Name:   Dan Martin

Age:      67

Results: lost more than 20 pounds, gained muscle tone, balance, flexibility and endurance

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I am an active 67-year old man, working full time in a stimulating job and intending to dodge retirement as long as possible. For many years I stayed fit and managed my weight by running regularly, an average of 20 miles per week.  When sore knees made my running habit too painful, I gradually (and very unhappily) gained 25 unwanted pounds and graduated from trousers with a 32” waist to the 36” size.  Normal workouts (even with other personal trainers) and riding my bicycle didn’t make any difference.  Then I hooked up with David Payne.

Workouts with David are intense but tailored to challenge me in appropriate ways, recognizing my limitations and stretching me gently but steadily every time we meet.  No time is wasted during the hours that we spend together in the gym, and we have fun in the process.  Thanks to the combination of well-designed workouts and the sensible nutritional program that here commended, I now weigh what I did as a college student.  I am comfortably wearing older suits that had gone unused for several years, am back into the trousers with a 32” waist, and even fit into the Army uniform that was made for me when I was 24.

Simple changes in my eating habits provide highly satisfying meals that allow me to maintain my new (or earlier) size without feeling that I’m sacrificing much.  I could never follow a complicated or peculiar weight loss “diet,” or count calories or keep diaries of what I was eating, but my new habits were not difficult to adopt.  They are life-time changes that feel good.

Since I started working with David, my energy level and my enthusiasm for staying active have risen perceptibly.  I recently attended a sculling camp where I learned to row a single shell, and I’m planning to take a 500-mile bicycle tour this summer.   Thanks to David, I reflexively take the stairs instead of elevators when confronted with a choice, and find myself able to work and play with less fatigue.  My balance has improved as well as my strength, endurance and flexibility.  I get a kick out of having more stamina than friends and colleagues who are considerably younger.  Most of all, I like what I see in the mirror each morning, and I look forward to attending my 50^th high school class reunion in a few months, where I expect to be deeply resented by my classmates who act older than the age we share.