My Mission: To help 1 million golfers by the year 2016 to improve their health. Aid in eliminating pain and injuries, improve their golf game through improved performance and consistency, and live longer so they can comfortably play golf in to their golden years.
What has inspired me to help 1 million men and women transform their lives?
Like many Americans, bad health has taken many loved ones way to early that were close to me.
Both my mother and father died in their early 60′s. Smokers… who regularly ate fast food.. and cooked dinners using a deep fryer… and rarely exercised.
Even my grandfather passed away too soon in his early 70′s.
Growing up, Thursday was when my dad, grandfather and I would go play golf together.
My dad was decent and could hit the ball a long way.. my grandfather was like Yoda with a sand iron. He was even short like Yoda. 
The matches were competitive but most of all – fun.
I’ll never forget those days and I wish they could have gone on forever.
The matches ended before they had to.
Bad health took my two favorite golfing buddies from me.
Sad – and preventable, to a point.
We all die some day. However, you can extend your life by adopting some daily rituals..
Rituals that take a small fraction of time each day… but lend years to the end of your life.
I’m a firm believer that taking care of yourself all of your life will help you age gracefully in your golden years.
Mom, dad, and my grandpa didn’t take care of themselves as well as they could have.
Who knows how many years we lost together due to the bad choices they made concerning food and exercise.
I was alone.
No one close enough to me to ask for advice when I needed a fathers advice.. or a grandfathers.. or a mothers.
No one to see the accomplishments I would rise to. No one to help when the days were dark.
It Can Happen To Anyone…
Most of my life I have been physically active and taken reasonable care of myself – however – I did go through a five year span in a corporate environment where I literally ‘let myself go’.
Soon after my mom passed away I quit my job as an assistant pro at a golf course.. to get a real job.
I had a child on the way and could no longer get by “having fun” on the golf course.
Within a few years in the corporate world I discovered I was on the same path as my parents.
Bad habits soon developed as I tried to fit in to the corporate culture.
My weight ballooned up to 245 pounds. Prior to the corporate job, my weight fluctuated between 195 and 205 pounds.
Gone were the days of golfing from morning to night and being physically active.
My new destiny appeared to be a wobbly chair under fluorescent lighting.
I was miserable not only physically, but mentally.
I hated my situation.
Kept away from the game I loved so much and trapped in an office…
Performing a job for an ungrateful boss who was proud of keeping people in “golden handcuffs” so it was nearly impossible for them to leave.
Days and weeks went by without touching a golf club. My ‘touch’ soon followed and I became scared to even play a round of golf. If I did play, I knew the result would be depressing.
Invited to play golf with friends, I would always decline. Embarrassed of how I looked and how far I had fallen athletically.
Going from a scratch golfer to someone who couldn’t break 90 was a tough pill to swallow.
Even more difficult was the image I would see in the mirror. My muscular body shrouded with pounds of unwanted fat. Muscles that had lost their tone and disappeared.
A few years after working in misery, I decided to play golf with some of my co-workers and realized my distance and my game were totally gone.
I used to CRUSH the ball and out-drive just about anyone.
No longer.
I went back home.. embarrassed and ashamed.
How could I let myself go this far? I had gained 45 pounds of pure lard!
I could barely walk up a flight of stairs without getting out of breath.
My eating habits were relegated to drive-through windows and fast food establishments.
My job was unfulfilling.
Ridiculous!
One day, I decided enough was enough. I was first going to get back my health, and second, get back my golf game. The third step would be to regain financial control of my situation.
Let me tell you, it was tough.
Mentally it was as hard as anything I have ever done.
It took five years of dedicated effort to reverse the five years of ‘lardiness’ (my word for laziness and adding poundage).
Five years to build my lardiness, five years to take it off.
Losing that fat and regaining my game were both worth the long struggle.
Maybe the weight loss was a bit slow and it didn’t melt off like it does with some folks.. but I gained experience and knowledge that help me connect with people who are like I was… people that need my help.
I learned that playing golf and fitness both made me happy.
Once my health was back, my golf game was in check. My joy for the game increased.
My distance was back, albeit with a new twist – I could hit it even further!
In addition, my self confidence surged. I felt great about who I was and how I arrived there.
Along my journey I became a certified personal trainer, read countless books and journals, and watched tons of DVD’s.
And what about the job I hated? I quit and started three businesses I own, of which I still run two today. Five short years I transformed my entire life from the inside out.
Golf, fitness, and running my own businesses are my daily rituals now.
The inspiration to help 1 million women and men to transform their lives is simple… it’s about helping others spend Thursday afternoon with their father and grandfather.
How can WE reach 1 million golfers?
I need your help.
I can’t do this without you.
WE need to spread the word and helping other golfers not only crush their drivers further, but also increase their lifespan so they can play golf until the day they die.
WE need to get kids off the couch and on to the greens and fairways. Golf is going to suffer if this latest generation isn’t more active.
It’s a rather sad state of affairs with the newest generations life span is actually expected to DECREASE.
WE can not sit idly by and allow that generation to fall.
WE need to promote walking the course, eating better, and becoming more physically fit.
Golf Fitness carries over to every day life.
To reach 1 million people is a big undertaking but one we can’t shy away from. Getting there is going to take a lot of time and effort. I’ve outline the methods we can use together below.
- Online Downloadable Golf Fitness Training Workouts
- Online Golf Fitness Coaching
- Affiliates and Friends
Our World is at a crisis point in terms of obesity and we can make a difference. In the words of the immortal Dewey Cox “I haven’t made my masterpiece yet.”
I hope OUR mission of reaching 1 million golfers to improve their lives will be our masterpiece.
Fairways and greens,
Chris
