Its beginning to look more and more like the Lions have an opportunity to another Superbowl. Those are words I never expected to ever see in my life time.
Growing up, Ive never had much of the interest to watch professional sports. My dad was a tinsmith and general motors, and he was more into auto mechanics and machines and never got us much into sports.
We did have neighbors up the road who were big into athletics and they would occasionally be playing sports with us like basketball or baseball. I even would ride my bike (when I was a kid) behind one of them while they would run. I think he later became a state trooper for the police. Good people, I miss seeing them.
Just about the only sport I got much into was soccer (football for those in the uk and around the world). I played recreational as a kid, and would get into it at elementary school.
As for today and most recently, just about the only thing athletically I was big into was weightlifting. I started young like many, growing up. In my bedroom I had a couple free weights and a bar with a couple 10lbs and 5lbs weights. I started to develop a little routine with that, and eventually got a membership at a small gym that was available from a local church.
At the time I was working at MSU and I would pick up my friend and we would go there after I got out work.
Later into my life I was at Guiding Light and we would go to the ymca and they had a small gym at the facility. During that time I started to get my numbers up on the bench and doing squats. Nothing groundbreaking but I was able to rep out 225lbs and got a personal best 1 rep of 325lbs on bench.
I was getting a little too much into it, and that is when I suffered a injury of a torn distal bicep. I had to have surgery, and they re-attached the tendon from my elbow to the bicep on my left arm.
I also was able to run and complete a 5k. This was the first time I ever was able to complete any size of a run. It was hardly a run and more of a jog for me. But I will tell you, after that, I felt like I was dying. I was still smoking at the time.
Currently today, I do just calisthenics and using my bodyweight. I did suffer several shoulder and elbow dislocations. Had to have surgery on my right shoulder twice.
I do experience pain from time to time, but it comes and goes. I think I might need a complete shoulder replacement operation sooner or later. But the surgeon says, it wont happen till much later in my life, I am 40 now.
The current apartment I am at has a gym, so I hope to get into there routinely and get back into some weight lifting.
Alongside this I intend to enter back into school for IT or Electrical, anything where I can get some assistance and get myself certified and guaranteed a career. In the meantime I would like to find part time work, and hopefully eventually get off of social security, so I can better provide not only for myself, but most of all for my son.
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