On August 25, 1999, I appeared on Breakfast Television, a popular morning show in Toronto. As luck would have it, the editor-in-chief of Flare Magazine was in the audience. After my segment—where I discussed posture evaluation—she approached me, handed me her business card, and asked if I’d be willing to submit an article on the topic.

I said “sure,” and two weeks later I submitted a whopping 10-page, 5,237-word article titled Woman’s Posture from a Man’s Perspective. The article was accepted, and a condensed version made it to print.

That was all I needed to get started!

Shortly after, I wrote a brief article titled Sicilian Crunches and Calf Machine Shoulder Shrugs and sent it to strength coach Charles Poliquin for feedback. He passed it on to TC Luoma, editor-in-chief of Testosterone Magazine (now T-Nation). TC liked it, published it, and asked me for more material.

The rest, as they say, is history.

By the way, here’s a look at my first published article in the print edition of Testosterone Magazine:

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