About

Who Am I?

A 47 Year old maverick strength and fitness bodyweight training specialist…ex twenty plus year weight trainer who turns the tables on how to get fit, lean and strong without boring long visits to the gym or even routines at home!

A snapshot of my fitness evolution…

In my early days as a young man in my twenties I spent time in gyms weight lifting or at my home gym practicing everything from every other day training and split routines for 45 minutes to an hour and a half.

Even rising at 3:00 in the morning to fit in a set of heavy squats! I must have been crazy but  back then I was on a mission to build a bodybuilder’s physique and was prepared to do what it takes (never though with anything illegal or questionable) along with huge meals and protein shakes.

Later, as family and work responsibilities became more prominent I found it harder to keep up such a regime and began to miss workouts.  I still trained but not as seriously.

As my goals and values in life changed the reason for exercise changed too. Just keeping in good shape and being strong and healthy began to shape my view on exercise.

But how?

Well, here at this juncture in my life was (although I did not realize it at the time) the genesis of Dump The Gym Fitness.

To begin with I discovered that to maintain and even increase in strength and fitness I could do so with as little as 10-20 minutes of weights at home using just weights, dumbells, barbells and a bench and only two or three times a week.

Lesson learned: Short time periods of exercise done consistently overtime produce results.

I found that even if I only did one set of each exercise  I still made progress. I cut my workout time to a minimum. But I still missed workouts and a pattern developed of working out consistently for a while then missing a few and so progress was slow at best but, nevertheless I was able to maintain a reasonable level of fitness and strength.

Overtime I noticed that aches and pains in my joints developed but I carried on with the weights not realizing they were causing my problems.

Then a few years ago I was introduced to bodyweight exercises and although as a younger man I would have shunned the very idea, believing (albeit falsely) that only sissies would do bodyweight exercise and that weights were the real thing…little did I realize how tough these exercises are and how pathetic I was going to be trying to perform some of them.

I couldn’t do one handstand push up and here I was, a man that could-even with my hit and miss weight lifting schedule still bench nearly 300 pounds (no major feat but come on, you think I could do a simple handstand push up!) but not one. I could not budge myself from off my head upwards…not even an inch.

Interestingly, my son, who at the time was in his later teen years was able to punch out five or six right off the bat. Why? Was it because he was younger than me? No, what I came to realize was because as a younger guy he had been a break dancer and break dancing develops your functional fitness to a high degree so no wonder first shot at a handstand push up was no problem for him.

As I progressed in my bodyweight exercises I made rapid progress becoming fitter, leaner and stronger than probably anytime in my life and here I was in my forties.

Aches and pains disappeared.

I developed a system or formula for exercising that no longer required workouts, routines or schedules.
No gym memberships required. Time and motivation issues a thing of the past.

Yes, occasionally I will lift some kind of weight but predominantly I lift my body through space…by changing angles and new exercises to constantly challenge me all the while using the Dump The Gym Fitness Formula for amazing progress and results.

Oh yea, and handstand push ups are now a breeze.