Gordon poised for action. 🙂

It’s been a long time since I’ve published another Exercise Hero Interview, so it was about time I got this out. 🙂

This time I interviewed a runner called Gordon (from the United Kingdom) who keeps a blog named Run for Your Life. He is also the first male Exercise Hero in the series. 🙂

What is remarkable about Gordon is that he started running at age 54 and is still running at age 80. And he’s  not only running, he is still winning races.  [Read more…]

Aimee is a marathoner

I’m glad to finally introduce you to the fourth Real-Life Exercise Hero – Aimee of “Amazing in Motion” fame. 🙂 Aimee belongs to the slighly intimadating group of atheletes  (intimidating in my mind)- marathoners – even though she claims she started as a non-runner.

I absolutely love the name of Aimee’s blog and also her tagline which says: “I’m a mom, a wife, a nurse and now I’m a runner…catch me if you can!”  🙂

I also found it especially inspiring how Aimee takes pains to schedule exercise into her busy life as a mom, wife and employee.

But read for yourself.

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Why did you start exercising? How long did it take before you started liking it?

I feel like I’ve always tried to incorporate exercise into my life because I’ve been overweight for as long as I can remember. Exercise for me was always associated with attempting to lose weight.

I joined the gym about 9 years ago. At that time walking and light strength training were my main forms of exercise. I love to walk and I could walk quickly for long periods of time. I would be diligent for a time and then I would slack off for days at a time. It was always difficult to start again. [Read more…]

Welcome to the second interview in the Exercise Hero series.

Exercise Hero Series features real people who have transformed themselves from coach potatoes to exercise heros who can inspire the rest of us.

This time I feature one of my favorite fitness bloggers, Marion Shaw (43), from Wisconsin, USA.

Marion calls herself  “Girl Monster” and I sometimes call her “Marion the Amazon”. 🙂 That is because she’s able to do 160 lb bench presses and uses 40 lb dumbbells for bicep curls.

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Why did you start exercising? How long did it take before you started liking it?

I started exercising about 3 weeks before my 39^th birthday because I was actually scared of the poor physical shape I was in while heading towards my 40^th birthday. During this time in my life, I cried about how fat I was quite often. I was not doing anything more than short walks, while eating way too much junk food each day. (In my 30’s, it was not unusual for me to drink 5 cans of soda pop along with candy each day.)

I decided that I was going to give myself the best 40^th birthday present ever– a fit healthy body. And I did!

I was a paying member of the gym for about 2 years before I actually started going regularly. At that point in time, I absolutely hated going to the gym, probably because I went to the gym often enough to get very sore, but never enough to overcome that soreness and get in shape. [Read more…]