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Ephraim Cruz

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In your Gillis feelings? Go work it out, especially if you have fat to shed like me. (231 lbs, 17% at 53)

About last night's Friday night lights' Midnight Madness Workout's Code Black Production 🎥

Mature thrust. PUSH your prime.

I'll worry about my 60s in that decade. Right now, my 50s continues to show my 40s, 30s, 20s and teens how it's done.

BE Fruitful.

But if you're really in your feelings, this midnight/wee hours workout was lonely, so no one present to offend.

#workout #fitness #lifestyle #instagram #selfie taken in Planet Fitness by @fruitfulcross

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A TEST-imony: Only one person initially knew earlier this year I could barely function physically. I came out the other side of last winter into this past new year physically hobbled. Seasonal related pulmonary issues triggered a domino effect of physical setbacks (that's why we have to keep moving - we're use or lose life beings). Pulmonary issues triggered neuropathy issues. On three separate occasions in one week, I couldn't readily get out of bed of my own volition. It hurt to walk or sit & turning in bed was hellacious. I couldn't even do a single calf raise with my own body weight. When I schlepped into the gym in the wee - so no one noticed my condition - I could only do seated calf raises without any additional weight to the mechanism, and then low single digit reps.

Physical debilitations will test your mind, too. So, I ate like a champ, went to church (the gym) everyday I could get myself there, grimaced & cried through my self-imposed physical therapy. I split my gym visits into spinal/core PT, then strength training later in the day, if I could muster the energy.

Last weekend, I ran the streets of Castle Rock the way I would as a teenager in The Bronx, the way I did through Parris Island, the way I did as my FLETC class guide-on bearer, the way I did for the special response team, the way I did on my own for me. It called & I feared I would relish it in the moment, yet, be totally wrecked the ensuing days, but shockingly wasn't. Days later, here I am doing weighted standing calf raises after heavy leg presses in my 2nd workout of the day. God knows, I will lean on all my anatomy, physiology, biology, bodybuilding, nutrition, psychology studies and practices & pick all the brains I can to live up to my name Fruitful Cross or Ephraim Cruz. Can I stand to be Blessed? I leaned heavily on the Divine endowments bestowed upon each of us. My teens, 20s, 30s & 40s are eating their respective & collective hearts out with envy & pride.

Steward chances. Master the breaking points. Develop weaknesses. Behave for it. Lay hold of it. Build or decay. Get wiser, better, stronger. Execution is worship.

#workout #fitness #lifestyle #selfie #instagram taken in Colorado, USA by @fruitfulcross

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God mode on God's hour: hammered pullover presses. Steward of chances. Process to promise. Mastering the breaking points. Execution is worship. Behave for it. Get wiser, get stronger, get better. Lay hold of it. Build or decay. Work for what you wish for. Improve your best. My life's campaign. Preventative health insurance.

#lifestyle #workout #fitness #planetfitness #instagram taken in Planet Fitness by @fruitfulcross

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#workout #fitness #lifestyle #selfie #instagram taken in Philip S. Miller Park by @fruitfulcross

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#workout #fitness #lifestyle #selfie #instagram taken in 24 Hour Fitness - Castle Rock Super-Sport, CO by @fruitfulcross

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Sharpen the 🪚

#workout #fitness #selfie #lifestyle #instagram taken in 24 Hour Fitness - Castle Rock Super-Sport, CO by @fruitfulcross

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Shoulders for my Crosses to bear. Outdoors workout. Open space. Nature. Sunlight. Calisthenics. Bodyweight workout. Free gym. My life's campaign. Preventative health insurance. Master the breaking points. Develop weaknesses. Steward chances. Be about it. Lay hold of it. Work for what you wish for. Execution is worship. Build or decay. Longevity. Choose your hard. Process to promise. My brother didn't make it to 53. My mother didn't make it to 58. Reasons. What's your why?

#workout #fitness #selfie #instagram #lifestyle taken in Philip S. Miller Park by @fruitfulcross

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My respective landscaping composition restoration standing today. The last time I weighed 231 lbs was in 1999-2001. My life's campaign. Take measure. Master the breaking points. Execution is worship. Develop weaknesses. Steward chances. Lay hold of it. Behave for it.

#fitness #workout #selfie #instagram #motivation taken in Colorado, USA by @fruitfulcross

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Colorado living today.

This Thanksgiving weekend I take 54. I've always maintained that one take an aggressive, preventative, proactive stance to health insurance for independent longevity with quality of life. Hence, my life's campaign since around 10 years old.

#employeeyourweaknesses
#masterthebreakingpoints
#stewardyourchances
#processtopromise
#buildordecay

Hanging alternating straight-leg flutter kicks to hanging alternating knee raises to hanging partial straight leg raise holds.

*executionisworship
*layholdofit taken in Philip S. Miller Park by @fruitfulcross

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12 days ago

@wwe How much I needed this escape...

#wwesmackdown #smackdown #instagram #wrestling #sports by @fruitfulcross

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taken in Planet Fitness by @fruitfulcross

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Was about to set it during my Midnight Madness, code black production 🎥 workout.

The road to 54. My life's campaign. Preventative health insurance. Strengthen what remains. Develop weaknesses. Master the breaking points. Lay hold if it. Steward chances. Process to promise.

#fitness #motivation #selfie #instagram #lifestyle taken in Planet Fitness by @fruitfulcross

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