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I was pretty chubby growing up, but during school I was able to keep in decent shape from playing so much hockey.


In college and in my early adult life I gained some weight, but managed it through dieting. I did occasionally go to the gym, but I never really saw the kind of results that I wanted. I remember thinking that there had to be a better way to get into shape without all of that time in the gym.


When I got married any previous healthy habits that I had quickly ended. So the weight gain began, again I tried to manage this with more dieting and even tried fasting. The results that I had were always short lived and it seemed like I always gained back more weight than I lost!


At the time I was traveling quite a bit for work. It turns out that long hours living on junk food is the recipe for poor health! One night in the hotel room I saw the Power 90 infomercial with Tony Horton posing under a Hawaiian waterfall with customer Doug Dragan!


Doug indicated that at first he was amazed at the great shape that Tony was in. But after completing the program and posing under that waterfall alongside Tony he realized that he had become almost as fit as Tony was! Something about Doug’s testimonial spoke to my heart. I was convinced that Power 90 could work for me too, even on the road!



The first few times that I did the workouts I was so out of shape that they would make me vomit! When the vomiting stopped, my confidence began. I would walk around the house with my recovery drink flexing in the mirror. My wife would roll her eyes because she could not see the results that I felt. A month later my results were now visible to her! She was excited about my new body! It seems that jumping around to Tony with those colored bands was really making me look and feel a lot better!


After a shoulder injury and a move I fell out of my Power 90 workout routine. Even though I stopped I was convinced that Power 90 was the secret to my fitness goals. I was determined to pick it up again as soon as I had the opportunity.


When P90X came out I had to have it. I would go back to my hotel room and do the workouts. That went well for about a month, but after the project ended and I was sent home the workouts stopped again. By now it was 2005.


In 2006 my wife left for a wedding and decided never to come back. It was devastating to me and took a few months of dealing with depression to come to grips with it. I developed a herniated disk around my L4 vertebrae. Several days I could not get out of bed because the pain was so bad! At this point I questioned everything about myself. Would my back ever heal? Could anyone ever love me again? When I finally realized that life was not over for a 33-year-old divorced father, I decide that I needed to get back into shape. So I found my old copy of Power 90 and dusted it off. This time I committed to finishing the program. I took my pics, got back online and pushed play every day not knowing how far Mr. Horton was going to take me! It was Nov of 06.


Power 90 works for me! I stuck with it even when my friends laughed at me. I did Power 90 for 113 days! I walked at night to loose extra weight. I cut out soda! I ate clean. I took the supplements. I exercised every day of Dec 06. By day 60 in Jan 07 I was beginning to see the results that I wanted.


After Power 90 I was ready for a bigger challenge. I wanted to conquer P90X! I struggled with my first attempt at P90X because I could not do the pull-ups and my push-ups were pitiful! But after rocking Power 90 I could do enough push & pull-ups for a good workout. This time around I was going to succeed!


A secret goal of mine was to motivate other folks through my own results. When I received a nice email one day from another man doing Power 90, I jumped at the chance to help him. I became a coach and he was my first client! It is so rewarding to help other people learn about the fitness programs that I am so passionate about!



In July I attended Tony’s NY camp. It was easily the best 3 consecutive days of my life! The hosts were great and I got to meet several of my mentors who had been so inspirational to me! I was amazed at how many success story winners were there and just how friendly everyone was! Meeting all of the folks that had supported me from the online community was so wonderful.



I have been very blessed with Beach Body! I have gotten to do 2 beach workouts with Tony and his Sunday Workout Buddies. I was even invited to participate in an infomercial for Tony’s new 10 min Trainer DVDs. It was such an honor to be selected for an event like this. The entire time I thought about Doug Dragon, who wanted to look like Tony so he became a customer, got his results, filmed an infomercial and then inspired me to follow in his footsteps! Now I was actually getting the chance to do the same thing! If my infomercial goes on to inspire one person to live a healthier lifestyle the way Doug and Tony have done for me than all of the effort that I have put into my journey will have been worth it!



I am proud of the man that I have become. I have gone from a miserable person to a social butterfly. Before I did not have enough energy to get through the day and then play with my son at night. Now I climb mountains and hike desert valleys for fun. I enjoy lots of other things now like karaoke and dancing that I never had the courage to even try before. I play hockey now at 34 with a higher intensity than ever before in my life. I had always been a shy person, but now I have the confidence to walk up to strangers and introduce myself.



I work hard every day to support my son and raise him into a good person. I sleep easy every night knowing what I have accomplished. My fitness journey started from nothing and now I am responsible to several others to help them live happier, healthier lives. My journey is remarkable. It has all taken less than a year to accomplish.


Everyone else that reads this can do it too