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07 August 2018

So....what does it get you...

after all there must be a payoff
stayin alive is one benefit...

but stain alive with ... power and virtue...
I look around...and I see my contemporaries...
1 1/2 feet in the grave.. and praying for it...
really ???

You got more inside... don't you..??
of course you do..we all have that private reel...

So, what motivates me ???

I'm still alive... anything else is keto gravy...

doesn't matter weather you are a man or a woman...
life demands that you recreate yourself... and sometimes your situation..is something only you, truly understand..
My life... you would never believe..and if I told it all...I would be called a liar.. but , you see...I don't give a damn about what others, who never had my best interest in mind to begin with, say..

So, where I am now ?
well, I was married to one woman, for 38 years,,lol..imagine that...who does that anymore ?
She dropped dead..at my feet and I tried to revive her...... you tell me... where do you go from there ?

So, what do excuses mean to me ???

No well the pic tell it all...
You retain your goal...you move on, you live and breathe...
and you never say die... until you do...

So, cry me a river ... youngbloods...you got a lot to live...
You got a lot more weight to lift, so many more reps..
I got you... I'll lift it beside you...
Every life has many contacts, influences and experience...
Some get tunnel vision..
WHo can uess who I ran with in pic 5..lol..

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07 August 2018

"EXCUSES"

I'll start tomorrow...
The job is killing me..
The wife or husband smothers my will..
my kids.take all my time...
I am on the road how can I do what I know I should ?

Sound familiar...and you know there are so many more excuses..
at 64... I've used them all... but they are what they are...
a weakness in your resolve...

Fail to plan...plan to fail
Not that hard to understand...
So, a little knowledge from an old man...
I plan... for each day at home...
when I travel... I plan...
YEs, there is the vacation.. but not a vacation from a goal..
If you ditched your goal for anything...., you have no goal...
just a dream...

Like I said, I'm 64... you young bloods can bring it...
and I say this to motivate you..not to disparage you...
I am not unique... I am the norm that most can no longer see...at my age...

OK, I stated you must plan... so, a few examples...
The first picture is me in 2015... in Hanoi, Vietnam..
Yea was a vacation and a trip..
but what am I doing ? I arranged a visitor membership at a ym..in Hanoi.. and I don't speak Vietnamese... In the pic I am benching a warm up set of 245 pounds..
a warm up set..and I'm 64... Give me an excuse??? and I was bad out of shape then.. I hope to reach my former high of 525... and that was when I was 35..
and it was 15 reps...
am I so different than you... not at all... I just understand something you might not... your limits are determined by mind, body and spirit... Most have one, maybe two.. but it takes all 3... That is all...

Ya know, I came back from Vietnam..and was invited to a martial arts school to demonstrate and spar with higher level students... most 40 years my junior... knowledge is power... but daily training in any application is true power..
Humility is true mastery... I am not special... I have had some very, very remarkable teachers...3rd pic is only a few... wonder who can identify them...

as my primary teacher use to tell me... NO excuses.. o back and practice it 1000 times.. then come see me again...

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07 August 2018

Yes, that's the new goal..
and I hope people say I can't
when they do...I make a point of doing it...

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07 August 2018

Somethings You Don't Throw Away....

and as we watch the world go by , year after year... many things
disappear...often because our current circumstance makes them seem useless..

Here's one I didn't throw away... In my younger years I was a surfer and diver...
surfed many beaches of the world... and mostly dove for abolone....
I put much of that on the shelf... and life had its way...

Well, I'm back... and am glad I didn't throw my wet suit away.....
I now for the first time in 21 years fit in it...

and I'm leaving for the Philippines later this year..
bet you can't guess what I might do there...
If I do ok in PI I will stop on the rebound in Hawaii...
maybe, someday, I can do the Bonzai Pipeline again..

I am lucky at my age... really should be dead...lol..trust me on that..
Never, ever think it is over....
cause it ain't over until it is !!

and YOU and you alone..have the power to turn it all around..
regardless of age...

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06 August 2018

Original target weight achieved..
and even though I am not a believer of the BMI..
I will shoot to get withing it next...that would mean
a minimum of 4 more pounds off...

Weigh-in: 170.0 lb

lost so far: 28.0 lb

still to go: 7.0 lb

Diet followed reasonably well

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