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What’s up? I hope life is kicking butt and you are moving closer to your fitness goals.

In this post I will talk to you about how you can ask questions and receive valuable fitness information from high level fitness pro’s for FREE through this blog and how Paris Hilton helped me reflect on my future. But before I get into that I am going to tell you about how I came about creating this blog.

A client of mine was peeling himself off the off the floor after a series of exercises in a pretty intense session when he asked me “can we do some more ab exercises? I need to burn some of this belly fat and get a six-pack”. This is of the most frequently asked fitness questions, but there are numerous others that fitness pros get asked on a regular basis. So I decided to create a blog just for YOU, so questions like this can be asked and answered right here and we can cut right through the marketing hype…

It’s also important for you to have a little background of how I came to do what I do. Growing up I was a skinny, somewhat awkward, curious (my mom might say mischievous, but I am going with curious) and athletic kid, I tried and played pretty much everything. Starting from the age of 4 or 5 I did:

• Swimming (for 8 years)
• Soccer (for 9 years)
• Baseball (for 6 years)
• Tae Kwon do (for 1 year, swimming got in the way but I loved it)
  

  Bridgeport Invasion AAU Game

• Cross country (for 1 year, wasn’t a huge fan)
• Track (for 1 year, wasn’t a huge fan)
• Football (for 4 years), and
• Basketball (for 11 years)

all competitively. Sports just came naturally to me, it was something innate. I was lucky enough to grow up on a lake. By the age of 3 I was swimming 30 feet out to a dock all by myself. Naturally, I became a competitive swimmer and my lanky body paid off because I ended up breaking a record that still stands to this day. I was told that I had the potential for the Olympics, but swimming back and forth over and over and over again was not what I wanted to be doing my whole childhood and I got bored with it easily.  At around 13-14 years old my passion grew for basketball. I was still swimming part-time and playing other seasonal sports but all I wanted to do was play basketball. So that’s what I did as much as I could; sometimes 5 hours a day after school all by myself. After a few years my skills really improved. I was the starting point guard for the freshman team where we went 16-0. We had an insanely talented team, to the point where we scrimmaged the varsity team and won. (Shout out to my freshman teammates). I also got to see some varsity game time. Anyway, fast forward a bit. I was given an opportunity to play basketball at a prep school (Canterbury Prep) starting my junior year. The competition was higher than the public school I was previously playing at and I was guaranteed a spot on the team.

When senior year started, there was a rumor that the heiress of Hilton Hotels might be transferring to Canterbury.  As it turned out the rumor was true and Paris ended up sitting next to me in my Creative Writing class.

At the end of class she asked if we could study together in the Library, and I thought, for Creative Writing? Ha! Trying not to laugh out loud, I said sure (but seriously who studies for Creative Writing?). So we went to the library and we were talking and getting to know each other and she asked me the big question “So, what do you want to do with your life when you get older?”

I sat back and thought, I have no idea. What do I want to do with my life? As it turns out I was clueless for some years to come, hence my accounting degree. What the hell was I thinking on that one? I eventually came back to what I was great at – what came so natural to me: sports and training. For years now I have been able to help people reach their fitness goals and teach and train personal trainers to help others to reach their goals.

Now, I am happy to announce that I will continue to help people but on a larger scale, using this blog as a vehicle. So WELCOME to the official launch of the HARTCORE blog!

This is an interactive blog, meaning that I WANT YOU to ask questions in the comment section below (about fitness, not Paris) and we will answer your questions in upcoming blog posts through videos and text. Just think of this blog as your personal fitness coach. Take full advantage because you will receive highly valuable professional advice and information from not only me but from my training partner Bojan, the Serbian bull as he has been labeled by some.

WARNING: If you don’t like a firm dose of reality this blog may not be for you.

In helping you towards your goals we ask that you assist us toward our second goal of helping as many people as possible reach their fitness goals. So if you find this blog beneficial, please forward it to your friends and family via email, facebook, twitter, etc. Let them know that they can receive answers to their fitness questions through the comment section, as well as learn other valuable information!

Ok, what I want you to do right NOW is place your question in the comment section below and we will answer it in a blog at some point in the near future. Or if you don’t have a question, just leave a comment.

Thanks and Enjoy!