About

If you know anything about me, you probably already know that sports science/bodybuilding and the mental discipline of athletics is my love. In recent years under the guidance and support of my coach Randy Schaar that in the field of bodybuilding, figure fitness, physique, and bikini, and all other sports for that matter, it's not nutrition that's the most important variable. It's not training that's the most important variable. And it's definitely not cardio that's the number one variable. The number one variable to success WITHOUT FAIL is your mindset towards your own path, your own endeavors. When your head is on straight, all of the aforementioned fall into place so much easier. Think about it, how many times have you watched a sporting event and heard the coach or another player yell, "C'MON... GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME!!" The funny thing is, it's usually the champion athletes, the best of the best, the team leaders, that yell that. Ian- LEAVE NOTHING on the TABLE!!! #NEVERSURRENDER

Languages used

• American English

Education

• University of Wisconsin-River Falls
• University of Wisconsin-Barron County
• St. Croix Falls High School
• Saint Croix Falls
• Minnesota Virtual High School

Favorite saying

• ""If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail." - Mark Spitz "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." - Norman Cousins "Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time." - Susan Cheever "Every man dies. Not every man really lives". - William Wallace "Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't". - Richard Bach "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well". - Josh Billings "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself". - Harvey Fierstein "The purpose of life is a life of purpose". - Robert Byrne "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it". - William James When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me". - Erma Bombeck "While there's life, there's hope". - Marcus Tullius Cicero "Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies". - Erich Fromm "A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world". - Maurice Chevalier "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young". - Henry Ford "As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind". - Marcus Tullius Cicero "I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that". - Lauren Bacall "I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel". -Henri Frederic Amiel "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young". - Theodore Roosevelt "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live". - Martin Luther King, Jr. ""No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow". - Euripides "Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live". - Henry Van Dyke Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." - Bill Maher "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal". - Albert Pike "Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on". - Samuel Butler "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser". - John W. Gardner "A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years". -Ruper Broke " Get fit or die trying". - Ian Anderson "Finishing is better than starting. Patience is better than pride." Ecclesiastes 7:8 “For me, life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger “Everybody wants to be a “bodybuilder”, but don’t nobody want to lift no heavy-ass weights.” – Ronnie Coleman “Sell yourself short on nutrition and you’re selling yourself short on maximizing your physique development.” – Ernie Taylor ” Rule of thumb: Eat for what you’re going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don’t take in more than you’re willing to burn off. ” -Lee Haney “If you don’t follow a good nutritional plan, you’re bodybuilding with one arm behind your back. – Shawn Ray“ "I don’t eat for taste, I eat for function.” -Jay Cutler “To anyone that ever tells you that you can’t do something – tell them to go f*ck themselves.” – Guy Cisternino"