My Personal Bio:

Hi everyone! Im 37 year old not quite middle-aged guy in the greater Chicago-land area, born and raised. I've always loved sports, music, playing,singing music (esp. as a kid) the movies, hanging with friends n getting into trouble as a kid. I think you know the drill! haha..I was your typical smart ass, fun loving, goofy, but yet still a nice kid growing up and I still am a kid at heart.
I've worked out on a regular or semi-regular basis since around 1984 and been playing sports and doing those specific workouts since about 10 yrs old.

Like most people I developed bad eating and training habits over the years (sound familiar??) when your young many times if you workout alot (like I did) you still look good and have a good body and feel pretty good while still not having a great diet or regular sleep regimen, That was me.
I've been workin with weights and had some real success here n there over the past 20 yrs as my body has changed from a very wide but long n skinny frame as a 15 yr old to having rock hard muscle and filling out my large frame.

Huge music fan like i said esp. of rock n roll and Chicago growing up was one of my favorite bands!! Jason Scheff (chicago Bassist and Tenor Vocalist) is the reason I'm here. Jason told me to just check it out on the message boards, join for free and see what Team Beachbody and the great support on the boards can do and if I like it!

Thanks again to Lauren n Jason Scheff, Marc NH, Ashley (a great man and total inspiration to me), Katie Louise, Jen Two/Tree ( a total fit hottie and a great friend), Rosie, Suzy Brkln, and all my friends on the scheffland.com and MDB boards for being there for me and sharing the ride to a happier & healthier us!

Last but not least..Tony Horton and CEO Carl Daikler for making P90X and this great experience possible..you guys are the best thanks for helping me get back my health!! Beers on me when i get to cali ;)

I'm also a member of:

"THE SCHEFFY CHALLENGE"
IT'S FUN...FREE ...fitness challenge that the Scheff's got going on there website and its' gonna be a blast! Winner of the contest (voted in by the participants) gets....

see below

http://www.scheffland.com/tsc/index.php

My Transformation Story:

1ST TRANSFORMATION: was as a 14 yr old..I was tall ( 5'11) still growing with broad shoulders, wide back n long arms n legs but really no strength or muscle to speak of! Yuck! Good old fashioned iron pumping and playing sports did the trick and by 18 yrs old I was in pretty much elite shape and stayed close to that for most of the next 6-7 years before losing it!
2ND TRANSFORMATION:
It took me alot longer to do the 90 day challenge of P90x as I did have that wrist injury which hampered me.. a knee and ankle thing and I strained my left groin and lower abdomen pretty good...still exercised and ate sensibly (not great but good) lost another 3 lbs down to 276! thats 20 lbs since end of jan and 32.5 since early dec!!

That is getting results..more important really is that the renewed feeling I've got in myself...That euphoria you get from a great workout both mental and physical and hell, spiritual if that makes sense!! Back pain cut in Half and flexibility I haven't had since my mid 20's when I was doing martial arts. WOW!


TRANSFORMATION #3:

working on that now. I'm 276 need to shed about another 3 inches of fat and more muscle gains so new transformation will be GET BIGGER, LOSE FAT..IDEAL WEIGHT 260-265.

see ya soon with another new me...

" 90 Days 2 Fitness"

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