I said it was simple. Not easy.

As we're bombarded daily with new ads for pills, diets and ab-doers, we have to protect our wallets and our time.

The 9th grade was the best three years of my life. I was benching 85 lbs, drug free!

Without challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive.

If it's important do it everyday.

If something is important, do it every day; if it's not important, don't do it at all.

Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.