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client success story: Demetrias

client success story

Client Success Story

Today I want to share Demetrias’ client success story.

Demetrias is a traveling nurse from Atlanta, Georgia. New to the Chambersburg area and looking to make some changes to her health and fitness routine, Demetrias contacted me in late October of 2016 hoping to get started. She wanted to start with some personal training and nutrition coaching.

Personal Training and Nutrition

She started working with me 2-3 times per week on both her training and nutrition.

Initially, we started with weight training and a small amount of steady state cardiovascular training.

By December, Demetrias had lost weight and had improved her strength and cardiovascular conditioning. In fact, her resting heart rate had dropped from nearly 80 to around 60-65 Beats per minute.

Demetrias also improved her strength during this time. For instance, she progressed from air squats to full barbell squats with 85-100 lb. She started with push ups from a huge incline and by December was able to take her push ups to the floor.

Obstacle Course Training

Later on Demetrias informed me that she would be running an obstacle course race in early summer, 2017, so we amended her program to include more intense training and some non-traditional exercises to prepare her for the unique challenges that lie ahead in her race.

Changes to her nutrition program were gradual; we avoided extremes. We ensured she took in the appropriate amount of calories for her goals, ample fruits and vegetables, and traded in some highly saturated fats for more unsaturated plant-based fats.

Of course, Demetrias could choose to work in her favorite foods and treat items on a regular basis so long as she hit her nutritional baselines.

Success

Over several months, Demetrias lost nearly 20 lb and completely reshaped her body. The beauty of our approach is that she can continue to make great progress without extreme approaches, twice daily workouts, or starvation diets.

You can read more about Demetrias’ results with online nutrition and in-person training here .

She has done simply outstanding!