“I finally lost that last 4 kg and reached my goal weight! “

Christine Gillen, 34, Taringa, Scientist

“I had been attending regular thrice weekly boot camp classes and was steadily losing weight and but after 5 months of training and a weight loss of 15 kg. I had hit a plateau in both weight loss and in the improvement of my fitness levels. The twelve week challenge gave me the motivation and added that extra bit of exercise to my routine to switch my body back to weight loss mode so that I could finally lose that last 4 kg and reach my goal weight! Without the extra Saturday boot camp I would probably still be trying to shift that last little bit of excess weight – plus the friendly rivalry of the other attendees pushed me to train harder and helped me out of my fitness plateau too”

“Congratulations to Christine on her remarkable weight loss this year and thank you for all your hard work and fun you’ve brought to the group”

Chris

“I’ve Got My Life Back!”

Claire Hanley, 53, Nurse, Teneriffe

“After sustaining a fractured back in early 2010, spending 4 months in a back brace, and making a slow and painful recovery, I found that I never returned to my pre-injury self. The next year was a downward spiral for me with changed body posture due to pain, reduced mobility and balance, increased weight gain, lack of self esteem. Which lead to isolation? After becoming quieter and leading a sedate lifestyle for nearly 17 months, I found myself dreaming of my old active and outgoing lifestyle before my injury… I wanted my life back!!

I thought about joining a Gym, but because of my reduced self confidence and being in my middle years I felt that was not the way to reclaim my old life back. After much thought I decided to find a personal trainer. My specifications for a personal trainer included being sensitive to both my own and my partner’s ages (mid 50’s); they needed to be compassionate toward my condition, considerate and respectful. Our fitness was low…

I found Chris Tuck of Supreme Fitness on the web and set up a one-on-one meeting.  Chris spoke to us about our wants, needs and also our goals, what we hoped to achieve. He explained in plain English to us both about his 12 week program and the importance of food and exercise to achieve our goal. After our first meeting, we both felt that Chris Tuck fitted all the needs that we required in a personal trainer and signed up for the Supreme Fitness 12 week program.

Our first training was to see were we where at with our fitness levels, food intake, weight and measurements. I could barely run 100 metres or complete any of the exercises. While I considered my diet to be very good, (I am a vegetarian) and only eat unprocessed foods, Chris went through my daily intake thoroughly and, to my dismay, found that I was lacking in many of the vital Vitamins and Minerals, accounting for my continued tiredness.

The next 6 week journey was not easy, after the 1^st real session I felt flat and dishearten, my knees became very painful and my legs would barely carry me. I was worried I wouldn’t even make the 2^nd session.

Our 2^nd session with Chris was 3 days later and I was still hobbling around in pain. Chris was not only completely understanding, but listened to my concerns with compassion and respect, and then developed the next session to accommodate my abilities.  He spoke to us about the importance of after exercise stretches, and the need to feeding our muscles the right food after each session to repair and build muscles and reduce pain.

Because of my lack of mobility I developed many aches and pains in my knees so I decided to seek the help of an acupuncturist Chris recommended with great results.

I continued to turn up to training sessions  twice a week with my partner where  Chris would  kept me going with encouragement, humorous manner while always remaining respectful.. After 8 weeks of hard work and training we were both getting stronger and began looking forward to our sessions. I have gone from being in pain and  not being able to run 100 meters or lift 2.5kg, to  after 10 weeks  running over 1 km, lifting 4 kg and swimming 600-700 meters and totally enjoying  our own sessions and being pain free. We have also started our own walking and running approx 3 times a week.

I am glad to say that we have completed our Supreme Fitness 12 week program.

While my journey has been  very hard and I have had  pain , with Chris’ encouragement we have increased our fitness  beyond what I thought I could achieve in  10 weeks and have come to enjoy the exercise sessions with many  good laughs along the way. We have. Also both lost 4 kg and 32 cms. And I am enjoying pulling out my old clothes again.

Where to from here, well we have both reassessed our goals and have decided to stay with a Chris Tuck as our personal trainer for the start of 2012. We both feel that with Chris’s knowledge, guidance and encouragement we will achieve our goals faster and more importantly will have a greater understanding of our bodies needs to gain better fitness and then how to sustain it.

Because of the increased fitness I am back to being self confident, my balance has returned and my posture improves daily. I enjoy being pain free most of the time and being back to my old self.

Our lives are back on track and we are both totally embracing our new found fitness with biking and long walks on the weekends. I am excited about 2012 and what we will both achieve with Chris over the coming weeks.

My new goal’s for 2012, to get back into my passion scuba diving and sailing BRING IT ON!” Claire

“Thank you Claire for all your hard work and persistence and congratulations on your results so far! You’ve come along way already and I look forward to helping you make more big changes in 2012″

Chris

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“Goodbye beloved couch, hello healthy lifestyle”

Daryl Gillgren, 55, Teneriffe, Gis Analyst

“For me, a man in my mid-fifties, life had become all work, a so-so diet and very little exercise, spending a lot of time keeping my couch company.  I was carrying a little more weight than I was comfortable with and was looking a bit podgy around the midriff. Both my partner and I enjoy walking and have walked quite a bit around Brisbane city, but of late our walks had become more of a shuffle, and it was becoming increasingly difficult to start the longer distance walks, let alone finish them.

Early in October my partner surprised me by setting up a meeting with Chris, Tuck, a personal trainer and owner of Supreme Fitness. He talked to us about a 12 week course of exercise and nutritional guidance.  My first impression was ‘Yeah, right, let’s see how long this lasts!’ But I needed something to get me off the couch so decided that I would give it a go.

At first I struggled with the squats, star jumps, butt kicks, and mountain climbs, felt exhausted after the boxing sessions and weights, and took a few days to get over the sore muscles resulting from the unfamiliar exercises. However, as the weeks passed, and the exercises intensified, so did my energy levels. We began to look forward to our exercise sessions, and found that they became easier to complete and our recovery times dropped considerably.

Within the first couple of weeks we both noticed a big increase in the pace of our regular walks, in fact we even got to the stage of doing ‘Run, Walks’ (Run for so many power poles then walk for so many power poles). Now, I don’t like running, so this was no mean feat, and gives you an indication of how good I was beginning to feel.

Over the past 10 weeks, Chris’ nutritional guidance and exercise program, along with his encouragement and respectful nature, has bought us some much needed weight loss, a higher degree of fitness, and a far healthier lifestyle.  Both of us feel the better for it and have become far more active because if it (much to my couches dismay).

We look forward to continuing our sessions in the new year to keep up our newly attained healthier lifestyle.” Daryl

Thank you for all your hard work Daryl and well done on your fantastic results so far. You and Claire have been a pleasure to train, your persistence, hard work and positive attitude has paid off and I look forward to helping you both take your health and fitness to another level in 2012.

Chris

“I Lost 28kgs in 9 months!

Elizabeth Hook, 23, Aspley

Liz started training with our Women’s Only Booty Camp back in March and is also a student of 12 Week Fat Elimination and Body Transformation System which you can download for free at www.mybodyback.viprespond.com. Read on her to check out her amazing story and see if you can pick out the clues of her success! Chris

“I have struggled with my weight all my life. My family as a whole are ‘big people’. I have also battled with generalise anxiety disorder and mild depression. After returning to university second semester 2010 I experienced several panic attacks. It was these attacks that made me realise I really needed to change my lifestyle. One of the biggest factors that influenced my anxiety and depression was my low self esteem. After weighing in at 96 kg my confidence was at an all time low. I didn’t eat fast food very often. I ate a good serving of vegetables every night with dinner. I drank 2-3L of water every day. However, I infrequently got active – I played TRL (Touch Rugby League) once a week and that was about it. So I decided to get more active.

Luckily for me a local gym was offering super cheap memberships with no contract and no joining fee so I signed up. Unfortunately, not long after I was forced to wear a rocker boot for 6 weeks as a result of several stress fractures in my foot. Not long after the 6 weeks a friend and I came across Chris’s booty camp. We signed up. By the time we went to the boot camp I was very active. I was doing two weight sessions a week, two RPM classes, a pump class, a step class and some general cardio. However my weight was reducing much slower then I had imagined it would. Chris provided me with priceless advice about nutrition! And all that time I thought I was eating well! I implemented some pretty simple but super important changes into my diet – eating all natural foods, eating five small meals a day, writing down everything I was eating so I could track my calories.

Once I got the basics down Chris provided me with more great tips such a when to eat what foods, acidic vs alkaline foods etc. Chris suggested some changes to make my training schedule more balanced. I also followed Chris’s 12 week challenge. The practical tips – progress tracking etc and the charts Chris provided me with were invaluable. Once I got into the rhythm of actually eating what my body was craving the weight started to come off at the rate I wanted (500g – 1kg a week on average).

About 12 months on and I am now weighing in at 68.4 kg. The past year has without a doubt been the best year of my life. Almost instantly after altering my lifestyle my perspective/mood/outlook/attitude changed. As a psychology student, the influence that my diet and my physical activity had on my mental state astounded me! I currently go to the gym 5-6 sessions a week (these include cardio and a weight program), go early morning stair running twice a week and do a longer distance run once a week. No way am I saying that my weight loss journey has been a walk in the park (excuse the pun). I have experienced some great weeks and some not so great weeks. But I have learnt some really important lessons:

×          Changing your diet is what will make you lose weight. Exercise enhances your results.

×          Goal setting (outcome, progress and performance) is key.

×          Tracking your progress is also key.

×          You must have people to support and motivate you – no one is awesome all the time.

×          You MUST allocate one day a week where you eat whatever you feel like, even if you feel controlled on that day you need to still splurge. It controls all the cravings.

I still aim to lose another 6-8kg but I see that as secondary outcome these days. I love my life now and would never return to my old lifestyle. I am still deliberate about my eating. I still restrict my carbs to my muesli at breakfast, I limit my diary and focus on lots of vegetables and some protein.

As a side note, 8 months into my lifestyle change my family started to get inspired and have slowly implemented some of the diet changes. One of my brothers was really inspired by how I changed (mentally and physically) so started his own weight loss journey. He has since lost 75kg (he started at 206kg – a severe mental illness contributed to his large weight). Never underestimate what influence your life can have on others!”

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I thought I would share this with you, the inspirational story of how one woman halved her weight . . . and doubled her life.

In July 2002 Sally Symonds was a professional success but a personal failure.  Weighing in at 106.5 kg and wearing size 24, Sally devised her own easy but highly effective way to lose weight that saw her drop a staggering 45 kg in 33 weeks.  Unlike many others, Sally not only kept the weight off, she lost even more.

This book follows the step-by-step approach she adopted to transform herself from a food-loving, exercise-loathing workaholic to the happy, healthy and (mostly!) wholesome person she is today.

Refreshingly honest, Sally’s mixture of creative yet practical strategies show you fun and worry-free ways to efficient and effective weight loss.

This book is what everyone needs to follow in Sally’s footsteps.

Sally has kindly donated a copy of her book to our Pushups for Charity Event. To Pick One Up Today Go to www.sallysymonds.com

Grace Cumming, Student, 21, New Farm

Before the 12 week challenge and personal training sessions with Chris, I was feeling discouraged, slogging it out at the gym 5-6 days a week for months, putting in hours at a time, but had stopped seeing any progress.  Since I started working with Chris 6 weeks ago, I’ve seen those weight loss results and fitness improvement get back on track; losing 5.2kg and over 100cm off my measurements at the week 6 weigh in for the challenge. The most exciting part is my jeans are so much more comfortable now, and I have a lot more energy for study, work and workouts.

Chris’ guidance on balanced nutrition and meal planning has been a major contributor to my increased energy, and his encouragement and recommendations in making the time to prepare and execute the plan, have proved invaluable lessons for achieving short term goals, and longer term maintenance.  Chris has helped me set realistic goals and the personalised workout plan has helped me re-focus, make the most of my time at the gym, and challenged my preconceived limits.  Since working with Chris I have been getting better results for no additional time spent at the gym, and feel better, stronger and healthier for it.

Grace

Christine Stevens, 26, Hendra has lost 19kg

Neal Baxter, 26, Hendra has lost 16kg

We’ve Lost a Combined Total of 35kgs in 20 Weeks!

We’ve been training with Chris now for a little over three months and we’ve had an unbelievable amount of weight loss and self confidence come back to us during this short time. This was something that came at quite a surprise as we thought it would be a much harder and longer task than what it’s actually been.

In the beginning it was such an effort to get to the gym several times a week and especially at the end of the working week or when it’s raining outside. But over time, and with Chris’ motivational pep talks, it’s now something we’ve taken out of the ‘too hard basket’ and we’ve come to enjoy. As hard as it was sometimes to actually want to work out, the feeling we have afterwards always makes the effort worthwhile.

Weightloss has been high on our list of things to do for a while now and we’ve tried several different quick fix solutions all ending in failure. The reasons we think now we’ve been so successful is the accountability factor and the fact that everything has already been planned for us so all we have to do is the physical work. The physical work has sometimes been difficult but given the results we’ve achieved it’s always been a worthwhile sacrifice.

Together, we’ve now lost a combined 35kgs and we don’t plan on ending this journey anytime soon. Our ideal goal weight now doesn’t seem so unattainable and with a little more effort we know we can make it all the way.

We do both agree this journey wouldn’t have been possible without the friendly, always smiling Chris who has introduced us the power of positive thinking and the 80 /20 percent life balance.

We will sign off with a quote made famous by Chris which we are politely reminded of when we complain about the task at hand “Pain is just weakness leaving your body!”

Hopefully we will get a chance to meet you all at the next train the trainer session!

Neal & Christine

Neal and Christine has been great fun to train and their results has been unbelieveable. They have gone from doing nothing and a terrible diet to consistantly working out with me 3 times per week and using their intivative to include extra exercise, with Christine dancing twice a week and Neal jogging and playing indoor soccer. They also enjoy a weekly game of tennis together too. Well done guys, and keep up the great work!

Trainer – Chris Tuck

I’ve Lost 12kgs in 12 Weeks!

Eli May Martin, 35, Database Administrator, Fortitude Valley

“I have just finished in the 12 Week Challenge at Goodlife which I was lucky enough to win. In that time I lost 12kgs, 88mm in skin folds and 10.5cm off my waist.”

“I began the challenge at 88kg and 12 weeks later ended up at 76kgs but it wasn’t all plain sailing. Halfway through the challenge I had a big night out and it was disastrous. I stopped training, lost my job and felt absolutely terrible. Instead of falling in a heap like I usually would I decided to get back on the wagon and soldier on. I also overcame life-long cravings for fatty foods, salty snacks, sugary foods, chocolate and beer.”

Now I feel fantastic, my fitness levels have gone through the roof and Chris has helped gain the belief that I can achieve and maintain a healthy weight for life. I have lost 22kg since I began training with Chris 1 year ago and I couldn’t have done it without him!”

Eli May

Eli May has been a pleasure to train this past year and a half. To see the change and growth she has made in that time has been terrific, improving not only her body shape and nutritional habits but also her mindset to one where she has a belief that she can reach her goals and try things she has never done. Always giving 100%, I couldn’t have asked any more of her. Thank you for all your hard work Eli May and congratulations once again on being the Female Winner for the 12 Week Challenge at Goodlife Health Club, Fortitude Valley.

Trainer – Chris Tuck

I’ve lost 10kgs in 8 weeks and I feel fantastic!

Success Story Kate Dows, 25, Accountant, New Farm

Kate has been a dream client doing 3 Personal Training sessions per week, the Healthpointe Weight Loss Program and all the Boot Camp classes. She has done everything I could have asked and continues to lose weight every day.

Well done Kate and thanks for all your hard work and commitment to your goals!

Trainer – Chris Tuck

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