Gold’s Gym Chapel Hill Enewsletter

Positive Fitness

At the Douglas County Chamber of Commerce Coffee Card Exchange Thursday, Preston Barnes showed up looking fit and trim.  Many people commented on the positive changes and that Personal Training at Gold’s Gym is really making a difference.  He looks healthy and more energized.  He has done well with his schedule and remained faithful.  He is not at his goals yet, but determined to get there, his weight loss numbers continue to creep up above 20 lbs.

Most people who make a commitment to fitness discover that having a Personal Trainer to teach them how to perform the strength training and cardio routines helps them to be confident in their success.  The results they are looking for become a reality and not just hopeful dreams.  Personal Training equals success.

We are all looking forward to the day in a few weeks when Preston reaches his goals and firmly establishes a healthy lifestyle for himself.  Plus he will be able to keep up with his wife Beth much better (she has lost over 90 lbs. here at Gold’s Gym and helped to inspire Preston’s initial motivation to start fitness.)

Fitness For You

If you’re interested in starting your fitness and weight loss program please give Gold’s Gym a call, 770-949-1116.  One of our Certified Personal Trainers will be glad to help you reach your goals.

One of our own is in the 2010 Winter Olympics with the potential for capturing Gold.  Elana Meyers, from Douglasville, has been a Gold’s Gym member and recently one of our elite Gold’s Gym Personal Trainers. 

Now she is in Vancouver representing the USA in bobsledding. She is living a childhood dream of competing in the Olympics, although she thought her sport would be softball.  When the summer sport was dropped from the Games she reinvented herself in the sport of bobsledding.  With strong convictions and staying true to herself she made the 2010 Winter Olympic Bobsledding Team. The transition was not easy but she was determined to reach her goal, and it paid off.    

Know Your Own Strength

Elana’s parents taught her that she could do anything she wanted to do if she wanted it bad enough and was willing to fight for it.  She definitely wanted it. With the help of people who love her, her hard work and determination have brought her to this point in her life. Elana has stayed true to herself and believes God has a plan for her.  She hopes the 2014 and 2018 Games are in those plans, but she knows how to adapt and will be great with however her exciting life plays out. 

Working for Gold’s Gym has been a positive omen for her, and “Gold” is her goal now.  Three cheers for our hometown gal, for whatever happens she makes us proud to know her.

Gold’s Gym

Preston Barnes an “off and on” member at Gold’s Gym since 1991. Like every one of us he struggles with the issues of life, stress, weight loss, and general health and fitness. He has been searching for the right time to make the right move.

Preston’s Inspiration

His wife (Beth) has recently gone through a program here at Gold’s where she successfully accomplished her personal goals of weight loss and body sculpting.

Laced with reasonable self-discipline, the powerful exercise programs of strength training, group exercise, and cardiovascular sessions have totally changed her life in good ways.

Preston has been inspired by his beautiful wife and is ready to seriously change his body and his life with Gold’s Gym Personal Training and Group Exercise.

Preston is the owner of Provident Office Environments, Inc. and is on the Board of Directors of the Douglas County Chamber of Commerce. This past month when we hosted The Douglas County Chamber of Commerce Coffee Card Exchange, Preston graciously volunteered to go through our Gold’s Visual Fitness Program where he got to see a virtual image of how he looks now, and then how he will look when he reaches his fitness goals. This program also displayed the incredible health-risk reductions made when a person gets in shape again. That made a powerful impression on Preston, as well as all of our Chamber of Commerce Members who were watching the demonstration.

The Weight Loss Journey Begins  

Preston is 44 years old and weighs in now at 253 lbs. His percentage of body fat is 32.5%. He has a goal of dropping 50 – 75 lbs., and reducing his body fat into the mid-teens. For 12 weeks he will work with one of our personal trainers and utilize our outstanding fitness equipment and total fitness environment to see what differences he can make.

He just started a full program working with one of our elite Personal Trainers, Terry Maxwell, going through a solid cardiovascular and strength program several times a week. Preston said he already feels the difference.

Personal Training and Good Nutrition

Terry has given nutritional advice and guidelines to Preston. Although he says he feels hungry at various times, that will begin to change as he starts to eat more often (6 x a day), and wean his body from the bad to the better nutritional foods. The body fights any change tooth and nail but will adapt relatively quickly.

Preston has taken his “before” pictures and is putting them in strategic locations (refrigerator, bathroom mirror, car visor, etc.) where he can see them when he is in need of motivational gunfire during each day. Thinking right, staying on schedule, and working the plan will help make this dream become reality. Those of us here at Gold’s Gym are pulling for him and have all the confidence in Preston successfully reaching his goals and discovering his youthful body (and mind) once again. We will be following his progress while sending our own positive energies to help him succeed. Give Preston a high five when you see him.

Tom Butler, GM Gold’s Gym Hospital Drive, Douglasville, Georgia

By Skip Johnson

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