Category: champion
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Dream in Color
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Dreams never die; they may morph, but they never die. My dream of being a top IFBB fitness competitor has transitioned into a new journey into the word of CrossFit. Knee injuries and surgeries have retired me out of the IFBB as a pro fitness competitor–My body cannot take the gymnastics tumbling anymore. However, my…
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FAN-tastic
Sometimes the success of a performance relies little on the judges and fully on those who support the performer. Having affirmation from a panel of judges is the ultimate goal for any competitor but it is not the only indicator of success. The 2009 IFBB Europa Show of Champions, April 17-18, was such a show…
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Yesterday: Friend or Foe
Life offers an endless range of opportunities for success and failure, courage and cowardice, and survival and victimization. Some experiences are carried from one juncture to the next and influence latter outcomes, but other experiences are better left behind in a corner of our memory which has no control over our tomorrow. Perhaps it is a…
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One Dream Closer
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Friends, First, I must apologize for such a long absence–not that I am disillusioned that my silence affected your life, but it did mine, I miss writing. Regardless, let’s play catch up. The last three years has been consumed with pursuing a dream: the law. My passion for the law began long before my passion…
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Have goals, but have a plan
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in champion, competing, decisions, dedication, diet, dreams, failure, fat, fitness, God’s plan, hope, ifbb, New Year Resolution, success, weight lossOne of the draw backs of the American marketplace is that we are inundated with the unlikely. We are romanced by lives and looks and careers that most of us will never have. Chances are you will not be a supermodel, NBA star, an Olympian or make the Forbes list. Often we hear about Cinderella…
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Training is a process, not an event
The reality is that people who want to make a dramatic change to their body, did not get into their current state from an hour every other day for three weeks. So working out for an hour every other day for three weeks is not going to ‘fix’ the problem. This news may be discouraging,…
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The Next Leaf
Having a plan is only successful if it is flexible. There are few and far between that play out like planned. Glitches and detours are so common, they are expected; you have to know how to deal with them when they arise. You may not always know what to do, or do the right thing,…
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Another Step
Visiting the doctor yesterday, it suprised me that I am only 7weeks out from surgery. Man, I thought it had been A LOT longer than that! But, no, not even 2months in to a 12-month recovery. However, I am walking almost normal! I am doing limited cardio! I am doing modefied exercises! Modified, meaning two…
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How do you go on
This morning, during my tax appointment, my accountant asked, “how do you do it? how do you go on surgery to surgery?” I told him it is easier to come back from than a broken heart or a broken home. True it is hard and scary to go back to the very thing that hurt…
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Take off the blinders
Sometimes there are situations in life that need changing, and that is obvious. It is even obvious where everything went downhill. But, where so many go wrong is having all of the pieces before them and still not seeing how they all go together. I have always wondered why some people can’t see, even when…