What experiences in life helped you grow the most?
I was 12 years old and this 16 year old was beating me up almost every day on my one hour ride on the school bus! I ‘appealed’ to the good nature of my bus driver and my parents but got little advice or help as to how to make the ‘bully’ stop! So I saw a “muscle magazine” and got an idea! The first thought was that I could get bigger and stronger and when the bully attacked me, I would simply beat the crap out of him! (This definitely isn’t funny, but if you’ve ever seen ‘Christmas Story’ and saw the kid’s facial reaction when he had the idea to take his ‘case’ to “Santa the big guy,” well that’s what my face looked like when I got this idea of getting strong and beating up the bully!) So I started working out with that in mind and I got big and strong but before I took on the bully, something miraculously happened … apparently the bully saw my increased ‘bulk’ and decided to leave me alone! Wow! That was it! I didn’t need to beat him up! I found out the one thing that a bully can’t and won’t deal with and that is they won’t pick on anyone if they even think that the person will fight back! Thanks, “The” Trainer/Inside Out Fitness
