This is a tricky post to write. Part of me wants to write this in the slightly impersonal style of fitness blogs that I’ve enjoyed reading, such as Arthur De Vany and BodyScience. But so far every attempt I’ve made to write in that style hasn’t read back at all well. So I’m writing in the first person, as me. Without using sarcastic humour and swear words in an effort to impart some form of urgency to my writing. This is a first for me, so it’ll be good to see how this turns out. Bear with me if the quality of the writing isn’t too high to begin with. Ordering my thoughts is often difficult for me, for whatever reason. If I’m lucky, then eventually this will resemble Free the Animal, Primal Wisdom and Theory to Practice, blogs that I massively admire.
So, moving on. Facing Thirty. I’m currently 28 and a half years old. Essentially I’m writing this as a means of chronicalling the next 18 months of my life, when I hit my third decade. Physically I think thirty probably marks the point where exercise and diet cease to become ‘development of the body beautiful’, and moves more towards to the ‘damage control and maintenance’ end of the spectrum. At least, that’s what conventional wisdom would have you believe. Some of the things I’ve been reading lately challenge that view, but I’ll need to read a lot more (and undertake a lot of documented self experimentation) before changing my world view.
So before I hit the point of no improvement, I’d like to get myself into a satisfactory physical state. Which means a range of changes in diet, exercise and lifestyle. Facing Thirty is a chronicle of my attempts to make those changes.
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