Am I really going to write about this? Really? Well…. almost no one will read it anyways so what’s the harm.
And yes… I am circling this all back to the idea of health & fitness but clearly today’s topic is much deeper than how deep your pushups should go. If that’s not really what you want to bother with today then come back next week because my next topic is ‘Quality PRs In The Gym’ which I can’t wait to get into because this article took me way too damn long but I felt it was timely and important.
Anyways…
Here goes.
*** In case you didn’t know… I am not a therapist. I am not a historian. I own a gym. Enjoy 😂
July 13th is a day that will irrevocably change this country. I want to spend some time putting my thoughts out there and offer a way to go about processing the moments we find ourselves in today, but don’t worry I am not here to preach at you. I am not here to tell you what to think or what to feel. I am not here to add some sort of holier than thou commentary on the state of the union and the citizens that lay within. Don’t get me wrong, I have opinions (some very strong ones) like any of you may have. But it is not lost on me that I am ‘just’ a small business owner running a gym in the south hills of Pittsburgh PA. I don’t pretend that even if you do read this it makes me some sort of authority on the occurrences and reflections on our current moment in history. I, like you, am just going through the days.
So what is the point in me writing this? Trust me… there is a point I promise.
One, this is selfishly cathartic because getting things out of your head and onto paper (even digital) is extremely beneficial to the psyche (more on that later).
Two, I can’t help but see the goings on of the last couple days through the lens of something I recently posted on social media about the 6 layers of deep health being Physical, Existential, Emotional, Mental, Relational, and Environmental(this will be the main thread of the article).
Three, I know that many of you may be reading this at work where I am to understand that conversations around the attempted assassination of a former President will actually somehow not be talked about much. To that end, maybe this can serve as an escape. Maybe it serves as a nudge to actually speak your mind in a calm and collected manner. Whatever the case… my intention is truly to help.
With that being said I would encourage you to read to the end if you’d like to come away from this with my incomplete perspective. This is much longer than a facebook post and certainly more nuanced than an Instagram graphic but the fact remains that until you sit down and talk with someone you don’t have good reason to be confident in your judgements of them. Even now as you are reading this I have no control of the tone you are putting my voice in. It could be calm but it could also be angry. It could be loving but it also might be spiteful. These are just words on a screen and I know that presents limitations so I invite you to read this while accepting those limitations.
I am going to try to be an open book as much as would help the mission of this article. I’ll remind you that when I give any personal facts or philosophies that it is only to serve the point I am making in the moment…. and instead of continuing to beat around the bush let’s start right there…
One of the undeniably best parts of my job is being able to be myself. Hell, as I write this I can see 10 feet in front of me there are 2 whiteboards that I have imaginary offensive and defensive football depth charts created from both Marvel Superheroes and Pokemon. There is no hiding that I am a bit of a nerd and possibly even a little lame.
Now I could be wrong, but I think being so free and easy with how I carry myself leads to a gym that fosters that very same behavior from its members. This has overwhelmingly resulted in positive ways.
We work our asses off. We squat heavy. We push hard. We do things the right way and I am there to make sure it is on the path of everlasting improvement. All the while, we have fun. We laugh. We joke. We talk about music, Steelers football, movies, and our Mt. Rushmore of summer picnic foods.
I start with all of this to say that I am confident in my consistent approach to make those around me feel welcome. I learned very early on when I was coaching at a gym in Beaver County that if I were to be successful in this business there is absolutely no way of doing so without learning to appreciate the similarities AND differences in each individual that walks through the door looking for my help.
This ‘smile first’ approach is not actually something that comes natural to me. For most of my childhood I was well-liked but also very detached from those around me. I had an insular group of friends and then many acquaintances that probably couldn’t tell you more than my name and the fact that I played football. Because of this introverted inclination I tended to have extremely effective and beneficial close friendships but struggled a great deal to make ‘new’ friendships (something that bites you in the ass as you inevitably lose friendships over the years).
But to circle back to the here and now… this is where the gym has been such a Godsend for me. It has forced me to make friends. It has forced me to be the one reaching a hand out only to find out that most people are only looking for that much: an authentic invitation.
So my first piece of advice with all of this is exactly that: work on being authentically welcoming. I can’t say anything more than it has helped me so I bet it will help you too.
I mentioned earlier how I was seeing things these past few days through the lens of the 6 layers of deep health that I posted about just a few days ago. There were a myriad of reasons for this but it started off as obvious as you may think: I thought what in the hell could bring a person to act this way? Who goes to a place filled with thousands of people looking to murder one of the most powerful and influential people on the planet? Who goes there with this intention likely knowing it spells the end of his own life and likely others?
Well, at the time of writing this, we only know a few things about this young man. I won’t mention his name here but you can find it pretty easily on the internet if you choose to do so.
With lack of information, an abundance of shock, and a search for reason… there was little else for me to do but speculate. I’m sure I wasn’t alone in this either.
Here is what I don’t have to speculate about though: what he did was wrong in absolutely every sense of the word. I would pray there is full agreement in that, though I have seen plenty of vile things out there on the internet regarding these events (I’ll talk about that too don’t worry).
I think that if you are a person that justifies in any measure his actions then you probably won’t benefit much from reading my opinions and I would just leave it at that to be kind.
As I think about this person I wonder what his life must’ve been like to lead to this point.
A healthy person doesn’t commit this atrocity. I don’t mean can he run a mile in 6 minutes healthy or can be bench 185lbs healthy… I mean much more than that.
I stand by my assertion that one’s physical health is the absolute foundation for all other aspects of health but in this specific instance I don’t find it helpful to speculate on his physical abilities because he was physically able to accomplish the goal he had so that’s all we need to know for this moment.
But what about the other layers of health? In my post I made no equivocations about existential health being the next most important layer of health a person has.
Sadly I think that day can perfectly illustrate my point and I’ll tell you why. The gunman, to the best of our knowledge, thought his most important reason for living in that moment in time was to bring about the end of Donald Trump’s potential presidency and life. On the other hand, Corey Comperatore thought his most important reason for living was to protect his family. The gunman didn’t succeed in his mission while Corey did… but it cost him his life.
This is the very definition of an existential crisis being played out in a single moment. I don’t know either of these people but I know that one person must have felt there was no other way out while the other person thought there was nowhere he would rather be.
IF we can attempt to learn a lesson here it would be that you better be absolutely resolute in what you deem the meaning of your life to be.
Personally, I feel very strongly that I am meant to be a loving Father and Husband while using my gifts and means to bring about a way to help people improve their lives through health and fitness. As long as I stay clear on that meaning I can be confident that my life will be fruitful. It may benefit you to spend a moment considering your existence and what the ramifications of that existence will be.
Moving on I want to discuss 3 other layers of health while saving some timely insight on the relational health aspect for the end.
I think it makes some sense to tie together the three layers of emotional, environmental, and mental health next. A quick summation of what I mean with these three distinctions:
Emotional Health - Experiencing a full range of emotions and expressing them appropriately
Environmental Health - Knowing your everyday surroundings support your health and wellbeing
Mental Health - Being alert, focused, competent, and thoughtful. Learning, remembering, and solving problems well.
I’m not going to spend a lot of energy trying to ascertain to what degree the shooter that day flourished or lacked in these departments of health. Instead I’d like to reflect on the fallout of that historic moment and offer my ideas on what a reasonable performance of health may or may not look like, specifically in these three types of health.
So first let’s unpack the emotional aspect of all of this.
It will be assumed that if you are reading this then you, like me, have no direct personal connection to the events that took place. I say this only because IF you did have a direct personal connection to this then your emotional reaction would, for good reason, be much more drastic and nuanced.
So first let’s realize that there SHOULD be an emotional reaction. I kind of feel like this is just left out of the whole discussion which strikes me as possibly the most alarming aspect of all of this. Anytime a murder happens on such a public view it should elicit an emotion. Then we add the layers to this specific story and it becomes even more the case. Successful accidental murder. Failed assassination attempt. Young man. Local area connections. Supposedly an extremely well protected public figure is the target. Politics. Running up to a presidential election. All of this and more leads to what I would eloquently refer to as a clusterfuck.
If you have no reaction to this then I would say that is a cause for concern. I’m not saying this should totally upend your life. Some people really invest a lot of time and emotion into the news these days and some people don’t. To be upfront I often volley back and forth between these two ends of the spectrum. On average, though, I would venture to say that I am much more interested in political happenings than the average person. This doesn’t make me any better or worse than you it just shows that we all will come into events like this with a different amount of fervor directed at a particular aspect of said events.
So there should be an emotional reaction, we have established this much. But what type of emotional reaction and how intense should it be?
Off the top of my head I can list off some emotions that would be expected when diving into a story such as this: anxious, sad, nervous, shocked, bewilderment, interested, skeptical. There is probably more to add to that list but you get the gist (nice rhyme huh).
What is important to note here is that if you have any emotions tied to this event yet put forth no effort in assessing those emotions then that likely is not a healthy reaction.
This carries into the discussion on how intense our emotional reaction should be to these moments…
Everyone is different so your individual reaction to these events will almost surely be a different intensity than mine or anyone else.
First let’s take it 100% on face value and not explore hypotheticals… we’ll save that for just after this part.
To totally disassociate yourself with the events that occurred and limit your reaction to simply a passing moment just would not make sense in this scenario.
On the other hand, unless your job is in the news media or journalism, it also would not make sense to obsess over this event with every spare second of your day.
So it is reasonable to experience a variety of emotions in this moment somewhere in the middle of these two ends of the spectrum I just laid out. Maybe while reading up on updates you experience a surge of anger or confusion… I will posit that is totally fine. Maybe you are scrolling through instagram and chuckle at a meme that has 50 Cent’s “Many Men” song playing to it… I think that is also fine. What is worthy of keeping an eye on is your ability to navigate in AND out of these emotions while still having a strong grasp over who you are and what is important to you.
If you are reading updates on the security failures of that day and then find yourself an hour or two later still searching for answers while getting visibly angered then you might need to find a way to balance this moment of intense emotion. Similarly, if you laugh at a random meme but then also later find yourself laughing at the death of an innocent man or laughing at the idea of Donald Trump experiencing a truly existential fear then I think it is very likely you should spend some effort trying to search for humanity within yourself.
The point should be made now… given the facts of what happened it is reasonable to experience a variety of emotions in a variety of intensities WHILE being able to have control of the appropriateness of what you are in fact feeling.
Now I said we would explore hypotheticals in a moment and I think in this case it is important to do so. The reason it is important to do so is because the obvious hypothetical of “what if” was EXTRAORDINARILY close to becoming a reality. It is also important because IF the ‘what if’ did in fact happen then all of a sudden this story and moment does become personal to a degree.
I promise I won’t get all tin-foil hat on you but just hear me out for this next section, thank you.
So, as I said, this attempt on a former President’s life was seemingly centimeters away from being successful. Look, I was attending the University of Pittsburgh in 2011 and 2012 when they received dozens of bomb threats. It was a bit unnerving at the time but the facts are that nothing was ever found and nothing ever came of it aside from missed exams and many nuisances. I am extremely fortunate that was the case obviously. If, God forbid, they would have found a bomb in my building or, even worse, an explosion would actually have occurred then this moment in my life would be looked at very differently.
So since the attempt was so extremely close to being successful we can reasonably start to wonder about the fallout of the hypothetical success.
Even if you are completely politically neutral you would agree that this would cause a massive rift in this country and the unknown nature of the reactions alone would be enough to cause a great deal of uneasiness and interest.
Now here is where I will likely lose a few people. Again, this is a reminder that this is all just an exercise in exploring healthy ways to process a given moment and set yourself up for success in the future of navigating other moments and events so just stay with me gang.
I voted for Gary Johnson in 2016 and my vote did not lead to a victory. I voted for Donald Trump in 2020 and my vote did not lead to a victory. It is almost a certainty that I will vote for Donald Trump in this years election and I am ready to continue life more or less unchanged if my vote, yet again, does not lead to a victory.
I only bring this up to further illustrate the personal nature of the given moment because, again, if the events shook out differently there would be tens of millions of people like me who would be absolutely blindsided at the very least due to losing ‘our guy’ in the election.
Now even with a sense of personal connection to this story, I (like anyone else) should still be able to navigate my emotions. I (like anyone else) should not reject my emotions but instead explore them and work through them appropriately. This fundamental acceptance of your emotions is crucial in your attempt to improve your health & fitness whether it be the mental fitness of navigating our current events or the physical fitness of losing those 10 extra pounds.
Okay… I think that covers enough of the emotional aspects for now so let’s take a bit and work through the environmental health aspect of this discussion.
There is always this discussion of Nature vs Nurture. What is more responsible for the things we as humanity experience everyday?
Do I enjoy squatting for sets of 15 and reading Lord Of The Rings (my current read) because my ancestors enjoyed physical labor and reading Don Quixote? Or was I formed by early years in sports and the escape that ‘Where The Red Fern Grows’ served as for me?
I don’t really have an answer for that…
I was going to get into this long declamation about my twins and DNA and nucleobases and yada yada yada… but I erased so you are welcome.
Instead let me put it to you as simply as this… in my opinion our environment has a shockingly large effect on our perspectives, behaviors, morals, thoughts etc.
Now, on one hand, it may seem unfair that simply what surrounds us has such a large influence on us. It might seem like we are shit out of luck when it comes to changing things for ourselves. Now while I agree it will be very difficult to resist the influence of your environment I also think this presents you with an OUTSTANDING OPPORTUNITY.
Because your environment has such a profound effect on you (in my opinion) it also means that any effort you put into changing your environment for the better will have exponentially positive effects.
I wanted to get that out of the way before we connected this back to the topic at hand because I really don’t want you to miss the idea here.
This section I am going over is perhaps the easiest one for you to have influence over but it is also by far the easiest one for you to stay complacent about. I can circle it back to the gym to prove my point. So many people join this gym and just that small shift in environment gives them the momentum and influence is enough for other healthier decisions to leak out into their lives.
Your environment matters… let’s dissect it in today’s world.
In today’s world you have a physical environment and a digital environment.
Setting yourself up for a healthy physical environment is fairly straightforward. Depending on your values and priorities you will emphasize a number of these things:
living in a home and area that encourages getting outdoors and being active
having the contents of your home reflect your desired lifestyle (healthy foods vs unhealthy foods, space to exercise vs a t.v. in every room, a place to read vs clutter everywhere)
finding a career that fulfills you and provides sufficiently
There are plenty of other variables to consider but you get the idea.
On the flip side there is a whole other world that exists in our digital space nowadays that, even though it is optional to a large degree, we all feel pressured to participate in.
Netflix, Hulu, Disney, Amazon, HBO, New York Times, Washington Post, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Post Millennial, Reuters, ESPN, Fox Sports, Barstool, CNN, Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, Facebook, X, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Pinterest, Gmail, Hotmail, Icloud, text messages, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Hockey, notes app, photos app, Spotify, Youtube…. and on and on and on and on
Some of these can be fairly innocuous… I mean I’m certainly guilty of spending too much time mock drafting fantasy football teams on the Sleeper app but the negative effects of that are pretty much only the act of being distracted from other possible things I may value.
Some of these might not be so innocuous however. Scrolling through Facebook can mostly be fine but that pesky algorithm might determine you have better engagement and longer viewing times on posts that are controversial and negative in nature. So what you started off thinking was simply a way to connect with old friends turns out to be a way to just scroll though your feed judging every other person based off of their digital footprint they leave behind. Social media is the obvious punching bag in this regard because most of us, by now, accept that we should probably greatly limit our time on it. I am probably preaching to the choir when I say if your Instagram screen time is 2 hours a day then you’ve got a problem.
Your thoughts become your reality.
If you spend all day consuming media and info that causes you (for whatever reason) to get frustrated, or angry, or anxious, or disappointed, or depressed… then you simply cannot be shocked if you find yourself having negative thoughts.
I find this to be a problem ALL OF THE TIME in the health and fitness industry. People will often over consume media that causes them to unfairly compare themselves to models and athletes. You scroll down your feed and see all of these awesome healthy recipes and then get frustrated that you don’t eat like that. You see a new workout and then get angry that you can’t perform the exercises like the woman in the video. You compare, you demean yourself, you repeat. It’s a vicious cycle that disguises itself as ‘searching for inspiration’.
Would you like to take a step inside my mind? I’ll peel back the curtain and give you too much information so you can hopefully learn a thing or two from my struggles.
I took Facebook off of my phone so I only check in on my internet browser from time to time. At the time I did this because I simply didn’t feel any connection to the people I would see on there so instead of dwelling on that I just stopped subjecting myself to it.
Instagram was always my big issue. I love using it for the gym because it is easy to put a picture or video up quickly and say a few words about it. It’s also easy to get sucked into things on there… the algorithm is really really good. I wasn’t just getting sucked into cat videos either. That would be harmless enough. I started noticing that for whatever reason as time went on I was starting to get more and more of 2 specific kinds of content pushed onto my feed: divisive political news and fitness videos that almost ALWAYS contained barely clothed women.
This was an issue. It made me cynical and it made me disappointed in my thoughts as I scrolled through my feed. So the content was a problem but that wasn’t all. I had a nasty habit of bringing my phone up to bed with me. This affected my sleep habits which then caused an even more insidious influence on my energy and mood… and the cycle continues.
I could give 10 more examples but I chose those two because I feel like it is something many people have in common. Your digital environment can have a slow creeping effect into your life and it is rarely a good thing.
Let’s fixate on today’s topic and analyze the digital environment of our lives.
This attempted assassination is easily the biggest news of my lifetime since 9/11. We already discussed earlier a bit about the ramifications so it is easy to understand how and why our digital landscape might be overwhelmed by information and opinions about this subject.
If you rewind you will remember that my definition for environmental health describes a life where your everyday surroundings support your health and wellbeing.
So in this scenario is it healthy to be totally uninformed of such major news? Clearly not. Even if you disregard my opinion of the importance of having a decent understanding of political workings if you are of voting age and intend to vote… it is still worthwhile and beneficial to be aware of events that can have an impact on your life. I think we have determined by now that this event, in some capacity, falls into that category.
Is it healthy to be inundated by information (appropriate or not) around the clock? Also no. I have a business to run. I have a wife and children. I still value my physical health which takes time. I like to read. I am still on a personal mission of growing my own personal faith in God. All of this stuff takes a lot of time and effort and unless I am willing to admit that any of it is less important than being up-to-the-minute aware of the news then I need to ensure my digital environment does not overwhelm my ability to continue growing my health as I want.
This might be a fine line for people but it is one that deserves scrutiny and I’ll tell you why.
Before this I gave my big rundown on digital media and social media for a reason and when you look at it through the lens of this topic it becomes clear.
If you scroll through Facebook, Instagram, or X you can easily find people (sometimes even people you know) saying some truly despicable things. You can easily find people wishing that the assassination was successful. You can find people mocking the man that died. You can also find people blaming Joe Biden outright for this act. You can find people wanting to turn this event into the basis for conflict with their fellow citizen.
The nature of humanity and the ever so generous algorithm can often put our worst behaviors and characteristics on display right in front of us and en masse.
Now my opinion and advice would not be to totally blind yourself to this reality. I think it is beneficial to stay informed and even somewhat beneficial to understand the general thoughts and feelings of our society in the midst of a given tumultuous time like today.
To that end, though, it is likely even more beneficial to balance this knowledge with also being able to keep both feet on the ground in your everyday life. Again, myself as an example… I run a gym. People come here to train hard and be guided towards a healthy lifestyle, that is my number one priority. My number two priority is making people feel welcome and encouraging a fun environment that keeps them wanting to return. Even further, do you think my twin toddlers really give a shit about Today’s news? No of course not. All of this is something I need to be keenly aware of to not allow myself go down the rabbit hole of sensationalized digital media.
Alright I wrote for much longer than anticipated on the environmental subject but I could probably go on… maybe time for that another 10 years from now.
Let’s quickly go over mental health next.
Mental health as I will describe it here is not necessarily synonymous with mental health as a broad subject in today’s society.
When you hear mental health you probably think about depression, happiness, anxiety, love etc.
I put that more into the emotional and relational health bucket.
For today’s discussion mental health will more so focus on one’s ability to be alert, focused, competent, thoughtful, and to effectively learn and solve problems.
If it is easier let’s just call it critical thinking. Remember when I said it probably isn’t healthy to have no emotional reaction to our current events? Well it also isn’t healthy to have no analytical reaction to our current events. Let’s unpack that.
I am certainly not telling you to put that tin-foil hat on that I mentioned earlier and just dive right into assumptions of conspiracies, coverups, and coups. I’m also not not telling you to do that.
That is precisely my whole point and I mentioned it very early on in this article. I am not here to tell you what to think and what to feel. I am not the director of your conscious and philosophy.
That is plainly obvious though right? Why would you click on this article and then just blindly duplicate all of my thinking as your own? That would be ridiculous.
You should explore your own emotions we know that by this point. Well, you should also explore your own thoughts and opinions. For some reason this is common thinking during our whole childhood where we are encouraged to learn, adapt, and challenge our thoughts on any and all topics. Yet, somewhere along the line, this becomes ill-advised to do so as an adult even if not explicitly stated to us.
Political opinions are ripe for this sort of issue. Too many talking points are pushed as absolute fact without any opening for challenge. This only does all of us a disservice. A job as complex as running a community, or city, or county, or state, or COUNTRY is obviously going to have a seemingly endless list of responsibilities that will likely require very nuanced approaches. I am not naive enough to think I know, for a fact, exactly how it should be done.
Don’t get me wrong I certainly have my opinions and feel strongly about them. But I should only be so confident in those opinions as long as I can substantiate them with critical thinking and reasoning. That caveat is absolutely vital and it is something I would encourage you to keep in mind while traversing the topics of our modern news cycle.
So you got that right? Think critically. Be open to any and all ideas but don’t fall for the temptation of easily accepting them as your own without appropriate scrutiny. The more emotionally charged the topic the more scrutiny your thoughts on it deserve.
This leads me to the final aspect of today’s discussion on the 6 layers of health in light of the fallout of the attempted assassination.
Relational health deserves to round out today’s discussion because it can serve as a sort of ‘check and balance’ to all of the issues that we may face right now due to the intense moment we are in.
Relational health, as I find it, describes being connected and authentic with others. It describes feeling supported and like you belong.
Do me a favor. Imagine a scenario where you have all of these other layers of health in good standing. You are in good shape physically. You feel your life has purpose. You are mentally nimble. You have balanced emotions. You enjoy the environment you have set up for yourself.
Sounds pretty good right?
Well imagine all of that but you have no one to share it with. You have no one to justify your feeling healthy in these other layers. You have no one to challenge your thinking on what to eat for dinner let alone who should be President.
Having people to share life with is only half of it too. Those people you have ‘relations’ with must be of consequence. You need to have ‘skin in the game’ when it comes to building and maintaining relationships with those around you. If you don’t then no one benefits from the relationship.
If I let my relationship with my wife suffer and we become less connected and feel less support for each other then we will have less ‘skin in the game’ when it comes to treating each other with love and compassion.
If I don’t have friends whom I respect and trust then I can never count on the idea that someone will challenge my ideas. Good friends are good because they can laugh with you one moment and call you an idiot the next.
So…
In case it isn’t clear how this applies to this article’s topic let me explain.
July 13th happens. You get hit with a series of emotions. You generate thoughts based off of those emotions. You formulate opinions from those thoughts. You comfort yourself online by, likely, existing in an echo chamber that thinks and feels the way you do (because that’s social media for you no matter who you are). And that’s the end of the line. You can’t talk about it at work because your bosses are terrified that someone might be upset. You don’t talk about it at home because you are tired from work and your kids won’t understand. You don’t talk about it with friends because you are afraid that they might differ on how they view the whole topic at hand.
This is not a good place to be. It is important that you have people around you that you feel connected with enough to let your guard down.
Again, this isn’t me suggesting you go online blasting your opinions out there for all to see with little to no context… that would be ill-advised to say the least. You also shouldn’t go poking and prodding people at work to force conversations. You also shouldn’t unfairly push the stress you have off onto your children.
This is where REAL people for whom you have REAL feelings come in handy. You should be able to bullshit about Pokemon and Steelers football one day and also discuss the biggest news story of the last 20+ years the next. I really don’t view that as a controversial take… but again it’s just my opinion.
The takeaway?
Authentic relationships are exactly that because they allow you to explore thoughts and emotions that are not easily accessed. We all enjoy talking about how it has rained one time in the last 20 days but you can talk about that with anyone. You need to ensure you have people in your life you feel comfortable being yourself around… and that means comfortable letting your guard down as well.
Ok… wow… did you really read all of that? Shouldn’t you be working? Mannnn if I was your boss I’d be pissed. Run those numbers Jack! Copy those reports Amanda! Get back to work Tim!
Seriously, though, let’s wrap this up.
I told you why I wanted to write this article near the beginning. I greatly enjoy helping people improve their health and fitness. I own a gym and it serves as a great way of me doing just that.
But it is a very incomplete approach.
I will talk your ear off with training and nutrition advice trust me. But it only serves as one piece of the whole pie.
When major events like this assassination attempt come up it can remind me how much work many of us (myself definitely included) have to do on the other areas of our personal health.
So if this long ass article helped spur your thinking in that direction even 1% then I have done my job.
As always….
Take Action, Believe
Coach Dill
(feel free to tell my who your favorite Pokémon is at brickbybrickgym@gmail.com)