SCE Fitness

10/12/2026

🔥 WHO’S RACING HYROX PORTLAND THIS MAY??!! 🏁

SCE Fitness is gearing up, and we want YOU on our team! 💪🏽

Come, join our brand NEW HYROX-specific training program designed specifically to prepare you for race day!!

🏃🏽♂️ Train alongside others preparing for Portland
🔥 Build strength, endurance, and race-day confidence
👊🏽 Push each other, grow together, and show up ready to compete!

✅ Running endurance and speed development
✅ Sled pushes and pulls
✅ Functional strength and muscular endurance
✅ Wall balls, lunges, farmer's carries, and more
✅ Compromised running and race-specific workouts
✅ Structured programming to get you ready for race day

Whether it’s your first HYROX or you’re chasing a PR, come train with our team!

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09/12/2026

The Big “LITTLE” Things

PRACTICE

The Quiet Danger of Passivity

I think one of the greatest enemies of a meaningful life isn't always doing something terrible.

Sometimes it's doing almost nothing at all.
We tend to think sin has to look dramatic.
Adultery.

Violence.

Lying.

Stealing.

Addiction.

Those things are certainly destructive.

But there is another danger that can be much quieter.

Passivity.

The slow decision to stop engaging.

To stop leading.

To stop pursuing.

To stop caring.

To settle for the bare minimum.

To become comfortable with simply getting by.
And the dangerous thing about passivity is that it can be difficult to recognize because nothing appears to be terribly wrong.

You're not doing anything horrible.
You're just not doing much of anything.
You show up.

You get through the day.
You take care of the basics.
You go to church.
You go to work.
You come home.
You repeat it tomorrow.
And somewhere along the way, you stop living intentionally.

I think that's one reason fitness has remained such an important part of my life.

I've learned how easy it is to revert.

It's easy to become comfortable.

It's easy to stop challenging yourself.

It's easy to do just enough to maintain where you are.

But training reminds me that the absence of failure isn't the same thing as growth.

You can maintain a body without making it stronger.

You can maintain a marriage without making it deeper.

You can maintain a faith without growing in it.
You can maintain a household without actually leading it.

You can maintain relationships while slowly becoming emotionally absent from them.
That's passivity.

And passivity doesn't always feel like rebellion.
Sometimes it feels like comfort.

Lukewarm

This is why the words of Jesus to the church in Laodicea have always challenged me.

Jesus says He knows their works and describes them as neither hot nor cold, but lukewarm.

Their problem wasn't that they were running around committing every imaginable evil.
Their problem was that they had become satisfied.

They believed they were rich, that they had prospered, and that they needed nothing.

Yet Jesus told them they didn't understand their true condition. He called them to see clearly, repent, and become zealous again.

That scares me more than I sometimes want to admit.

Because I can become lukewarm without realizing it.

I can be busy without being purposeful.

I can be successful without being faithful.

I can be comfortable without being alive.

I can know Scripture without allowing Scripture to change the way I live.

I can talk about loving God and loving people while continuing to give the people closest to me my leftovers.

And nobody may see the difference immediately.

That's what makes passivity so dangerous.

It happens quietly.

Adam's Moment
I think about Adam in the garden.

There was a moment when he should have stood.

He already knew what God had said.

There was no lack of information.

There was no mystery about God's command.

The problem wasn't that Adam didn't know.

The problem was that he didn't act on what he knew.

Genesis presents Adam as being there with Eve, and the story ultimately reveals the devastating consequences of humanity's failure to trust and obey God's command.

I think about that because it reminds me that knowing truth isn't enough.

We have to do something with it.

That's been one of the central lessons of my life.

I can know what I should do and still fail to do it.

I can know I should rest and keep pushing.

I can know I should pray and choose distraction.

I can know I should lead and choose passivity.

I can know I should speak and remain silent.

I can know I should apologize and wait for the other person to make the first move.

I can know I should encourage someone and assume they'll be fine without it.

Knowledge without implementation doesn't produce the life we're hoping for.

That's why we're training.

Remember What Is True
So how do we fight passivity?

We remember.
Remember what God has already said about you.
You are chosen.
You are redeemed.
You are adopted.
You are forgiven.
You are being sanctified.
You are not your past.
You were bought with a price.
You belong to Christ.

Those truths aren't motivational slogans.

They are reality.
And when I remember who God says I am, it changes what I believe I should do next.

If I am His, then my body matters.

My marriage matters.

My children matter.

My work matters.

My relationships matter.

My church matters.

My neighbors matter.

The person standing in front of me matters.

The little decisions matter.

Suddenly the ordinary things aren't ordinary anymore.

Passivity Says, "Someone Else Will."
Faithfulness Says, "I'll Take the Next Step."

Sometimes leadership isn't standing on a stage.
Sometimes it's getting up early and praying for your family.

Sometimes it's making the phone call you've been avoiding.

Sometimes it's taking your wife on a date.

Sometimes it's playing with your kids when you're exhausted.

Sometimes it's opening God's Word when you'd rather scroll your phone.

Sometimes it's taking care of your body because you understand that it belongs to God.

Sometimes it's telling someone the truth because you love them enough not to leave them where they are.

Sometimes it's simply noticing that someone needs help and deciding not to walk past them.

Those are little things.

But they aren't insignificant.

They're training.

Every time we choose action over passivity, we're teaching ourselves something.

We're becoming the kind of person who responds.

The kind of person who leads.
The kind of person who serves.
The kind of person who notices.
The kind of person who is available.

Don't Give God Your Leftovers

This connects to something else I've been learning.

I don't want to give God my leftovers.
I don't want to give my wife my leftovers.
I don't want to give my children my leftovers.
I don't want to give my church my leftovers.
I don't want to give the people God puts in front of me whatever remains after I've spent myself on everything else.

I want to live from overflow.
And that means stewardship.

My body is not ultimately mine.
My time is not ultimately mine.
My gifts are not ultimately mine.
My energy is not ultimately mine.

I've been entrusted with them.
Ron Hutchcraft makes a similar point in his teaching about "The High Price Of Neglect”: our bodies and lives belong to Christ, and that reality should change the way we treat and steward them.

That is powerful to me.

I have been bought with a price.

So I want to live like it.

Not out of fear.

Out of gratitude.

The Little Practice
Here's what I'm learning.
When I feel myself becoming passive, I don't need to completely overhaul my life.

I need to take one faithful step.
Ask:
What do I already know is right?

Then:
Am I doing it?

If the answer is no, don't spend the next hour beating yourself up.
Do the little thing.
Make the call.
Open the Bible.
Go for the walk.
Apologize.
Pray.
Lead.
Rest.
Serve.
Speak.
Listen.
Love.
Take the next step.

Because passivity grows through thousands of tiny choices to do nothing.

And faithfulness grows through thousands of tiny choices to do what is right.

Maybe that's the real battle.

Not becoming some extraordinary person overnight.

But refusing to become comfortable with being less engaged than God has called us to be.

We don't have to be spectacular.

We don't have to be the most gifted.

We don't have to have all the answers.

We simply have to be available.

And when we remember who we are in Christ, what He's entrusted to us, and what He's already asked us to do, we have everything we need to take the next step.

Don't wait for motivation.
Don't wait until you feel ready.
Don't wait until everything makes sense.
Remember what is true.
Then move.

Because sometimes the greatest act of faith isn't doing something enormous.
It's simply refusing to sit back when God is inviting you to take the next little step.

We are not trying.
We are training☝🏽

06/26/2026

Well, here we are—13 years later.

To go from never wanting to run... to standing on the starting line of a 100-mile ultramarathon is an incredible testament to perseverance, consistency, and determination.

I still remember the first time I met Rhonda and her friend Shelby. They came to my very first boot camp when I was training at Oz Fitness.

Neither of them wanted to run, and Rhonda looked at me and said, "If you make me run, I'll ask for my money back, and you'll never see me again!" 😂

So I changed the program to meet them where they were.

Now it's hilarious to look back and see just how far you've come.

About a year and a half later, after we had accomplished all the goals we had originally set, you came to me and said something I'll never forget:"You're never going to believe this... but I think I want to start running."

From that moment on, a whole new journey began.
Rhonda, you've always been incredibly goal-oriented.

You have a relentless drive to improve, and that's one of the greatest qualities any coach could ask for.

With your work ethic and willingness to trust the process, I truly believe I can teach you just about anything.

Over the years, I've had the privilege of watching you conquer some of the toughest endurance events imaginable:

• Spartan Ultras—32+ miles with 60+ obstacles.
• One race that included an unbelievable 12,741 feet of elevation gain over relentless terrain.
• The Badger 50... back-to-back years.
• 100K races.
• Countless other adventures that most people would never even attempt.
And now...

The biggest challenge of them all.

100 miles.

Where many people fail isn't because they aren't talented—it's because they aren't consistent.

That's where you've always separated yourself.
You've shown up.

You've trusted the process.

You've done the work.

Now you can stand on that starting line knowing you're trained, prepared, and fully capable of accomplishing something truly extraordinary.

Less than 1% of people will ever attempt something like this.

Welcome to that 1%.

I'm also incredibly proud of our SCE Team that will be there to encourage, support, and crew you through the long hours of the night.

A special thank you to Lindsay Pulczinski, Kim, and Greg Bogart for selflessly giving their time and energy to help make this incredible journey possible.

You're surrounded by people who believe in you, and you won't be running this race alone.

Rhonda, thank you for allowing me to be part of this journey. Coaching you over these past 13 years has been one of the greatest privileges of my career.

Congratulations on setting out on such an ambitious adventure. No matter what happens out there, you've already inspired countless people simply by having the courage to pursue something this extraordinary.

Now go finish what you've spent 13 years building.
This will truly be one for the ages.

We're all behind you!! 🤝
👊🏾🔥🏔️💯☝🏽

06/07/2026

Can you guess which one is me and which one is Heather?? 🤣🤣🤣

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05/03/2026

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04/13/2026

It’s race day😅

No matter if I win, lose, or land somewhere in between, the Lord will get all the glory. I’m just grateful for the opportunity to run alongside others who are willing to push their bodies to the edge.

This is my first race back since surgery… and the truth is, it didn’t fully do what we had hoped. But even in that, I’m here. I get to show up. I get to run.

I love racing because it forces me to discover something deeper—something the good Lord designed for me to learn, to understand, and to carry with me but even better I get to share with so many others.

The Word of God speaks primarily about who He is, what He has done, and what He will continue to do through us as we choose to follow Him. In Romans 1:19-20, it says we are without excuse because of everything He has made.

All of creation points back to Him.

Our bodies are no different.

From a single fingerprint—completely unique to me—to the way a certain smell can take me back to a moment in time… it’s all fascinating.

Even the wind—you can’t see it, but you know it’s there. You can feel it, hear it, and watch what it moves.

When I run, I’m reminded of that. I may not see it, but I experience it fully.

Coming back from surgery after my motorcycle accident years ago—something that should have taken my life—I’ve learned this: even though I’m not fully healed, I can still live fully.

I can still be a good steward of what He’s given me.

But there’s also a deeper longing… for Beulah Land—the place where everything will be made right. No more pain, sorrow, or shame.

I’m convinced that everything I do here is preparation for glory—for the place I will one day call home.

Until then, I’ll give everything I have in all that I do. I’ll remember the mission, the calling, and the purpose He’s placed on my life.

From the streets to this life now—everything else is just extra. ☝🏽

So the question remains:
What shall I learn today? 🤷🏽‍♂️

03/29/2026

🔥 You’re Not Trying to Lose Weight… You’re Training Your Body to Burn Fat 🔥

Everyone’s obsessed with:
Calories.
Carbs.
Workouts.

But almost no one is talking about what actually controls fat loss:
👉 Leptin (the signal)
👉 Lipolysis (the fat burning)

🧠 Leptin tells your body:
“We have enough energy… it’s safe to burn fat.”

🔥 Lipolysis is what actually burns it.

👉 If the signal is broken… fat doesn’t get released.

👉 If fat doesn’t get released… nothing changes.

🚨 This is why people feel stuck:
Always hungry
Low energy
Not seeing results

It’s not just discipline…

👉 your body isn’t getting the right signals.
💥 So we don’t guess… we TRAIN the system:

🍽 3–4 Real Meals a Day
Protein every time
No all-day snacking

🔁 Carb Cycling (Simple + Effective)
Day 1: Low Carb 🔻
Day 2: Low Carb 🔻
Day 3: High Carb 🔺
👉 Then repeat
Low days = train fat burning

High day = boost leptin + reset metabolism
🏋️ Train + Move Daily
🚶 Walk more than you think you need
😴 Sleep + Stress Matter
(Break this and everything slows down)
⚠️ Read this again:

Stop saying:
❌ “I’m trying to lose weight”

Start saying:
👉 “I’m training my body to burn fat.”

💡 Final Truth:
Fat loss isn’t about eating less…
It’s about getting your body to finally let go of stored energy.
Fix the signal.

Train the system.
🔥 Results follow that. 🔥

If your interested in learning more about your body and how to bridge the gap from where you are to where yon want to be DM us- look forward to your success!🤝

03/28/2026

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03/27/2026

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A study found that the way you talk to yourself about aging changes how your body actually ages.

People with positive perceptions of aging lived an average of 7.5 years longer than those with negative perceptions.

That effect was larger than the effect of low blood pressure, low cholesterol, healthy weight, or not smoking.

Researchers at Yale analyzed data from 660 adults who had been asked decades earlier how they felt about statements like "As you get older, you are less useful." Those who rejected those statements, who viewed aging as a time of continued growth, lived significantly longer.

The effect held after controlling for age, gender, socioeconomic status, loneliness, and functional health.

7.5 years. From how you think about getting older.

Why? The researchers point to both behavioral and physiological pathways. People who view aging positively are more likely to engage in preventive health behaviors. They also show lower cortisol levels, lower inflammatory markers, and greater will to live when facing health challenges.

Your beliefs about aging become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you believe decline is inevitable, you stop trying. If you believe growth is possible, you keep showing up.

Every time you say "I'm too old for that," you are writing a prescription for your future. Be careful what you prescribe.

The words you use about your own aging are not just words. They are biology.