During my whole childhood I was doing every kind of sports activities.
My first real sports experience was Judo.
I started doing Judo when I was 6-7 years old and did it for 3-4 years.
My achievements:
- Greenbelt, two stripes
- A lot of 2nd places
- Only 1st place.
However, we got a new coach after three years, and we couldn't get along with him. Most of the group ended up with a new sport; almost everyone stopped Judo.
Ice Hockey
There were kids with 2-5 years of Ice Hockey experience in the team, so I had no chance of getting in the lineup for the league in the first year. Surprisingly, I made it to the 3rd line after a year of hard work and training.
My first season wasn't great, but after that season I made it to our first line. I became a fix member of our first line as a Right-Defenseman. My original position was Left-Wing, but I felt comfortable with every role. (Besides goalkeeper, because I never tried it.)
(I thought long hair was cool. It was horrible. I couldn't see because of it sometimes, and keeping it clean was just too much effort. I was 11-13 that time, but never again.)
(Grey helmet on the left.)
End of Ice Hockey and my sports career.
I would say I was good in Ice Hockey; I was even invited to the national team qualifications, twice.
Unfortunately, my knees got injured from overcharging and running a lot on asphalt. My cartilages in both my knees were damaged, and I couldn't do any sports activities after that.
As you could expect I started gaining weight as I stopped the stopping intense training from one day to another.
My average week contained 4 training on the ice and at least 5 off the ice and one or two matches each week.
On ice training were 50 minutes long or 1:40 hours. Off the ice, training was 1 hour or 2 hours long. It depends if it was in the gym or another kind of training.
But it's finally over!
I want to change my life, and I feel motivated enough to do it.
A few days ago, I started doing the 5000 squats / 1000 push ups challenge. I'm doing good so far. For the squats, I'm also using 5-10kg bonus weight, because the workout is only good if it hurts.
I don't want to overcharge myself again.
But I'm doing kettlebell training besides the squats and the push-up challenge and I'm also running with Maya (my Husky) each day.
I used to run 4km under 17 minutes when I was an Ice Hockey player, but with my knees, I'm fine with this time.
I lost a bit over 5kg in the last few weeks, and I do not plan to stop for a moment.
I got a lot of motivation even from Steemit and made me think it's time to change.
The next chapter hopefully will be me as a sled-dog racer.