I was honored last week when Fitness Anywhere reached out to me with a request to include yours truly as their featured community member. As one of the early adoptors of Suspension Training with the TRX, I’ve been an advocate for this method of fitness for about 4 years now – and it’s still my favorite piece of equipment. In fact, here is an impromptu video review I recently did on the TRX System, enjoy!

The blog feature includes most of the answers I provided Fitness Anywhere with and two responses that were left out…but I’m providing them for you below because they are an important part of who I am and may resonate with other people who can relate to or benifit from my approach to motivation and life. Here is what the feature doesn’t tell you:

How do you stay motivated?

I live life like a time-bomb is inside of me and there is no telling when it might go off!…so I’m truly grateful for each and every day and try to live life’s moments as if they might be my last. This time-bomb mindset manifested itself when I broke my neck (C6 and C7) from a compression fracture in my early 20’s. While I was recovering with the aid of a halo apparatus screwed into my skull I often thought about what I would do if I were healthy, if I were strong, if I were more capable to “fill in the blank.” This was very powerful for me and I feel blessed to have experienced such physical trauma at a young age leading me to appreciate how important health is and to live an active lifestyle for the sake of its wonderfulness and in the name of those who are not able to but wished they could.

What does it mean to you to be fit and why do you think it is important?

I feel that being fit involves frequently taking your body and determination to that level of difficulty that rides the edge of where you want to give up but couldn’t face yourself if you didn’t push it a little bit more. People I know who have this mental approach (including myself) to exercise are able to push through physical challenges and tend to be more conscious about what they eat, how much they drink, what’s in their food and other important healthy lifestyle choices. To be fit is not about building up those beach muscles, it’s a comprehensive effort and endless pursuit that’s done on a daily basis bringing with it a feeling of confidence, vitality and positive energy to those that embrace it. I couldn’t imagine living life any other way!

Click HERE to view the entire blog feature…and if you enjoy TRX-ing, join the community to learn more every week!

Thanks for following me and don’t hesitate to leave a comment with any thoughts.

The ProAm Beach Volleyball tournament was held at the Divi Resort in Aruba this past weekend. The weather was between showers and sunshine. They managed to get the matches in. Here’s a video showing some of the action.

Ricoh, Swatch, Divi Resorts, and Polar beer were major sponsors. Thanks to them and all the players for providing a couple of days of live action sports.

Bon dia.

Petunias bogstavleg – jeg må være med – og lidt sent kommer jeg ind på bogstavet I - men det passer jo lige til bloggen. IDRÆT

Det er jo lidt sent, men bedre sent end aldrig. Mit ord for I må være  idræt. Idræt fordi jeg synes det er sjovt, men også fordi det er vigtigt i alles hverdag og  fordi denne blog handler om idræt.  Jeg har altid været grebet af idræt, redskabsgymnastik, dans, håndbold, aerobic, spinning, løb, volleyball, beachvolley, skiløb,

Her er nogle idrætsredskaber:

The beach is hot but the game is on
Coach can’t hide in shade today
Cause my girls are working magic in the sand
They dig deep, volley perfect, and slam the balls over the net
the whole audience is in a trance from these toned witches spell

There going strong casting Hex’s on the other crew
Cause in the end both teams know what the loosers got to do
and this sun is hot enough to grill human flesh
Focus back on the game My girls are serving up match point
Damn compettition made a perfect spike

No they made the save and its our turn to hit em with that fire
yes we won the crowd roars for the undefeated champs putting another crew out to dry
the customary shaking of hands ends with a grimace as my witches lay back in the sand
the team loosers come by and remove winner panties to se whats been grilling underneath
team looser services my winners tilllustful screams are the only sound

It’s been 3 years since I cancelled my gym membership…and I’ve never been in better shape!

I went to the gym year after year to keep fit and do workouts that improved my ability to play beach volleyball and other sports I enjoy…I was even a sponsored athlete with Gold’s Gym for 8 years (Santa Barbara and Venice locations). While I have no beef with gym’s or gym-goers, I found that hitting the gym 3-5 times per week was incredibly disruptive to my life and therefore decided to make a change.

The departure from working out at the gym had the following up sides:

• saved money on membership fees
• saved money on parking fees (yes, parking costs money in California!)
• saved money on gas to and from the gym
• saved time spent getting to and from the gym
• less exposure to sweat and germs left on equipment
• no more frustration that the equipment I want to use is taken
• no “prime time” hours and high-traffic hours to contend with
• no more seasonal surges in membership to clog the facility with newbies and short-timers
• no more annoying cell phone talkers yappin away while doing cardio simultaneously

Now that life’s distractions have been trimmed down by letting my membership expire it was time to find a worthy replacement for the thousands of pounds or training equipment I was accustomed to having access to (when not in use or out of order). Ironically enough, the solution for me was a piece of equipment that weighed less than two pounds and looked like a three-legged seatbelt – the TRX Suspension Trainer, a bodyweight-based fitness tool that uses your bodyweight and gravity as resistance to provide whole-body workout capability that’s functional in nature, core-intensive and made easy or extremely difficult depending on the user’s ability, desire and fitness goals.

Granted, Suspension Training took me 2-3 workouts in order to really get the hang of it but now that I’m a proficcient TRX user, my workout options are endless…and I have no reason to ever spend money and join a gym again! 

My investment in TRX cost $150 and the product has held up for over three years, even with regular use (3-5 times per week…and my wife uses it too). That’s a great return on investment when compared to 3-years worth of gym membership fees! Even better, I used an affiliate code at checkout and received a gift certificate that paid for my door anchor accessory, which I use to set up my TRX off of doors at home and when I’m on the road at hotels or a friends house. You can use the affiliate code “GIFT” at checkout and do the same thing!

Check out my website, www.VirtualWorkoutPartner.com which is dedicated to helping people stay fit despite living a busy lifestyle. I hope TRX becomes your fitness solution and saviour from undesirable costs, hassel and lost time as well. Please comment and let me know how your life has improved with TRX added to your arsenal of fitness tools.

We are currently in the off season. Natacha is back in France and I am back in Toronto. Right now this is the only way we know how to support our dream, to work and train in our respective countries and meet again closer to the season.

I am planning on returning to France around the end of March and then we will kick it into high gear.

We are both currently keeping in shape by doing physical training and playing some indoor. We get to play the occasional beach. It’s a bit harder when there’s already some snow flakes in Toronto in OCTOBER!!  And that is one of the reasons we chose the south of France as our training base camp.

If you know that Nestea is the sponsor, you failed the gay test!

Here’s Gee Dubya making an arse of himself…..