I had the honor of meeting with representatives from all over South Africa for the Diabetes South Africa Convention; Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, Pretoria, and Johannesburg all were present. The conference was held at the Protea Marina Hotel in Port Elizabeth and the management for the conference went out of their way to make [...]
Posted in Events, Perspectives
Since I’d had such a busy week hanging out with Greg LeMond and going to parties, I hadn’t reviewed the route. No problem, It was only 120K how bad could it be?
Posted in Events, Perspectives | Tagged ADA, Cycling, Diabetic Ride, Greg LaMond, Tour de Cure
The realization that praise was openly given to winners was not completely new to me. I had long loved the football teams the Pittsburgh Steelers and their rivals the Dallas Cowboys. At the time the Cowboys personified the All American team, patriotic and good looking too. Everything I wanted to be. On the other side [...]
Posted in Perspectives, Training | Tagged Anatomy, Body Building, Competitions, Muscle, Power Lifting, Strenght, Training
I am still friends with a couple of the guys from back in the day, Frank Kish is now the Director of Tech for Lockheed Martin, Ray Campisi and Vinson Keyhea. I had always been interested in exploring and discovery. As a kid we used to trek through a secret location we had found “Shark [...]
Posted in Perspectives, Training | Tagged Exploration, Friendship, Goals, Leadership
I continued to improve in my Spartan gym along with swimming in the wolf river, weekend hikes through the woods and swamps but I new I needed to advance. I moved from my homemade gym to a place called Rhodes Fitness Center in Gulfport Mississippi. It was here that I found out what real strength [...]
Posted in Perspectives, Training | Tagged Form, Friendship, Professional Gym, Technique, Training
I pasted pictures on the walls of the shed, pictures of every exercise I had seen from the magazines.
Posted in Obstacles, Perspectives, Training | Tagged Creativity, Friendship, Gym, Inspiration, Motivation, Training
He also had a full-grown lion in a headlock. Probably the first time in my life I prayed for God to help me.
Posted in Obstacles, Perspectives | Tagged Body Building, Drive, Focus, Motivation, Muscles, Strength, Traning
