Shawn Bowen's Fund

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Mission Possible

I work at a fantastic company, Heartland Payment Systems. Our CEO has created a "Fitness Club" for all interested employees which consists of free salads daily for lunch, aerobics classes (my fav is Hip-Hopercize by Tanika of TNT Fitness), and a state of the art fitness center packed full of the newest and best weight training equipment, as well as a Playroom for the times that you have to bring the kiddos along to your workout sessions. We are tracking our weight loss, and at the end of the 20+ week contest, members of the club have a chance to win either an all expenses paid vacation to Hawaii, tickets and a trip to the Superbowl, or a $5000 gift card for a new wardrobe. Our company is very good to their employees.

The days of making excuses are over. It is time to lose weight, get fit, stay lean, and live longer. One of my coworkers, Teddie, has convinced me (somehow) to meet him at the gym at 5:30 a.m. tomorrow morning to workout before we have to report to work at 8. I'm not sure how he talked me into participating in this early morning torture session, but I've committed to being there. Thanks to Corrie, who selected the equipment, I will be utilizing muscles tomorrow that I didn't even realize I had. I'm hopeful that this time around, my body will not go into such shock, and I won't feel quite such a burn for the next few days. Please don't make me relive the left calf incident from last week. I hobbled around for days until finally, my leg didn't feel like a "Charlie Horse" was coming on.

When the exercise starts paying off, I'll be sure to post some "After" pics. There is a skinny girl instead just dying to get out and strut her stuff.

2 comments:

Beth, Joshua, Isabella, McKinley and AnnaKate said...

I wanna come work for this place... ;-) how was the workout??

Beth, Joshua, Isabella, McKinley and AnnaKate said...

you inspired me.... I joined the gym today!