Episode 26: Quitters never win, winners never quit

April 29, 2009 by · Leave a Comment 

 

Injuries

Injuries

Not long after my young client Jared had hurt his shoulder, my own shoulders (yes, both of them) became a source of agony. While his injury could be pinpointed to a specific incident on a football field, the path to my own wrecked shoulders went back many years, long before that kid was even a gleam in his father’s eye – reflected from the 5-carat flawless diamond on his wife’s finger.  

My twenties in particular had been chock full of what I now look back at as ‘stunt lifting.’ How much weight could I possibly lift? Who was watching? And how much could I inflate my starving ego if I pulled off a successful stunt?

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A Bodybuilder is Born > Ron Harris

November 10, 2008 by · Leave a Comment 

 

Halloween was coming soon, which my faithful readers, all four of them, know to be my favorite holiday of the year. I have been a horror fan since around the time I was potty-trained, which was not twelve as some scurrilous malcontents have erroneously suggested, but more like two.
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