My name is Nick Cosgrove. And I'm a workaholic.

There I said it!

Are you happy?

Yes, it's true, I work 7 days a week.

Yes, it's true, I respond to my emails at 11:00pm on a Saturday Night.

And Yes, it's true, I still wake up at 5:00am every morning, regardless of what day of the week it is.

But, you know what? I fucking LOVE what I do!!!!

I'm tired of Booty Gains.

I'm annoyed with Ass Selfies.

I'm sick of Fitness Journeys.

I'm bored with Filtered Progress Photos.

And I'm fed up with "Doing It For The Gram"

With all that said, just like I've done with CrossFit for the past 15+ years, I've learned to co-exist peacefully with stupidity and bite my tongue while looking the other way when I hear someone tell me that they are just looking to "tone" their physique......

Pardon my idiotic initialisms but STFU!!!!!!!! What the hell are you exactly trying to tone?!?!?!?!

I'm not much of a handyman however I do know that you most certainly cannot paint a house until it has been built. And unfortunately most of these people who are out there that are looking to tone, are essentially just showing up to an empty construction site with a paint brush in hand ready to work.

I know what you're thinking - Why the hell am I writing a blog about break-ups this week?

I mean honestly, what the hell do I know about relationships?

I am just a Meathead after all, who spends the majority of his waking hours renovating physiques and designing bullet proof Nutritional Plans (enter shameless plug-in here).

But believe it or not, this Meathead is also quite meticulous. And because I'm quite meticulous, I have spent the better half of the past twenty years listening to all of my clients' problems, issues and dilemmas, both on and off the gym floor. And as such, even though I'm not qualified to offer advice on anything beyond my scope of practice, I have gained some knowledge as to how relationships work, as well as some insight as to when to either try and salvage them, or when to just end them for good.

I had my Grand Mal seizure on Wednesday, March 10th at 10:45am. I was discharged from Vancouver General Hospital later that day at 8:45pm without a diagnosis as to why my seizure had occurred. I was back at work the following morning at 6:00am.

I lied to many of you and told you that I would only be working half days for the next few weeks while I awaited for the results from my MRI and EEG tests. But truth be told, I only did this because I didn’t want clients and my family to worry, and I really didn't want to listen to all the lectures that I would receive for not taking time off work to allow my body to rest and recover.

Unfortunately I banged my head quite hard and quite often during my initial seizure. The pain was excruciating and only became worse after I left the hospital. After two days of dealing with constant headaches and a throbbing head, I reluctantly gave in and took the prescription pain killers which were prescribed to me after my appendix surgery last year.

The pain killers worked amazingly well. Not only did the pain instantly disappear, but I felt stronger in the gym and more energetic throughout the day. I noticed that my mood was also better and I felt that my thought process was much more clearer then it had been before. Falling and staying asleep became much easier as well when I would pop one of these pills a few hours prior to going to bed.

But like most Afterschool Specials have warned us over the years, as good as some drugs might make us feel, they more often than not come with their fair share of adverse side effects. The very first problem that I noticed was that all of the benefits I would feel from taking the pain killers would disappear after roughly 8-10 hours. The second problem was that after about a week, I ran out of the pain killers. And the third problem was that I had become addicted to these pain killers and felt that I needed them just to function properly throughout the day.