Results of 9 months of blood, sweat, and tears!

Nine months of blood, sweat and tears has now passed!  I am surprised that I have survived this long in the program.  I may have mentioned in passing that it has not been easy at times.  No, I can't say the trainers really work us that hard however it is more about the commitment and the motivation to workout.

I have been dedicated to this research project.  I have not missed one workout since I started in the program.  Not sure actually how many work outs that has been - but it's been a lot of them.  I worked out when I was in Austin, Texas at a conference for a week and I worked out when I was on vacation for a week in the summer with scorching heat.  I was out there jogging and sweating.  Sometimes I had to put my mind in auto pilot because there were MANY distractions while away from home having a good time.  I made the choice to put my exercise plans 1st and committed to them just like this program.  Do you think this has helped?  I'll let you be the judge. 

Here are my fitness results after 6 months.  At the start of my program my VO2 rate was assessed as 27.5 and fell in the fair category for my age.  At my 6 month assessment my VO2 rate was 31.4 moving me into the good category.  Yesterday on my 9 month assessment Vo2 rate was 35.45 moving me into the excellent category.  I still have 3 more months to go and am wondering where will I go from here???  Is there another category about excellent - what's it called - Super Duper?  Or perhaps Senior Super? 

I don't think that I look excellent so perhaps there is another area that I will need to look at.  One would think that someone one that was in the excellent category would have a certain appearance wouldn't they?  Perhaps someone that is in the excellent category would look like one of those particularly fit athletes that are displayed on those fitness magazine.  Maybe I have read the wrong fitness magazines?  Is there something I'm missing are there fitness models in the elderly fitness magazines?  Are there elderly fitness magazines?  Could be a whole new category of magazines that we are missing in this age of the coming of the baby boomers wave!  There has got to be something to understand what someone fit at this age is supposed to look like.  It appears that there are no visual role models for us to aspire to.

Monday next week I am off to Hawaii for a vacation.  The first thing I asked my sister "is there a gym near by?"   I will be working out in Hawaii one way or another and am already thinking that perhaps that everyone in the program should have the opportunity to workout in Hawaii!  What do you think?

Tomorrow night I am attending the Beta Trial event and have been asked to participate.  I'll be updating shortly on this exciting evening!  We will get to meet the staff of the Beta Trial, the sponsors and others that support and run the program.  Hope to see you at this event!