Vision

My vision for us all is to prioritize what is truly important in life.

True connection between humans is what I, and hope you are striving for, too.

Yes, having good fitness and health, is foundationally important for us all.

And that's why we're all here meeting together, for 1 set hour of the day.

I'm glad to be providing you all the opportunity for that, at the very minimum.

We need to, I think, use that for other great things, like making and maintaining great relationships, too.

Those relationships, I think, should be within our family, friends, and with nature.

We live here in one of, if not the best places in the world to do that.

We all have to take advantage of that, I think.

From what I've learned and experienced so far, I don't think we can truly have these meaningful relationships through our cellular/smart phone screens (especially through social media).

This is why you see my personal exit from social media applications like Facebook and Instagram, and turning to using the Light Phone.

I know many people will find it difficult, and will not do what I have done, but there are small steps people can take to have meaningful relationships by minimizing their use and setting boundaries.

From my point of view, since I'm about helping you all with your total fitness and health, and helping you leverage that to do great things, subjecting you all to more cellular/smart phone and social media use shouldn't be part of what I'm doing.

However, we'll continue to use our current systems for training and progress tracking, like the Level Method app, the SugarWOD app, and the PushPress app to reserve a spot and sign-in to classes.

For me personally, I'll use my physical log book, and enter in my data from day-to-day on my computer, instead of the phone (which won't have our applications on it).

For you all, I encourage the more thoughtful and deliberate use of the technology we have at our disposal today. Consider the second- and third-order effects of using it all, on yourself, your family and friends, and on nature.

Empowering you in your body and ultimately your mind to be as independent as you can has been my mission from the very beginning.

I hope that you have learned, and will continue to learn many things about yourself and about others since you have starting training here.

I surely have learned about myself and others through you.

You have my word that I will continue to learn and grow, to help you learn and grow in harmony.

I'll be even more glad to see us all use our fitness and health and grow more with and in our relationships, and feel absolutely free to do whatever you want, whenever you want, however you want.

What an opportunity to have such a great year together!

We'll keep having class to learn and have fun together, and we'll take on a lot of the same, and even new adventures outside of class together, too!

I'm looking forward to it.

I hope you are, too.