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Let's set aside our amazing physiques for a second. I touched based on this when I did an interview for a blog around fitness and Mental Health.
I am not a father myself but based off of my own experience and others alike, I am hoping to encourage mothers and fathers to get their kids into the gym and below I will cover why.
My dad was a bodybuilder before it was a fad and against my pediatrician's advice to not let me work out at the age of 11 due to possibility of stunted growth he would let me work out with him in our basement, I took a liking to it and I'm positive it saved me from what I should have been. (Picture at age 12 setting elementary school arm hang and pull up record LINK: Shared album - Blue Collar - Google Photos)
As I got older I saw our nation's addiction epidemic take hold of my best and closest friends going from great men to walking zombies. I continued to excel and watched many become stagnant, it wasn't because I was smarter, more privileged, [FONT=helvetica_neueregular]ect[/FONT].
The only advantage I had was the foundation my father helped me lay and that was the gym... It was the place I went to find my confidence, stay on the right path or help me get back on the right path when I was falling off. The gym taught me PRINCIPLE, COMMITMENT, and DISCIPLINE all without the ACCOUNTABILITY of a coach or a team. All these things translated into my real life, my career and now my business. The gym was my therapist, stress/anxiety reliever and the place that would lift me up when feeling low.
Having a physique that reminds others how lazy they are is great, but [FONT=helvetica_neueregular]thats just a small perk[/FONT] of what some of us can benefit from getting involved in this hobby
I am not a father myself but based off of my own experience and others alike, I am hoping to encourage mothers and fathers to get their kids into the gym and below I will cover why.
My dad was a bodybuilder before it was a fad and against my pediatrician's advice to not let me work out at the age of 11 due to possibility of stunted growth he would let me work out with him in our basement, I took a liking to it and I'm positive it saved me from what I should have been. (Picture at age 12 setting elementary school arm hang and pull up record LINK: Shared album - Blue Collar - Google Photos)
As I got older I saw our nation's addiction epidemic take hold of my best and closest friends going from great men to walking zombies. I continued to excel and watched many become stagnant, it wasn't because I was smarter, more privileged, [FONT=helvetica_neueregular]ect[/FONT].
The only advantage I had was the foundation my father helped me lay and that was the gym... It was the place I went to find my confidence, stay on the right path or help me get back on the right path when I was falling off. The gym taught me PRINCIPLE, COMMITMENT, and DISCIPLINE all without the ACCOUNTABILITY of a coach or a team. All these things translated into my real life, my career and now my business. The gym was my therapist, stress/anxiety reliever and the place that would lift me up when feeling low.
Having a physique that reminds others how lazy they are is great, but [FONT=helvetica_neueregular]thats just a small perk[/FONT] of what some of us can benefit from getting involved in this hobby
