I'm Phillip Tomlinson, author of the bestselling book Rocket Fuel: The High Octane In Your DNA That Can Propel You To Greatness.

And I have an amazing physical fitness coaching framework for you.

But before I tell you about it, I'd like to let you in a little on the back story about how it is that I ended up here: Writing to you.

You see, some years back, I was in a different place: On my back, without the use of my legs, in a hospital bed, and writing to you now, or at all, was highly unlikely.

I remember it as if it were yesterday.

That was when the physical therapy team stopped by to tell me I'd be taking a walk with a little help - with the aid of a walker.

Then, suddenly, a moment later, it hit me - that frightening, sinking feeling in my gut.
I'd be going nowhere that day, not with my legs dragging lifelessly behind me.

And, for a moment, I thought, "This is it, I'll never walk again!"

As incredible as the surgery was that had restored my shot hips, that alone could not have gotten me going.
It's been said that necessity is the mother of invention and, to put it plainly, I needed to walk again and regain the spring in my steps to do the things I was once able to.

It was the inventiveness of a baby climbing up the stairs of a brownstone - an indelible image of an event, years removed from the predicament in which I had found myself - that set off a lightbulb in my brain and spurred me to action.

I won't go into that in detail here because you can read about it in my bestselling book Rocket Fuel: "The High Octane In Your DNA Can Propel You To Greatness."

But I'll say this:That event is what launched me on a path of discovery. It was the recollection of that story, while in my hospital bed, that helped me envision a stairway to heaven.

That stairway to heaven involved a fitness framework that would ultimately help get me back on my feet and usher me through the door back to fitness.