Work and wellbeing
There’s deep meaning in the name of this blog – Legally Fit. The big picture is that it felt like a name that defines my journey – one of a lawyer who managed to change his life from sedentary to active all in the context of a busy work schedule. At its core, this is a fitness blog where I share all that I have learned on my path to a heathy lifestyle. But the lessons in here speak to much more than advice on working out and eating. They come from years of struggling with balance between work and life. And that is why the very first word in the name is about work. Everything I’ve accomplished or failed at in this fitness journey is in the context of managing my career as a lawyer.
Dare to Dream
Much of my fitness focus this past week has been shaped by one event . . . Rory McIlroy won the Masters! Congrats, Rory! It’s been a long time coming, and of course, it couldn’t come any other way than the most stressful golf I’ve ever watched. An appropriate ending for your dream of winning the career Grand Slam and achieving golf immortality. Reaching your dream – especially in the way you did it over these years, and over the Masters weekend – taught me, and so many of us to dare to dream!
Man plans. God laughs.
Having just been caught in the moment of New Year’s and setting our goals for 2025, it’s now time to toss them out the window – if we haven’t already. I mean, seriously, when it is a challenge to even predict a day ahead, how can we possibly predict the year ahead? We can all probably look back to one year ago and see how impossible that is. As the old Yiddish adage goes, “Man Plans. God laughs.”
How I make time for fitness
The idea of telling someone else how to fit fitness into their schedule seems a bit preachy to me, and that’s certainly not what I am aiming for here. Everyone is different and there’s no one size fits all answer. But there are some common elements that fit most of our routines that can help work fitness into a busy schedule.
100 putts for charity — and a reminder that “it could be worse.”
Today I am not going to write about my journey. Rather, I will tell the story of someone else’s – Skylar Friedman. Mine pales in comparison to Skylar’s, and it is a story like his that puts everything into perspective.
But first, let me say that the reason I am doing this right now is to bring attention to those who treat rare fetal illnesses and to raise money for a truly noble cause. One that Skylar and his golf pro, Adam Laird, started to give back to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) for the life-saving treatment that Skylar received there.