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T – CHALLENGE!!!!  That’s right, all you lil weedhoppahs out there in Cyberland.  Tony has officially issued a challenge to the Dr. in which HE GUARANTEES that he’ll take me out for the coveted “Best Poser” award!  Don’t know if you guys remember an old movie with Gregory Hines, his brothers, Scatman Crothers, and many other Tap Dancer greats.  The premise was simple…there were all these guys who claimed to be the best tap dancer.  Anyone who wanted a piece of someone else simply yelled CHALLENGE! It was on then.  You saw some of the most incredible tap dancing you could imagine.  A song would be put on and each man would have time to free-tap.  The beauty of those scenes was that they were not choreographed.  Every single tap dancer, during a challenge, would free-tap with the camera rolling – no second takes as that meant you couldn’t hang.  These guys wanted to make the movie as realistic as possible.  Don’t know how this is gonna work out, but I’m all for a free-pose off.  The fire within has been lit, the challenge has been issued.  Ya’ll don’t wanna miss the 2010 Washington Ironman Naturally.  The Dr. has a new genre of music that is off-the-hook!  He’s practicing new moves and puttin’ together new combinations that have never been seen on stage before.  Tony – say y’prayers.  This is gonna be like in the movie Friday, in which at the end Chris Tucker looks down at Tiny Lister, the movie’s bully, and says, “You got knocked the ^*%& out!” ~chuckle~

Now I gotta be fair…Tony, any time you wanna rebutt or diss back, I’ll give you equal time in the blog.  I don’t want this to be one-sided and be the only trash-talker.  I know you’ve got a lot to throw back at me.  I promise to print word-for-word what you say.  You can text me, email me, FB me…the choice is yours – I’ll post it.  No foul language, that’s the only rule…unless you hit below the belt and say I got skinny calves and no quads…then it’s on like Donkey Kong, Big Brotha!...oh…wait…I DO have skinny calves and no quads…ok T – nuthin’s off limit. 

Now America, in case you guys are wondering where all of this is coming from, some of Tony’s comrades’’ have been FB’ing me and giving me the 411 on what he’s been saying.  Years ago Turk talked trash in which he said his boy would take me out at the Ironman.  Every day he called me, egging me on.  All that did was light a fire under me.  Needless to say I took out his boy with ones straight across the board.  Lesson learned.  Looks like history will repeat itself…Hahaha.  Like mild-mannered Bruce Banner says, “Don’t make me angry…you won’t like me when I’m angry…!”  Ya’ll know I’m playin’, right?  I got big love for Tony if you read the last blog, but it’s always fun when one doesn’t take oneself so serious.

Hey, gotta give a HUGE shout-out to Jeff Kahrs, my old training partner, chiropractor, and now (once again) new training partner.  You gotta go back a long ways in the blogs but I wrote about my top 5 training partners.  If I recall, Jeff was number one or two.  It was close between him and The Farrison (Kim).  Just having Jeff back each day has been a blessing in more ways than one.  I can push myself hard, America, but when you’ve got that one person who somehow manages to get you to mentally and physically dig deeper without saying a word…that’s a great partner!  Jeff is like that.  I’ve been sorer the past three weeks with him than I’ve been working out with numerous other people over the years.  I’m making gains in the weights (which I hope will lead to gaining back some of the lean I’ve lost over the years) I didn’t think I’d ever be able to achieve again, attributing it to age.  I’m eating cleaner every day.  Foods are locked and loaded.  Cardio is a solid intense hour.  You guys know I’m a firm believer in 60 minutes of High Intensity Steady-State cardio (HISS) as opposed to 30-45 minutes of HIIT cardio.  The biggest thing is I once again WANT TO work out.  Over the past few months I’ve trained and done shows, but I was missing that edge that I had in my 40’s.  Now I’ve got two great ‘motivating’ factors (ya’ll know I STILL hate that word, right?) – the Pose-Off Challenge with Tony and Jeff back.  Life is good…

As I prepare for Spokane’s Night of the Champions, I’m really liking how things are coming together.  Now I’m no Joe DeRousie or Matt Porter, but I know that when I dial in to my best potential I don’t look half-bad.  Tall and thin, but there’s still a decent amount of muscle on these ole bones.  My old nemesis and buddy, John Shephard is training for the NOC and Ironman as well.  When John dials in to his best look, which is in the high 150’s/low 160’s, he’s a tough opponent.  Don’t know who else is gonna be there, but you guys know me…”The challenge is from within, the Opponent is yourself, the Victory is silent, the Reward is having met the challenge…”

Speaking of Matt Porter, I never blogged after the Tacoma show.  Matt looked absolutely incredible!  Big, hard, dry, and that color…Matt, I don’t know what you do (well, actually I do cause you told me) but under the lights you literally look like a Greek statue in some of your poses.  You have almost the same color as Niels Anderson statues.  Dude, you looked good up there – big ups.  It’ll be fun to see you and Big Joe DeRousie go head to head one day…Ali vs. Fraizer 4?

America, hit me up on FB as an add so you can know when I post a blog if y’wanna.  Gotta run…time to put in a lil posing practice.  The music is calling me…peace…

Hey, you know what I just realized?  I don’t hardly write about what I do in prep for shows anymore.  I’ll get back to doing that soon – promise.  But for now, I eat the right foods at the right times in the right amounts, I do my cardio, and I lift weights!  ‘Nuff said…?

The Dr.

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