My story starts from realizing a little less than a year ago that I needed help, first to get back to the more athletic body I had several years ago and second to improve upon that body and make it the best it's ever been. Joining Results Fitness has been one of the best decisions I have ever made. I have learned so much about nutrition and fitness I am sure I wear my family out listening to me. I have made some great improvements in what seems a relative small amount of time. I know so much more about eating right. This was one area where I thought I didn't need much help but quickly discovered I was wrong. I knew I needed help in the gym to determine the best way to exercise. I have never weight trained in my life. Back in the day when I played basketball you just ran and ran and ran. The best thing about it is I know I can always improve, be challenged, and the coaching and tools will be available for me. The thing I need to get better at is making it such a way of life that I don't need to journal everything I eat and those days in the gym, even the ones that I'm working on my own are in ink on my calendar and not in pencil.

To understand the progress I've made you have to understand my goals. When I started in January 2008 I wanted to get lean and lose body fat. During my first session I was measured and weighed… it wasn't pretty. I was 26 ½ % body fat and 106 pounds of lean body mass. I thought I understood about healthy eating but several weeks and workouts later I discovered this was not the case. When I was measured again my body fat was down but so was my lean body mass. I couldn't understand what was happening. I wanted to lose fat but not at the expense of lean body mass. That's where the nutritional education I received at the gym made a difference and I started turning things around. By June I had managed to get down to 17 ½ % body fat and put on 6 pounds of lean mass. In the second half of this year I wanted to gain some muscle, get stronger and reach some performance goals. I have reached those goals as well as learned a very important lesson. It isn't productive to live by the number on the scale. After 11 months of membership my body fat is 6% lower and my lean body mass is 12 pounds higher. I have a positive outlook and feel so much better than I did a year ago.