My anniversary to my beginning

This week marks my one year anniversary of starting strength training with a trainer. I was lucky enough to know my trainer because he was also my counselor. His philosophy was to have a healthy body, mind, and spirit. Bryce was starting his new life journey by setting up his life coaching business, Legacy Life Training. When he shared this news with me I knew that one of my prayers had been answered. I had prayed for a person to show me how to get stronger physically after I had spent one year getting emotionally stronger. Bryce opened that door for me and I walked through with some conditions. My main condition was that I wanted to have him show me a 20 minute all-body workout that I could do in my own home so that no one would see me. I didn't think that I could do more than 20 minutes 3 times a week. And I knew that I could never workout in front of others. I felt safer doing it all by myself. I smile as I type this because one year later I have made my way into a gym working out in front of others, although I realize that no one is watching me because they are busy with their own workouts. In March I ventured into the gym to use heavier weights than I had at home. I had never squatted, dead-lifted, or bench-pressed with free weights.  Earlier this summer Bryce challenged me to set some goals that were big enough to scare me. So after some thought and wavering back and forth with myself, I decided to train and compete in a local power-lifting competition in July of 2015. Boy is that a change from a year ago. Now I am reading power-lifting books and watching videos from other female lifters to learn the correct form and rules of competition, and using Bryce's training and my research to write my own training plans for the 3 lifting disciplines I am training for.
I realize that writing is not my passion, but keeping track of my journey is something that I want to do so that I can see my own progress, physically and emotionally. During my training session with Bryce today he suggested that I blog about this leg of my journey. So here I am writing my first post in my very own blog. I want to track my mental workouts, as well as my physical workouts, as I train for my end goal, the Show-Me Games in July 2015. I expect that I will use this blog to work through my "blocks", vent through my frustrations, and celebrate my successes. I invite whoever has worked for a challenge that scares you so much that you get queasy just thinking about it to check in with me every once in awhile. As I get started in another new venture, blogging, I see new fears popping up, but I feel that this will be a good challenge to tackle too.