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Body Transformation: Kyle Olson Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change What was your lifestyle prior to your transformation? Not caring about exercise, eating anything that sounded good. What was your low point or turning point? I was tired of carrying around a gut, and figured there's no reason to have all that muscle if there are layers of...
Body Transformation: Kristen Adamson Lost 52lbs And 50% Body Fat!
Lifestyle Prior To Change Prior to getting in shape, I used to regularly skip meals and eat mostly carbohydrates and low fat foods – protein was never a focus and I truly believed I was eating “healthy”. I did also go to the gym often, but I had no plan and I focused primarily on forcing myself to d...
Body Transformation: Kim Hric Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change What was your lifestyle prior to your transformation? I didn’t really do any exercising or clean eating. I tried to clean up my diet but really didn’t know what I was doing. So I bought Tosca Reno’s clean eating diet books to get me started. What was your low point or turni...
Body Transformation: Kim Brenton Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change Prior to the pregnancy, I was already a gym rat who lifted regularly, but the last 3 weeks of my pregnancy were rough. I became rather restless and just "done" with being pregnant. My healthy habits went out the window at that point. What was your low point or turning poi...
Baseball Beasts: 12 Killer Physiques From Pro Baseball
José Bautista A photo posted by Jose Bautista (@joeybats19) on Dec 18, 2014 at 8:29am PST The Blue Jays' powerhitter has certainly earned his size and strength. He lifts heavy in the off-season and also does plyometric and CrossFit inspired workouts. Bryce Harper...
Body Transformation: Kevin Bice Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change Had an accident 20 years ago broke both arms, both legs, spleen, intestines, gall bladder, liver, all ruptured, punctured right lung and crushed my skull. Left me very lethargic and fat! What was your low point or turning point? Got so tired of being out of shape. Were ther...
Body Transformation: Kenneth Howard Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change I stepped on the scale at the doctor's office and saw...204 lbs. Wait a minute. What? "Nurse, that can't possibly be right" I said as I'm taking my wallet and other items out of my pocket. The scale stared right back at me. 204 lbs! I knew right then something had to change...
Body Transformation: Kassandre Harper-Cotton Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change Prior to changing my lifestyle, I was convinced that I did not have time to go to the gym. My days were like many others. I woke up and cursed my shrinking wardrobe. I ate very few meals throughout the day and ‘working out’ was not a priority. I worked 8-10 hours and usuall...
Body Transformation: Katherine Wilburn Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change I’m a stay at home mom of six and wife to an active duty Army soldier who was facing a C1/C2 spinal fusion to repair a hangman's fracture of his Odontoid. His injury prevented him from doing anything around the house to help with home or children so the responsibility for e...
Body Transformation: Katelyn Miller Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change Before I started training my diet was not strict. I was not worried about what I ate or how much I ate. I would eat tons of granola bars, Ramen noodles, soup, animal crackers, or whatever else the family had cooking for dinner. I would eat a lot of what I thought were “heal...
Body Transformation: Julie Michaelson Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change I was always very active and very into the "fitness lifestyle", meaning I worked out almost everyday of the week. However, my eating was all wrong and I was pretty much a "Cardio Queen" with some light strength training at the end of my workouts if time allowed. At the gym,...
Body Transformation: Juanita Wrinkle Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change What was your lifestyle prior to your transformation? I’ve always worked out or did some type of cardio but my diet was terrible. I had to learn how to eat clean. What was your low point or turning point? Turning point: I’ve always wanted to compete but didn’t know how...
Body Transformation: Julia Nash Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change What was your lifestyle prior to your transformation? I was very active before becoming pregnant. However I used both pregnancies as an excuse to eat “for two” and gained weight. What was your low point or turning point? I saw a photo of myself in October 2009 which made me...
Body Transformation: Jon Fildes Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change What was your lifestyle prior to your transformation? I was still a very active individual. I played a lot of tennis at a good level and was always into sport and being fit. What was your low point or turning point? It’s got to be when I had put on a lot of body fat through...
Body Transformation: Jordan Chabinsky Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change Well, when I was very young and before college, I was extremely active in all sorts of sporting events. I competed in track and field as a sprinter and middle distance runner (100m, 200, 300m Hurdles, 400m), making it to the Penn Relays two years in a row. I also played f...
Body Transformation: Johanna Chesser Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change I was a couch potato. I thought because I was a school teacher and I was on my feet most of the day I was physically active. After work I would go home sit on the couch and eat Doritos and chocolate and diet soda. I suffer from depression and social anxiety. I was depressed...
Body Transformation: John Stone Turned His Life Around And Got Ripped & Muscular
Lifestyle Prior To Change What was your lifestyle prior to your transformation? Throughout my twenties and early thirties I made a large number of extremely foolish lifestyle choices. As so many young people do, I lived my life without any concern for the future. I felt invulnerable, and lived my li...
Body Transformation: John Miller Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change I began strength training when I was in middle school to prepare for football. I made the varsity team in high school and continued pushing myself in the weight room. When college rolled around a fell victim to the lifestyle and got out of shape. During my last semester of...
Body Transformation: Jimmy Oller Body Transformation
Jimmy Oller's Story On February 1st, 2006, I had been in the Army for ten years. I had served in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. I was a Staff Sergeant promotable and a Ranger Instructor. I was progressing quickly in my career as a soldier. I had gotten off work early that day and decided to run acro...
Body Transformation: Jeremy Bell Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change I played college football for a small private school in Kansas, so I had always been into training. However, after I graduated from college, like most folks I took that dreaded desk job. To be honest I really just let myself go. Training and nutrition just weren’t a prio...
Body Transformation: Jesse Velázquez Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change All my life I was always skinny. It wasn't until I got married and had a baby that I started to gain weight. I spent the next three years overweight and depressed. I hated the way I looked and the way it felt. In my mind, everyone around seemed smaller and fit. I was living...
Body Transformation: Jason Flack Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change What was your lifestyle prior to your transformation? At one point I was 232 pounds partied and drank a lot. Then I started working out and slowly lost weight. During this challenge though I lost weight but got very cut up and strong. What was your low point or turning poin...
Body Transformation: Ian Kauffman Body Transformation
Ian Kauffman And Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia I was born with a rare disease called Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH). At the time of my birth, it was very rare so most people had never heard of it. I was originally misdiagnosed as having severe allergies and sent on my way home. After three ye...
Body Transformation: Ian Hartman Body Transformation
Lifestyle Prior To Change Our lifestyle prior to making the change was everything you would expect from 2 very overweight people. My level of activity could be described simply as "none what so ever." My life consisted of work, which included desk and light walking, or sitting at home playing video...