#Rocky April 7

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April 2026 will take a slightly different approach to the 30-Day Challenge. Each day of the month, I’ll be participating in the 30-Day Tai Chi Coach4aday Challenge. What will be different this time is that my daily posts won’t be limited to that day’s exercises—I want the freedom to share more spontaneous and wide-ranging thoughts along the way.

I will still include the focus of each day’s Tai Chi routine, but much of what I write may explore topics far removed from exercise. Just as Tai Chi is designed to improve flexibility, I hope my writing reflects that same sense of openness and adaptability each day. For Day Seven my comments are on a less famous ROCKY statue.

“Tai Chi” 30 Day Challenge

Searching online for a 30-Day program brought me face to face with lots of options but I have chosen a plan led by Dr Alan Potts PT. You can download the schedule I am utilizing at this link.

It looks like this.

Day 7-Mindful Breathing

Alan’s Day 7 lesson can be viewed below

April 7th Random Thoughts about a less famous Rocky Statue

Most people are famous with the iconic scene in the 1976 film Rocky where he is training running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to music telling him to Fly Now. Today there is a statue honoring the underdog spirit of Rocky at the bottom of those stairs.

Last summer my wife and took a trip to Cleveland Ohio and discovered another statue named in honor of an athlete named Rocky. This Rocky like the one in the movie had Italian American ancestry but his name was Rocky Colavito.

His full name is Rocco Domenico Colavito. He was born in the Bronx on August 10, 1933.

Colavito hit four home runs in one game on June 10, 1959, becoming the eighth player in Major League Baseball history to accomplish the feat. He also hit a double in that game, setting a record for total bases in a game with 16.

Colavito was one of the first players to sign a million-dollar contract in professional baseball. In 1965, he signed a five-year, $1 million deal with the Cleveland Indians, making him the highest-paid player in the game at the time.

There is a statue of him in Little Italy in Cleveland Ohio at Tony Brush Park that I discovered in July 2025