Back full swing, sort of.
While I am a huge advocate of exercise that is organized and planned out, I am also a huge sports fan. Today was the start of baseball, well sort of. My sons play and today we started winter hitting practice. Remember as a kid when you just went and did. You played baseball, skipped rope, hide and go seek, and just ran to run.
I think we need to get back to that youthful mentality. As adults we become calorie counting, treadmill running, heart rate monitor wearing individuals in order to achieve a certain goal. There are times when we just need to go to go. Go golf, go swim, go for a walk, go be active. No calorie counting, no heart monitor wearing (unless doctor recommended), what is the point of being fit and healthy if you are not enjoying it.
Here is why I love being a fit and active dad. This Spring I will take hour long stretches of throwing pitch after pitch to a 9 and 11 year old. I will hit ground ball after ground ball. I will throw fly ball after throw ball. I will run after errand throws, demonstrate 500 times how to properly chase down a ball in the gap and how to round second base. I won't count calories burned, but count myself blessed. Blessed that I have the health and energy to do these things, which was not always the case.
I exercise and eat right so that I spring and summer can be spent giving my best at the ballpark, because they deserve my best....
What activities can you do or do better because you chose fitness? POST IN THE COMMENT SECTION
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