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FEATURED ARTICLE- this past month a Q & A session with Mike submitted by a competitor, other months Mike writes his personal thoughts, and sometimes he submits an article that you could swear he wrote just for you! *preview article at bottom of this page!

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GLOSSARY- Mike's unique training style has turned countless fitness enthusiasts into world-class competitors and couch potatoes into fit, healthy human beings. Some of Mike's exercises are unorthodox and require a little explanation. This video glossary is here to help you understand how to properly perform each exercise.

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Featured Article from January 2008:

Don't Perpetrate in 2008
That’s right, don’t perpetrate that you're going to do IT this year. Whatever IT is that you're talking about. Because last year you did just that, TALKED. Yappin' your trap about how this was the year you drop all that baby weight you gained, even though your your kids are five years old now. This is the year you get lookin' fine and drop the zero and get with a hero. This is the year all the "B’s" in the gym are going to take notice, and the guys too. This is the year I’m going to compete. Not only compete, but win. Not only win, but win IT all. Not only win IT all, but turn pro. Yep, this is the year.

Just like last year and the year before that and the year before that and so on and so forth. Same speech every New Years Eve. Drink in hand, dress too tight, proclaiming your things to do list for 2008. Just loud enough so everyone can hear your drunken rant over top of the music.

So let's just say, for fun, that you actually wake up on Janruary 2, 2008 and implement a plan. Do you even know what needs done, where to get started, or how to start? Let me give you some suggestions and I’m being serious now.

First you need motivation. So go put on all the clothes that fit you last year on Janruary 2. How do they look a year later? Good, not so good? If good, be motivated to keep going. If not so good be motivated to do something about it. Now, think about the negative things in your life. Perhaps a demeaning boyfriend or husband or that so called best friend who tells you how much better you look with some "meat on your bones". Make a choice, get rid of them or get them on your page and backing what you are trying to do. Now stand in the mirror, buck ass naked, and ask yourself, "Self am I happy with the way I look and could I be happier if I looked better". It is my experience that women are happier people in general if they are happy with the way they look. The grass is greener, the sky is bluer, the husband/boyfriend is better in bed and so on. Am I right? I thought so.

Now write down some realistic goals, unlike last year's, and do them in small time periods. For example: I will do cardio four mornings per week. I will get on a regimented diet and actually stick to it. I will shoot for a pound to pound and a half weight loss per week. I will put my New Year's Eve dress back on the first week in March and actually deserve to wear it. I will make love to my husband or boyfriend with the lights on. Realistic shit like that. Ok, i feel good now. This is going to work.

Now after March it's bikini season crunch time. What I look like at the beach or pool this summer is determined in March, April and May. Am I seeking employment as an attraction at Sea World this summer or are people seeking me for no other reasons than I look good. I hope for the latter. Remember as the goals get loftier, so too does the commitment. So commit this time or I will have to write this same article next year and force you to read it wearing the 2008 New Year's Eve dress that once again is a size or two larger than the 2007 version. Happy New Year!!!!! Mike D style