I am going to be honest here. At one point in my life I hated to run. That all changed one day when I was 13 and I was transformed into a kid who hated running to a kid who was fully devoted to developing my running abilities, training through the snow, rain, and any other obstacles I faced. I trained like that for 20 years until my body could take it no longer. I was so run-down at the end of my 20 year career that I couldn’t go jog an easy 30 minutes without having to do a substantial amount of running. So last January I retired from professional running, but I found I was still craving physical challenge. So I got into weight training. Now, another confession: when I was running I hated doing weights and I only did the bare minimum I could get away with and never upper body weights as I was afraid to bulk up. However, I found that I loved the daily challenge of weight training. I could go hard everyday, which I couldn’t do in running, so I naturally loved it.