He's in Pretty Good Shape

This was said about me yesterday...yes ME! I am still in shock. My wife and I went to an Orange Theory Fitness class together yesterday. Its a high intensity interval training program. Its not easy, you are soaked in sweat afterward. But the whole thing is based on getting your heart rate into the "orange" which is where your metabolsm gets cranked up. you can check it out at http://www.orangetheoryfitness.com

Anyway my wife has been going for several months now and this was my 2nd class and 1st with this instructor. He is great at going around and telling everyone what to fix and stepping up their treadmill, yelling at them on the rower stuff like that. He barely said a word to me. i thought it was because I was the new guy and he was going easy on me. He is my wife's favorite instructor. She was talking to him aftward telling him he can get on my case too that I wouldn't be offended. His response was I didn't need to, he was doing it all right and he's in pretty good shape. He had no idea at all that I was a former fat guy and 6 months ago couldn't walk to the mailbox without getting short of breath. Talk about NSV. My wife was pissed.

At one point I was racing my wife on the rower and he looked at her monitor and he said wow that the hardest I've seen you work you are going to beat him, then he looked at mine and said, "Oh, no you're not, that's the fastest I've ever seen." Being a classic non-athlete I was taken back. Just about everyone else in this class was more fit than I was. My brother in law was in the class and he's been a runner his entire life and I was keeping up with the kardashians!

Just thought I would share!

Congrats, that is great!! I can't imagine how good that feels! You deserve making that wife of yours a little jealous haha... a little competition is a good thing! :)

Thanks, looks like you are well on your way!

What a great NSV. Maybe those people in the class are not fitter than you. You are always working your ass off!

That is an awesome NSV! You work hard in the gym and it is showing!

Keith, you are a peace of awesomeness.  :)  What a great NSV!!!  You go get them tiger.

Classic non-athlete?  I think you need to re-evaluate that perception :)

Oh no, I will never be an athlete. Given a choice of going out and throwing around a football or watching a movie, I will take the movie every time.

Awesome NSV!!!!

What a cool NSV, go you! They just opened an Orange Theory Fitness by me, I've been dying to check it out!