Success Stories

Denise

Denise is 32 years old, happily married, with two lovely daughters. Since she started training with me she has lost 23 pounds and around 5% body fat over the past two years.

“For the first time I feel  like I am doing “quality” exercises, exercises that really count and make a difference in how I feel and ultimately how I look. I recently went to a wedding and saw friends that I have not seen in 14 years. They commented that I look better now than I did in high school. That was a huge compliment!

Right now I am weight training three times per week and doing cardio two days a week. My strength training consists of bench press, incline press, military press, reverse rows, split sqauts, walking lunges, step backs, chin ups, push-ups, dumb bell presses, dumbbell rows, and planks. I limit my cardio work outs to no more than 45 minutes. I do a sprint work out that takes about 20 minutes once a week. Recently I trained for a triathlon. I added longer cardio work outs and ran and biked outside. I kept up with my weight training as well.Finishing the triathlon was an amazing feeling. It felt so good to complete each leg of the race. I felt so strong and fit! It was such an amazing experience!”

Katie

I helped Katie learn to squat and harness her athleticism into quality workouts. She has 135 lbs on her back. She also recently ran a triathalon.

Apparently, women can lift heavy and not bulk up.

George

is 34 years old and married with two young children. He has to travel a lot for work and unfortunately has to eat out about four days a week.

“I have lost 25 pounds since February and yes I have been working out regularly since I was 15 years old. I’m 34 now. In the last 5 years I would conisistently drop about 10 lbs and then put it back on if I stopped watching my diet. My workout was mostly cardio focused and the weight lifting was that circuit training nonsense that I learned from reading those magazines. What a waste of time!!

My workouts are concentrated on strength training with compound exercises: bench press, military press, pull ups, rows, squats, deadlift, rack pulls, romanian deadlifts, reverse lunges. On my off days I still run about a half hour on the treadmill, all inclined, and do the supersets that you blog about. I also started watching my carb and calorie intake and try to cut out junk food as much as possible. In the beginning I was strictly eating salads and protein for lunch and dinner and now I’ve started incorporating some carbs, but I still avoid the pastas. I also do your 10 hour fast where I don’t eat anything till lunch time. All those dieting tehniques have helped the pounds come off.

It was your blogs about fat burning and that progressively striving to lift more weight is more effective in weight loss than running/cardio. Also your blogs about doing more compound excercises made a huge difference in my results. Before I started reading your blogs, the only compound excerise I used to do in my workouts was the bench press. I was one of those people who would strive to do 12-15 reps of 200 on the bench. Now I’m doing 8 reps of 300 lbs. That in a nut shell is key to my workout now. More weight, less reps, diet, cardio. Those are the pillars of my workout and in that order. I became a disciple of your teachings and it has paid dividends. Thanks again for all your support and keep writing those blogs!!”

Kim

I am so unbelievably proud of Kim. Of anyone I have ever trained, no one has ever had the challenges that Kim has.

Kim is 39 years old and married with two kids. As of 9/15/2011, Kim has lost 69 pounds (more since then).

“I have not always worked out. I never played sports. I like to dance, but once my lifestyle changed (work and kids) it was no longer practical. Honestly, I joined the gym because I got inspired by the Biggest Loser. I saw how much they weighed and then not only lost weight but lifted weights and looked fantastic!

Right now, I am in a very active phase of weight loss so my workouts have been cut back. I don’t go out of my way to do cardio, but I strength train 2X/ week. Once I’m at goal, I hope to return to more intense training 3X/ week with some HIIT cardio 2 or 3 times per week.

It’s important to realize that Kim’s weight loss progress hasn’t been linear. In fact, there wasn’t much progress at all until she finally made her decision to change her diet (although she had squatted, deadlifted, and bench pressed over 100 pounds).

“I was finally beat down. Finally desperate. Finally convinced I had to make a BIG change, no matter what. I have a friend who had similar issues with food and was finally successful. She told me what she was doing and that was that. I knew I would be on the right track.

It’s really difficult to pinpoint an “ah-ha” moment. I feel like I was at times open to what you tried to teach me and at times not. First and foremost, you taught me how strong I could be. The effects were subtle and took a long time to form, but I believe permanent. You completely convinced me that I would not BULK UP by lifting heavy weights. You also said to me in an e-mail, right before I reached my bottom, “the food is the bigger issue. The weightlifting is supplemental.” You had said that before, but for some reason it hit me hard.  What’s working better for me now is that I feel so much better in my skin. I had a hard time doing the workouts on my own and now I not only feel like I fit in, I look like I do as well!”

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