I am an Exercise Science professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. I grew up in a very very very small town in the Florida panhandle with exactly one caution light and one gas station. I accepted Christ as my savior as a young teen when attending a church revival meeting. I graduated from a K-12 public school and the entire school had less than 400 students. My graduating class had a whopping 27 students. I attended college at Florida State University and the University of Texas at Austin, and received training in nutrition, physiology, psychology, and health behavior. I have been married to Holly for 28 years (we met as undergrads) and we have two young adult children. Noah is a high school math teacher in Alabama and Sarah is a law student at Florida State University. I am so very thankful for the blessings of life.