My name is Joel McKenna and I started blogging about my fitness journey back in 2006 over at Typepad https://the17thman.typepad.com/my_weblog/ . When typepad went belly up I started all over and started here. I wanted to create a safe site for me to not just talk about my workouts but to offer a safe site so people can read about the fitness industry and fitness science. All that and to hopefully motivate you to either start or continue your fitness journey.