This is a blog, it started out as a post, it goes all over, but it is, I believe something that may help someone who is like me, bipolar, with aspergers, someone who goes through the very low sadness.

Don’t let the beginning throw you off. A few paragraphs down I start going all over with it. It actually has some interesting parts.  Hope it helps someone. It seems when I let things out that I find embarrassing or when I open up, that’s when I get responses saying someone was helped. This one opens up on some things.  It’s something I don’t want to let out. Therefore I’m thinking it’s probably something I SHOULD get out there.

So enjoy J

WIN THOUSANDS, Yes, THOUSANDS of Dollars in Prizes. Our first donated prize alone is worth Thousands of dollars itself!!!!!! Check it out….

The company hosting this Greater West Chester Chamber of Commerce / Charity Fundraising Event and one of the major sponsors is my company, Elite Personal Training Studio, Exton Location, the first to donate a raffle prize, one worth $2169.00.

I’m putting a hightlight on my company in this event. I generally try to down play my FOR profit company when doing the charity events. It’s come to a point where my For Profit company needs a boost so it can properly support the charity www.BootCampsWithaPurpose.com . Elite needs to get to the next level, more clients, more Corporate Accounts, more of every business aspect so BCWAP can get to where I know it can be. So I will highlight Elite. I take flack from some people  who give me a hard time whenever I  promote Elite while doing anything to do with the charity. It used to bother me. I can’t be bothered any more. There is something to be done. There is a mission to be accomplished, a vision to be reached. That vision is to see Boot Camps With a Purpose WORLD WIDE. To see people doing charity workouts around the world, in every city and town, doing awareness raising workouts going under the name Boot Camps With a Purpose. It needs to be known, when that logo is seen, when that name is heard, it represents giving 100%. Every penny raised by the event goes to the cause it is benefiting. Taking out for trainer pay does not happen at BCWAP Events. BCWAP Trainers DO NOT GET PAID FOR THE BCWAP WORKOUTS THEY TEACH.

We are Fitness Professionals. We get paid at our jobs, by our clients, WHEN WE WORK WE GET PAID. When we volunteer, we GIVE IT ALL AWAY. The more you give away, the more you get back in the end anyways. If you look to get something out of teaching a Boot Camp With a Purpose other than a good feeling inside, you’re going to come up empty.

If you are a Fitness Professional looking to give back, go to www.bcwap.org, sign up, and go for it on your own. Do the workout, send us details as early beforehand as possible, months if possible before your event, so we can post it.

We need these events posted. We need as many posted as early as possible. We fight and work to eventually have posted in every city and town in the world a BCWAP workout.

If you believe, join in. If you think a small ripple can eventually turn to a huge wave, send us the details of your BCWAP. I’ve been doing them for 4 years.

Please, do NOT do ANY bcwap workouts if you expect to get business from doing them. If you expect to get big crowds, if one person shows up, if that would crush you, if no one comes, if that would deter you and make you sad, DO NOT DO ANY BCWAP EVENTS UNTIL YOU GET OVER IT.

Before you do ANY bcwap events, you need to toughen up. I don’t know how, maybe just be in the industry a little longer, go get your teeth kicked in a few times. I don’t want the cause of any tears being an unsuccessful BCWAP Event. Because if you expect big turnouts because it’s a great cause, because people say they’re coming, you WILL be disappointed. People ALWAYS say they are coming and don’t show up. Crowds always say they’ll be there, and don’t give a warning, but don’t show.

I’m at the point where I don’t plan BCWAP events and workouts. I do my studio workouts and meet as many people as possible. I come when invited. Mostly by schools. That gets the kids and parents out.

The first year I did these charity events, 2008, I did 16 Saturdays in a row. Every week at least 10 people said they would come. That would be $10 each person (I even dropped my price from $15, saying if you pre-registered you would only pay $10. Well those $10, they did not call, or show up. I generally got 3 to 5 on a good day. 4 of the workouts, no one came.

8am because everyone said 10am was too late. So on my Saturday I was up at 630am, having to leave at 7am since I don’t live close to the studio.

So that was my Saturday mornings, 4 of them, no one came.

I literally did cry at the last one, no one coming, I cancelled the rest of them for 2008, until a month later, a school invited me. 20 people came. A few weeks later a tv station came to a workout, a BCWAP done in New Jersey where the trainer invited me. They interviewed me on TV.

My ego took over. It was an ego boost. Luckily, I had another no show when I did try one more end of year 2008 BCWAP.  That put me in my place. Instead of crying, this time I prayed. I prayed, and I thanked God for showing me humility, for guiding me and helping me become strong.

These days I pray more than I cry, although I do both at times, most of the times I cry, I cry happy tears. I’m going through some tough times right now as a matter of fact, with my bi-polar sadness I push to get out of bed, it’s been about 8 months of sadness now.

Again, I thank God for showing me humility, compassion. I could not possibly care about others the way I do if I didn’t ever feel the pain I do. So it serves a purpose. I believe true empathy comes from going through something yourself. I can’t relate to some things. I do my best to listen, be there for whoever I can be, but some people need someone who has or is going through what they are going through.

I’ve gone all over on this, therefore I’m making it a blog entry, and leaving it only at blog, since I don’t think it really goes anywhere in particular or makes a point.

Here’s my one point, the one thing I say a lot and believe. You don’t know what someone’s thinking unless you know what they are thinking. People say I’m hard to read. I made a sales call at a hospital, talked to all the nurses, laughed, joked, then went home and tried to kill myself, then went to a psychiatrist, then got on the wrong medications, then….well, a lot happened after that. The point is people had no idea what I was thinking.

So when I hear someone saying “She thinks she’s so cool, or so hot, or so smart”, I don’t think it’s for any of us to say or make assumptions of what people are thinking.

I was polished shoes, shirt and tie, hot shot company car, sales manager…suicide attempt.

So I understand some things many people who don’t know me think I’m oblivious to. On the other hand, in the last couple years I have been diagnosed as in the spectrum, not severe, but enough to effect my way of thinking and my life, I am in the spectrum of Asperger’s. That diagnosis has  changed my life, helping me understand myself. Self exploration is something I think is very important. If you don’t know yourself, it’s hard if not impossible to get to know someone else. How can they know you, if you don’t know you?

So I’ll leave this blog at that.

There is more to this post, that’s what it started out as, I’ll leave it, the rest of it.

It  makes not much sense, but if you’ve followed my posts, if anyone does I don’t really know, one girl did say they were helpful. I haven’t done much with them in a while. If you get something out this or any of my posts, even if anonymous, please let me know, please let me know what topic or what I talk about helps you. Being someone with Aspergers, bipolar, having spent 31 months in jail somewhat because I’m bipolar, not to make excuses, I accept responsibility, but anyways, let me know what helps you. Ttys –matt

Elite Personal Training Studio / Next to Dominoes, Guo’s Chinese, Boas Vision

571 West Uwchlan Ave.(Route 113)

Exton / Lionville, PA 19341

www.TrainAtElite.com

484-319-7829

Owner of Elite Personal Training Studio Exton Location and Corporate Fitness, Matt Sgro, Nationally Certified Personal Trainer and his team of Nationally Certified Personal Trainers have donated $2169.00 worth of  Personal Training and Nutritional Counseling to The Winner of this raffle item. 3 months of THREE TIMES A WEEK TRAINING. Use it or lose it, Elite’s Trainer’s will provide the ultimate in accountability with this program. All you need to do is SHOW UP. We will take it from there. Just do what we say. Do these 3, half hour workouts, three times a week, for THREE MONTHS.

If you participate in this program and follow our nutritional guidance on top of it, I guarantee, YOUR LIFE WILL CHANGE.

• Show up
• Eat what we tell you to eat, when we tell you to eat
• Reap the rewards

Also, Many thanks to Major Sponsor Dominoes Pizza, Exton Location off Route 100 on Route 113, Owner Bob Taylor, and a special thanks to Wife Brenda Taylor, an Elite Client, Friend, and someone I admire both professionally, and most of all personally, for her undying energy in doing all she does for her family.  For all her help in organizing this event, I give many thanks.

From “For Pete’s Sake, Walk 2012″

“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other” -Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

I want to take a moment to show my gratitude and thank everyone that supported the 2nd Annual For Pete’s Sake, Walk! You took precious time from your lives and paid it forward to help other families like mine have the opportunity to take a break from cancer!

My cancer warrior (my husband Eric), our friends, family and I were honored to walk amongst people who have personally touched our lives so deeply. With every donation to FPS, no matter how big or small, you have made a difference. You have given something to brave men and women that is so much deeper than any words can express. You have given families the opportunity to make lasting memories, and for one glorious week, you let them simply live. You have supported the belief that love is greater than cancer!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Every dollar we raised will help FPS continue to improve the quality of life for those who need something to smile about!

With endless gratitude,

Jeaneane Dial, wife of FPS traveler, Eric Dial

We Made History:

1,809 people registered!

222 volunteers!

1,086 slices of tomato pie served!

Over $120,000 raised (net amount)!

LOCATION: Citizen’s Bank Park, Philadelphia, PA

Hey Everyone!
It’s not too late to come out and join Elite Personal Training Studio for a great day of fun and wellness at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park! We are supporting For Pete’s Sake Cancer Respite Foundation and hope you will join us in helping families facing cancer take well deserved respite vacations.

There will be a 3 mile fun walk around the concourse and parking lots, FREE food, entertainment by DJ Kevy Kev & 98.1 WOGL, encouragement by Elite Personal Training Studio staff, Boot Camps with a Purpose, and during the last lap, we can go down on the field round the bases, and have your picture taken in the Phillies dugout!!!!! All this fun and we are helping others!

Please go to Elite’s Team Page and learn more about the event! We hope to see you there…and you have a fun day at the ballpark!

You must call or text at least 48 hours in advance to check on availability of the class and you must have a response. If you do not receive a response, please try again. The phone number to call/text is: 484-319-7829.

The schedule is as follows:

Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays:  6am, Noon,  5:30pm

Tuesdays & Thursdays:  6am

Saturdays & Sundays:  9am

Living Social will be doing a $39.oo for ALL those days/times, and it will be unlimited for a full month. Keep an eye out for the coupon and if you have not seen it, please contact Matt Sgro, Elite Personal Training Studio’s Owner at 484-319-7829.

We are looking for donations of baskets for a fundraising raffle. We are also accepting of gift certificates to local businesses.

Event Information:

What: Fundraising Raffle with Food, Fun, and Friends

When: July 12, 2012

Time: 5:30pm until 7:30pm

Where: Elite Personal Training Studio

                571 W. Uwchlan Ave (Route 113), Exton, PA

               Located next to Dominoes, Boas Vision, Exton Tire (Big Goodyear Sign), and Lighting by Design

Additional Event Information:

At this Greater West Chester Chamber of Commerce Networking Event, raffle tickets will be sold for $1 each.

All donations for the raffle can be dropped off at the Elite Personal Training Studio.

Please contact Matt Sgro on his phone :484-319-7829   or by e-mail: matthewsgro@gmail.com  or you can stop by the studio after 8pm during the week. Thank you for all your support!

Boot Camps With a Purpose is something I made up in my head one day, a way everyone, anyone can make a difference by coming to workouts given by volunteer trainers to raise money and awareness for good causes and charities.

Elite has grown to Elite Corporate Fitness which has now spread to different places around The Philadelphia area, and now just recently has joined forces with trainers in places as far away as Canada and America’s Mid-West.

Here’s Elite:

www.TrainAtElite.com

Here is Boot Camps With a Purpose:

www.BCWAP.org

The stronger and more wide-spread Elite becomes, the stronger BCWAP becomes. My dream is to travel the world and give free workouts to make people aware of things they wouldn’t pay attention to otherwise, like getting a yearly breast check-up.

If I were to travel from now till I died, for say maybe another 40 years, EVERY DAY, giving a boot camp telling people to get health exams, to get their kids checkups, and to adopt a pet from shelters, and in that FOURTY YEARS, OF EVERY DAY, 365 DAYS TIMES 40 , FOURTEEN THOUSAND, SIX HUNDRED DAYS, ALL THOSE DAYS. Just one person caught their breast cancer in time so their children didn’t lose their mom, one child’s cancer was caught in time so one set of parents didn’t have to bury their child, and JUST ONE pet wasn’t put to sleep, but FOUND A HOME. Just one of each of those three, JUST ONE. Then my life has been more than a success, it’s been a triple home run doozy of a success.

So I’m going to keep working to make this dream come true. It’s going to happen. And the guy that was called a loser by many people, from college professors to prison guards, that guy, he will be a WINNER. That guy’s me. I’m Matt. And I own, operate, and started from scratch, Elite Personal Training Studio, Corporate Fitness, Boot Camps, and Boot Camps With a Purpose, all of these you can add with all honesty, the word “INTERNATIONAL” to, and if there’s a word “Multi-International”, ADD IT. Because they all are. Worldwide, operating, and functioning, making a difference.

I’m not saying all these things to boast or brag, just to show that guy in the spot maybe I was in not so long ago, I just want to show someone who’s having a hard time, just say to them, DON’T GIVE UP. Don’t back down. Stand up. Be proud. Be you. Be strong and hard and live right , live well. Wake up every day knowing you have as much a chance to become whoever you want to be as anyone else. Just keep FIGHTING. Fight like you’ve never fought before. I MEAN REALLY REALLY REALLY FIGHT ALL OUT. Everything to the wall. All you got. Do it. I’m with you. I have you all the way with all my heart and soul. With everything I have inside me, I pray, cheer, root, and I fight inside myself with fire like you’ve never seen. Be the warrior you were born to be. The only one stopping you is YOU. Don’t let it happen. Don’t let ANYTHING stop you. EVER. I want you to fight, stand up, make it, and then, if you can, go back and help someone else out of their hole. If you’re not able to physically help someone out of their hole, then lead by example, let others see who you are, and warm their heart with your spirit and example.

So wherever you are in your journey, behind me, beside me, or ahead of me, keep pushing my brothers and sisters, keep pushing through this battle we call life. Make it through. I feel you and your energy. Keep it going. Never stop.

-Matt

Hoodies: $20. Black & navy blue. Blank front. Elite back.

Sweatshirts:  $15. Gray w/ black stripe.

Bcwap logo front. Elite back.

Shirts:  $10. Pink w/ black bcwap front. Elite black back

(Limited supply)

very limited supply, as in one of each, light green, brown, white, and there are 4 purple left.

They’re going very quickly. Come to the studio and get yours now before they’re gone.

raffle for prizes, – please pass this on to anyone who may have prizes they’d like to donate to raise money for all4paws no kill animal rescue

Elite Personal Training Studio will be donating fine wine and personal training packages, and special elite personal training golf swing and game improvement secrets training packages for the raffle

Matt Sgro will be donating a full hour of personal training with himself for anyone who commits to adopting a pet from all4paws that night

also, $300 will be added to the raffle total from Elite

$150 from Elite Corporate Fitness’s Exton, PA Office
and
$150 from Elite Corporate Fitness’s Toronto, Canada Office

all raffle ticket purchases are tax deductible donations

they will go to BOOT CAMPS WITH A PURPOSE INTERNATIONAL, elite’s non-profit 501c3 sister company,

that night a check for the total of raffle sales plus the $300 total donation from Elite corp fitness locations will be written from BCWAP to all4paws

please contact me if you have anything to add to the raffle to help all4paws and promote your business,

I will also need to purchase hors d’ oeuvre’s, beverages, and a tent and chairs for outside.

Please contact me if you or your company, or you know who deals in these things.

I hope you’ll come out in July to my studio, check out my training facility, enjoy some social time with local business people, help support a great NO KILL shelter, and see what Elite is up to on an international level, having broadened in’s horizons into Canada, just as Boot Camps With a Purpose did some years ago on it’s way to becoming a multinational organization, dealing with people across the globe.

Matt Sgro
Owner
Elite Personal Training Studio
Not a Gym/No members or Crowds
Private Studio Atmosphere
Programs for the Individual
571 w. Uwchlan Ave
Exton, PA 19341
www.TrainAtElite.com
Ph# 484-319-7829

President
Elite Corporate Fitness
Group Fitness for Companies
in the Tri-State Area and Beyond,
Boot Camps, Yoga
Fitness Room Supervision for
Companies, Community Rooms
Email me on the web at: www.TrainAtElite.com
Ph# 484-319-7829

President / Founder
Boot Camps With a Purpose International, Inc.
501c3 Fitness Charity Organization
571 West Route 113
Lionville, PA 19341
www.BCWAP.org
Ph# 484-3197829