This is how football should make you look.
Football season is officially here, and as you root on your favorite team I want you to keep one thing in your head. In fact, envision my mean fitness pro face wagging my finger and barking “Football makes you fit, not fat!” It is NOT OK to use a ripped group of elite athletes as your excuse to eat and drink with reckless abandon. It is NOT OK! The pure notion that this athletic event requires fried chicken, fatty burgers, fried chips, fatty dips and endless amount of beer is not OK. Especially, if you have any sort of standards for your physical fitness and health. Now I’m not telling you not to have fun, I assure you I’m not. I’m a GATOR and I think our reputation for having fun will back that up. You just have to have fun in a way that doesn’t leave you with a beer belly and heart disease, got it? Plus, a pro like Peyton Manning would kick your tail if he knew you were using his hard work and success to blame for your slacker behavior. Kirk Herbstreit would just LOVE to report about that.
Let’s start over this fall, and find ways to enjoy football without a bizarre mission to wreck yourself. For starters, if you have such a grand obsession with the sport and the amazing athletes who play the game, get your a** out on a field and run to catch a ball. Get a group of buddies together and act like Emmett. Run, tackle, throw, catch, become like the heroic running back you idolize. Football is not an excuse to gain weight, clog your arteries or drive drunk.
Love to tailgate? Get some lean beef patties, boneless skinless chicken breasts, a fruit platter, and baked chips. It’s not rocket science to enjoy the day in a healthful way. Just make a decision to do so! Love beer and revel those ten weeks a year to knock some back while watching the game? Fine. Just choose light beer, and don’t sock away a case of it.
I want you to have fun. I want you to wear your favorite colors, and go bonkers with your buds. Football rocks and it’s an awesome reason to celebrate. Just avoid becoming the ‘typical’ shirtless, beer bellied, hooha fan! It’s just not necessary. Do what I ask you to do this fall, and we’ll schedule a pick up game in the spring. You can be skins!
What tactic do you use to ensure the football experience doesn’t make you pack on the pounds?
**Just so you know … I’m rooting for ALL FANS to take care of their bodies, while enjoying the most fun time of year! Go Seminole fans! Go Bruin fans! Go Buckeye fans! Go Irish fans!Go Cowboy Fans! Go Steeler fans! Go Saints fans! Go Tiger fans! Go Dolphin fans! Go Jaguar fans! Go Jet fans! And on and on and on …..
Tim Tebow Photo Credit: JeffreyBeall on Flickr.com
