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17 Of The Best Mike Rashid Motivation Quotes
"You can do amazing things. Don’t be afraid of that hard work. My workouts are tough. That’s what you want. You don’t want nothing easy. Easy ain’t going to get you nothing. You know, it may get you something. You may maintain and what not. Easy may work for some people, but I don’t want that. You k...
Body Transformation: Michaella Campbell Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change I've always admired people with a strong, lean physique and aspired to be the same way. It seemed like a secret on how they had gotten their hard bodies. I tried everything to keep my weight down throughout my adolescent years, but the fad diets would come and go as quickly...
Body Transformation: Michael Mitchell Body Transformation
Michael Mitchell's Story A couple of years ago I was on a path of self-destruction. I was in my final year of University and I was studying day and night. This account is a part of a recovery process, which has finally started to speed up. It is an account of events that have made me a stronger pers...
Body Transformation: Michele D'Angona Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change My life before this was definitely different but not so unlike most 20-something year olds! Let's just say I was a party girl. Being born and raised in Los Angeles I had been exposed to Hollywood and the fun party-city lifestyle since I was young - probably too young. I lik...
Body Transformation: Michael Lee Dropped Body Fat & Looks Shredded!
Lifestyle Prior To Change What was your lifestyle prior to your transformation? Prior to the start of my transformation, I consumed way too much unhealthy food (fast food specifically) and hardly participated in any fitness-related activities. Prior to the start of my, I lived in MI. In July, 2010,...
Body Transformation: Mercia Howard Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change I had always been interested in health and fitness but I had never really given 100% to keeping myself healthy. I completed a personal training qualification a few years back and had worked at various gyms and studios but was never in the right shape and didn’t feel I was g...
Body Transformation: Megan Murphy Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change Prior to my body transformation, I tore my rotator cuff which put me out of all activities for quite some time. Along with it being my first year in college I gained more than the “freshman 15.” My lifestyle was that of any stereotypical college student in one’s first year:...
Body Transformation: Melissa Durling Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change Before my change I was lazy. I just thought I had tried to lose weight so many times and failed, that this was just how I was going to be - fat and miserable. What was your turning point? I was disgusted to look in a mirror - I knew I could be so much prettier if I could ju...
Body Transformation: Melanie Blatt Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change For years, I was always bullied for my weight. I had no friends, no confidence, and I became more and more depressed as my weight increased. I tried numerous times to diet and increase my exercise but was faced with challenges such as uncontrollable binge eating due to stre...
Body Transformation: Matthew Braden Dropped Fat & Revealed His Abs!
Lifestyle Prior To Change I had a very sedentary lifestyle. I played video games all day and drank nearly 12 soft drinks a day. I could barely run a half mile without being winded. Rarely, when I played sports with my friends, I was always the slowest and worst player. I was always the fat kid who w...
Body Transformation: Maureen Ashley Body Transformation
Maureen Ashley's Story I am a personal trainer. I know it's probably weird to think that trainers hire trainers...but I did. I had a real issue with the fact that I didn't look like a trainer. I "thought" I ate pretty healthy. I worked out pretty hard. I did triathlons, ran a couple marathons.....
Body Transformation: Mother of 5 Boys Mary Ellen Jordon Lost 48lbs!
Lifestyle Prior To Change What was your lifestyle prior to your transformation? I am a mother of five children. I had five boys in seven years. That’s a lot! My life revolved around them. I stopped working away from home and started my own home reupholstery business so that I would be the one raisin...
Body Transformation: Martyn Knowles Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change I had long since accepted the fact that I was the chubby kid. That's how it had been as long as I could remember, and that's how I felt it always would be. I had no experience or knowledge of diets or exercise, and had a truly unhealthy level of happiness and confidence to...
Body Transformation: Mark Irwin Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change Before I signed up with Dr. Joe Klemczewski, I was on a train to nowhere. I would have been classified under morbidly obese for close to fifteen years (since I was 22). The funny thing was that I have always been into bodybuilding since I was about 15 or so and in pretty go...
Body Transformation: Mario Fanzolato Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change Like most young guys, I used to go out a lot with my friends. The problem was that I didn’t feel comfortable in my skin. My buddies all seemed to be having a good time, while I was “worrying” about the way I looked. Although it maybe wasn’t that apparent, I felt like I didn...
Body Transformation: Marissa Freier Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change I have always been an active person, but after having children my needs came last and I no longer was as active or thought about what I was eating. What was your turning point? I would say my low point was seeing my pictures of myself from my daughter's one year birthday. W...
Body Transformation: Maritza Rodriguez Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change I used to lift weights with my brothers and neighbors when I was in high school. All of that changed when I started college. I wanted to give my best so I was fully committed to college work and forgot to take care of my health. My nutrition was very poor, lots of fast foo...
Maintaining Motivation: What To Do When Willpower Isn't Enough
Ever feel the rush of motivation after you set a new goal? No matter how lofty, new goals often come with an overwhelming sense that you can take on the world. You’re refreshed and committed, ready to tackle anything that gets in your way! And then… life happens. Your motivation comes screeching to...
How To Make Your Fitness Resolutions Stick
To resolve or not to resolve--that is the question As the holidays come to a close and the New Year rolls in many individuals find themselves in the classic post-gluttony predicament of wanting to lose weight before the beach seasons come around. That being said, if I were a betting man, I would wag...
Losing Your Motivation
Have you lost all motivation to train? Do you dread heading to the gym? Maybe you spend half the day looking for excuses to put off today’s training? Losing your motivation is not fun. I know, that’s an understatement. You really want to gain muscle. You really want to get ripped. But it’s difficul...
Body Transformation: Lizzy Ostro Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change Prior to college, I was an athlete, but ate extremely poorly. I ate fast food for almost every meal, and didn’t exercise outside of sports. When I stopped playing sports and began college, I stopped being active. My freshman year, I realized that I had become skinny-fat. Th...
Body Transformation: Liz Buffone Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change What was your lifestyle prior to your transformation? I was a gym rat in my twenties, always working out. I even dabbled in a few bodybuilding competitions, although very clueless in the process, especially the diet. Then my thirties hit. I went from being a lab tech to...
Livin' Like Jay: Inside Jay Cutler's House in Las Vegas
On a beautiful night in September, just before the 2015 Mr. Olympia contest, Jay Cutler opened the doors of his home to the Muscle & Strength team for an exclusive tour around his Las Vegas castle. Jay Cutler is one of the most decorated bodybuilders of all-time, placing and winning many competition...
11 Lessons Learned From Watching Pumping Iron
How many of us have seen Pumping Iron? No doubt almost anyone who has been a fan of bodybuilding has watched it at least once. It’s Bodybuilding 101, and if you’re new to bodybuilding or fitness, find a copy and watch it now. You’ll be glad you did. For generations, Pumping Iron has inspired million...