I need to acknowledge the help, love and support I have received over the years from the myriad teachers I have had the good fortune to learn from.
Before I start with a list of professional contacts who have guided me over the years, I must begin with the divine females in my life:
Mom, you gave me love and support to grow up to become a man. In the wake of your decline, suffering and passing, I learned more about my own power than I ever learned from any other single source.
Bindu, you are so patient, understanding, and supportive of me. Your own critical coaching eye has shown me the truth so many times, most often when it was right in front of my face. You are my stalwart companion and the best thing in my world. I love you.
Ben Velazquez wrote my first modern strength workouts and introduced me to my first mentor, the late Charles Poliquin. Charles inculcated me to the hard facts of the performance world and the need to work with a sense of urgency. He taught me the value of asking questions.
Through my connection to Ben and Charles, I was introduced to Ben Prentiss. At one time a peer, his immense dedication to work far outstripped me, and he has grown into an international superpower of a coach.
The late Guy Voyer, a French osteopath of great renown and skill who introduced me to the concept of fascia and put forth the first cohesive treatment and training model for its care and development I was ever exposed to.
To Carolyn McMakin: I was introduced to frequency specific microcurrent early on in my career, but to its undisputed queen late. Her coursework and the access to frequency-specific microcurrent therapy were a godsend to me in a time of great physical pain and provided me with one of my earliest epiphanies to treat strength work like a healing frequency rather than like a cudgel.
Jay Schroeder and his excellent staff gave me a three-day introduction to his strength training system as well as to the ARP-Wave technology. I was astounded by its ability to increase range of motion, as well as its ability to create interference patterns to pain pathways. I was already a master coach by the time I went to see him, but I got a ton of ideas from his strength training model.
Garrett Salpeter was generous enough with his Neufit technology to lend me a unit to work with for several months. The opportunity to experiment with a wave treatment device and find its limits was a huge help to me and cemented the idea that frequency needed to be trained to be expressed by the body.