Everyone has gone through it in their lives. At one point or another, they were in good physical condition. Maybe it was all the way back in junior high because of PE class. College? Until you got married? And then…life happens. A career. Family and kids. Car accidents. Injuries. That physical fitness level you once has since turned into a couch potato vegetating in front of the TV with a bag of fast food for dinner ready to watch the lastest episode of LOST. Too tired to even cook a healthy meal, let alone do a workout like P90X or INSANITY.

In the last year on Facebook as I’ve been sharing about my journey back from a car wreck and living the Beachbody lifestyle, I’ve had the joy of watching many friends from high school, my Beachbody customers and fellow Beachbody Coaches find that spark of motivation to change their lives through fitness. They’ve taken action to move from that sedentary lifestyle and started on the path to get back in the fitness routine.

It’s been even MORE exciting to see their changes! Whether they’re following The Biggest Loser workouts, CrossFit workouts, a running plan, or just walking around the block…they’re getting active! Taking control of the reigns of the health. Not only today, but their health and physical fitness for years to come!

I myself am getting back into a fitness routine. Many of you know I’ve been in the process of healing from the wreck over two years ago that has left me with 3 herniated discs in my neck. Late last year, I completed a very modified version of P90X. I was thrilled to be active again and was looking forward to seein’ my 6 pack abs again in the new year. At the beginning of 2010, I started the P90X Lean workout routine with the P90X DVD’s.

Then disaster hit. Ending my third week into the P90X workouts we found out our water heater had been leaking and ruined the flooring in the bedroom, under the stairs and a portion of the living room!

So everything we had just moved into the house the month before had to be moved upstairs into the loft and out to the garage. Then the carpet was ripped up, the sub-flooring ripped up. We then find the water damage in the sheet rock…there goes the walls too. Sooo…there was nowhere in the house to do my P90X workouts.

My daily P90X workouts then became a combination of walking and running at the gym. Push-ups and pull-ups…you know the basics of physical fitness. And my good ol’ 35lb kettlebells I had just purchased. I wanted to continue getting back in the fitness routine and wasn’t going to let lack of space get in the way of my commitment to myself. So the space in the door frame of the utility room was my home fitness gym.

A week later, the dehumidifier had finished it’s job and the remodeling started. Six plus weeks after the chaos began, the house was put back together. And that door frame & I spent 20-30 minutes a day…hangin’ out. haha Seriously, nothing was going to stop me from getting a workout in. I had committed myself to getting into the best physical condition I could. Like my wristband says:

Basically all I’m sayin’ is…life is life. Even if it throws some challenges at you, you have to be committed to what you want to do. You don’t stop altogether just because you’ve had a set back or face seemingly overwhelming odds. Regardless if it’s being 20 lbs overweight, missing a workout, 6 months of workouts…heck even if you ate the rest of that half-gallon chocolate mint chip ice cream. Oooh, or those ice cream bars!

We are given 1440 minutes a day…we make choices how we’ll live them out.

Fitness is a lifestyle choice. Beachbody is a lifestyle choice. You choose to be active, you choose to eat better. Day by by.

Yesterday is just a memory and tomorrow isn’t a guarantee…but what choices we make today can deeply influence what tomorrow will be like when it comes.

Getting back in the fitness routine, working out and eating healthy is a choice. It’s a commitment to change. It’s a lifestyle with struggles early on to find a rhythm in living, to be consistent in eating, working out…but then, after a while, the fitness lifestyle is no longer a struggle…it becomes routine.

What are you doing today? What habitual routine are you doing?