A Fitness Transformation

A Fitness Transformation

在过去的几个月中，许多人在这里分享了他们的个人健身旅程，所以我认为分享我的旅程也是合适的。我们所有人都从不同的地方开始，并出于不同的原因开始，但是我们的最终目标都是相同的。为了提高我们的功能健身，成为我们可能成为最好的消防员。

多年来，我一直在健身旅行车上。我意识到身材不仅对我的健康很重要，而且是成为消防员的极其重要的部分。我会去健身房几个星期或几个月，然后突然生活似乎陷入困境，我会发现自己喜欢很多人，然后再也没有。

One day in January of this past year I woke up and honestly had just had enough. I had watched the scale creep up over the prior months (there must be something wrong with it!) and suddenly it was reading a little over two hundred pounds. Most would say "what's wrong with that?", but for me it was heavy...very heavy. I would wake up in the morning and I would hurt, I had no energy and looking back on it now I just didn't feel good. I was borderline hypertensive, and I had a nagging acid reflux problem that forced me to take prescription medication daily.

So, I had all of these problems before me but the question I had to ask myself was what was I going to do about them? I began research on how I was going to fix this problem, and not temporarily I knew it had to be for good. Just going to the gym and doing a little of this and a little of that was not going to cut it any longer. I had long known that boxers are in fantastic shape. I spent long hours researching boxing and figured that it would work well being a firefighter. I hit the web, found a reputable gym close to home and made the call. Soon after, I participated in a free class. When I arrived I noticed the difference immediately. There were no weight machines, just a few dumbbells. No row after row of treadmills or elliptical machines; in their place were jump ropes. There was a row of heavy bags and an array of speed bags. Wow, was this was going to be different.

我知道我不是最好的shape and was not sure quite what to expect. As class began and progressed I realized what I had long known: This was not going to be easy and to be quite honest, I ran out of gas quickly. Somehow I made it through though, and I noticed a few things:

• 那里的每个人都很好！
• 没有典型的“健身房态度”。
• 参加班级的每个人都互相启发和激励彼此。

I had convinced myself that a boxing gym was going to be an intimidating place and it was actually quite the opposite. I was soaked with sweat for the first time in a long time and I felt ALIVE!

在接下来的几周内，我发现自己每周上三次上课。我意识到的是，尽管他们是出色的锻炼，但他们并没有专注于实际的拳击技巧。这些课程旨在使您工作。他在上课后与一位讲师交谈时向我解释说，他们可以进行一对一的锻炼。我认为如果我要这样做，我实际上将确切地了解为什么拳击称为“甜美科学”。

那是我自己开始学习这项伟大运动的旅程的一天。有些人认为它是野蛮的；但是，您必须意识到自己可以处于最佳状态，而不必踏上戒指。您不一定要成为拳击手，但是像一个拳击手一样，这是一个好主意，它直接适用于消防员的功能健身in many ways!

我已经学到了步法，刺戳的艺术，调节练习，快速袋工作，重袋工作，跳绳，打孔组合，角度等等。我不仅对参加这项运动的人表示了极大的尊重，而且已经意识到为什么这么多人绝对喜欢它！

反射回去，我已经意识到这种条件是有多好，可以提高消防员的功能健身。

• 它会建立耐力，敏捷性，并使您在脚上点亮
• 它建立精益功能性的肌肉力量，
• 它增加了您的灵活性
• It makes you思考在您工作时。拳击也是一项运动头脑as it is for the身体，and thinking while you are working is such an important trait for a firefighter.
• 这也很有趣！

Over the last eight months, coupled with revamping my eating habits (that is a subject for another article):

• I have lost close to 25 pounds
• 我的血压显着下降
• 我不再每天服用胃酸反流药物
• 我的能量增加了十倍
• 我有一个新发现的心理清晰度
• I wake up in the morning feeling great

如果您发现自己处在我所处的情况下，我敦促您对此做些事情，并从今天开始！没有人会为你做。您需要为您和您的家人做。在接下来的几周和几个月中，我将通过博客文章和视频与您分享一些我学到的练习，why they are good for you as a firefighter,以及几乎没有设备几乎任何时候可以在任何地方进行的操作。让您今天开始的新旅程！

如果您有任何疑问，或者想了解如何开始拳击调理计划的更多信息，请随时与我联系。

这篇文章是由纽约州长岛Dix Hills消防局的前二十名消防员功能培训小组成员消防局局长罗伯特·弗林（Robert Fling）撰写的。