re: Let's go N.O.V this Summer with 5/3/1!

Yeah, the Greyskull world is very strange to me. I used to contribute to the message board quite a bit from last November until this March, but it was just me and a handful of other guys posting our training logs and it had a real ghost town feeling to it. So I lost interest, then I noticed JP and some others starting contributing more again in recent weeks, but it's just a borderline inactive message board in my opinion. This place is more active and has far more useful intel and helpful people. Nothing against JP or Greyskull, maybe they will build up some momentum and get going hard again, I hope so.

I remember you mentioning some of those coaches and I looked at them all, holeeee shee-ittt does that guy from Georgia(Explosive Mechanics) get some crazy performance out of some of the most pedestrian looking high school kids and other people(not that he doesn't also coach some absolute specimens as well,but there's mostly regular looking physiques in his IG feed). There's a video of a high school kid who looks to weigh no more than 175lbs, and he's box squatting something like 620!!!! I love to see that. You have to be the most resourceful guy I've ever talked to about sports athletic performance. I've definitely got my work cut out for me in terms of increasing my knowledge, it wasn't until about 2010-11 I even began to have an interest in learning about different programming and training methods.

Short term goal for me (about 5 years) is to be doing something in my community where I'm contributing to increasing the athletic performance of my local athletes, longer term (10-ish years), I want to have a training facility established, I don't care how small, but it will be built around the pursuit of elite athletic performance for life and sport. I was born/raised in a small-ish town(Bartlesville, OK: 30-35K pop), that is about an hour due North of Tulsa, we're about 2.5hrs from OKC, 3hrs from Wichita, so locally we don't have really advanced, cutting edge, up to date gyms or training facilities/coaches. (We have two 24 hour commercial gyms, one of them started by a good local dude who has grown his one gym into a pretty damn big impressive spread of facilities Colaw Fitness, a Planet Fitness, one sanctioned Crossfit affilate, another CF style gym, a YMCA, and the ConocoPhillips employee health facility that's not open to the public) I moved back here last year (Jan-Feb 2023), after living all over the place(Houston, Los Angeles, East TX, Arizona), and I'm done moving. I hate traffic and crime and big cities, so I'm home again....for good. Primarily I'm still a travel nurse, so I'll go to other places for work, 13 weeks at a time, but this is my headquarters, and I want there to be a local option for the most serious kinds of athletic training to happen. If a local kid wants that D1 scholly and he'll work, I want to be there for him. Local folks want to get into competitive powerlifting/oly weightlifting/strongman, I got you. Any of our fine homegrown Oklahoma wrestlers wanna give it a go with pro MMA? Come to me, I will do all I can to make you a beast.

People from around here would have to drive to those nearby larger metropolitan areas if they wanted to get with something like those guys you've mentioned. It's always pissed me off that our small town didn't have certain things, I don't care about restaurants and shopping, I care about the sports/athletics side of things, so I want to "Be the Change You Want to See" and I'm not gonna whine about what "we don't have" anymore. I'm gonna build something for this place, and we're gonna compete with those Tulsa & OKC metro cocksuckers. I want them to talk about those "Bartlesville kids" and how they are not to be underestimated. I want to start a farm that grows freak athletes.