Picture 30 days from now...

I was never an athlete growing up.

I was weak and uncoordinated.  By age 55 I had two surgeries and gained 30 unnecessary pounds.  But with a commitment to Unity Fitness and with the help of smart, caring coaches, I have been able to go from 32% body fat in summer 2019 to maintaining a percentage in the low 20's.

If I can do it (a 58 year old post menopausal grandma with a history of back surgeries) then so can you.

What I found at Unity is that everyone is so helpful!!

Ask questions.  Educate yourself.  Someone at Unity knows the answer and will be glad to help you.

Good luck on your fitness journey!  I'm cheering for you!!!

I'm 51 years old and I have been lifting weights, exercising and staying active much of my life. I read books and magazines to learn bits and pieces of a healthy lifestyle, but I never achieved the results I wanted to see and feel.

I signed-up at Unity Fitness which provided me with workouts, meal plan guidelines, and most importantly the coaching, which better educated me to achieve the results I was looking for.

The program taught me to be much more conscious of my foods I was buying and eating.

More importantly, I learned about how to feed my body properly for workouts, gain strength, feel great and lose the fat. I lost 5~6 pounds over the first six weeks which was good progress. Through the stay-at-home orders and beyond I stayed disciplined with my food intake and lost another 14 pounds.

I would not have achieved these results without the program from Unity Fitness. 

My membership at prior gyms included attending cardio classes and using the cardio and weight machines 1-2 hours, 5-7x/week with minimal direction from a fitness professional.  My belief was that if I worked out 1-2 hours nearly every day, I would see improved strength and endurance.  Instead, there were injuries including shin splints, joint pain and more.

This all changed when I joined Unity Fitness four years ago.

Their training programs, customized for each member, are well-rounded targeting balance, mobility and all muscle groups in a single one-hour session.  The programs are thorough, efficient and challenging!

The cool thing is that I now exercise less than before and have seen more results in regards to strength and mobility than I ever did working out 5-7 days per week at previous gyms.

Thanks to the knowledge and expertise of the Unity Fitness coaches, I have been able to achieve a fitness level in my 50s that far exceeds my fitness level in my 40s, 30s and even 20s! 

When I came to Unity over 3 years ago, I was significantly overweight, had no idea what good nutrition was, and really had very little muscle mass.

I sat down with Jordan and looked at my food plan. Just because I didn't eat fast food or use a lot of prepackaged foods didn't mean that how I ate was healthy. It was a real eye opener. My focus switched to include adding more metabolic classes and food journals (a real but necessary pain) to my regime.

I learned to not pay so much attention to the total number on the scale, but instead to focus on the pieces of that number -water, muscle, and fat.

I started losing weight and adding muscle and in 2019 I was able to join my 3 boys on a 50 mile hike through the mountains to Machu Picchu.

Fast forward to the end of 2020. I have lost almost 13 pounds of fat! I've also improved my muscle mass and my weight is down almost 25 pounds from my first weigh-in 3 years ago.

While I am not at my ideal weight yet, I have been able to maintain a steady weight and continue to improve muscle mass and fat loss over the last 12 months by finding balance between sleep, food plans, and workouts.

In the past I had a negative association with the gym and fitness because it was “HARD WORK” and results took too long to happen. Until I came to Unity (through my wife, Morgan) I would workout but never understood the level of dedication and right work that achieving fitness goals takes. 

Very shortly into my time at Unity I learned what it takes to achieve fitness goals:

1. Dedication - put in the right work and you'll get back the results for those goals.

2. CommUNITY - you have to surround yourself with people that share in your vision to “get to the finish line” and “achieve your goals” … you have to be around people going through the same battles.

3. Don’t be complacent - take small victories as they come, do what you can to improve 1% every day, and keep pushing to improve.

4. Mindset is everything - Jordan Rudolph taught me this… believe that you can do it and you will do it! SIMPLE AS THAT.

Unity has truly been a transformative experience for me, it has changed my life for the better in more ways than one.

I have said it before and I will say it again… for anyone wondering where, how, or why to start your fitness journey, 5 words: Unity will change your life. 

Three years ago while having a discussion with a Unity Fitness training coach about weight loss, he asked me this question.  “Do you want to lose weight or gain strength?”  Without hesitation, my answer, of course, was “gain strength”.

Since then, I have concentrated more on the nutrition needed to produce muscle growth and the timing of the intake of this nutrition.  My nutritional change was pretty simple by making sure that I always had a healthy breakfast, especially on training days, adding a protein smoothie after each training session, and trying to add more lean protein to each healthy meal.

I’m happy to say that I have hit and surpassed PR’s on a pretty regular basis at Unity Fitness during my training sessions.

I have also noticed a muscle definition in my upper and lower body that I would have never guessed possible.  I contribute this success to healthier eating, the personalized training programs and not worrying about body weight.