Hey Gang! For those of you new to the community Friday is about personally and as a community celebrating wins. There is no win too small & I believe that it’s important to celebrate both personal & professional wins. Here’s mine for the week. We added 5-6 new members this week! I’m really excited to see all of you here! As I mentioned in an earlier post @Jerry Rivera and I have been working really hard on next weeks challenge & I think it’s going to be a good one! This week I did my first Nordic Hamstring Curl in about 1.5 years. Here’s video of me working on them in ‘22 and then the one this week. When I first started doing them my hamstrings would cramp because they were so weak. I’m going to bring the height up on the bench a little and work on doing 2-3 in a row. Drop your wins in the comments or post them in the community. Can’t wait to see what you all have been up to!

Hey Gang! What’s your plans for this weekend? We are putting up our second Christmas tonight with our son & his girlfriend. Here’s a pic of our downstairs Christmas 🎄. Tomorrow morning there’s a big Jiu Jitsu testing at the gym so I’m going to go to that. It’s great to see people I have been training with over the past 9 years improving their skills & confidence. Our son is an assistant wrestling coach at his old high school & they have a tournament tomorrow. So I am going to head to that after Jiu Jitsu. Sunday is probably gonna be pretty chill. Maybe Melissa and I will go catch a movie or something. Share your plans in the comments!

Hey Forge Fam! Hope you are all having a great Thanksgiving weekend. Today is Friday & I don’t want to break tradition, so here are my wins this for the past week. 1st win- Erica is a runner/triathlete & started working with us in late August. She’s been battling Achilles' pain for the past 4 years & it was so bad she couldn’t run a mile w/out paying for it later Shes a PT & been to everyone around Metro Detroit. Unfortunately for her what really happened was she was seeing a lot of talented people but no one developed a plan & then stuck with her through it. We’ve been gradually building up her pain free mileage over the past 4-6 weeks and she really wanted to run the Turkey Trot with her daughter yesterday. Happy to say she was able to do it & had no pain! 2nd win- Had a super chill Thanksgiving w/Melissa & Gabe. Made a great ham and a ton of sides to go with it. Very pleased w/how everything turned out. 3rd win- Around the holidays we have an open mat with all of the affiliate schools around the Twin Cities. I meant to roll/train for an hour and it wound up being more like 1:15 of straight training. I can remember a time not long ago when I couldn’t do that without being concerned about back or knee pain. What are your wins for this week? Share your wins either in the comments or make your own post!