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Forged in Fitness: The Awakening That Saved My Life Born from chaos, rebuilt through discipline, and written for anyone fighting their way back, it offers a framework that links physical training with behavioral resilience, providing practical, clear, and powerful insights to help reconnect body awareness with emotional recovery; showing how consistent training, structured discipline, and purpose-driven fitness can speed up healing and personal growth. The book tells the story of a boy who almost drowned and spent years trapped in bullying, insecurity, social anxiety, and the haze of the hippie era; someone who chose to fight when giving up seemed easier. Fitness became the foundation that forged his confidence. Forged in Fitness turns personal struggles into a practical guide for rebuilding strength, purpose, and identity. It illustrates transforming pain into purpose, weakness into strength, and fear into faith; embracing both Stoic and spiritual perspectives rooted in reason, discipline, and a higher purpose. Additionally, it highlights how the body acts as a bridge to mental renewal and how structured physical effort can restore meaning. Using the same principles that transformed his life, author Waldimir R. Baskovich provides readers with a direct path forward. Inside: - Beginner-friendly fitness principles - Mindset tools to overcome setbacks - Practical grace-based nutrition basics Be the difference, because when you become who you're meant to be, you lift everyone around you.

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Born in Chicago, Waldimir (Wally) Baskovich overcame early challenges: a near-drowning, bullying, social anxiety, and the chaos of the hippie era to build a life of resilience and purpose. Motivated by his father, a one-legged AAU gymnastics champion and U.S. amputee golf champion, Wally forged his own path through martial arts, weight training, and spiritual growth. Further inspired by fitness pioneers like Jack LaLanne, Charles Atlas, Bruce Lee, and Dr. Arthur Jones of Nautilus, he has spent over fifty years developing a practical, enduring fitness and life approach that blends old-school grit, functional strength, and mind-body discipline.

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