I’ve had some interesting conversations lately about how the general public perceives those who achieve amazing things. We know that Olympic athletes work hard, we realize that those who march drum corps spend many hours practicing, we know that professional bodybuilders spend many hours in the gym…but I don’t think that people realize just how [...]
Dr. Kennedy Shultz once shared some amazing advice with me.  If you wonder if there's a power in the universe that is there to help you grow and prosper, just stop to look at your fingernails.  Watch your fingernails grow. We don't know how to do this, how to make our body rejuvenate, grow, get [...]
Nothing makes me cringe more than hearing this phrase: "I won't want to get too big." Â I realize that the dear folks who say this have good intentions (for the most part,) but as a bodybuilder this drives me up a tree. Â If this confuses you at all, please continue reading so that you don't [...]
Yesterday on Facebook I ran across this picture.  Of course, this struck close to home, for I am always struggling with the muscle man in the mirror. It is not uncommon for us NOT to see ourselves as we truly are.  We all look at the world through our own filter, and amazingly, this is also [...]
Today in the news was a tragic story of a deaf man who was stabbed because someone mistook his sign language for "making gang signs." Â As ridiculous as this is, we can only assume that the man who did the stabbing "rushed to judgement." Â No one who paused for even a moment to stop and [...]
We recently attended the S.W.A.T. Roundup held here in Orange County, Florida. Â SWAT Team members from all around the world competed in a week of competitions involving fitness, marksmanship, and stamina. Â The final day, which we witnessed, was the Team Obstacle Course challenge, and there were teams there from as far away as Sweden, Hungary, [...]
Today, helpful advice on how to have less gnashing of teeth in your life. We've all just been through an exhausting political election season, and for those of us living in swing states, we've survived an assault of drama, haranguing, and negative ads that cannot be believed. Â There was a time when I would find [...]
I would not be the first to state that working out and exercising is the Fountain of Youth. Â But if anyone is questioning this, I offer this picture. Â The handsome 54 year old man in the center is my friend Bobby Box, and he took this picture with two other friends of similar age on [...]
My workout partner extraordinaire John Passarella has always claimed to be a first class a-hole magnet, and today he proved this beyond a shadow of a doubt. Â In fact, we decided his superhero name should be A-hole Magneto because these encounters with idiots give him special powers. Â Or....he gets so mad that he starts to [...]
One of the gifts of my recent time spent canvassing was that I met a lot of people face to face. Â Sure, I meet people all the time, but it's a different experience when you knock on their door and don't know anything about them. Â When canvassing I did have a name, and sometimes an [...]