Lol, when I can I lift. Life is crazy that way. I had to quit competing because I was bursting blood vessels in my head. (Through proper form, education and hard work you can push yourself beyond your limits. ) So I just used it to stay in shape for martial arts up until my wife and I were married. She wanted to get in shape and start lifting weights so I taught her the correct forms and set her up on a program. As she got into better and better shape and started lifting more weight, she got bit by "the heavy metal bug" and she decided she wanted to compete. So I actually started training her for competition.

To this day I still can't lift big without blowing blood vessels, but she was getting stronger every day. I had her set up to peak perfectly at the state championships where she was going to open with a state record bench press and then blow the record away by 60 pounds by her 3rd attempt! I told her to bring her own cup to pee in because she was going to be immediately drug tested. (She was completely pure though as have I always been.) Then one day ... PPFFFFT! ... it was gone. She was weak and tired and had nothing left and ... uh oh ...

Along came our youngest son ... Da Bean! Laughingly he's been messing with our view of reality ever since.