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BUILDING TEMPLE BUILT
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Temple Built is a faith-driven strength and community facility being built here in Dutchess County. We're creating a place where adults, parents, families, and future generations can pursue strength, discipline, stewardship, and community together.
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CLOCK: What You Do With the Time You Didn't Choose | 083026
Every gym I've ever trained in has had a clock somewhere. I've spent a ridiculous amount of my life looking at one. Waiting for the next set. Watching a rest period. Counting down an interval. Trying to beat yesterday's time. Sometimes wanting the seconds to move faster. Sometimes wishing they'd slow down. But there's something about that clock I didn't understand when I was younger. It isn't only measuring the work. It's measuring the recovery too. My youngest son reminded m
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SPOT: Know When to Reach In | 082326
What two lifts with my son taught me about struggle, fatherhood, responsibility, and wisdom A few years ago, I was chasing a bench press PR. I'd been training heavy for a couple of months—mostly doubles and triples—and things were clicking. One morning in the garage, with my son Damian training alongside me, I loaded 345 pounds onto the bar. I'd actually already hit it once. Clean lift. The only problem? My phone had fallen over. Didn't record a second of it. So naturally,
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The Weight You Choose | 071226
Most men carry more than they admit. Not just physically. Emotionally. Spiritually. Financially. Relationally. We carry responsibilities, expectations, fears, regrets, and obligations. We carry the pressure to provide, protect, lead, perform, and endure. And somewhere along the way, many of us begin to believe that strength means carrying everything. I know I did. For years, I believed that being a husband, a father, and a man meant saying yes to every responsibility, solving
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First In Faith. Then In Form. Before There Are Walls | 070526
Last weekend, I walked through an empty building. Concrete floors. Bare walls. Nothing finished. Nothing impressive. If you had walked through it with me, you probably would have seen exactly what most people see when they walk through an empty warehouse: Concrete. Bad lighting. A lot of work. A lot of money. A lot of risk. And honestly, all of those things are true. But somehow… I could already see it. I could see the rigs. The turf. The sauna. The prayer before Sa
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The Man, Not the Numbers | 062026
One day, every trophy gets dusty. Every paycheck gets spent. Everything you own eventually ends up in someone else’s hands. That is not pessimism. It is reality. The older I get, the less impressed I am by things that disappear. Work matters. Providing matters. Training matters. I have given a large part of my life to all three. But much of what we spend our lives chasing comes with an expiration date: the promotion, the title, the personal record, the recognition, the applau
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What Remains | 060626
The older I get, the more I find myself asking a different question. Not, "How much have I accomplished?" Not, "How much have I accumulated?" But simply this: What remains? Time has a way of changing what we value. Things that once felt urgent begin to lose their grip. Things we barely noticed start to look priceless. And eventually life forces all of us to separate what truly mattered from what merely occupied our attention. That is not a comfortable exercise. But it is an h
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The Example You're Setting | 053026
Most people underestimate their influence. They assume leadership belongs to someone else - the coach, the teacher, the boss, the pastor, the public figure, the person standing on a stage with a microphone. But leadership rarely starts there. It starts in ordinary places: at the dinner table, in the garage, at work, in the gym, in the way a person responds to pressure, treats other people, and handles responsibility when no one is handing out credit. That is where influence i
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The Cost of Stewardship | 051626
For years, I thought stewardship was one of those words that sounded noble from a distance. Responsible. Virtuous. The kind of word people use in church or write into mission statements. What I did not fully understand was that stewardship has a cost. A real one. Because stewardship is not just a belief. It is not admiration for a good principle. It is responsibility expressed in action. It requires honesty, discipline, and a willingness to confront realities you would rather
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The Weight of Responsibility | 041026
Most people think strength is about what you can lift. How much weight you can move. How much pain you can tolerate. How hard you can push yourself when the work gets uncomfortable. Those things matter. But the older I get, the less I believe barbells tell the whole story. Real strength is measured more honestly by responsibility - by what you carry, who depends on you, and how you respond when life gets heavy. Because eventually most of us learn the same thing: the heaviest
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Building Strength, Stewardship, and Purpose Before the Doors Ever Open
Lessons from faith, discipline, leadership, family, stewardship, and the journey of building TMPL.BLT in Dutchess County, New York.
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