Thursday, August 9, 2007

Flab to ab?

It's true - this is not a fatroll. In fact, it's an "ab" showing in the photo.

Apparently they’ve been there all along, under the layers of flab, but after thousands of a wide variety of crunches and back extensions, hours on the elliptical machine, 252 well-planned meals and 168 sensible snacks... they showed up.

Just thinking about those numbers and the oh-so-much more that it's taken over the past 12 weeks really reminds me of how hard it would have been to do it alone.
All along I’ve talked about wanting to prove that despite the fitness industry's trend of manipulative marketing claims... a single business model that is based on quality of life, whole person focus, personalized attention and truth in marketing can really stand out as different.

But of course, it isn’t the business model that stands out, it’s the group of certified, highly trained trainers who have made this happen.

Under Julian’s leadership these trainers pushed and coached and encouraged and advised and educated me, and that’s what made such a big difference. So to the trainers I worked with in the past 3 months - Kyle, Jonathan, April, Becky, Chris, Justin, Tony, Denise, and Joanna - as well as the others at the Gunbarrel and Frazier studios : you rock. You guys do amazing work, and I obviously couldn’t have done it without you.