• Cole The Camera Clown

    Cole is a funny kid. Not in a “we need a therapist” kind of way, just plain old-fashioned funny. If there is a moment otherwise devoid of color, he will paint it gloriously with something funny. Sometimes there is no purposeful intention, it’s just his four-year-old mind making sense...
  • Goals, Or Wishes?

    “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Phillippians 4:13 You’ve done it, I’ve done it, and every living person with a bone of honesty will admit to doing it, too. It’s the very reason we put little stock in resolutions and such things for big plans...
  • 10 Steps To Staying Motivated

    I think it’s a safe bet to say that we have all experienced a point when we felt extreme motivation. Mine came in 1976 while watching the first Rocky movie. If you haven’t seen the classic Stalone masterpiece, then you should. You will never skip a workout again. I...
  • Taking Our Sweet Time

    Mornings come early to our house. Long before sunrise most days. I blame my tender bride for insisting that our little ones hit the sheets before 8pm each night. She always seems to have the best ideas at bedtime, but her wisdom comes into question the next morning when...
  • The Squat Is Mac Daddy King Of All Exercises

    There was a time when I had I told myself I’d never be here again. But that never word is a dangerous one. It is a word that has a nasty habit of coming back later to be eaten. Never say never they say, but I never listen. And...
  • I’m About To Do Something And This Is Why

    Some people are natural born athletes. They can run and leap and bend and twist and do things with an alarming ease that prove difficult to mere mortals. They have fit and athletic bodies regardless of what they eat, it seems, and they can do many things wrong and...
  • Deep Gratitude

    The sun was still dreaming of the snowy mountain tops and sandy beaches and the appreciative faces it would warm today when I woke this morning. Ana’s body was pressed against mine, her skin and hair fragrant and I paused to just look at her beautiful face as she...
  • Keep Rising and Grinding

    “Don’t you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ?” 1 Corinthians 6:15 I’m convinced that old Bodybuilders judge their days solely by the pain their workouts generate. Every old gym rat has at least one injury that refuses to leave the past in the past. And those...
  • Hangin And Bangin With The Boys

    I had just turned sixteen the first time I walked into the Regina Athletic Club. In retrospect, “walked in” doesn’t paint a truthful picture. It was more like a terrified slink than an actual walk. This was a gym for real men, big men with barn-door shoulders, Herculean backs,...
  • Lemon Ice Cream And Big Black Trucks

    From the very second he opens his eyes and a huge morning smile fills his handsome little face straight through to “dark time” each night when his blankets get tucked under his chin and mommy prays over him and kisses him goodnight; Cole Goodlad is a three-year-old boy, and...
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