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At the age of 3, my parents put me in hockey, which I played until the age of, I believe
it was 18 or 19, competitively. Played 5, 6 days a week, always in shape, and one year
I just decided to stop. That year, I put on around, roughly, 30 pounds. I just stopped
everything, and I woke up one morning like, "I can't do this anymore. I need to lose some
weight." I think it was my father that said, "You're getting fat." It was my decision to
join the gym.
I started incorporating a lot more cardio, using the bike, the treadmill, the elliptical,
skipping once in a while. Then I noticed that that was helping me a lot with the weight
loss. Not only was I bulking up, but I was trimming down, as well, which is what I wanted.
Then, at a certain point, my body stopped changing again. I guess I hit the plateau.
I started doing a little bit more research on how to get over those humps, or plateaus,
and it suggested: start eating better. As the weight started to come off, not only was
I noticing my clothes were fitting a lot better, but my dad wasn't calling me fat anymore.
People I haven't seen in a couple months were noticing. They keep on asking me, "Have you
lost weight? What are you doing? How are you doing it?" I would just give them the knowledge
that I've learned myself, that I taught myself, and a lot of people jumped on board. I had
a couple of friends that would join me at the gym, so we'd have a big training session,
instead of me by myself, it'd be me and 2 of my buddies. Basically, they would follow
me. They started getting results, as well.
When I stopped playing hockey, I was about, roughly, 160 pounds. By the end of the year,
which doing no activity at all, I put on about 30 to 40 pounds, actually 40 pounds. Yeah.
I was fat, basically. I needed somebody to tell me. With the cardio, with the weights,
with the diet, I lost 50 pounds, which brought me down to about 155 pounds.
I went on to college, for a 2 year course, health and fitness promotion. In the course,
basically, I learned how the body functions, the mechanics of the body, how the body operates,
what fuels the body.
At Bodies By Design, we guarantee a program, which is 50% cardio, 50% resistance training
and food logging, which means that we get the client to log their own food. This way,
they know exactly what they're eating, and where the problem is. I have no problem promoting
that. I'm a firm believer in diet is 80 to 90% of your results. I did it myself. That's
how I lost the 40 pounds.
The clients that are following our program, which is the workout part of the program and
the food logging that they do themselves, are getting results. The clients that aren't,
they're, basically, not getting results. They're getting frustrated. I'm getting frustrated.
They feel like they're wasting their money. I feel like they're wasting their time, and
I'd love to be training somebody that wants results and that are going to put in the time
and the effort to get it.
When I started off, I was probably training about 3 days a week. I built up to 6. Currently,
I'm training 6 days a week. I'm up at 4:30 every morning. I do weights for an hour, and
mid day I'll do half an hour to 45 minutes of cardio. It allows me to cheat on the weekends,
and I don't have to worry about it.
I'm not saying everybody's got to train 6 days a week or get up at 4:30 in the morning.
At least try and get in here at least 3 times a week for cardio and for resistance training.
Try to watch what you eat. Be consistent. That's the only way you're going to get results.
Also, follow your meal plan.