of which comes from personal experience. As much as I talk about myself, though... it\'s been a while since I\'ve really talked about the roots of this whole thing. Since I\'ve gotten REALLY personal... and shared about when I learned how to succeed and transform.\r\n<h2><!--more--><strong>It\'s been 5 years.</strong></h2>\r\nHard to believe (for me, anyway)... but it really has been <em>5 years</em> since my journey began and 4 years since I reached my \"peak\". That\'s an awfully long time, and certainly long enough for people who don\'t know me... to not KNOW I was ever <strong>big</strong>. I kind of have to remind myself it\'s OK to talk about it... that it\'s not an \"attention grab\". Just because it\'s not \"new\" and \"fresh\" anymore doesn\'t make it any less relevant to the very same people it was relevant to 4 years ago - the people trying to do the same thing I did: make a change they think is impossible. <strong>And maybe that\'s you.</strong>\r\n<h2><strong>YES, it\'s OK!</strong></h2>\r\nIt\'s unfortunate, but it seems one of the biggest things stopping people from reaching success is... they think it\'s not OK. People think it\'s not ok to take time away from family or friends to take care of themselves. It\'s not OK to be unhappy with their body. We\'re told we should \"love our body\"... often at the expense of health. And sure, self-love is great, and the mental health benefits are great I\'m sure... but self-love can\'t be at the expense of your actual <em>physical</em> <strong>health</strong>.\r\n<h2><strong>It\'s the same old song and dance. </strong></h2>\r\nI find, pretty often, I end up talking to the men in the room about this. Historically, we\'ve always been expected to be tough, strong, <em>masculine</em>. That didn\'t necessarily mean we needed to be <em>healthy. </em>Heck, I bet you\'ve met plenty of \"big guys\" who are overweight &amp; unhealthy, but strong enough to knock your lights out if you tell them so. And then there\'s our lovely ladies - some women like their men \"soft\" or \"cushy\" like a teddy bear. Most of those women <em>tell </em>their man that. Don\'t worry, this isn\'t a manifesto about the ideals of \"masculinity\" and what it is... it\'s simply a friendly voice who\'s been there telling you...\r\n<h2><strong>YES! It\'s OK!!</strong></h2>\r\nIt IS OK to be less than pleased with where you\'re at! It\'s OK to be unhappy with the state of your health! Now, I realize this is a dangerous conversation to have. Today, we live in a culture of political correctness, hyper-sensitivity, and over-acceptance. When you rock the boat and contradict the \"self-love\" idea people often accuse you of promoting something negative. It\'s as if, by telling you it\'s OK to want more... that I\'m telling you <em>you\'re not good enough</em>. It\'s important to distinguish between the two. Maybe people are so afraid of offending someone that they\'d rather just not broach the topic. So I\'m here to say... YES! It\'s OK!\r\n<h2><strong><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-515\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/beforebefore2-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"Before it all - 305ish lbs\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" />Take a look at your life, your body, and your health.</strong></h2>\r\nAre you happy with where you are? Would a doctor consider you healthy? Are your friends and family concerned for you? These are all important questions to ask, and they (and more questions) are all very important to have a <em>complete</em> picture and make a decision. In July 2012 I did exactly this - I hit a breaking point. I realized I was SUPREMELY unhappy. I was overweight, I had been told for years by my doctor I was obese, and my mom expressed on many occasions that she was concerned. The way I was living was not healthy, and when I reached that breaking point <strong>I was 305 lbs.</strong> It was <em>not good, and not healthy</em>. So I made a choice. August 1st my journey began, and one year later I had lost 130 lbs and completely changed my life. I got <em>healthy</em>, I was no longer obese. My resting heart rate had plummeted to a level my doctor classified as \"athlete\". My blood pressure was solid and I saved my knees. All because I reached a point where <strong>I made it OK to make the decision.</strong>\r\n<h2><strong>Now, I can do <em>incredible, incomprehensible </em>things.</strong></h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-654\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_20161024_153016-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Train Finisher Buckle\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />In about 7 hours (from when I\'m writing this) I\'m going to be toeing the start line of the Anchor Down 24 Hour Ultramarathon in pursuit of my 2nd 100 mile ultramarathon finish. Most people don\'t even know endurance runs like that <em>exist</em>... and when this all started... unhealthy Darrell wouldn\'t have even <em>dreamed</em> of running ONE mile, never mind one HUNDRED. I write my blog (www.SoTHISIsFitness.com) and speak on my podcast (www.SoTHISIsFitness.com/podcast) to spread this around all in the hopes that one more person will hear it. All you have to do is make it OK... and you can transform your health, your body, your mindset and your<em>self</em> and achieve incredible things. So, as I say at the end of every podcast episode...\r\n<h3>The only limits we <em>truly</em> have are the ones we set for ourselves. Get out of your own way, GET OUT THERE, and <em>live life <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">limitless.</span></em></h3>\r\n<em>You can follow Darrell at www.SoTHISIsFitness.com, hear the \"So THIS Is Fitness\" podcast on your favorite app, and on social media - www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness | www.instagram.com/snuffydx | www.twitter.com/snuffydx |<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1352\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/PhotoGrid_1487957447633-300x300.png\" alt=\"podcast cover photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></em>','How to succeed and transform - YES, it\'s OK!','','inherit','closed','closed','','1348-revision-v1','','','2017-08-18 11:41:39','2017-08-18 15:41:39','',1348,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/08/1348-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1355,1,'2017-08-18 11:42:22','2017-08-18 15:42:22','<h2><strong>It\'s OK... really.</strong></h2>\r\nI talk about myself and what I\'m doing a lot. I suppose it kind of comes with the territory of being a health &amp; fitness blogger / podcaster. I\'m out there to spread info and guidance, much of which comes from personal experience. As much as I talk about myself, though... it\'s been a while since I\'ve really talked about the roots of this whole thing. Since I\'ve gotten REALLY personal... and shared about when I learned how to succeed and transform.\r\n<h2><!--more--><strong>It\'s been 5 years.</strong></h2>\r\nHard to believe (for me, anyway)... but it really has been <em>5 years</em> since my journey began and 4 years since I reached my \"peak\". That\'s an awfully long time, and certainly long enough for people who don\'t know me... to not KNOW I was ever <strong>big</strong>. I kind of have to remind myself it\'s OK to talk about it... that it\'s not an \"attention grab\". Just because it\'s not \"new\" and \"fresh\" anymore doesn\'t make it any less relevant to the very same people it was relevant to 4 years ago - the people trying to do the same thing I did: make a change they think is impossible. <strong>And maybe that\'s you.</strong>\r\n<h2><strong>YES, it\'s OK!</strong></h2>\r\nIt\'s unfortunate, but it seems one of the biggest things stopping people from reaching success is... they think it\'s not OK. People think it\'s not ok to take time away from family or friends to take care of themselves. It\'s not OK to be unhappy with their body. We\'re told we should \"love our body\"... often at the expense of health. And sure, self-love is great, and the mental health benefits are great I\'m sure... but self-love can\'t be at the expense of your actual <em>physical</em> <strong>health</strong>.\r\n<h2><strong>It\'s the same old song and dance. </strong></h2>\r\nI find, pretty often, I end up talking to the men in the room about this. Historically, we\'ve always been expected to be tough, strong, <em>masculine</em>. That didn\'t necessarily mean we needed to be <em>healthy. </em>Heck, I bet you\'ve met plenty of \"big guys\" who are overweight &amp; unhealthy, but strong enough to knock your lights out if you tell them so. And then there\'s our lovely ladies - some women like their men \"soft\" or \"cushy\" like a teddy bear. Most of those women <em>tell </em>their man that. Don\'t worry, this isn\'t a manifesto about the ideals of \"masculinity\" and what it is... it\'s simply a friendly voice who\'s been there telling you...\r\n<h2><strong>YES! It\'s OK!!</strong></h2>\r\nIt IS OK to be less than pleased with where you\'re at! It\'s OK to be unhappy with the state of your health! Now, I realize this is a dangerous conversation to have. Today, we live in a culture of political correctness, hyper-sensitivity, and over-acceptance. When you rock the boat and contradict the \"self-love\" idea people often accuse you of promoting something negative. It\'s as if, by telling you it\'s OK to want more... that I\'m telling you <em>you\'re not good enough</em>. It\'s important to distinguish between the two. Maybe people are so afraid of offending someone that they\'d rather just not broach the topic. So I\'m here to say... YES! It\'s OK!\r\n<h2><strong><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-515\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/beforebefore2-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"Before it all - 305ish lbs\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" />Take a look at your life, your body, and your health.</strong></h2>\r\nAre you happy with where you are? Would a doctor consider you healthy? Are your friends and family concerned for you? These are all important questions to ask, and they (and more questions) are all very important to have a <em>complete</em> picture and make a decision. In July 2012 I did exactly this - I hit a breaking point. I realized I was SUPREMELY unhappy. I was overweight, I had been told for years by my doctor I was obese, and my mom expressed on many occasions that she was concerned. The way I was living was not healthy, and when I reached that breaking point <strong>I was 305 lbs.</strong> It was <em>not good, and not healthy</em>. So I made a choice. August 1st my journey began, and one year later I had lost 130 lbs and completely changed my life. I got <em>healthy</em>, I was no longer obese. My resting heart rate had plummeted to a level my doctor classified as \"athlete\". My blood pressure was solid and I saved my knees. All because I reached a point where <strong>I made it OK to make the decision.</strong>\r\n<h2><strong>Now, I can do <em>incredible, incomprehensible </em>things.</strong></h2>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-654\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/IMG_20161024_153016-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost Train Finisher Buckle\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" />In about 7 hours (from when I\'m writing this) I\'m going to be toeing the start line of the Anchor Down 24 Hour Ultramarathon in pursuit of my 2nd 100 mile ultramarathon finish. Most people don\'t even know endurance runs like that <em>exist</em>... and when this all started... unhealthy Darrell wouldn\'t have even <em>dreamed</em> of running ONE mile, never mind one HUNDRED. I write my blog (www.SoTHISIsFitness.com) and speak on my podcast (www.SoTHISIsFitness.com/podcast) to spread this around all in the hopes that one more person will hear it. All you have to do is make it OK... and you can transform your health, your body, your mindset and your<em>self</em> and achieve incredible things. So, as I say at the end of every podcast episode...\r\n<h3><strong>The only limits we <em>truly</em> have are the ones we set for ourselves. Get out of your own way, GET OUT THERE, and <em>live life <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">limitless.</span></em></strong></h3>\r\n<em>You can follow Darrell at www.SoTHISIsFitness.com, hear the \"So THIS Is Fitness\" podcast on your favorite app, and on social media - www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness | www.instagram.com/snuffydx | www.twitter.com/snuffydx |<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-1352 aligncenter\" src=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/PhotoGrid_1487957447633-300x300.png\" alt=\"podcast cover photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" /></em>','How to succeed and transform - YES, it\'s OK!','','inherit','closed','closed','','1348-revision-v1','','','2017-08-18 11:42:22','2017-08-18 15:42:22','',1348,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/08/1348-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1356,1,'2017-08-22 12:26:13','0000-00-00 00:00:00','','To eat smart... prep smart! Kitchen Scale Review','','draft','open','open','','','','','2017-08-22 12:26:13','2017-08-22 16:26:13','',0,'http://sothisisfitness.com/?p=1356',0,'post','',0),(1360,1,'2017-08-25 01:07:43','2017-08-25 05:07:43','','STIF #52 podcast cover photo','','inherit','open','closed','','stif-52-podcast-cover-photo','','','2017-08-25 01:08:05','2017-08-25 05:08:05','',1357,'http://sothisisfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/STIF-52-podcast-cover-photo.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(1361,1,'2017-08-25 01:09:14','2017-08-25 05:09:14','<iframe src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5650836/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"></iframe>\r\n<h2>I talk a big game sometimes</h2>\r\nGoing into Anchor Down 24 Hour Ultramarathon... I made a bold statement. I said, just like I did before Ghost Train Rail Trail Race last year, that I was coming for a belt buckle. The only acceptable outcome of the race was a 100 mile finish. I did not finish 100 miles at Anchor Down... and I had to figure something out - how to define success and failure. In recapping the event... I\'m pretty sure, at least in this instance, I\'ve managed to map out the gray area and do just that.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Anchor Down Ultra is an incredible event.</strong></h2>\r\nThis was my second showing at Anchor Down, and it did not disappoint. With a beautiful course, top notch support, and a supportive atmosphere, it\'s tough to go wrong with this race. I could go on for days about this race, but the bottom line is... it\'s simply superb. The course is 2.45 miles through Colt State Park in Bristol, Rhode Island - .95 miles of it is trail while the remaining 1.5 is paved walkways in the park. There\'s minimal elevation gain and a large chunk of the course overlooks Narragansett Bay - yes, right up along the water. It\'s a beautiful course that, despite its relatively short length, you will not get tired of looking at. The aid stations are fully stocked and the volunteers &amp; crew are amazingly helpful - even the vendors show up ready to go! Anchor Down provides all of this in 6, 12, and 24 hour flavors, giving runners an excellent opportunity to flex their muscles and see what they\'re made of. At Anchor Down, you\'ve got one of the best chances you could ask for to succeed. But... what is success here, really?\r\n<h2><strong>Success and failure dance together in the gray area a lot.</strong></h2>\r\nIt always seems so black and white, right? You either did or you didn\'t. You finished or not. Sure, that\'s easy enough to delineate in, say, a marathon - you either crossed the finish and ran 26.2 miles... or you didn\'t. In a 100 mile ultramarathon... you either crossed the finish line having finished 100 miles or not. Sometimes, though... it\'s not that easy.\r\n<h3><strong>The \"</strong>24 hour<strong> ultramarathon\" is a perfect example.</strong></h3>\r\nIn a 24 hour ultramarathon... there is no set distance you must hit in order to \"finish\". There is not typically a pre-determined, hard-and-fast threshold you must pass in order to achieve success in such an event. So, in a race where you \"finish\" when you simply do not continue running, whether by choice or by time limit... how do you define success? How, in that situation, do you determine if you have failed or not?\r\n<h2><strong>It\'s all about the objective... and whether you \"did it\" or not.</strong></h2>\r\nIn a 24 hour ultramarathon, the goal is to \"go\" for as long as you can... get <em>as far as you can</em>... inside the given time allotment. So... ultimately... success depends on whether or not you did that. <em>Did you</em> go as far as you could? Can you say with confidence that, within reason, you gave it a complete, whole, uncompromising effort? Or did you stop when you still had something left to give.\r\n<blockquote><strong>\"I wanted to quit because I was suffering. That was not a good enough reason.\" - Marshall Ulrich</strong></blockquote>\r\n<h2><strong>That\'s the difference - that\'s what defines \"failure\".</strong></h2>\r\nWe can\'t quit just because something is difficult. We can\'t give up, stop, and go home because we\'re uncomfortable. There\'s a cheesy line that flies around the fitness industry - \"success lies outside your comfort zone\". It\'s so prevalent because it\'s so true - we don\'t progress, grow, and change for the better by sticking to the safe and comfortable. Without challenge, adversity, and discomfort... there\'s no need, no <em>imperative</em>... to improve. If we never have something more difficult to achieve, there\'s no need to rise to the occasion... because there IS no occasion TO rise to. SO, in the dark, ugly depths of your ultramarathon \"pain cave\"... that dark place that only those of us who take on endurance sport have discovered... that is where some of the most profound change in the human experience can occur. The rest of the population, those who DON\'T do endurance sport, can experience it too - in a less extreme, more attainable way. None of us, however, can experience it... if we quit. If we... give up because we\'re suffering, and it\'s hard, and it hurts... even though we could have kept putting one foot in front of the other. THAT would be to fail - to give less than we\'ve got to give, and to forfeit the change and growth we were fighting for. To be and to do less than we are capable of.\r\n<blockquote><strong>\"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.\" - Steve Prefontaine</strong></blockquote>\r\n<h3><strong>Maybe that\'s why I keep running marathons and ultramarathons. </strong></h3>\r\nBecause I not only want to give it my best... but I want to see what my best really is. I want to fight for success and know what it really means. I want to experience it, viscerally - to feel the demons of failure clawing at my heels as I kick them off and crawl towards success. Perhaps, in some sick way... I enjoy the challenge, the fight, and the exhausted heap I become at the end - the state in which I finally enjoy the fruits of my labor. And so... here I find myself... preparing for my next endeavor - my return to Ghost Train Rail Trail Race on October 21st. Because despite the pain I know full well waits for me between the start and finish lines... I just can\'t shake how badly I want to fight through it to earn success.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A recap of my race at Anchor Down 24 Hour Ultra</li>\r\n 	<li>How to define success and failure</li>\r\n 	<li>A roundtable discussion on the overall experience at Anchor Down Ultra, and big Ultra in general, with my crew - FitWife Megan, Mom and Dad</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.AnchorDownUltra.com\">www.AnchorDownUltra.com</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/08/why-do-we-run-and-what-does-it-take.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">So THIS Is Fitness Podcast #51 - \"Why do we run... and what does it take?\" (Anchor Down preview &amp; interview with Jay Paganelli) </a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/bed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get $100 off your new Leesa Mattress! Sleep better, recover better.</a></li>\r\n 	<li>Audible (by Amazon) - Start your free 30 day trial of Audible now and get a free e-book!\r\n<a href=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/click.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\"><img src=\"http://www.audibletrack.com/impression.track?CID=102175&amp;AFID=419140&amp;ADID=1213654&amp;SID=\" border=\"0\" /></a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<iframe src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5650836/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"></iframe>','How to define success and failure - Anchor Down Recap','','inherit','closed','closed','','1357-revision-v1','','','2017-08-25 01:09:14','2017-08-25 05:09:14','',1357,'http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/08/1357-revision-v1.html',0,'revision','',0),(1362,1,'2017-08-25 01:21:03','2017-08-25 05:21:03','<iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5673175/height/90/width/500/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/f59d0f/\" width=\"500\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n<h2><strong>I talk a big game sometimes</strong></h2>\r\nGoing into Anchor Down 24 Hour Ultramarathon... I made a bold statement. I said, just like I did before Ghost Train Rail Trail Race last year, that I was coming for a belt buckle. The only acceptable outcome of the race was a 100 mile finish. I did not finish 100 miles at Anchor Down... and I had to figure something out - how to define success and failure. In recapping the event... I\'m pretty sure, at least in this instance, I\'ve managed to map out the gray area and do just that.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span><!--more-->\r\n<h2><strong>Anchor Down Ultra is an incredible event.</strong></h2>\r\nThis was my second showing at Anchor Down, and it did not disappoint. With a beautiful course, top notch support, and a supportive atmosphere, it\'s tough to go wrong with this race. I could go on for days about this race, but the bottom line is... it\'s simply superb. The course is 2.45 miles through Colt State Park in Bristol, Rhode Island - .95 miles of it is trail while the remaining 1.5 is paved walkways in the park. There\'s minimal elevation gain and a large chunk of the course overlooks Narragansett Bay - yes, right up along the water. It\'s a beautiful course that, despite its relatively short length, you will not get tired of looking at. The aid stations are fully stocked and the volunteers &amp; crew are amazingly helpful - even the vendors show up ready to go! Anchor Down provides all of this in 6, 12, and 24 hour flavors, giving runners an excellent opportunity to flex their muscles and see what they\'re made of. At Anchor Down, you\'ve got one of the best chances you could ask for to succeed. But... what is success here, really?\r\n<h2><strong>Success and failure dance together in the gray area a lot.</strong></h2>\r\nIt always seems so black and white, right? You either did or you didn\'t. You finished or not. Sure, that\'s easy enough to delineate in, say, a marathon - you either crossed the finish and ran 26.2 miles... or you didn\'t. In a 100 mile ultramarathon... you either crossed the finish line having finished 100 miles or not. Sometimes, though... it\'s not that easy.\r\n<h3><strong>The \"24 hour ultramarathon\" is a perfect example.</strong></h3>\r\nIn a 24 hour ultramarathon... there is no set distance you must hit in order to \"finish\". There is not typically a pre-determined, hard-and-fast threshold you must pass in order to achieve success in such an event. So, in a race where you \"finish\" when you simply do not continue running, whether by choice or by time limit... how do you define success? How, in that situation, do you determine if you have failed or not?\r\n<h2><strong>It\'s all about the objective... and whether you \"did it\" or not.</strong></h2>\r\nIn a 24 hour ultramarathon, the goal is to \"go\" for as long as you can... get <em>as far as you can</em>... inside the given time allotment. So... ultimately... success depends on whether or not you did that. <em>Did you</em> go as far as you could? Can you say with confidence that, within reason, you gave it a complete, whole, uncompromising effort? Or did you stop when you still had something left to give.\r\n<blockquote><strong>\"I wanted to quit because I was suffering. That was not a good enough reason.\" - Marshall Ulrich</strong></blockquote>\r\n<h2><strong>That\'s the difference - that\'s what defines \"failure\".</strong></h2>\r\nWe can\'t quit just because something is difficult. We can\'t give up, stop, and go home because we\'re uncomfortable. There\'s a cheesy line that flies around the fitness industry - \"success lies outside your comfort zone\". It\'s so prevalent because it\'s so true - we don\'t progress, grow, and change for the better by sticking to the safe and comfortable. Without challenge, adversity, and discomfort... there\'s no need, no <em>imperative</em>... to improve. If we never have something more difficult to achieve, there\'s no need to rise to the occasion... because there IS no occasion TO rise to. SO, in the dark, ugly depths of your ultramarathon \"pain cave\"... that dark place that only those of us who take on endurance sport have discovered... that is where some of the most profound change in the human experience can occur. The rest of the population, those who DON\'T do endurance sport, can experience it too - in a less extreme, more attainable way. None of us, however, can experience it... if we quit. If we... give up because we\'re suffering, and it\'s hard, and it hurts... even though we could have kept putting one foot in front of the other. THAT would be to fail - to give less than we\'ve got to give, and to forfeit the change and growth we were fighting for. To be and to do less than we are capable of.\r\n<blockquote><strong>\"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.\" - Steve Prefontaine</strong></blockquote>\r\n<h3><strong>Maybe that\'s why I keep running marathons and ultramarathons. </strong></h3>\r\nBecause I not only want to give it my best... but I want to see what my best really is. I want to fight for success and know what it really means. I want to experience it, viscerally - to feel the demons of failure clawing at my heels as I kick them off and crawl towards success. Perhaps, in some sick way... I enjoy the challenge, the fight, and the exhausted heap I become at the end - the state in which I finally enjoy the fruits of my labor. And so... here I find myself... preparing for my next endeavor - my return to Ghost Train Rail Trail Race on October 21st. Because despite the pain I know full well waits for me between the start and finish lines... I just can\'t shake how badly I want to fight through it to earn success.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>For the full chat on this check out the podcast episode on <a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iTunes here</a>, on <a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android here</a>, or on the web player at the top &amp; bottom of this post. </em><em>Don’t forget to hit “subscribe”!</em></strong></span>\r\n<h3><strong>What\'s in this episode:</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>A recap of my race at Anchor Down 24 Hour Ultra</li>\r\n 	<li>How to define success and failure</li>\r\n 	<li>A roundtable discussion on the overall experience at Anchor Down Ultra, and big Ultra in general, with my crew - FitWife Megan, Mom and Dad</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Interested in working with Darrell?</strong></h3>\r\nIf you don\'t live in Attleboro, or don\'t have an Anytime Fitness near you... consider working with Darrell anyway! Darrell is accepting Virtual Training Clients - it\'s about as close as you can get to working with him one-on-one <em>in person</em> without actually BEING in person. If you\'re ready to make a change and have it stick, e-mail Darrell@SoTHISIsFitness.com for more details.\r\n<h3><strong>Episode Resources</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.AnchorDownUltra.com\">www.AnchorDownUltra.com</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://sothisisfitness.com/2017/08/why-do-we-run-and-what-does-it-take.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">So THIS Is Fitness Podcast #51 - \"Why do we run... and what does it take?\" (Anchor Down preview &amp; interview with Jay Paganelli) </a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Connect with So THIS Is Fitness</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sothisisfitness\">Facebook</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/snuffydx\">Instagram</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.instagram.com/cardisandcardio\">The Fitwife\'s Instagram!</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.twitter.com/snuffydx\">Twitter</a></li>\r\n 	<li>E-mail - podcast@sothisisfitness.com</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Listen to the So THIS Is Fitness Podcast</strong></h3>\r\nTo listen, you can either use the player below OR browse the following links:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/so-this-is-fitness/id1185769801?mt=2&amp;ls=1\">iPhone / iTunes - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://subscribeonandroid.com/sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Android devices - Subscribe</a></li>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.libsyn.com/rss\">Subscribe via RSS</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3><strong>Support the show by supporting our sponsors!</strong></h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><a href=\"http://www.sothisisfitness.com/bed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get $100 off your new Leesa Mattress! 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