You have to get your mind right first before you can achieve greatness with your body. A lot of people have all the training/diet knowledge in the world and never put it all together. The missing link is always mental.

See your failures as hurdles to the finish line! If I quit every time I had a failure then I wouldn't be here answering these questions...

Nobody likes a kiss ass, but just the fact that someone waits till I am not busy, ask a diet or training question and trusts in me is truly an honor and makes me push even harder. To everyone in the gym that is a step a head of the rest, be kind to the little guys, you have to start somewhere...

"I train at least 5 days a week. I know a lot of people like to take days off, but for me I lift as much as possible." - Thanh Tran

I looked at my body and my life and realized I wasn’t doing enough. I knew how to lift a weight, but not correctly, but with proper tempo, technique, sets, reps, and rest! I then decided to look into personal training for my own knowledge...

"I started playing sports when I was a kid. I played football, basketball and track in high school, and ran track in junior college. I then attended the University of Texas, where I was a physical education major. I ran, worked out..."

At the end of the day I can look in the mirror and know all my hard work has paid off. That I owe my results to myself and not by taking a short cut threw steroids and other illegal substances.

"Over the years I have experimented with every type of routine on the planet. Currently I prefer 3 Days of HEAVY weight training. When it comes to gaining and maintaining muscle mass, I have found that less truly is more..."

"I stay motivated by looking forward to the improvements that I will be making. Also inspiring those around me gives me a great deal of motivation..."

"I had always been into sports however training was a totally different sport on its own. I started lifting weights here and there at the age of 17, I didn’t know too much about it and I certainly did not know a lot about anatomy, physiology, nutrition and..." - Alexandre M. Carneiro