One Year

I was sitting on the plane, praying for my grandpa, praying for my family.  I'm sure a lot of my prayer and thinking was wrapped up in legacy and wanting to be a part of the legacy my Grandparents had begun when the smack came.  You know those smacks, right?  The kind you aren't expecting, but when they come boy do they hit you.  When I got smacked, I was left sitting there in the plane wondering about what that smack meant, about what I needed to do.  I didn't know, other than that things needed to change. When you get...

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what's in a name

Everyone knew it.  And if you showed up to my house unaware...you knew before you left.  It was my deal really; inherited from my family.  Something I took pride in, something I enjoyed being known for. You never left my house hungry.  If you did...it's on you.  Because we always had food, and I made sure there was a substantial amount of it.  I encouraged you to go back and get more too.  A family tradition really.  It's how we did things.  We were notorious for making enough food for an army and...

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New Year Adventures

The New Year is upon us.  And if this is news to you, then you probably aren't on facebook, twitter or a part of first world society...which means, you probably aren't reading this...so.... ...this is awkward... anyway, i'm stoked for another year and for more improvements in my health and wellness. I'm ready to try out some different work-outs as well as make some other changes in my diet. But the thing I am most excited about are the three...

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Home Workout Challenge

It's been a while since I posted on here.  I kept logging in on our blogger site and it would say something about Malware and I'd quickly get off!  Thankfully, that has been taken care of, so we are BAAAACKK!  Thanksgiving and Christmas have past, and let me say, as my first MAJOR test on eating, I passed.  These holidays are always binge eating times for me, goes back to my family culture of eating being an event rather then...

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Not Soft Anymore

Not going to be a long one...just a fun one.  I've been focusing lately on doing workouts and eating foods that help to cut fat, the internal fat that I've stored up for 32 years.  This is going to take some time...but I've been doing my best to stay on that focus.  I recently asked for help in eliminating all the extra insulation I've built up over those elusive abs that I'm told are really there...here is what my friend SJ McShane...

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The Right Goal

Alright, we are back from Boston.  I didn't quite hit my bench goal, maxed out at 275.  Not bad after a 10 year hiatus from lifting...but more to go.  I've been thankful for goals like that.  Every time I hit a goal, I get to set a new one...it's like checking off the list.  My wife loves making lists, whenever we have a lot to do, she always wants to make a list of those things rather than just attacking it...I personally...

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Back to Beantown

So I'm headed back to Boston in a week or so.  Mandy and I are excited, it will be a chance for just the two of us to be together and focus on our marriage.  We are going to miss the living snot out of our kids, but, it is definitely a needed adventure.  So this morning, she and I went to do a little shopping in prep for the trip.  I have to have some dressy clothes and since I don't wear those kinds of clothes often...read, ever...the...

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