03/09/2026
🥊 Let's keep this male energy flowing with ** BM AKA the BIG MARN** 🥊
BM is part of the magnificent two-for-one deal we got when Karen and the Big Marn wandered into the Sweat Depot story with their 3 adorbes little goslings about 15 years ago. A high-powered couple in the least high-powered-couple way possible.
We always know when BM has been in the shed.
🏋️♂️The weights are meticulously stacked and everything is exactly where it belongs to a military drill standard inspection. If the weights could be folded they would have hospital corners.
Service isn’t something BM does, it is pretty much the story of his life. Serving as a paramedic in the ADF and completing numerous overseas tours, he has spent his life helping people on their very worst days and continues to serve his community — quite literally putting out fires, big and small.
He serves his country.
He serves his family.
And, for many years now, he has quietly served our little Sweat Depot family and our children too.
He may be the "Big Marn" -
but he is also the "Caring Marn"
This is a man who has HURT and HIRT us and then regulates our nervous system with a bit of yoga and a little Shavasana.
Full-circle trauma-informed fitness.😉
He has donated his time to deliver free programs for veterans and first responders. He has trained beside us, taught us, taught our children, fixed us, moved things, cleaned things and looked after people without ever needing anyone to know that he was doing it.
He has listened patiently while I have raved on about 📿Ram Dass, 🪬the Kali Yuga, consciousness, life, death and whatever other spiritual rabbit hole I happened to have disappeared down that week...
Usually with a quiet nod.
Always patient.
Always softly spoken.
But do NOT mistake quiet for harmless.
Because BM possesses a vicious burn capable of producing flames that would require his own work unit to extinguish.
The dangerous part is that he never wastes one.
BM sees - everything.
He notices it.
Stores it.
Files it away in the Big Marn Burn Book.
And then waits.
Days may pass.
You think you're safe.
And then, at precisely the right moment:
♨️Incinerated.
And he will barely change facial expression while doing it.
But I do know I can go to him with a problem and if he can't wrestle it to the ground to help fix it, he will give me the space and the presence to let me figure out what needs to be done.
He can sit beside someone in pain without needing to make the pain disappear. And there are a few of us in this little community who know exactly how valuable that has been.
Of course, once you're feeling better, he'll eventually retrieve something embarrassing you said during the crisis from the Burn Book and absolutely destroy you with it.
Cause. ⚖️Balance.
He is a wonderful dad. A devoted husband.
I love training with him.
BM — Big Marn, Caring Marn, HIRT merchant, yogi, veteran, firefighter, father, husband, friend and sniper-level distributor of delayed burns — thank you for being part of our story.
You are one of our true -- Magnificent Beasts.
❤️ Some things change. Some things don’t.
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