Total Physique Online

As you can see, I have not posted to the site in some time.

The reason is simple. What was left of my body after my first hospitalization (from 167 to 135 pounds) has been ravaged by yet more pneumonia and a two week stay in the hospital near to the point of death. My body weight dropped to a scant 123 pounds. I was nearly dead several times. The double pneumonia was very, very hard on on this tired body.
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Pictures Of You is one of my favorite songs. It is performed by The Cure and was first introduced on the CD Disintegration, which came out in 1989 (hard to believe it was so long ago, and yet remains so relevant to this day).
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I love to train to music. I always have. The trouble is that most gyms do not always play the music I like to listen to. So, I have added a new category for my visitors to spend some time in.

Workout Music

My first entry in this category is for my favorite band currently. I have been listening to Switchfoot for a few years now. And Awakening, from the album Oh Gravity!, is one of their best tunes to date.
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I was not sure how to title this post. I was not sure whether to write it at all. After all, this site is about fitness, health, overcoming challenges, maximizing your potential and so many other things. This is not a site about Rock ‘n Roll. But that doesn’t matter, because on 03-10-07 the world woke up only to discover it had lost one if the greatest signature voices in all of music just the day before. Brad Delp, the lead singer of Boston, unexpectedly left us.

I cannot bring myself to say, “Brad Delp, Lead Singer of Boston, Dead at 55″. I just can’t.
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