Pure Fitness Training Blog: My Story

Why I Do What I Do

When I was in my mid-twenties I was fairly aimless. I had graduated college with a degree in History and had been working as an auto mechanic to pay the bills. In retrospect, the most valuable skill learned during those years was how to fix a car, and the most valuable lesson was that I did not want to manually labor the rest of my working life.

So one day I decided to quit the auto shop, take a two month sabbatical from working, and apply to graduate school for History. It was during the first two weeks of my first semester in graduate school that my most life-changing event to date occurred: my younger sister (and only sibling) passed away suddenly. She had just turned 21, and left this world in January 2002, on Martin Luther King, Jr. day.

I was already regretting my decision to start back to school, so when the tragedy happened I had an ironclad excuse to quit, so I did, leaving me once again with no direction, and pretty darn sad on top of that.

In the fall prior I had started getting into exercise, and when Katie died exercise became my outlet, my way to escape reality. It was the only thing that made me feel good, and my interest in the physiology behind exercise was sparked as I began to consume information on the theories behind running and training in general.

Still aimless from a career perspective and hurt from the loss, it became clear to me that I needed to spend my time on this earth doing things I enjoyed, not things I am forced to do. I enjoyed exercise, I enjoyed learning about how the body adapted to exercise, and slowly it became clear that this should be my next career path.

I looked into the Master?s program in something mysterious called ?Exercise Physiology? that was offered at U of L. Despite my complete lack of a science background, I was accepted into the program and began in the fall of 2002. Initially, I was lost, failing, and considered dropping out. I stuck it out, however, and finished the two year program at the top of the class.

Since then the road has taken me many, many places, settling now as a college professor and business owner, with a special interest in improving longevity.

A career in exercise/health is ideal for me for two main reasons: first, because I absolutely love it, and second, because it involves helping others. Both of these make me happy, and that was the goal after my sister passed away- to do something that made me happy.

The opportunity to help people improve their health, to possibly help them extend their lives by taking steps to avoid chronic diseases that reduce lifespan, allows me to feel like I am doing something to help others avoid the tragic situation that I had to experience- losing a loved one before his/her time.

Source: http://pure-ft-blog.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-story.html

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