Here I am at 16, competing in the Mr. Teenage Indiana, 1979, on top left. The top right is in 1980 - I placed third that year in the Mr. Teenage Indiana, a great improvement, especially when many of my competitors were on steroids, but not me. The bottom shot is from the '80 Mr. Teenage Indiana - a good illustration of development and hard work. I still train just as hard today and will compete again, but this time - 25 years later, to inspire the guys in my age group to believe they can and must live life like today is it!
Doing dips with just a 20 pound dumbbell between my ankles. The dungeon - (YMCA)...16 years old, loving every minute! Check out the pipes out of the wall as dip bars and the old standing calve raise and tile walls and old solid wood floor!
Push'n it hard - doing flyes, thinking, "I wanna be Franco, I wanna be Franco!", circa 1979. Check out the old solid round dumbbells on the floor behind me. You just don't see those anymore - where ever they are, you can bet someone is still pumping iron with them!
say NO to real jobs : do what you love, life is short!
Garfield : the coolest cat! I've enjoyed Garfield since I was very young!
![A true British Classic Roadster [MGB] My fun ride and Prize winning car at the All British Field Meet Portland, Oregon 2008!](Dan's%2079%20B%20-%20Fall%20in%20Oregon%20-%20Oct.14.07.JPG)
I enjoy driving my 1979 MGB roadster! I got my first "B" back in 1984, a '76 B, the year I drove cross-country from my home state of Indiana to Oregon. I recommend driving across country in an MG, very fun, especially in a convertible! These are shots of my current MGB. A lot cheaper than today's roadsters; more class and more fun!
How did my Fitness In Training™ logo come to be you ask? Well it started out on yes, a scratch piece of paper. I wanted my coaching to be represented by a strong, concise looking logo that speaks to what fitness should be. Simple and true and easy to understand. I spent about two years developing my logo. The "N" with the barbell through it wasn't easy to do. I had to get a font-editor program and actually make a new character. That was fun, but very time consuming. Next was positioning the bar, through the "N" with plates aligned on either side. Getting the letters centered and all the other text took hundreds of hours and hundreds of tries before I was satisfied. Pretty cool! I took the image on a bluff overlooking the pacific ocean, in Kauai, Hawaii in 2003, my shoes were caked with Red-dirt!
My Tacoma