Alan MacVicar Blogs

  • I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up

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    As I laid there on my back on the icy driveway, staring up at the stark, early morning winter sky, I was in shock. I had become the meme from decades ago, ‘I’ve fallen and I can’t get up’…at least not right away. Except I didn’t have a personal alarm system of a lifeline pendant…

  • The Gym Is My Sanctuary

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    As I stepped under the bar in the squat rack at GoodLife Fitness, I was still feeling a bit weak. i was looking at an empty barbell, roughly 45 pounds, that was waiting patiently to moved. It wasn’t going anywhere unless I moved it somewhere. It’s funny like that. Seeing that this was my first…