OUR BEGINNINGS WERE HUMBLE
From the beginning, each of us here at Ignite started out fat. We were lazy, we didn't know how to eat well, and we couldn't do a pushup to save our lives. But we all had to face the reality that if we wanted to change, we had to work hard and eat right. The determination and willingness to accept our flaws, and to do what we can to change them - it's something we look for in all of our trainers. Because we don't believe in asking you to do anything we wouldn't do, we've been there and we know exactly what it's like to start losing weight.
We don't believe in selling you protein powder or special clothes, we don't want to convince you that fitness is a huge pursuit and that you need $500 in equipment to get started. The truth is, fitness comes from within, it comes from your own willingness to change, and your ability to put some hard work into it. We're just a group of people who have done this before and learned all the hard lessons, and now we'd like to help you become the best you can be.
We don't believe in selling you protein powder or special clothes, we don't want to convince you that fitness is a huge pursuit and that you need $500 in equipment to get started. The truth is, fitness comes from within, it comes from your own willingness to change, and your ability to put some hard work into it. We're just a group of people who have done this before and learned all the hard lessons, and now we'd like to help you become the best you can be.
THE trainers
Picture temporary, but yeah. I rock.
Anyway, I can't really say much more here than I've already said everywhere else. I was 247 lbs when I was 14, and now I'm 22 and 185 lbs. It wasn't some "incredible journey" or the like, I didn't need one huge burst of effort to achieve this goal. It took me figuring out that I was eating terrible food (turns out, granola is just oats, sugar, and oil. Not really good to eat all day long, even if it is marketed as a "health" food), and consistently exercising to make this happen.
Now, it didn't happen all at once, and it only really took so long because I made 2 mistakes:
1. I didn't tryhard enough. Sure, I went to the gym a few times a week, and I even walked there (and it worked for a while, but then I got into trying to "bulk up" before I'd even finished losing weight... eugh.) But I never really got intense with my workouts, and I'm sure that held me back a bit.
2. I tried to follow the advice of the fitness industry. The idea that the only thing holding me back was a couple of powders... Well, it never really appealed to me so much. I never bought into *that* part of it. What I did follow was the dieting advice from a bodybuilder who already had the muscle and who was less than 10% body fat. Turns out, it's not really great advice to follow when you're 20-some % body fat, and you should really be losing weight, not trying to gain extra muscle.
But now here I am, it took me a few years to get where I'm at today, and I'm only here because I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't trying hard enough. I stepped my game up and it worked. Now I hope that I can do for you in just a few months what took me several years to accomplish.
Anyway, I can't really say much more here than I've already said everywhere else. I was 247 lbs when I was 14, and now I'm 22 and 185 lbs. It wasn't some "incredible journey" or the like, I didn't need one huge burst of effort to achieve this goal. It took me figuring out that I was eating terrible food (turns out, granola is just oats, sugar, and oil. Not really good to eat all day long, even if it is marketed as a "health" food), and consistently exercising to make this happen.
Now, it didn't happen all at once, and it only really took so long because I made 2 mistakes:
1. I didn't tryhard enough. Sure, I went to the gym a few times a week, and I even walked there (and it worked for a while, but then I got into trying to "bulk up" before I'd even finished losing weight... eugh.) But I never really got intense with my workouts, and I'm sure that held me back a bit.
2. I tried to follow the advice of the fitness industry. The idea that the only thing holding me back was a couple of powders... Well, it never really appealed to me so much. I never bought into *that* part of it. What I did follow was the dieting advice from a bodybuilder who already had the muscle and who was less than 10% body fat. Turns out, it's not really great advice to follow when you're 20-some % body fat, and you should really be losing weight, not trying to gain extra muscle.
But now here I am, it took me a few years to get where I'm at today, and I'm only here because I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't trying hard enough. I stepped my game up and it worked. Now I hope that I can do for you in just a few months what took me several years to accomplish.