This man may or may not realize it, but he is responsible for the insatiable drive I have had since getting off the stage two years ago determined that the next time I competed, I would not show up in anything less than contest shape. Ty made a comment about my lackluster condition without tagging me in a post. I imagine he didn’t want to pile on but I knew he was talking about me and he was 100% correct. I knew I wasn’t in shape and I had people telling me “oh yea, you look great bro” blah blah blah. I don’t like being gassed up when I know it’s not truthful. I was raised by a father who was hard on me and expected my very best. I wrestled in high school and my coach expected the best of us and wasn’t shy about telling us when we weren’t up to the task. This is how I respond to criticism, I want to be told the truth. If I suck, I want to be told so. If I’m not putting forth my best, I want to be told so. I don’t care if I’m paying you to be my coach. That’s what I’m paying you for, to give me an honest assessment of what I need to work on. I don’t want/need to be babied. I get that people want to be encouraging and positive and that’s great but not when it comes at the expense of creating delusion in the person you are trying to encourage. So, I genuinely want to thank @tywoosley23 for lighting a fire under my ass, whether he knows it or not because that’s what I needed to hear.

Speaking of starvation diet plans, I tried one a few years ago. It came with “coaching.” On the left was my coach back then. On the right, my current coach. PS: I currently eat more than double the calories I ate on the starvation diet.