Mind, Body and Spirit!

There is so much that I love about my gym. I workout/train at our YMCA. The YMCA is a Christ centered gym with the goal being to promote a healthy mind, body and spirit! I love this aspect of my gym. Most places focus on the body alone, but to truly be healthy we have to have balance in all three.

When you walk into my gym, it is like walking into a friend's house...everybody is friendly and supportive from the front desk staff or the trainers and instructors. People know you by name and want to know what you are doing and how you are doing...goals and dreams are encouraged and assitance if availiable. The classes are challenging, but fun..you will laugh and cry in the same class, but come out knowing you have worked your body, relieved some stress and had a moment to reflect on the awesomeness of our God! I love this! I look forward to the thought and verse that is read at the end of classes!

Starting Monday, my gym is starting a new challenge...Mind, Body and Spirit Challenge. You have to track weekly on a board at the gym what you have done for the Mind, the Body and the SPirit. You have to workout for 2.5 hours a week and then complete challenges in the other areas...if you read my blog and follow my workouts, you know that most days I work out close to 2.5 hours so that is not the challenge for me. I am taking on this challenge to focus more on my mind and spirit...

True health is a balance and I don't believe I can say I am a healthy, fit person when the focus is just the body...so for this challenge I will be making time to deal with feelings and emotions, challenge my mind in new learning adventures and spending time daily with my God in worship, prayer and/or Bible study.

I am not dropping my other challenges to do this, I am incorperating them all together...

My personal summer challenge was to try new things and push my body to a new place. I have and am doing this...I have added zumba, cardio dance, kick boxing, power hour, swimming and cycling to my workouts this summer. I will continue to find new ways to challenge myself through out the summer.

FabFit Challenge is for me about getting my nutrition where it needs to be for me. I am working on this by finding what I enjoy eating that works to fuel my body effectively and allows me to eat enough to support what I am doing in workouts...To continure my Tri Training.

The the Mind, Body, Spirit challenge will be more about challenging my mind and spirit...

All three challenges work together and are running the rest of the summer.

I am in the middle of packing and preparing for a move within the next couple of months, so I am not going to say I will post daily, but I will blog as often as I can about where I am at and what I am doing...maybe daily at times...just depends on the time I have to work on it...

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… it’s learning to dance in the rain.”