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November '09 NEWS
2 Clients achieve competitive goals
While I haven't updated the site in many months, it's been with good reason. I've been preparing several clients for their natural contests and came away with victories in both placings as well as for individual goals. Here they are...
Big A Hits it Big!!!
Aaron already had written a testimony earlier in the year before fully committing to doing a show. As the months went by it became clear that he had intentions of competing ...and winning.
In September he won the Natural Mr San Diego Medium Class, and in October he won the same class in the Natural Mr USA...excellent wins considering that last year he practically gave up training altogether! (see the testimony section for his original story)
"I began training with John a year and a half ago (March ‘08), and I couldn’t have imagined what was to transpire in the months to come.
I initially sought to train with John due to my own frustrations and lack of results in the gym, even after over a decade of hard training. I simply couldn’t reach my goals. I knew John to be a respected professional with a proven track record so I entrusted myself to him. During my time with John I’ve accomplished what I expected; I trained hard, grew muscle and got into the leanest shape of my life. It is the things that I did not expect, however that have truly amazed me.
The physical aspect is one thing that some trainers can deliver (at which John excels), but John provides much, much more. Not only have I trained hard, but I’ve learned how to train hard, as well as efficiently and safely. I’ve gotten the “whys” and the “hows.” I’ve learned the importance of proper nutrition and rest, and the roles of the various aspects of what it takes to be the best I can be. John is really the complete package trainer.
The real shocker (especially to me) is that after a year and a half John took an unsatisfied and frustrated gym rat with a bad diet and got him up on the competition stage, garnering a few first place trophies. Not too bad considering our workouts take less than an hour, just 2-3 days a week.
So it’s been a fun and exciting ride and time very well spent. For anyone looking to get in shape or accomplish their goals give John a call, you’ll be in great hands."
--Aaron Greenlee
A Trainer Loses 31 lbs in 5 weeks!
Now Miss Angie has been a friend for a few years and she has an established clientele as a trainer, so when she called and asked for nutritional advice to get ready for her first show, I agreed to help. The fact that she came to me was quite a compliment. The fact that she only had 5 weeks to go and was very heavy with fat covering her thighs, hips, and everywhere else (I tell it like it is man, and believe me, she didn't like hearing it when I told her these exact words!) was NOT the ideal situation but she had made a commitment to a friend that she would do it no matter what, so I hand it to her for sticking to her word. I should also mention that she raises two daughters by herself and trains clients and then had to train herself along with the VERY tight eating plan I gave her (it can't be any other way with only 5 weeks!), so she's to be commended for her excellent effort and 2nd Place finish in her first show at the annual Crenshaw Christian bodybuilding show in LA!!! Here is her final pics (sorry, no before pictures from her) and testimony...I should mention that I estimated that she had somewhere around 40 total lbs to lose and that she REALLY needed more like 5 months to lose it rather than 5 weeks. In the end she came VERY close to losing it all in record time...
"John Heart has the wonderful ability to tap directly into your body’s metabolism. My name is Angela Brown and I have been a Personal Trainer for almost 10 years and I am awed by his expertise in the area of nutrition. I recently sought out John’s help and advice for the nutritional preparation for a last minute Bodybuilding competition. I had 5 weeks to go before the competition, but with John’s help I was right on time. In 5 weeks I lost 31 lbs and placed second in my first competition. John majors in the essentials of body transformation with his vast and intricate knowledge of nutrition and training."
--Angie Brown, owner Tailored Fitness, Los Angeles CA
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December 08 News
John's client Lala Naidu wins Natural Ms Universe!!!
This is the transformation that Miss Lala Naidu went through in just 6 months total. She had been pretty much a fit looking woman with extra body fat in her hips and thighs, but by the time the Natural Ms Universe rolled around she had gained much better shape to her problem areas as well as built solid muscle all over.
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**NEW RELEASE**
Train with Heart Video #1 is finally available. In this intense episode John drives himself and his partner Marvin through a Shoulder & Arm workout showing how it should be done!
Train with Heart #1-Now you can download this incredibly intense video immediately to your own system!
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July 08
NEW RELEASE!!!
The 4th release of "The 12 HITs" is now available! In this segment, several different high intensity training programs and dietary changes are discussed and implemented. The surprise contained in HIT #8 is worth the read!
Here is an excerpt from HITs 5-6-7-8 Blasting & Conditioning!:
.......My biceps, in particular, benefited the most with a noticeable change in size and thickness. The change was so obvious that I never wanted to do a regular set of curls ever again!.........
Get your copy of HITs 5-6-7-8 Blasting & Conditioning! to read the rest of the details!
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April '08
NEW RELEASE!!!
The 3rd release of "The 12 HITs" is now available! In this segment, John takes you through the advanced details that he uses on himself and his clients as they continue to steadily gain lean mass through ultra-high intensity routines and unique dietary practices that have been proven to work time and again.
Here is an excerpt from HITs 3 & 4--A Matter of Size!:
...........it became sort of fun to train them more often without the interruption of chest and back work. It was even more fun when MY ARMS GREW! This motivated me to include this practice several times during the year.
***I have found the appropriate schedule for me to be one wherein I plug in a shoulder & arm workout in place of..................
Get your copy of HITs 3 & 4--A Matter of Size! to read the rest of the details!
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February '07
New Release!!!
The 1st & 2nd HITs is the first installment in the year-long series entitled "The 12 HITs" and is the followup to the Get Lean First! program. It is available right now. In The 1st & 2nd HITs you will learn how John starts to add mass to his body after putting himself throught the Get Lean First! program. The details of how to adjust the training and diet along with personal journal entries from John and his own progression pictures make this a unique find in the bodybuilding world!
"The next tissue in line to be sacrificed after stored body fat is MUSCLE. Long before the body starts to metabolize muscle tissue for energy we’re going to give it more than enough reasons to hold onto that muscle and create new layers in response to the intense training placed upon it while supplying the material needed for building that tissue." -- Excerpt from The 1st & 2nd HITs
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December 07
New Release!!!
Get Lean First!
"God gave humans the incredible ability to survive under many conditions. The human metabolism functions primarily for survival with little concern for the aesthetics of a pleasing physique with lots of muscle and low body fat. In recognition of this fact, it becomes important to stay one step ahead of the metabolic changes that can be incurred by prolonged dieting. Short term changes barely ring your “metabolic bell”, but if you go too long on a particular low calorie plan without making proper adjustments along the way, WATCH OUT! Five alarm fire bells go off internally and the battle to retain every available calorie for survival begins…….you’ve hit a plateau and have even begun to gain body fat on the restricted diet plan that saw you peeling pounds of fat off just weeks earlier."---read the rest of the "Get Lean First!" program and learn how to avoid this mistake!
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June 07 Newsletter
A Dream Realized
As of June 12th, a decade long dream of mine will be realized. God has delivered to my family on that day the following;
No longer will I be commuting across LA to train my clients.
All in-the-gym clients I train will be in the Pasadena area.
The time spent with my wife and children will increase fourfold.
There has already been financial INCREASE from making this move.
This may seem like a pretty small dream to some of you, but there's more to it than you can imagine without knowing the facts;
Over the last few years, my wife and myself were lead by God to move to the Pasadena area of California. I had a pretty good training business set up on the west side of LA and continued to train those clients in the first half of the day, Monday through Saturday, with all other business being conducted close to home at Golds Gym/Pasadena. LA traffic is extremely heavy any other times of day, so it was only cost-effective to do this schedule as I just mentioned.God also blessed us with children in the past three years, and now they're at the age when they know to ask "Daddy at work?" when I'm not home.
I knew going into this that this schedule would have to change because it meant that I was spending 10-16 hours per day away from home and only 2-3 with my family. That 2-3 hours was not what I would consider quality time as I was physically and mentally tired.
My wife and myself made our requests known to God. We prayed and agreed that I had to be with my family more, with no more time on the opposite end of town, and yet, it all had to be done with financial INCREASE. We believe our God is a God of INCREASE. He brings no lack or sorrow with it. So it made perfect sense to the both of us that this all would be accomplished while accompanied by INCREASE. All we had left to do was agree on a date to have all of this done by. We agreed on July 31st, 2007 as being the last possible day that I would be on the westside for training clients. I was ecstatic to say the least! Every time we spoke I brought it up as something I was pumped up about and we ended up thanking God for it, over and over again.
Then three weeks ago, I was leaving work on the westside when I heard my mouth say "Lord, deliver me from this place, now, please!". Immediately I wondered what He would do with my urgent request.
Not 48 hours later I had a good friend of mine from World Gym/Marina Del Rey (the gym I had been training clients at for years on the westside) tell me to get my clients out as quickly as possible as the gym was going to shut down and noone knew about it yet! Literally, I was as calm as could be since I knew my God was leading me. Over the course of the next week several new clients materialized in the Pasadena location, along with a couple of westside clients who are choosing to continue to train with me in Pasadena! The net effect had already been a financial increase.
"I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning
anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My
Father in heaven." Matthew 18:19
In all honesty, this has been an exciting month. As the business has started to shift over to Pasadena, I have more energy and time for my wife. I can play with my kids and not feel rushed because of the need to get to bed early for work the next day.
A Son's Perspective of His Dad
This past month I started training another teenage boy (actually, he's 19, and a freshman in college, so I suppose we need to call him a man). We'll call him "Sam" for this story since he and his dad are both so humble that I'm sure they really would prefer me not to write to you about them.
His dad is a well known, popular person in the LA area. He's actually what most people would call a "celebrity", yet in no way have I ever seen him act the part.
It's obvious that his dad loves him dearly as he's flat out told me so during several of our discussions regarding his son's training prior to me actually training him. As I have mentioned before, it's a total priviledge to have someone trust you with the care of their body, but it's way more intense when it's a parent trusting you with their kid!
After the first couple of training sessions, I realized that Sam doesn't speak much. I love this because he is nearly void of all worldly dramatic talk. He doesn't waste his words, but boy, when he does speak, there have been nuggets that I've picked up on that would knock the strongest man to his knees. One in particular came across this past week;
We had finished training that day, and as I was talking with him, I mentioned how excited his dad was for him to be training and growing some new muscle. Most young men that I've had conversations with about the excitement their parents have for them usually has them rolling their eyes and mumbling something like "Yea.....I know, I know.", but on this occasion, our man Sam comes out with possibly one of the most meaningful statements. He tells me....
"My dad is a great father!"
Please let that one sink in for a moment. This is a testosterone filled, freshman in college, from an affluent family, with a celebrity for a dad, speaking boldly of his own dad, during a time when so many celebrity kids are shown weekly on the TV being arrested for so many flagrant and obnoxious violations of our society's laws. (I know, that was a huge run-on sentence, but you get the point now, right?) So many celebrity teens are figuratively sticking their middle fingers up at the world that supports them and look down upon those that have less than they do (or less than their parents have earned.)
If you are a parent, you know the meaning of these words already. They represent the fruit of almost two decades of successful parenting on the part of Sam's dad. Any parent would be moved to tears upon hearing that their son had spoken of them like this in a casual setting! He wasn't just agreeing with anything I had said, or lead him to say. He really meant it!
If you're not a parent, then the question you'll come around to eventually is whether you would say the same thing about your own parents. Wow! This made me so very interested in everything Sam and his dad had to say. I know some things already about how Sam's dad thinks and some of his beliefs on raising children, and at this point I look forward to hearing more!
*****Yes, I told his dad what he had said. Do you think I would rob him of what must be one of the greatest joys a dad could have?
*****Yes, he looked like he was going to cry upon hearing what Sam said!
Until next month......
If you are interested in having me train you or manage your diet, go to the contact page and let me know your request!!!
"Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." Matthew 12:34
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May 2007 Newsletter
This month I have to share two related stories of success in fat loss on the parts of two people that aren't even clients of mine. The reason their stories are so significant is that they have one thing in common; 100% dedication to their diets. Their results, which you will now read about, are nothing short of amazing in the gyms today.
Subject #1---Esteban
Esteban is one of the regulars at Golds Gym/Pasadena. I've seen him training there for a couple of years, and he has a nice physique to show for it as well. There has always been a layer of fat covering the muscles he has developed, which only seemed to get thicker after he had surgery on one of his knees last year and he was less mobile because of it.
In early 2007 I saw him hobbling around the gym training with relatively light weights on all body parts trying to regain some of his strength after the surgery. The months seem to have blown by without me noticing much until last Saturday when he was training in a tank top and WOW!, what a difference; he was lean, hard and looked to have put on a few pounds of good muscle. I quickly moved in for the questioning and was told right off the bat that he had lost 46 lbs. in the last 6 weeks! This is awesome, I thought, and asked him how he did it. He related that one of the other trainers in the gym had given him a diet to follow, and he simply followed it along with the weight training. That's all. Simple. No extras, and NO CARDIO! The diet, of course, was low calorie and very well balanced, (just like mine for my clients), with some carbs, proteins, and fats thrown all over the plan.
So, what's the big deal, right? Why am I making any kind of deal out about this?
Well, it seems that Esteban told me that he had been given a diet from the same trainer earlier and he had only marginal results. He had lost only 10 lbs. that last time. He told me he cheated last time, so it didn't work. I thought he had skipped meals or ate junk food when he wasn't supposed to, but Esteban told me that wasn't the case at all. His form of cheating was doing cardio behind the trainer's back!!! The trainer didn't want him doing any cardio, just the weights, and he would get the results from the diet. Esteban didn't trust that, so he threw it in when the trainer wasn't around. He only lost 10 lbs. that way. The next time he had the trainer do his diet, he decided to obey everything he said, so the cardio was out, and he lost 46 lbs. in just 6 weeks. He must have said the words "I still can't believe it!" five full times during our conversation.
What's the lesson?
A good diet that is followed 100% along with a great weight training routine will increase your muscle enough to speed up your metabolism to a point where it will burn body fat 24 hours per day. Doing cardio on top of the diet and weights will burn more calories, but that extra activity may actually hinder your muscular development. Muscular development is so very important obviously, to burning body fat (moreso even than your mind may let you believe), so you don't want to hinder that new development of muscle. Esteban found out firsthand how LESS effective his overall routine was by adding cardio. This is heresy in the gym, but it's the truth.
Subject #2---My Mom!!!
Three weeks ago my mom came to visit and upon picking her up at the airport, it was quickly evident that something had changed.................she was a whopping 25lbs down in bodyweight (my mom's only 5'2" tall, so this is huge)!
She was quick to let out with the info; the Sonoma Diet. It might as well have been the Pasadena diet, because as I checked out what she was doing, it was a good diet with several variations, or phases, which would allow a good long-term body fat loss if followed correctly with near 100% precision, which she was doing. Most diet plans out there, with every catchy name imaginable, seem to work if you give it 100% effort. She was doing it and it showed.
With all due respect to the creators of The Sonoma Diet, it is a very good diet and menu plan with loads of info and food options. I fearlessly recommend it to all who would care to give it a great try. It obviously works and my mom has been on it for a while, so it also is a comfortable lifestyle menu.
Regarding exercise; she did next to none. Literally, my mom takes a walk when she has the time. She works full time and has grandkids. That's the extent of her cardio and weight training.
The moral to both of these great examples is that the dedication they put into their diets really paid off with an equal return. The seed they sowed turned into a certain harvest.
If I can be of service to any of you in this realm, whether it be with your diet or with the in-the-gym training, please feel free to contact me with your request and let's get it going, but only do it if you are ready to give it your best shot.
May God Bless You
John
John Heart's In Training, Inc.
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