WILKENS
10-22-2003, 10:08 AM
Hi --
After a couple of e-mailed nudges from Coach Sonnon (whose generosity and kindness never ceases to amaze me) to make my introduction, here I am. Not being much of a public speaker, I'll try and be brief ... but I make no promises!
My name is Kurt J. Wilkens, and I live in South Florida. Currently unemployed, I'm trying to get a small personal training business off the ground, though that endeavor seems to have stagnated. (Nothing like getting fired by a friend of ten years to suck the motivation right out of you. :oops: ) Kindly stop by my website if you get the chance:
www.integratedconditioning.com. I don't believe it is so indicated on the site (I'm still not finished with it), but I am an ISSA-Certified Fitness Trainer, and an ISSA-Specialist in Martial Arts Conditioning. Also, I have recently attended Pavel Tsatsouline's RKC course, so I guess I can add that, too ...
BTW, I just want to say thanks again, Coach, for inviting me to your board to introduce myself and my website; you have my most sincere gratitude. You are truly a gentleman.
I've been incorporating Coach Sonnon's wisdom into my own training since he was on the old AmerROSS board with Pavel, "back in the day", as the saying goes. It was my intention to attend the CST next month in Atlanta, but our first child is due in December and my wife 'patiently' reminded me how often it happens that kids are born early ... so here I stay. Maybe I'll get to the next one that's held in Atlanta. I guess this is just one of the first of many sacrifices that I'll be making for my little girl. :roll: :D
Regarding my training background (in case you choose not to sift through my entire website): I've been interested in lifting and martial arts since I was a kid, lo those many years ago. I've made the training journey from the waste-my-time routines of Joe Weider and Arnold Schwartzenegger, to the making-progress-at-last Hardgainer philosophy, to lifting-can-be-interesting-and-fun Dinosaur Training, to the 'functionality' of Pavel's KBs
and Scott's CBs. Presently, I'm trying to include a little of all of it in my routines; it's not working as well as I might have hoped, but of course I should know better than to try and have it all at once. As for martial arts, I started out with about 2.5 years of too-acrobatic-and-useless-in-a-fight Tae Kwon Do, to about 6 months of not-quite-what-I-was-looking-for Jeet Kune Do, to the current I-think-this-is-it Combatives.
In other, more personal, news, I suspect I have recently undergone a mid-life crisis. (At 35, this means I'll be dead by 70! :shock: ) What else would you call it when a so-called 'grown man', unemployed and with a child on the way, takes it upon himself to go out and buy a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle? Well, whatever you call it, it sure is a blast. 8)
In any event, I apologize for the apparently rambling nature of my first post here. I usually try to keep my posts concise and reasonably well structured; I don't know what happened here ... :?
Anyway, thanks, and I'm very happy to be a part of the Knuckledragger Tribe.
Kurt
P.S. - Now that I've finally taken the plunge with this post, perhaps I'll amble over to the Training Log Forum and start posting some of my workouts, as any advice/constructive criticism would be more than welcome.
After a couple of e-mailed nudges from Coach Sonnon (whose generosity and kindness never ceases to amaze me) to make my introduction, here I am. Not being much of a public speaker, I'll try and be brief ... but I make no promises!
My name is Kurt J. Wilkens, and I live in South Florida. Currently unemployed, I'm trying to get a small personal training business off the ground, though that endeavor seems to have stagnated. (Nothing like getting fired by a friend of ten years to suck the motivation right out of you. :oops: ) Kindly stop by my website if you get the chance:
www.integratedconditioning.com. I don't believe it is so indicated on the site (I'm still not finished with it), but I am an ISSA-Certified Fitness Trainer, and an ISSA-Specialist in Martial Arts Conditioning. Also, I have recently attended Pavel Tsatsouline's RKC course, so I guess I can add that, too ...
BTW, I just want to say thanks again, Coach, for inviting me to your board to introduce myself and my website; you have my most sincere gratitude. You are truly a gentleman.
I've been incorporating Coach Sonnon's wisdom into my own training since he was on the old AmerROSS board with Pavel, "back in the day", as the saying goes. It was my intention to attend the CST next month in Atlanta, but our first child is due in December and my wife 'patiently' reminded me how often it happens that kids are born early ... so here I stay. Maybe I'll get to the next one that's held in Atlanta. I guess this is just one of the first of many sacrifices that I'll be making for my little girl. :roll: :D
Regarding my training background (in case you choose not to sift through my entire website): I've been interested in lifting and martial arts since I was a kid, lo those many years ago. I've made the training journey from the waste-my-time routines of Joe Weider and Arnold Schwartzenegger, to the making-progress-at-last Hardgainer philosophy, to lifting-can-be-interesting-and-fun Dinosaur Training, to the 'functionality' of Pavel's KBs
and Scott's CBs. Presently, I'm trying to include a little of all of it in my routines; it's not working as well as I might have hoped, but of course I should know better than to try and have it all at once. As for martial arts, I started out with about 2.5 years of too-acrobatic-and-useless-in-a-fight Tae Kwon Do, to about 6 months of not-quite-what-I-was-looking-for Jeet Kune Do, to the current I-think-this-is-it Combatives.
In other, more personal, news, I suspect I have recently undergone a mid-life crisis. (At 35, this means I'll be dead by 70! :shock: ) What else would you call it when a so-called 'grown man', unemployed and with a child on the way, takes it upon himself to go out and buy a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle? Well, whatever you call it, it sure is a blast. 8)
In any event, I apologize for the apparently rambling nature of my first post here. I usually try to keep my posts concise and reasonably well structured; I don't know what happened here ... :?
Anyway, thanks, and I'm very happy to be a part of the Knuckledragger Tribe.
Kurt
P.S. - Now that I've finally taken the plunge with this post, perhaps I'll amble over to the Training Log Forum and start posting some of my workouts, as any advice/constructive criticism would be more than welcome.