Trevor is a husband and father with 2 young boys. He started Personal Training October 2005 and a ttends Studio Glo for 2 x 60 min sessions per week.

Nick Canavan

Trevor now weighs around the 77kg mark. He has some great muscular shape coming from muscles he didn’t know he had, a fitness level he didn’t have at any stage of his life, and fantastic health that was inevitable with the positive changes in nutrition and exercises he has embraced. Rewind 6 months, and Trevor was 96kg, very unfit and sluggish looking. He had barely exercised in 15 years, and his food intake was typical of someone in his work environment. A lot of big business lunches, with not a lot of food for the rest of the day.               

When training someone, I find you need to give the client motivation and or knowledge. I simply laid out the changes we needed to make for Trevor and without a fuss, he made them, knowledge was all he needed. The motivation came from within, seeing the results from his work. In the end, all the credit and rewards go to him. I see Trevor 2 hours a week, the other 166 hours are all his.

What surprised Trevor through the process is just how easy it was for him to make such a dramatic change. He started with the big advantage of being a virtually untrained individual, meaning the body will respond very well to the new stimulus of weight training, and energy system work, coinciding with changes in food intake. Weight training has been a very important part of his exercise regime, doing 2 sessions a week with me, and one at home. With the added protein, fats, and well timed carbohydrates combined with the weight training, it has meant Trevor has added about 4/6kg of muscle, while losing fat at the same time.

More often than not, I find it’s what people aren’t eating, than what they are eating that is the problem, and once you start to include the important foods that are missing, there isn’t as much room, want, or need for the other not so nutritionally compliant foods. We added a small morning and afternoon feed to his daily intake, simply some fruit to start with as well as a protein serving before bed. This ensured his body was continually w orking to digest and use the food he was taking in. Carbohydrates weren’t consumed so much for dinner and onwards, concentrating more on protein and fat in these evening times. As time has gone on, we have slightly adjusted to get Trevor eating more protein, and better quality foods to replace the old ones. But the key for him was to take on one habit at a time, to make it a smooth adjustment, one that didn’t seem so drastic.

Trevor has done very well so far, and accomplished a lot, but looking at the bigger picture, there is still a lot more to accomplish, and this is our focus now.

Bronwyn

Trevor and I have been together for 20 years. He has always been a little overweight but as the years have gone by his weight has slowly increased - to the point that I was seriously concerned about his rather large 'beer gut' and wondering if he would make it to old age and see our two young boys grow up. 

Last year I began to notice that Trev would always come home from work tired and grumpy, not his usual relaxed self. He would  be short-tempered with the boys and have no energy to wrestle with them, one of their favourite 'Dad' activities. On Saturday mornings he would get up for a few hours then fall asleep on the couch, which used to annoy the hell out of me! In desperation I rang Studio Glo and booked him in for a session, hoping that he wouldn't be mad at me! Much to my surprise he happily went along and to my delight he was so impressed with Studio Glo and his personal trainer Nick that he happily booked in for 2 sessions each week. 

I am amased at Trev's transformation over the past 9 months, to me it is nothing short of miraculous. I have a happy, relaxed and motivated husband who is slimmer than when I met him (wow!). Our boys have their 'fun' Dad back again who has plenty of energy to wrestle them in the evenings. Even a work colleague of Trev's said she had noticed he is a lot less grumpy! I want to thank Nick for helping to motivate Trev to exercise and lose weight, he has completely changed Trev's eating habits (something I've been trying to do but failed at!). Trev really enjoys his sessions at Studio Glo and acknowledges that his new exercise and nutritional routine is a way of life, not just a quick fix. I am very proud of what he has achieved in such a relatively short amount of time.

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