Who am I?
As I mentioned in my first blog, I want to introduce myself and share a brief background of how I got to this point.
My name is Vincent Bizzell. I was born in 1992 and grew up in a city called Hays, KS. Most of my childhood years were spent in and out of hospitals. It was very unfortunate, but I had an amazing mother who took care of me through it all, and I am very grateful for it.
This site I am creating uses the title, Bizzell Fitness. This is one of my biggest passions in life. Fitness. Now looking back on my life, I can say honestly it always has been a huge inspiring factor through it all. As a child, I heavily played youth soccer and baseball. I loved sports, or did I? In middle school, I participated in a few sports. Football was okay, maybe it was due to my petite stature and skinny nature I just couldn’t enjoy it like others did. Or maybe it was because I never had any experience pre middle school where others had. So I gave basketball a try next….with the same thought and outcome. Through all of those I found my first passion.
Long distance running.
Now, I know, it sounds like something a psychopath would enjoy, running for miles. Something in the way you could just…be free with any thoughts or problems. I continued this through high school, running Cross Country and track. My weight, which throughout high school maybe maxed out at 115 lbs, really helped with this as I was lean and very fit.
Fast forward to after high school. I had no clue what I was doing with life, nothing really prepared me for it anyways. I remember I had picked up a book, called Body by Design, written by Kris Gethin. I thought, what could it hurt, I weigh 115 soaking wet, and was tired of being this small guy. Over the span of 5-6 years, thanks to the first time picking this book up, following various programs from Kris, I was able to get myself to place I loved. This book ignited this fitness journey and passion.
During that time from 2011 to 2016, life was perfect. I had a physique I loved-kind of, damn body dysmorphia-found my literal best friend and moved to a bigger city. Not huge, but bigger. Did some personal training, worked, and enjoyed life. Personal training was okay, but where I worked, the pay just wasn’t there. And being in a new city, trying to find our footing.
Then covid came around.
Since covid, work, and life, I had fallen off quite a bit. Physically, I had a dad bod without being a dad. Mentally, I was drained from work, the pandemic, and societal norms. I hadn’t been consistent in the gym. There was no motivation. This is where my last post comes in. I really had fallen out of love with fitness and thought I wouldn’t get it back ever again. But at the time, I wasn’t too mad or hurt. I missed everything about it, but I had married my best friend and loved spending the time with her when we weren’t at work.
So here I am now, I am almost a solid year consistent in the gym, and I feel better than ever. Physically, mentally, emotionally. Honestly, I couldn’t have done any of it with my best friend, my wife, Tamara. So thank you and I love you more than you could know.
Sappy, right? That is my TL:DR of from there to here. There are many more details, but I won’t bore anyone reading this today. If you want to hear more, I plan on making few of my posts about what I have had to overcome, health wise, to get to this point today.