How fit you think you are vs how fit you actually are

So, tonight I learned a valuable lesson. For the past ten years plus I have played five a side soccer on a monday night. Put on a bit of weight over the last two years after I moved out but never felt terribly unfit.

Anyway, a few weeks ago I decide enough is enough and hit the diet properly. At the same time I enlist the help of my sister's partner, a qualified PT, to put me through my paces and help me get trim. I thought "no problem, he'll ease you in."

"Right Chris. 30 mins of explosive movement training."

F*ck.

What followed was five minutes alternating between half and full speed on the stair machine, followed by 5kg weight step ups, 10kg kettle slam and fifteen second on the spot running as fast as possible. Then another 3 circuits of that adding another 5kg each time. Finally, 10kg squats and ten burpees (jumps into pressups).

I feel like a Rhino has jumped on me and given me a damned good shagging. It is simply unbelievable how unfit I actually am!

Kids, if you ever use a personal trainer, expect no quarter. They are out to hurt you.

Chris Pratt to play me in the movie.

Yeah, just put myself through something similar the other weekend. HIIT, to be exact; you need to do burpees of escalating difficulty each minute up to 10 minutes, 12 reps each. So, 10 sets of burpees.

My being on a caloric defecit that day, I think I nearly passed out--and I'd put myself as moderately active. So yeah, most people are unsurprisingly pretty unfit.

I murdered my triceps last night.

They are ded.

If you work out in any vein, you end up conditioning yourself to be a certain style of athlete. If you can perform your daily duties without being constrained by your physical fitness, I'd argue that you're fit.

As for me, I'm not really fit for a fit guy right now. I'm very one dimensional as someone who runs to stay in shape. I can knock out 5-10 miles without any problems, but 30 minutes of HIIT style workouts would stuff me in a locker. When I was 20 (100 years ago), I could lift weights all day but would need oxygen any time I ran over 1/4 mile.

I caused the death of a fridge.

Though to be fair it deserved it cause I got equally busted up.

I used to weight lift a lot and was pressing like 200 lbs on average or some nonsense like, but that was back in High School.

Long ago since then.

Now I just make sure to stay in some kind of shape and work out here and there doing sets of push ups on my push up bars.

I think working out is a good way to stay healthy/stay in shape so keep up the great work guys.

I'm trying to transition myself back into a full range of athleticism. It takes a lot of time when you let yourself go as badly as I did.