Your children will grow into their own people but the model that you set for them will give them the base that they are starting with.

ou tell yourself "I'm going to do....." and then, some amount of time later, you realized that you only worked toward that goal for about a week. Or worse, you never did anything to reach it.

How do you find the motivation to reach your fitness, weight, or life goals in a way that your gains won't vanish like smoke in a month or two?

You are already talking to yourself in some way, why not do it intentionally.  Use that self talk to motivate and keep yourself in the right mindset.

This advice, taken to the extreme, can be detrimental, but when done with care, can lead to great rewards.

Every time you start toward a new fitness goal you start The Fitness Journey all over again. Knowing the path that I will take makes it easier to reach the "end".

Luckily for you, a fighter is strong, stable, and confident. You can build that base level of fitness up by getting fit as a fighter.

Everyone has a line. A line where the risk outweighs the reward. A line where the pain over powers the gain. It is not up to anyone but you to decide where that line is and then deal with the outcome.

I am the one making you do it every time but every bow is a reminder of what the mat represents.

“Once upon a time you went to a bar. This was not an ordinary outing. No, this is the one time in 6 months you had to leave the kids at home, forget about work, and catch up with your long lost friends. This was a marked and circled on your calendar with a timer counting down on your computer kind of night.