For the first time in my life I feel strong, fit and healthy.  I have been fat all my life from school until my late 40's. I have tried all sorts of diets and gym memberships and had some short term success, but none of these things I could sustain long term.

The two most important things in life for me is being happy and healthy and I cannot have one without the other. Becoming healthier and having the knowledge of how I can sustain it, has improved my happiness in my life incredibly.

The feeling I get when someone I have not seen for a fair while comes up and says how great I look  and how much weight I have lost is better than anything.  This gives me the drive to get up and do the program and do it the best I can. It is the hardest thing I do each day, but I also consider it to be the most important thing I do each day.

I made some small changes to suit myself, I did not exercise on weekends and don't count calories or change my diet. I made a couple of small sustainable changes, they are 1) Swapping breakfast cereal for a bowl of cut up fruit and only eating fruit before lunch 5 days a week  (not weekends). and 2) Reducing bread from my lunches and having cut meat and salads instead. As well as that trying to reduce the amount of rice and pasta meals I have. These changes for me have been easy to make and  sustain long term.

I listen to my body throughout the program and made changes to some of the weight recommendations,  but always tried my hardest to achieve the workouts on the program every morning. For instance, if I am working out on a cold Monday morning and the first exercise I have is deadlifts, I know that if I do not do extra warming up, I will pull a back muscle.

The roll out at the end of the workout with my piece of PVC pipe is nothing short of amazing with the results it gives me, with any back or muscle pain.

This is the best improvement I have ever made in my life and I owe it all to Shin and his MAX Workouts Program.

THANK YOU Shin.

Measurements:

Start: 1/13/2013                          Finish 4/05/2013

Weight: 112.3kg (247lbs,9oz)       109.6kg (241lbs,10oz)

Chest: 125cm (49 & 7/32in)          112cm (44 & 3/32in)

Belly: 127cm (50 in)                    109cm (42 & 29/32in)

Hip: 120cm (47 & 1/4in)               107cm (42 & 1/8in)

Thigh: 65cm (25 & 19/32in)          59cm (23 & 15/64in)

Arm: 38cm (14 & 61/64in)            37cm (14 & 9/16in)