You’re fired up, your adrenaline is pumping, engines are revved. You can't wait to get out there and perform. You've waited all day, maybe a few days and are replaying in your mind the challenges you will confront and how you will tackle them. Your time to escape the day to day and become your true self, the adventurer, the conquerer, the winner, the leader, the activist or the dreamer has arrived.

This is a new addition to the newsletter where I can take time to address in full detail questions which current clients confront while in the process of making real changes to their body, lifestyle and well being. TO DO OR NOT TO DO? … ABS

As your personal fitness trainer my passion is to teach, coach, understand, push, prod, cajole, investigate, research and apply, over and over… As a ‘Fitness Role Model’…well…I feel vulnerable with weakness, so, in hopes we can all learn, from my own weakness, here goes…My Confession.

What is it? Why do we do it?

It's not just because it's the toughest workout you have ever done in your life. And it's not just because you can feel your metabolism going through the roof, burning the fat almost instantaneously. It's also not due to the fact that after a few workouts you start to see muscle tone and then get really inspired to get more results. It's certainly not that, even though its so painful and you can't wait to do it again because you know in your heart…This is how exercise is supposed to feel.

It’s the travel time, meaning hours spent sedentary. It prepares me for the visiting, when I know there’ll be no activity. I try to see it as winding down to catch up with where our lives have gone in the past 6 months. A semiannual sharing and reflection with family. An enchanted time when reality is lived through a rose tinted holidaze.

This past week being lent and the opening of The Passion of Christ (which I probably won’t see, mostly because I can’t bear watching physical violence and I’d be a total wreck during and afterwards). Though I am one who abandoned the Catholicism I was raised in, it does still haunt me.

As my brother Tony says "If your feet aren't healthy, neither is the rest of you!" I have come to realize that orthotics are a worthy cause and a very necessary component of the health and fitness model.

Hoping everyone had a fun, fantastic, exciting and relaxing mix of Holiday eventfulness or lack thereof.

There’s nothing that matches the power of teamwork to accomplish amazing results beyond your wildest goals and aspirations. Teamwork evokes unflagging spirit, selflessness and dedication.

As the dieting phenomenon grows, with a new "diet guru" announcing "THE SOLUTION" almost weekly, so do the waste lines of America expand.