My Home Workout Story:

I Don’t Have Money

I Don’t Have Time

Can I Really Get In Shape?

That’s the question I asked myself about a year ago, at the beginning of my home workout journey. After several years of working full time while going to school for a career change and trying to maintain a relationship, life had gotten pretty crazy.

I wasn’t taking good care of my body. I was eating too much fast food and exercising very little. One day, I stepped on the scale:

“231 pounds?!?”

A few years before, I had returned from a three month surfing adventure weighing around 190. At that time, I felt lean, fit, and full of energy.

After gaining around 40 pounds, I felt fat, slow, hungry, and in need of a nap!

I had less and less energy for the things I used to enjoy.

Was this weight gain and loss of energy just an inevitable part of aging? I had entered my late 20s, and I had read how most people gain weight as their metabolism slows and they slowly exit the ‘prime’ of their life.

I saw this in my friends. They had quickly gotten fat and lost their youthful vitality as the demands of work, family, and relationships overwhelmed them.

I knew that if I didn’t change anything, I would continue to slide down this slippery slope of weight gain, lack of energy, and eventually health problems like heart disease and diabetes.

I had to find a way out.

I thought, “What are my options?”

To make things more complicated, I was suddenly unemployed and living off of my savings. I didn’t have money to join a gym, let alone pay for a personal trainer, special equipment, or supplements. To top it off, even without a job, I was still so busy that I had, at most, 30 minutes of free time a day for a home workout.

I was overwhelmed. With so little time and resources, how could I get fit?

I then asked myself an important question:

“Did I gain 40 pounds overnight?”

The answer was, of course,

“No!”

I gained that weight little by little, day by day.

I decided that’s how I would get back in shape.

I made a commitment to take small, consistent steps towards getting fit, starting at where I was at the moment.

After doing a little bit of research, I realized that working out 30 minutes or less, a few times per week, was MORE than enough to get back into shape. By combining these exercise efforts with some changes in diet, I could make this happen!

So that’s what I did.

No gimmicks, no fad diets, no ‘secrets.’

Well, actually, the secret is this: make consistent effort toward your goal, and you will succeed!

Just chip away, day by day, week by week.

A little over a year later, I have lost nearly 30 pounds, gained muscle, strength, and energy, and feel like I am in the best shape of my life!

So, here for you on this website is all the information I have used to accomplish this over the past year.

I don’t have all the answers, but I will present what has worked for me. Try it for yourself. If it works, great! If not, try something else!

But either way, make a commitment to transform yourself. And, realize from the beginning that it’s not going to happen overnight.

Take your time, but get busy!

Good luck!

-Ian