I think that I would be seriously in the wrong if I did not kick off this series of blogs by talking about one of the most avid fans of Fun Intelligent Training that I have met.  Meet my own older brother: Matt.  (Picture to the left is not actually Matt.  He is much better looking and did not smile as much when he was chained to the device…)

There’s so much I could say about him since he is my brother and I realize that I could use a platform like this to embarrass him or something, but I will hold back… even though it’s hard.

Having obviously grown up under the same roof as Matt I had a good vantage point from which I could watch Matt’s pursuit of fitness over the years.

He had a lot of ups and downs, some times of serious training and some times of serious set-backs.  His biggest setback occurred when he had a major fall while night-skiing that left him with a dislocated, majorly mangled shoulder.

The following months were hard for him as they involved surgery on the shoulder, a lot of time off from work, the inability to exercise, and being chained to a machine that kept an icepack on his shoulder perpetually cold.  Then came physical therapy and some continued limitations.

Needless to say, this was NOT a good time.  Because of his inability to move much, let alone exercise, he began to put on weight on top of everything else.  Even once he was able to go back to the gym he was hardly able to do anything.  Weakness and immobility was the forecast for a long time into the foreseeable future.

On top of some issues with his shoulder, Matt also more recently developed chronic back pain.  This was really due to the fact that, being a police officer, he has to carry a twenty-five or thirty pound duty belt full of gear around his waist for at least ten hours a day.

Twisting, getting in and out of the cruiser, and just normal motion in general left him with a lot of pain throughout his back that persisted even when the belt was off.

Matt had tried multiple times to get back into the gym scene, shed the extra pounds he had put on over the last few years, and get into the kind of condition he was in before his accident.  He made some headway now and then but nothing that was permanent or really induced change.

And then he discovered F.I.T…

A buddy of his introduced him to Dainty Boys Combat Conditioning program and Matt has really never looked back.  He is very honest about the fact that his butt was kicked at first by the program.

The training was different than anything he had ever done and impacted his body in a way that it had never experienced before.  He kept at it though and in the ensuing months he watched his middle disappear and, as his buddy who introduced him to the program so eloquently put it, “he left his ass on the gym floor.”

As Matt continued in his training not only did he find himself able to do more and more at the gym during the workouts, but he also discovered that his limitations outside of the gym shrank and his back pain disappeared.

He has told me that this success and the progress that he has enjoyed really have improved his quality of life in every regard.

His strength has skyrocketed, his endurance has multiplied, and his work is easier (since his duty belt is nothing compared to the kegs he carries at the gym).  Overall, he “feels about a thousand times better in general.”

I have seen this transformation in Matt and, to say the least, it has been awesome.  His enthusiasm and results have drawn me, my mom, one of my sisters, and soon one of my nephews to F.I.T. as well.  How could we not start coming?  It’s hard to ignore results that we could see develop right in front of us.

This place is different and it’s the real deal.  You KNOW it’s the real thing when the advertisements don’t tell you it is, but the members do. Click HERE to see what our members are saying.

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