Purpose

The long road home.  I thought this statement appropriately summarized the purpose of this blog.  You can take it as you will, but my intention is to convey a sense of journey and destination.  I've created this blog with just those concepts in mind.  I wish to convey information and (possibly) inspiration through my own journeys to various destinations.  The quest for fitness will take you to many different destinations if you let it.  I began my first quest just to be less fat so I would be attractive to the opposite sex.  I've had goals ranging from being physically the strongest mathematician at my company (I think I accomplished that one...lol) to mitigating certain health conditions to which I am genetically predisposed (I'm sodium sensitive with a predisposition to high blood pressure).  Along the way I've learned a lot & hopefully folks who read this will take some lessons from my experiences.

I wish to make something clear as well.  Although my journey began as an obese person, the lessons I've learned apply to all fitness journeys regardless of origin.  I've helped skinny guys put on quality muscle weight, I've helped women become stronger and leaner ("toning" and "firming" are actually phrases describing building muscle and burning body fat), and of course I've helped obese people become leaner.  Although each of these journeys starts at a different place, the destinations all have something in common...people generally want to become healthier, more robust individuals capable of doing more than they can currently.  Increasing one's fitness is a way to achieve this and getting stronger is one of the foundations of fitness.  In my opinion, there are five foundational components to general fitness...strength, speed, stamina/endurance, flexibility/mobility, and power.  Agility, balance, coordination, and reaction time are all skills worthy of developing to certain degrees depending on individual pursuits, interests, and/or goals but I don't consider them cornerstones of fitness.  Regardless of your goals (fat loss, muscle gain, sport specific), increasing the five cornerstones of fitness will go a long way toward helping you achieve them.