This journal is not just about physical fitness, but it's about emotional and spiritual fitness too. The mind and body are not separate systems, but they work together, each having an impact on the other. I may feel the need to share feelings and emotions with you as well. Of course, bearing my soul to the entire world is risky business. So it's important that I show good judgment and reveal only those aspects of my inner self that are appropriate for this type of forum.

This fitness journal is a mirror of the AOL blog I started recently entitled "Basketball Diaries." I'll post content in both places to reach the largest audience. In fact my first entry here will consist of the content I have already posted, just to get everyone caught up. I hope the journal is a valuable resource for you. If anything, this journal will let you know there is another person out there in the world dealing with the same issues as you, struggling with those aspects of the modern world that conspire to make us flabby, physically and emotionally. Feel free to share through your email program, and if in my editorial wisdom and with your permission, you'd like to see your comments online, I'll post them for the world to see.