Fitness Saturday #4

Another good week, slight improvement in my 5K. But my pants are falling down, and I have to wear my belt tighter belt – so that is a sign in itself.

I was inspired to improve my fitness in part by this post from and Fear and Greed Daytrader:

Being disciplined to maintain a healthy weight through exercise can become a transferable skill to being a disciplined trader. If you can’t stick to a simple plan of regular exercise how can you expect to be able to be really disciplined in other areas?”

You see, I’ve struggled with exercise and healthy eating all my life. When I was in college, my room mates would eat anything and were rail thin. Even back then if I had an extra piece of pizza, I knew it the next day.

So staying fit has been by far one of my hardest challenges over the years – I haven’t been able to stick to a new way of daily living despite like a dozen false starts. HOWEVER, I think becoming a good trader will even take more work and will be harder than staying fit. So if nothing else, putting the work in to be a better trader will make whipping my body into shape look easy – I hope.

I do have more energy and can focus better; and I’m already feeling more self confident….I’m hoping the fitness improving results will be a leading indicator for my equity line from trading going up!