I train hard.  I don't lack motivation or drive when I hit the gym.  But life is stressful, raising kids is stressful, relationships are stressful and what if one bad day turned into a week and then turned into a month.  What if the maintenance of strength became a slow regression, my previous PR’s became a memory of the past. 

I have a mentor in life that has been challenging my views of the world and helping me sort through all the bull shit in hopes of finding true relationships and true happiness.  And when we look for mentors, we want someone to challenge the everyday things and then give us strength in those really challenging moments. 

I love my classes.  I love the people.  I love the environment.  I love the whole thing.  We spend so much time together and over the years we really get to know each other.  It doesn’t happen in a day or a week. 

Can a bad day or two of eating ruin all the good days?  Hmmm.  I eat pretty spot on Sunday through Thursday, when I'm not stressed out, I plan my meals, my children aren't fighting, there are no girls nights, no celebrations and its not raining. 

My mind was blown and when I thought it was done blowing, it was blown again.  I had one of the best weekends learning EVER.  I go to quite a few seminars and workshops throughout the years, but this one made me so excited to go back to work.  I put pieces of the puzzles together and had one "aha moment" after another.

Spring Break has officially started.  Classes will continue because it is really hard to take time off of work.  Classes will be a bit slower and next week I will get to hear about all the adventures that people went on.  Some people are staying close to home and others are traveling far away.  Some are going alone and others with their families.

Shortly after returning home after walking Milo to school, I get the phone call asking me to pick up my Emerson.  This morning he wasn't feeling good and he looked really tired.  I wouldn't have sent him to school if he wasn't asking me to take him to the skatepark after school.

I spent the past weekend in San Diego at the Strength Matters Summit.  I learned a lot, mainly about business, and brought home some motivation.  But actually the highlight of my weekend was spending time with a friend I had not seen in a long time.

I am not sure how a few weeks of not blogging turned into a few months.  But I am back.  The holidays came and went and we just finished up our Birthday season.  It seemed like the holiday chaos took over and then the birthday chaos took over and now I am finally settling in. 

I am actually halfway through my second week, but I don't want to get ahead of myself.  The first week was awesome.  When I wrote my program, I was hoping for a 315lb 1RM on my conventional deadlift.  When deadlift day came, I decided to set the goal for 325lbs.