Doing a Barrel Roll

[EnygmaEve]

Hi there, new here and stuff.

I'm former Army, but I've never really been good at running. And the Army doesn't really do anything to teach you proper running style besides parking a screaming drill sergeant behind you. As such, I completely destroyed my body from the waist down.

Fast forward to now, and I think I'm ready to go more hardcore. Stuff has healed for the most part, but I've lost a lot of strength from all that doing nothing I've been engaged in since.

I put on weight, starved myself, lost it, got GI issues, gained it back, all within the last 4 years.

I'm ready to kick out my scale and just focus on getting super strong. Ready to see if I can learn to run the RIGHT way and do it pain and injury free.

So far, I bought the ChiRunning book and have been studying that, and I am looking into signing up for a weightlifting class at my local community college because I am TERRIFIED of trying to learn stuff like the deadlift on my own for fear that I'll injure myself.

I joined a gym around 3 weeks ago and have been going 5-6 times a week. I signed up for swim lessons because I'm a really REALLY crappy swimmer and I want to learn how to breathe while swimming so I can do laps in the pool and that sort of stuff.

I found this community through someone on Fitocracy, and as a life-long nerd, I hope to find a home here

[tigersheart]

Well welcome aboard!

You will find tons of helpful people here, and the same amount of excellent advice. We all have different ways of exercising/eating, but it all meshes together very well, and I am sure you can find what works for you.

Stick with it, and take it slow and easy one step at a time