That's Fit

American Idol doesn't typically contain great health and fitness material. I mean, when I watch the show, nowhere in my head do I think I'll grab onto something I can later write about here -- well, with the exception of the show I watched last night, the one where the two Davids -- Archuletta and Cook -- faced off in an attempt to win the entire singing competition.

So these two guys were competing, and their match-up was referred to on the show as a fight, which is all about health and fitness. It went something like this: Train hard. Prepare your body. Because in a fight, it's the first thing to go.

And so it occurs to me that this is so perfectly right. It's exactly what I've been doing for one year now. I've been preparing my body through a clean diet and strenuous exercise so that it won't go. I've had one major fight already -- cancer -- and by the luck of the draw, I won. In the event another opponent faces me, I want to be as fight-ready as I can be.

Train hard. Prepare your body. That's what I'll do. You should too.