My life without wheat, television and S.E.X.

It's been quite awhile since I've been able to update my blog as we're heavy into the racing season and my time on the road away from my office is significant. I thought an update would be appropriate on some things in my life that I either recently got started or recently eliminated from my life. The first being Serious Extreme Xross training (S.E.X). Sure, I've been a triathlete for the last 20+ years and I've been Xross training - however, after 20+ years of swimming, biking and running this no longer is Xross training - it's just normal training that my body has totally adapted to. In an earlier blog I wrote about taking on the P90X challenge with my good buddy Randy Lehrer. I started the P90X challenge the first week of February and successfully got through the 90 days and I experience amazing results. I was blown away at 40 years old that I could do an exercise and see such significant results - from the obvious physical change my body went through to the psychological gains I made coming from getting stronger as I was getting older. I now implement P90X workouts in my weekly routine year round and am looking forward to S.E.X. to help me age more gracefully.

About the same time I started the P90X routine I found out I was gluten intolerant - well that explains a lot of things (constant gas, many trips to the bathroom daily, etc...). Gluten intolerance is an allergy from anything made with Wheat. This created a significant problem as most of my diet was wheat based (pasta, energy bars, pizza, cookies, beer, etc...). How in the world was I going to continue training, working and racing with little to no carbs? Well - I soon found out that there are many other options (healthier) that soon replaced the old wheat rich diet. White rice replaced pasta, more fresh fruit and veggies replaced cookies (obvious benefit), and some things I just could not eat which I soon realized another benefit - weight loss. I started the new diet in February at 172 lbs and this week I am a much fitter 158 lbs all by simply changing my diet NOT restricting my diet. The benefits from a wheat free diet are many even for endurance athletes. I encourage everyone to read up on this topic and see if maybe some of your "mystery" symptoms are just a simple wheat allergy gone undiagnosed.

And lastly I continue to live my life without T.V. and I (along with my family) continue to receive incredible benefits. This is also an update from an earlier blog which I stated my family gave up T.V. in September 2009. I now can happily update that even my children have acclimated to life without T.V. I no longer get the questions of when are we getting the T.V. back or why can't we have T.V. - it's just not part of our lives anymore. I'm now on my 5th book since last fall and I recently completed an incredible book that all endurance athletes MUST read "Born to Run". An inspiring book that will motivate you to run longer and take a totally different outlook on buying your next pair running shoes. My current book is the "Art of the Start" a great book for anyone starting any kind of new business, church, club, non-profit or organization.

Bring it!

HFP Man