![]() You will still have stressful times, but your love for what you do will give you wings and grant you the will to power through all of the problems. I won that competition, and went on to a career as a fitness professional, and I still LOVE my career to this day! You know what they say, right? If you have a passion for what you do, you will never see it as work. The year of hard work and laser focus paid off. (Photo above) Back in the day, Circa 1980’s The sport teaches how to transform the body into a symmetrically balanced form. It’s not for everyone, but the information that can be learned from bodybuilding competitions can be invaluable to a person in pursuit of a fitness career. Laser focus on the right fitness routine can produce an amazing set of before and after photos! Try it for 90 days and see what happens in the mirror as you beach prep for this summer.īodybuilding is an extreme version of training for aesthetics. Tunnel vision and laser focus can combine as a powerful force in fitness, and that is what I had for an entire year in preparation for that event. It was time to focus hard on that new goal. In that moment of visualization I was in, fully committed to the competition and dedicated to do my best to win. I saw that competition in a magazine for the year before and in my mind I resolved that I could compete with those guys on that stage if I trained hard enough for it. That was back in the great rock ’n roll decade of the 80’s when I was a senior at Ole Miss. During my bodybuilding career, my most memorable competition was when I once trained for an entire year to compete for the NPC Collegiate Nationals that was to be held on my 21st birthday. I have always been involved in athletics, and after playing college football, I turned to fitness and then to bodybuilding to fill my athletic void. When I was there I saw the giant photos of all the bodybuilding greats and it reminded me of my own competitive past. Celebrities and champions of all types of sports train there. I have always said that if you can’t get motivated at that gym, then you just can’t be motivated. I decided I might as well head over to the Mecca of Bodybuilding, Gold’s Gym in Venice, to get a chest workout in. ![]() I just returned home this week from a trip to an amazing Tony Robbins seminar in Fiji and on my way back I found myself with an extended layover at the Los Angeles airport. ![]() So, in light of the fact that it is now officially spring as of the Sunday before this post, I think it’s appropriate to write about the aesthetics aspect of fitness. Outward appearance is a reflection of how we feel inside. When we look good, we feel even better, and we have more confidence. Health is everything and feeling great is supremely important… but so is looking good. Infrared training is a super healthy form of exercise. We talk a lot about wellness in this weekly HOTWORX Blog, and rightly so.
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