How to become an "iron man". part №0

Fizkult hi! This Soviet sports to cry can not reflect my state of mind the last year and a half. Triathlete and novice Ironman - it's all about me. I - Alexander Shedrov from the suburbs of Riga, I'm 34 years old, father of two young children.

As a specialist in lighting, about 10 years ago, opened the family business in the electric Design and has since slowly but surely going in the direction of the stress, nerves, vanity, unnecessary aggression. To say that I am a novice athlete would mean at least an easy inaccuracy in terms. From the early age I fanatel football and in the presence of cottages by the sea more than a dozen years in a row spent the summer months kneading heels warm sand near the heads of tourists.

At fifteen, my fledgling youthful heart pierced arrow Amur..ikanskogo basketball genius of Michael Jordan. I woke up only after 5 years from the trauma of the meniscus in the doctor's office, claiming that it is trifling, and after 3-4 weeks I will continue to plow open spaces of a three-pointer. Happy ending will not. It took a year to fix the words and actions of the specialist is very well-known in Latvia, among other things, numerous pictures, rehabilitation procedures and another operation. World collapsed - it's about me at the time. A man who did not pay attention to girls, and only know, carrying her bag in any weather on two transports through the city and back every day at seven in the evening to practice. The verdict of second-clever doctor was harsh - sports you can take no more, at least at the level at which you plan to ...

It has been 12 years. As the line from the credits of the film. Time passed very good reason. Free up time and energy, I sent in a sensible direction. Unlearn in Riga, Moscow, gained experience. Sometimes, I'm glad to attacks of rationalism that all this happened, because otherwise the best thing I could now count, it is to sit on the "bank" in the top league or be a coach of the Latvian regional unpromising on a global scale for basketball 300 "Rubles".

I always weighed before marriage is not small - 85 kg with height 177cm and family life, I was the rule rather than the exception. I quickly became a member of hundreds, but not the Forbes billionaires, and electronic tsiferok on the scales, I belonged. The muscles and ligaments of the left leg atrophied and ordinary life became a problem for me. Stairs, rain, rise up from the sofa, to go somewhere for a walk - all it meant severity, pain, laziness, bad state of health. And then there's quite inappropriately specialist manualist version of "one-treat another cripple", which was designed to eliminate the nerve terminal in the ribs. If my luck in the areas of health, you can not mention about the severe pain and shoulder crunch at the time of breakthrough in the 15-degrees below room.

But there is a silver lining. Year Promuchavshis shoulder, I just stopped using it. Hand clearly lost in the size of its counterpart. So that there is in size. I could not even throw a ball into the ring from the shield in the yard. Until it was time "ENOUGH" - December 15, 2011. Swimming pool. The first 25 meters. Shortness of breath. Kilometer. Kopeck piece. I realized, that's it, there are sports that I would have to do, I like them, you just have to try a little bit. Get over yourself. Somewhere you active low? I know you're somewhere in there, I could not lose you, you're just sleeping. I have to wake you up!

January 15, 2012 I started my crusade, as someone will be convenient - or to a new life or elastic his fat piece of yourself - thanks SuperStasu of the Comedy Club for such accurate, smashing both the rapier, statements.

In this post I will not deal with the details of the campaign, use the re-editing function, as it is worthy of a separate series on weight loss and nutrition. One thing I can say - with the jersey number of NHL legend Wayne Gretzky 99, I took off for the year to 24 kilograms! And, of course, a diet there has not been.

Enthusiastically engaged in swimming, I did not notice as the spring has come. And if the street is still zapestrilo zelonenkim, blue and yellow, the vastness of the Internet have been filled with articles about healthy living, sport and so on. And, as often happens, I came across an essay about triathlon. What is it? Can not be? I'm already 2 years as a ride to work on my start an old-Highway... It's the same... It is with these dots like a swarm of bees in a hive about another dangerous sports fan Puzzle in my head. So I needed to just learn to run evenly forward? "Just". Well, simple.

To be continued.

UPDATEAlexander finished full distance IRONMAN in Barcelona, ​​October 5, 2014 for excellent for amateur 10:00 43 minutes and 2 seconds.