At 12-13 years old, with a concrete set of weights and a bench, I started on what became a life-changing journey into lifting weights and exercising with a goal. Previously, the early years of activity were seasons of recreational sports and pick-up games with neighborhood kids, and simply playing outside. What started out as basic workouts of 3 sets of 8 reps of a mix of isolation and compound lifts laid the foundation of fitness that has evolved just about every decade of my life. Here are some of the life-changing and best workouts of each of those eras from a new lifter, a high school athlete, a college athlete, into military training, special ops training, and my last twenty years of training: SEE LINK for full article: