Here's a photo of Jessi and I running the Colorado Half-Marathon. We started training in January. I've been a "runner" since I was 21. So, I guess you can say I started training back then. The race was on Mother's Day. I didn't stop running after the race. I still run. What's my point?

I often get asked about what it means to exercise or work-out for a lifetime. Sounds daunting, huh? Well, it is if you think of it as a lifetime. It's not if you consider fitness as just part of your daily life.

In other words....exercise/working out/or whatever you like to call it is much more likely to stick when you do it for the sake of doing it....not so much for some sort of end point. I often see people start an exercise program in order to lose weight or tone-up. Good reasons. But, what happens when you achieve that end-point, or even don't achieve that end-point? Do you stop exercising? This is often the case because exercise was a means to the end and if the end was met or not met (either way), then there is no more need to exercise.

Instead, exercise because it is fun, feel goods, a social outlet, improves your confidence....you get my drift.