Vision

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a passion for brother Joe is fitness.  Physical pursuits have always been a constant in his life.  He played football professionally in the Arena Football League.  He fought MMA on the amaetur level.  He also had a lot of off-field impact.  He was with the world champion San Jose SaberCats of the Arena Football League.  He served as a strength coach for football at Stanford University.  He worked as Andrew Luck’s personal coach as instructed to do so by coach Jim Harbaugh.  He wa the youngest head coach in pro sports when he was hired for an expansion arena team at 27.  He never coached there as he hadhis motorcycle accident before the season.  Here you will find videos of him perforing fitness activities, mostly from his involvement in CrossFit.  Joe started CrossFit as a means of physical rehabilitation and now competes.  When he began training in CrossFit he could not stand up from a wheelchair.

It is of the upmost importance that the objective of the training is clearly and definitively stated.

James 2:26 “Faith without work is dead.”

you have to be willing totake the appropriate action to reach your goals.  You may want to loae weight.  You hope, and even believe it will happen.  Unless you don’t implement a sound training plan and ensure you are in a caloric deficit, it isn’t going to happen.  You faith in its occurance is dead.  If you are not willing to work to achieve an objective it isn’t a goal, it is a wish.

By stating conclusively your objective you can carve out a plan o achieve it.  Furthermore you can decide if it is the correct objective.  The prime example > this is the idea of “weight loss.”  Its a major misnomer to equate weight loss with aesthetic appearance.  If appearance is the goal s much better biometric would be body fst %.  Weight could be lost in various ways which will not impact yoursppearance.  Fighters routienely “cut weight” for bouts.  They connonly do through dietary restriction and extreme dehydration.  While it will most likely not be done to that level the same schematics could be applied.

you have to set a realistic time frame to reach your goals in.  You can’t say “I’m going to lose 10 pounds n a week.”  Healthy weight loss would be 1-2 pounds/week.  You can have to obective o lose 0 pouns, vut it will most limely take2 months.

That doesn’t mean o be complacent.  Your goal might be a progression of goals yet to come.  Using myself as an example:

After being decreed to die, and decreed to never stand upright again on my own volution, my immediate goal was to walk.  It took me 7 years to do that.  Now I compete in fitness and set goals of doing things non-disabled athletes never achieve.

(The picture is the first competition mypartner and Isabelle and I did together.  We rotenely compete in MF team competitions.  Isabelle is the most fit person I know.  shes the ideal teammate abd a great fiend.  She was even my swimming coach!!)

A modality is nasically how you will train.  It can be an idea that can translate to another objective.  Fir example a therapist knew I used to train MMA.  She refered me to a kung fu academy figuring I was “into martial arts.”  (Turns out I’m not.  I just like to fight.)

my kung fu sifu (instructor) Rik Kellerman was amazing.  He had a far greater impact on my recovery then any therapist.  Fik had his nind set on the ultimate goal as well.  We did a lotto challenge my balance and improve my arm mobility.

i knew if ine oerson that was an avid surfer.  They lost the ability to stand.  They trained as if they were training to stand on a surfboard.  I din’t know what that entails but its a great example of incorporating a passion into training fir a eifferent goal.

During your lifetime God will place divine helpers in your life.  They will help you progress along you path in ways that were beforehand unimaginable.  Rik was a divine helper for certain.

I’ve always been in God’s favor.  I’ve been given much more grace then I deserve.  When I had my motorcycle accident I had just passed an ambulenes.  When they got the call they rigured it had to be me and turned around.  I was intubated in sight.  Had they not arrived wo quickly I would have bled out and eied.

i had Rik helping me with my physical recovery but the obe person who had the greatest impact on my life wasKELLY ROSADO.  She was a CrossFit coach I had and her dedication to me went far beyoneCrossFit.  She met with therspists to get opinions on how to best hanfle me.  She has specializpzed as an adaptive coach (an adaptive sthlete is someone with a PERMANENT injury that causes disabilities that cause limitation that can impact your ability to do work).  Kelly was qlready knowledgable in physiology but became second to none is her ability to coach human performance.

God sctually was saving my soul by letting things transpire.  I was headed to hell.  Since this accident I’ve experience such a dramatic change in my life.  That brings me to another devinie helper, Victor Okodogbe.  He is the pastor of MOUNT zion Gospel Tabernacle.  My uderstanding of faith had grown exponentially.  I believe that I had know pastor earlier in my life I would have avoided the accident all together.  But had i we would have never met.  I love him and his entire family unconditionally.  His wife is a pastor, Maryqueen Okodogbe.  Their daughters Favor and Praise have spoken quite a bit, and the rest of the church is really my family.  Vinny Albanese Is one of my best friends and Mama Betty is also God’s best friend.  (Pictured)