YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD!!!!!
1:25pm Tuesday 11th March 2008
Hi everyone, pleased to be part of the blogging team, this is new to me, so here it goes.
So I’m going to start off with a complex question ‘When does the body start to tire’? being a former Personal Trainer to various celebrities and many individuals, that is a question
that I have been asked on a few occasions and is hard to answer.
I have been very fortunate to have been involved in Fitness for near enough 32 years and have always kept myself fit, it has only been since 1995 that the Stamina and Endurance bug took over my body,
and since I have achieved 2,500 Press Ups in 1 Hour in 1995 to 3,000 Sit Ups in 1 Hour in 1999.
At this present moment of time I am considering going for 2 World Record attempts in the next 12 months, both over the dreaded 1 Minute barrier, the Press Ups and Sit Ups.
Not easy, but what my training has taught me over the years and more especially over the past 20 years is that fitness in general is not just physical but most importantly mental, or what certain
individuals would class ‘in the mind’…, the number of times my body felt like giving up but then all of a sudden my brain is telling me not to give up but carry on!!! I have a
special inner belief of not knowing when to give up, and it is this that I instil into others that I train.
I work at a Pupil Referral Unit based in Leominster as a PE Teacher for young adults between the ages of 14-16 years, all have individual problems whether it be social issues to violent behaviour to
drug related problems, the list is endless…
These are kids that are literally given up by society and various governing bodies as no hopers, and as such being a PRU we end up with them as we are seen as a last resort for them to gain some form
of qualifications and life skills to enter the big wide world. Individuals like myself who work with these young adults are in my eyes the unsung heroes of the education world as we don’t get
the recognition that other establishments get within the system…
The reason why I have brought this issue up is because when I was in school back in the 1970’s Physical Education was a major subject in the school’s curriculum, and we were all
encouraged to participate in sport, whether it be Football, Rugby, Gymnastics, Athletics, the majority of us loved it, today’s youngsters are more interested in kicking a football, some hardly
have the energy to run 20 meters let alone the length of a football pitch. I can still run the backside off the young whippersnappers in this world and will do so for as long as I can keep my body in
good shape!!!
I often take part in the indoor Football sessions at a local sports centre, and I can go non stop for 3 full games where most of the youngsters haven’t the energy to last 15 minutes, so does
that mean that I have far more better stamina now than when I was younger, they say when you get older you tend to resemble a vintage wine and maybe that is the case with me, whilst I may not be as
strong in certain departments as I used to be, my body has adjusted more in terms of controlling my breathing much better, I treat my body like a temple..and the result of it all is that I am in damn
good shape, so the adage of all of this is quite simply ’I may well be another year older (well St Patrick’s Day that is) but I am sure wiser’…You’re never too
old!!!!!
GED MUSTO