Question: I read your article last week about starting a new life resolution instead of another New Years resolution. I really need to stick with it this time. Can you please help me? I always start good, but can’t stick to it. Leslie.

IT was Dec. 4, early Thursday morning, and I was already on my way to the airport for my first international powerlifting competition outside the Philippines.

No, John Burriss doesn’t look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. That’s the image people naturally have in mind when they wonder about the guy who owns four Columbia-area Gold’s Gym franchises. Burriss understands. When he went to his first Gold’s Gym convention 10 years ago, he was worried that he would be the only guy there who didn’t have a physique like that of the world’s most famed bodybuilder ...

JANUARY Exploits Valley High’s principal Dave Antle said the school’s gym is too small for the number of pupils taking part in the physical education and Healthy Living courses offered at the school.