Busy as hell...

I haven't posted in a while with good reason....3kids, a wife, 5 finals, and opening a gym...so excuse me for not getting to computer that often. I'm actually pretty excited because of how hectic things have become I have had to instead of relying on the weights to clear my head and calm my anger, I've turned more towards prayer. I'm thankful to say that a few times a day the good Lord and I sit down for a pow wow and talk about things. Metroflex Gym San Marcos will be open come January 1st and I'm cutting down my classes to focus on the business, clients, family, my training and my relationship with the big man upstairs...so stay tuned for more updates, comments and an inside look at the life of a Christian, husband, father, business owner, student and body builder.....all I can say is it's going to get a hell of a lot more interesting.

Outside influences

They come at you left and right, some good and some bad. It's up to you how you let them affect you. Generally I can let things roll off my back and keep on with what I'm doing without a second thought. But recently someone very important to me, whom normally influences me in a great way suddenly became a negative force in my life. I won;t go into details but it has put me in a funk for the past couple of weeks which has led me to missing my workouts, missing meals and a lot of stress. We all know that those three things can be detrimental to ones goals. Well here I am just over two weeks since and I'm a good 15 pounds lighter, unmotivated and depressed. Today I thought "what the hell are you doing?". So praying at church today I have finally been able to let go. So tonight, God willing, or most likely tomorrow, the meals are back on schedule my ass will be back in the gym like clock work. I have goals and for those that stand in my way, ya better move or I'm bulldozing you out of my life. The only judgement I need to be concerned with is His above. I only have 8 months until my next show and improvements to make. With school, opening the gym, my family, my training, it's easy to come out of balance like I have recently. Time to get back in sync with my life, no more time wasted. So when outside influences come at ya, grab on to the positive and let the negative go on by. Keep the blinders on and don't get distracted by nay sayers and what not. Once you get of track they win....so head down and keep stepping forward.

January 21st Metroflex Gym of Plano Annual BASH and ABC EVENT!

From Greg McCoy, Metroflex Plano:

January 21st Metroflex Gym of Plano Annual BASH and ABC EVENT!

Hey Guys!

Greg here from Metroflex Plano!

We are planning another big event on January 21st, this year will be a charity event for the MDA.

It's going to be a great event with the feature being a seminar including: Jeff Dwelle, MR USA STEVE KUCLO, Myself, and contest prep guru and owner of intensemuscle.com Skip Hill!

We will also be having a demo of some of Dallas's top bench pressers so you should be able to catch a few 900+ benches!

The event will be happening whether we end up having an ABC event or not but I LOVE having the Animal crew at the gym!

Let me know guys!

Tired

Some days we have to dig deep within to get it done, no matter what the goal is.

Last night I was woken up by my daughter, she had thrown up on her bed, on the floor and yet managed to get a little in the toilet...poor thing. So I got her cleaned up, stripped the bed, laid down some new blankets and got her back to sleep as I cleaned up the rest of the mess. So when the alarm finally went off at 6am needless to say I was dragging, but managed to get up and get the day started. Got the kids to school with the help of the wife, choked down my breakfast and headed to the bed for a quick nap. After about a 2 minute "get your butt up" pep talk from my wife I was out the door to the gym. Leg day, now I don't mind leg day but the hack squat can kiss my @$#!!! But I got it done and eating getting ready for class. Still have 2 classes and a client to get through today, so no nap for me. Some days you just have to find that extra oomph to get you through.... so are you gonna get it done today or let some half ass excuse stand in your way???

One of those days.

I can already tell it's going to be one of those days where I may have had it planned out in my head to go one way, and well it's going the complete opposite. Day started out good though, waking up next to my beautiful wife, goofing around with the kiddos as I took them to school. The plan was to eat, hit the gym, meet with contractors, fix our busted toilet (I broke it, apparently tripping and landing all 260 lbs into it can crack porcelain), take the wife to see a play tonight. Well already missed the gym, there will be no time later to fix the toilet but we will be going to the play later... Not that I'm into theater but I have a to write a critique for one of my classes. Yeah! So what do you do when life throws a curve ball or two? I say swing anyway. I mean we are all here for only a little while and we can throw a fit and complain about the bad pitch or we can swing for the fences and hope for the best. I like to do a combination of the two, swing away and then gripe when I strike out. Well I need to go eat again so hopefully will have more to say later.

A work in progress

No matter if it's being a parent, a husband, a friend, bodybuilder, or what I'm still a work in progress. I have my goals I work hard to achieve, whether it's gaining another 20 pounds of mass, making sure to take time out to appreciate my kids and wife, working on my degree or opening our gym...I keep my nose to the grind just trying to do better today than what I did yesterday.

Just me

Like Shrek said, "Ogres are like onions", I guess you can say so am I. I'm a christian, a husband, a father, a personal trainer, a nutrition coach, bodybuilder, student, all wrapped into one. This is going to be my little journey as I try to balance it all. Trying to keep a balance in my faith, my family, education, business, and my pursuit of my pro card. I can't promise it's going to be exciting, full of thrills, but I can promise you a few laughs now and then. So pull up a chair and have a seat....it's going to be an interesting journey.