Let’s be honest here, I miss Utah.

I miss the girls from the Blend Retreat, my long lost twin, the beautiful mountains, the non stop fun, and GPP Fitness.

I’ve already shared my love and thoughts about GPP with you earlier this week, but I have to elaborate a little bit more…

I’m seriously down right in love with it!

I truly believe that GPP will provide me with the balance that I need in my life. For so long I’ve been focusing solely on lifting weights. I haven’t done any cardio in over a year and a half – I’ve only been lifting weights, but where is the balance in that?

When lifting weights I focus on gaining strength, but I also focus on gaining muscle. So I guess you could say appearance is highly valued when weight lifting and muscle building. However, I’m starting to realize that that’s not the healthiest way to approach fitness and your overall health…

My current routine was based on 4 workouts per week which included lifting heavy weights, doing 5 – 6 exercises per workout for 6 – 10 reps each set, but as a good friend of mine pointed out… how does that serve all aspects of my health?

It doesn’t.

But, if I implement GPP into my life I will become more balanced as it’s approach is functional and much more practical than what I was currently doing.

I’m always striving to be the healthiest me I can be, so now that I’ve been introduced to GPP and educated on it’s philosophy, I will be switching my usual strict weight lifting only routine to the much more balanced workouts from GPP.

Yesterday I did my first solo GPP workout. It was called Bookends 2.0

It took a lot of convincing myself to do this workout on my own as I feel doing these workouts with a group is a lot more motivating, but I really want to include GPP within my life, so I talked myself into it and ended up loving every moment! Sure, I felt a little naughty running since it was my first time running in over a year and a half and I have it drilled into my head that “I shouldn’t run”, but I am going to trust Neil, his knowledge, and all of the scientific programming that goes into each GPP workout!

This picture is a picture of me before my very first solo GPP workout

I’m going to use this as a progress picture as Candice says “GPP looks good on!”

I want to become am image of health and for people to look at me and say, “She’s fit!”
I’m tired of focusing on gaining muscle. I want to gain balance in my life, over all health, and “reap all of the physical benefits of life” as they say at GPP. And however my body responds to that is how it is meant to be!

So today I’ll do the GPP WOD for May 23rd called Fab 50 and continue to do the workouts each and every day after today, too!

To prove just how much I have fallen in love with GPP within only a matter of days I have some exciting news to share with you! I will be attending the GPP Intensive Training which takes place in July to become a certified GPP Trainer! I can’t wait to visit Utah again, stay with Candice, and become more knowledgeable about GPP! A new adventure awaits me and I am thrilled!

Do you think your workouts and fitness routine are providing your life with balance? What will your workout be today?

Love love love,

Meg xo

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