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Introduction
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Before releasing Chump Repellent, I had to put it through the preliminary testing phase and it passed with flying colors. A couple of day ago, I was visiting one of my friends who is a tried-and-true “tough guy” with some remnants of Chumpism.  He invited me to work out with him.

Now here’s the kicker.

He invited me to run the “Exorcist Stairs” in Washington, DC. Now, mind you, I’d never seen these stairs but I was looking forward to a good workout because Coach Ferguson loves a good workout. So before working out I decided to put on my Chump Repellent Audio CDs because I didn’t want that Chumpiness rubbin’ off on me.

So before leaving for the workout I had to call my friend, who is a huge naturaly bodybuilder, to get the address and to ask him how many reps we were going to do.  He replied, “Oh, were going to go up between 15 to 20 times, depending on how we feel.”

NOW INSTANTLY I felt my Chump Repellent working and I said, “Hey homeboy, I don’t play that shyt!  We need to decide right now how many we’re going to do. What’s this bytch move about, ‘we’ll decide how many we do depending on how we feel’  that shyt is for Chumps. Pick a number and stick to it. I say we do 20!” 

He said, “Okay, 20 it is, but when you get there, you gonna say, we should do 15!”

That’s when I got pissed. I said, “Look here MotherChumper, YOU MUST HAVE FORGOTTEN that my name is Coach Ferguson. I eat hot boiled nails, piss out bricks and step in ant piles, just as a warm up to walk through hell with gasoline draws on. I ain’t like you. The worst thing that is going to happen is that my legs are going to be on FIRE.”

He said, “I guess you’re right.”

I said, “NO I am right CHUMP!!!”  And then I hung up the phone and continued to listen to my CDs and then put them in the car and listened to them all the way to the workout in order to repel that chumpiness away which I was EXPOSED to.

Then I arrived at the Exorcist Staircase……..

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Okay, Maybe He Was Right
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When I arrived at the staircase, and looked up at it, I must tell you, I could feel the Inner Chump trying to make its presence known. The staircase is the equivalent of a 5 story building. It is HUMUNGOUS. All I could think about was, “Me and my BIG mouth!!!”  But there was no turning back. I had to fight the Inner Chump and be a champion. So we started running……

1. After the first set, I said to myself, “Lord Please help me!”

2. After the second set, I said to myself, “This ain’t so bad.”

3. After the third set, I said to myself, “Who in the hell are you lying to? This IS bad. It’s quite miserable.”

4. After the fourth set, I said, “What number are we on?” 

**** Now everybody knows when you do the ole, “What number are we on?” deal that that means that the Inner Chump is growing. It was the first hint of weakness and chink in my outer armor.

5. After the fifth set, the guy who I was running with lapped me. And I thought to myself, “This is embarrassing”

6. After the sixth set, I was thinking I could push this guy down the steps and then cut a deal with him, not to tell anybody that I bytched out. And if he doesn’t agree, I’ll just leave him here for dead. Then I snapped out of it. It was the evil in the steps working against me.  :-/

7. After the seventh set, I was like, “Oh there’s no hope for me. I’m going to vomit all over myself by the 10 set and I’ll be ridiculed for life!!”

8. After the eighth set, I thought to myself, “Stop complaining and be a man.”

9. After the ninth set, I reasoned to myself, “Why? Men complain too, don’t they? I mean, I’m ENTITLED to moan and groan once or twice. Hell, why can’t I complain. I’m a full-fledge, due paying and card-carrying member of the National Complainers Association

10. At set number 10 my buddy said, “Fifteen looks real good about now huh?”

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED TO HEAR HIM SAY. When he said that I said, “NO, it doesn’t I’m gonna do the 20 just like I said!”

And that is when I hit the switch in my mind and decided to shut the pain receptors in my legs off and the burnning in my chest down and just put my mind on a single-track and place my objectives on auto-pilot. And I just began replaying the things that I heard on the Chump Repellent CD and I started knocking the other sets down like bowling pins.

Set 11 - I’m a Champ
Set 12 – I wouldn’t be here, If I couldn’t handle it
Set 13 – I’ve seen lesser men do greater things
Set 14 – I need this in my life. This will help create, mold and develop a better “me”
Set 15 – If it were easy I’d HATE IT!!
Set 16 – I can’t wait to come back and do this again
Set 17 – You mean to tell me that, if I hadn’t said we were going to do 20, he would have stopped already. What a chump. it took an absolute noobie, a neophyte to come in here and push him past the hump
Set 18 – 3 and Free
Set 19 – 2 and Thru
Set 20- 1 and Done

Finished!

After I finished I said, “Now that was a great workout, next time we have to do 21!!”

That’s when my main man said, “You right, there is no going back down now.”

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Chump Repellent
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My Chump Repellent was able to take our workout to new heights and it was able to keep my Inner Chump at bay so that I could finish my workout. Ever since that day, I’ve been working out non-stop without missing a day. I’m Repelling the Chump!!

Take care and if you ever get to Washington DC, make sure you go to 36th and M Street in the Georgetown area and run the Exorcist Steps. You may find out that your Inner Chump lives there and you may be able to “exorcise” him.

Take care,

Coach Ferguson

P.S. Chump Repellent will be here on August 1st.

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Introduction
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Here’s the honest to God truth…..

You’re satisfied.

You’re satisfied with being average. Just admit it. You were the kid in school who was okay with having a “C” on their report card. It just really didn’t bother you, because you were cool with being Average.

You live in an average house, you have an average life, you have an average spouse and quite frankly, if I asked you how you feel, you’d probably say, “I feel average.”

And you know what? You are, because you have average stuff because you do average SHYT!

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Michael Jordan
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Not Average

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Serena Williams
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Not Average

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San Juan Jones
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Not average. Now I know some of you are asking yourself, “Who in the hell is San Juan Jones.” Well, San Juan is one of our everyday heroes. He’s one of those people who works long hours and gets short pay. He puts everything that he has into what he loves and expects those that he pours into to reciprocate in kind.  He’s a figther. 

San Juan Jones coaches the Temple Boys Gymnastics team. As a matter fact, he’s the head Coach.  San Juan spends his time teaching skills of teamwork, honesty, and fairplay and he molds young children in hopes that they will become youngh men and good citizens. 

Bro. San Juan often reads Ole Coach’s blog posts and meanderings to his team and he emailed me the other day and told me that some of his kids need a small dose of Chump Repellent. He said,

“Ole Coach, some of these kids got it to be good, but I can’t know it for them, they gotta know it for themselves, otherwise somebody else out there will be the next Gold Medalists.”

Well, Bro. San Juan, it looks like there are 2 or 3 people on your team who have been infected with the “Chump” gene.  They really need a solid square kick in the @$$ but Ole Coach is kinda busy and he can fly up to Philly right now, but if I could believe me when I tell you, I’d leave with a Chocolate-covered boot. But since I can’t make it up that way, do Ole Coach a favor and read this to some of your athletes/students:

“Look here gentlemen. Medals and trophies don’t have anyone’s name on them. Ribbons or certificates either. Everything is up for grabs. The next Olympic Champion and World Champion are in the gym training just like you are, the only difference is that they will work through the pain, through the minor inconveniences, the aches, the pains, and they will show up on time ready to work and they will stay late and do extra because they want to be GREAT. They will hope that you keep doing what you’re doing so you can continue being AVERAGE!! 

So stop wondering why you aint winning.

You ain’t winning because you ain’t tryin’ to win. You’re just trying to be good – and that’s what you are, but you can be THE BEST starting right now.

Because once you change your mind, you can change your life.” 

Bro. San Juan, has assured me that he will be the first one to buy some Chump Repellent to spray it all over his team and all around the gym so that they can eradicate the “Chump” disease from the gym. And to be quite honest with you, all of you need some Chump repellent because there are chumps at the grocery store, at school, in the gym, at work, at church, online and every where else.

So when Chump Repellent is released, please do your part and eradicate the world of Chumps (or at least keep them from hanging around you!!)

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Closing
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Quite honestly, now that I think about it. Some of us have been stricken with the curse of average-”ness”. Really, some people think its okay to be average and that is where and how you create a place for your INNER CHUMP to develop and grow.

Being average is NOT OKAY!! It is Chump-like.

Take care,

Ole Coach Ferguson

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Introduction
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In my younger days, when I was a Physical Education teacher I would love to set up the obstacle course in the gym. I mean it was exhilirating. I’d never been in the military but it was like the closest that I would ever get to setting up an agility course for soldiers and this was my time to live in the moment.

Not only that,

- I also got to listen to the girls complain about their hair,
- Watch the fat kids struggle with getting up the rope,
- Observe the kids who thought they were cool by smoking cigarettes cough their lungs up,
- See the rotten spoiled brats who had never been challenged ever in their lives cry
- See how the athletes would gloat in the fact that it was so easy and listen as they begged me to “do it again”,
- And watch the kids who didn’t think that they could do it, get “pushed” by their classmates and experience a tremendous personal breakthrough

But the one thing that I could understand through all of this was how some kids were just paralyzed with fear when they walked into the gym and saw the the hurdles, the rope, the cones, the jump ropes and everything else. They would turn into instant Chumpmuffins.

I mean they had not even skipped rope one time, run one lap, or climbed an inch on the rope, yet there were scared to even try. I just couldn’t fathom why someone would be scared to try.

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The Awakening
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Well, I finally understood why these kids were having a Chump moment. Most of you know, and for those that don’t, that I have a policy where my clients can and “do” get fired if they do not adhere to certain practices, recommendations and imperatives that I’ve put in place. As a matter of fact, I had to fire a very promising client this year and now I really know why I had to fire him.  He was going through the same thing that the kids in my P.E. class used to go through.

He was afraid to try due to the fear of failing!

Well the messed up thing about doing  “BIG THINGS” is that you have to “Go Big” in order to “Win Big”, but in “Going Big” there’s a good chance (a real good chance) – that you might just “Lose Big”, but that’s part of the sacrifice. 

It’s a lot easier to say that you “didn’t give it your all” or you “really didn’t try” that way if things go bad, you won’t really feel too bad. That way you can provide yourself with an “out”.  But when you fully invest in the process of becoming a champion and you understand that there are more “losers” out there than “champions” only then will you realize that being a Chump has nothing to do with winning or losing, but in not trying your hardest; in not “Going Big”.

A few years ago there was a very popular saying that went like this……

“Go HARD or GO HOME!!”

I truly believed in that statement then and I believe in it now. If you are not going to Go HARD, then stop wasting your time, stop being a p*ssy, stop being a Chump, and stop being a COWARD and just pack you shyt and GO HOME!!

Because doing it any other way, win or lose, you’re setting yourself up for future failures in life. 

As I’m in the final stages of developing my new product called “Chump Repellent” I’ve been able to reflect on the defining points and moments in my life and the lives of other which truly ring volumes towards being a CHAMPION OR A CHUMPION!!

There’s a subtle difference between the two. But the huge one is “U”.

Take care,

Ole Coach

P.S. Venus Williams won Wimbledon for the 4th Time. She and her sister Serena are stone cold beasts. They are true champs.

P.P.S. Chump Repellent will be here soon and when it is, you should get two copies. One for yourself and one as a gift for your friend or loved one. I’m sure you don’t want your friends having “Chump Moments”.

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First and Foremost
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Coach Ferguson hopes that you had a wonderful 4th of July (if you celebrate the 4th of July).  Coach Ferguson had a superb time watching Serena and Venus Williams compete at Wimbledon. As a matter Venus is still in the competition, but Serena is out, but she left with a BANG.

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Serena Williams
Leaves Wimbledon
As A Winner
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If you didn’t see Serena compete this week, you missed a treat.  Ole Coach sent Serena a can of Chump Repellent the week before Wimbledon and it seems like she spritz herself with it and kept her Inner Chump Away.

In the 3 round of Wimbledon, Serena was playing and she pulled her calf muscle and ended up with a small tear.  After not being able to walk, she got up and continued to play as best she could. Then Serena was given a huge gift from the man upstairs.  It began to rain, so she was able to get treatment for her calf.

After returning from the rain delay, she commenced to whuppin’ the other girl’s a$$!!  It was an emotional roller coaster ride for sure. And I hope that some of you witnessed it. But if you didn’t Ole Coach, has got you covered. I’ve got the video right here. You must check it out.

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The Key
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Success in life comes when you realize that your disposition doesn’t have anything to do with your desired position. Meaning, if you are hurt, inconvenience, tired, or if you just don’t “feel like it”. That has nothing to do with what you are SUPPOSED TO DO or what you DESIRE to do.

If you’re in college and you get pregnant, so what? Finish school!

If the lights go off in the city and you have a paper due in the morning that must be typed, so what? Pack your bags and start walking or drive to the next city and get it done.

If you are overweight or need to drop a few pounds and you don’t “feel like” working out, so what?!?!  Workout ANYWAY!

The bottom line is this. Success is available to you if you desire to get it, but you have to repel the Chump that will rear its ugly head in your life when things get hard.

So, watch the video again, stay strong in the struggle of life and please – DON’T BE Chump!!

Chumps Suck!

Ole Coach

P.S. I’m having the Chump Repellent manufactured right now as we speak. It will be available for you soon, so that you can use it to eliminate the “chumps” in your life. And so that you will have less “chump” moments.

Later Motherchumpers!!  >:-|

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Here’s my dilemma
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I woke up this morning and I really didn’t want to workout, so the first thing that I did is put my Chump Repellent CD in the CD player in order to get the “chumpness” outta my system so I could hop in the car and go lift and run. So that’s what I did. I went to the gym and did a quick dumbbell workout and then I went and ran some hills (which damn near killed Ole Coach).

When I was running I didn’t put on an Ipod or any MP3 player, I just ran and used my brain. I know its a strange concept for the young folks out there, but your brain does work if you use it and stop pumping all of that bullshyt in your ears. Lil’ Wayne, Lil Jon, Lil Kim and all the other Lil’ people are going to help you get a Lil’ Better!!

USE YOUR HEAD FOR SOMETHING OTHER THAN EAR PLUG RESTS.

…… So as I was saying……

I was running and thinking and I thought, “If I know something that could hurt you and I don’t tell you, is that lying?”

Well, the reason why I was thing about this is because right now in New York it is a requirement for fast food restaurants to disclose the caloric content of their foods.

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Full Disclosure
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The fast food restaurants understand that fully disclosing the caloric content of their foods will seriously deter individuals from buying their goods.  This requirement was enacted in order to promote healthier eating. Some fast food restaurants have refused to comply and they have gone even further by pulling down the caloric information off of their websites as well.

Now here’s my question….

Is it the resposibility of the seller to inform the buyer or for the buyer to inform themselves?  And if the buyer wants to know, should the seller disclose such information?

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Ole Coach’s Opinion
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All of you Chumps know that fast food ain’t good for you. That ain’t no muthachumpin’ secret. You don’t need no calorie chart  to know that a Double Whopper with Cheese or a Double Stack or a Big Mac, that has been riding on a refrigerated bus halfway around the country, which is packed in salt, sugar, trans fat, filler and lord know what else – is bad for you. You already know that.

You already know that oil and vinegar dressing is better than regular ranch or regular caesar.

You should know that when an item says “Fat Free” that that means that the sodium content is generally higher.

You also should be smart enough to know that you can pick up any nutrition book in the world and know that there isn’t any room for a fast food burger or fries in ANY nutritional program known to man.

So even though the fast food joints are being deceitful (and somewhat lying), the real deal is this. You have a responsibility to NOT BE A CHUMP!! You have a responsibility to govern yourself accordingly, to make wise choices and to be smart.

So do what you are supposed to do.

I know that obesity is a major problem and that all of our premiums go up and that our tax dollars are spent to take care of those who don’t necessarily understand the harm that they are doing to their bodies and that a major cause of some of the disease that we experience is due to our huge  “weight” problem, but I also know this……

EVEN THOUGH YOU ACT LIKE A CHUMP SOMETIMES (and we all do)….

YOU ARE INTELLIGENT AND YOU ARE SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG.

Don’t abdicate yourself from responsibility. You are in charge of you.

Do not EAT at fast food restaurants. Stay away from Chinese food, it has enough salt in it in maim and kill you. Get The Backyard Workout and follow the World’s Easiest Diet, and lose the weight and drop the pounds. You can be healthy and stay healthy. Don’t wait around for someone else to do what you know you can do for yourself.

And that ain’t no lie, that’s the truth.

Ole Coach,

P.S. Right now there’s a 4th of July sale and you can get The Backyard Workout and many other products at a HUGE discount here –> 4th of July Sale