Every Friday afternoon Craig B. and I met at a Planet Fitness in St. Paul. MN. and lifted weights for an hour. Craig was a great dude, interesting recovery guy and a Certified Personal Trainer. We worked on creating some workouts for the 12-StepGym for one year. We lifted as much as 71,000 lbs each on some workouts. Too fun!..

When I went to the first the bootcamp in Florida that my pal Bill C. put together, we would head for the gym every morning and get to work. After an hour on the elliptical, we’d start lifting. Right away Bill would keep track of the number of pounds he was lifting. It was simple math. When you are lifting: Pounds Lifted X Number of Repetitions X Number of Circuits = Total Pounds.

My second day in a treatment center the leadership in the unit I was in was turning over. As is the custom, every couple weeks one of the guys in the unit takes over as a sort-of ‘House Mother’. So, the lunatics are running the asylum. This new house mother had huge biceps and chest and looked like he’d been lifting weights since he was about three years old…