The Athlon "Biggest Winner" Fitness Challenge started this week.  For all you procrastinators (like me) you still have a shot.  You can join in on one of the teams up until Tuesday of next week.

Get more details on the program here:

www.AthlonElite.com/AthlonChallenge

Call or email us today to get started:

(805) 440-0215

or

info@athlonelite.com

or

fill-out the form on the website above.

Tonight's the night of the big show…

"How to Make 2010 Your Best Year Ever!"

If you haven't checked it out or signed-up yet, what are you waiting for!!!  Do it now!  You'll thank me later!

www.SLOBestYearEver.com

Got to the above website and learn more and sign up.  We'll see you there!

Ryan

First of all, we'd like to thank everyone who came out and helped make our Farmer's Market Booth a GREAT experience to kick off the new year in SLO County! We had lots of fun giving the people of SLO County an experience of what Athlon Elite has to offer- including a tire pull for time, a vertical jump, and even flipping the tractor tire!!

(Below are a couple pictures from Farmer's Market!)

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We had two categories in our testing competition last week- A forward tire drag for time over 20 yards, and a vertical jump for max height (both male and females were eligible!) Below are the winners of the competitions! Come down to the gym and pick up your free t-shirt!!!

MALES:

Vertical Jump: Travis McDaniel (31 1/2")

20 yard Forward Tire Drag: Titus Shelton (4.01 seconds)

FEMALES:

Vertical Jump: Elena Clarke (22")

20 yard Forward Tire Drag: Gabrielle Rivera (4.67 seconds)

Have a great week!!

-Athlon Elite Staff

PS- Are you subscribed to our YouTube page yet?! We add videos weekly!!

What a great Halloween night!  Here are a few pics of the fun…

The whole gang

John Cortese (a.k.a. Brett Michaels of Poison)

Cara & I (super-fly)

Jim & Shannon (a.k.a. Chuck & Anna from Dancing With the Stars)

Steve & Brie (lovely hair)

Brett Michaels (rock-on)

Pete & Steve

Me, Cara & Pete

Justin and Kevin (pimpin’ it!)

We had a blast this weekend at the Client Appreciation Event!  I can’t tell you how much we appreciate all of you that train (or support the one’s who train) at Athlon Elite.  You are truly a wonderful group of people.

We’re collecting all the photos and videos right now to put up on the blog in the coming days.  But until then check out the "Payback Workout" video that you all put us through and the fun slide show John put together for the event.  It shows Athlon Elite from the beginning stages… some old pictures and some new ones… pretty cool!

By the way, we had two winners of the "Trainer Matching Game,"  Sunny Atchison and Kyle Aber.  They got all eight trainers correctly matched.  Come in to pick up your T-shirts.

The correct answers to the game are now posted on the board in Athlon Elite… come in and laugh again at how ridiculous these trainers are!

Getting into shape, becoming fit, looking better, lowering your cholesterol all have a lot more to do with action than it has to do with knowledge.  You can know exactly what to eat to drop body fat, build muscle and lower your cholesterol or control your blood sugars, but you’ll still fall short of your goals if you don’t actually eat those things.  Same goes for exercise.

I hate to belabor this point, but I really can’t move on until you’re nodding your head in agreement… until you realize that inactivity is your biggest hurdle to change.

Are you nodding your head?

If so, you can proceed.  If not, come on and give me a nod.

You probably see this happen every single day, just like I do: people losing weight and then gaining it back.  You see people reading the popular diet books and never changing their bodies, not even a littel.  You see poeple "exercising" at gyms and health clubs but not improving and sometimes even getting worse (I see this all the time).

So what’s the deal with all this failure?  Is it that the advice just isn’t very good?  Sometimes, maybe.  There’s certainly plenty of bad advice out there.  But nine times out of 10 it’s because people are just learning without doing.

Or at least only doing for a short time before stopping.

   They seek the knowledge but then don’t apply that knowledge (or at least not correctly or correctly for very long before giving up), and that’s why they’re failing.  They aren’t doing what it takes to succeed and then they give up, cursing the advice, cursing their genetics, cursing the system.

Here’s the deal… you have to take action and you have to take it correctly, and you have to continue taking action even after you’ve failed a couple times!

You don’t see a baby give up trying to walk after falling 10, 15, 25, 35 times.  No, they take action, over and over and over.  And their parents encourage it, over and over and over.  They don’t blame the carpet for being too bumpy or the baby for being too clumsy.  The baby doesn’t go and take a course in biomechanics so it can learn to walk more effectively.  Right?  The baby just continues to try and try until it succeeds.

And then what??  That baby continues to walk the rest of its life, never stopping.

So why don’t we do this with our fitness and healthy nutrition habits.  I see so many people "study" to improve their fitness and diet, yet don’t ever get anywhere close to accomplishing body change.  They give up too soon (or worse, don’t even get past the "studying" phase and try because of a fear of failure).

Our goal here at Athlon Elite is to be the source to help people get over the studying and just take ACTION.

Our goal is to ensure that no client makes the mistake of thinking that it’s ok to just bail-out, to stop trying, to blame the system, the heavens or their own "bad genetics."

And speaking of taking action, check out Clint Davis taking the "tire-pull lap" around the building.

(For those of you that have done some training with us KNOW the tire-pull lap!  It has become somewhat of a right of passage.)

Clint and Pete (in the video) have really taken the "bull by the horns" and taken ACTION.  Those two guys show up like clockwork, follow the system and push themselves to give their very best.  And you know what…

They’re both seeing tremendous results.  That’s how it works and it can work for you.  Check em out below…

People of all shapes, sizes and goals have benefited from Athlon Elite’s 7-component system of:

• Strategically designed exercise programs for results
• Eating strategies
• Calorie metering
• Meal log compliance
• Water intake
• Caffeine use
• Specific supplements for health & performance

And you don’t have to pull the tire to get the results!

So stop studying and come into Athlon Elite and take action.  We’ll make sure you get what you want:  RESULTS and have some fun while doing it!

And then, we’ll make sure you continue doing it and keeping your RESULTS.

Until Next Time,

Ryan

Call today and ask about our special 6-Week Kick Start Program… 6 weeks of personal training for only $279!!

You can’t beat that with a stick.  Call today, (805) 440-0215 or click the button below. Don’t put it off and keep studying!

Attention Fabulous Athlon Clients & Friends:

Next week we’re opening our doors for 2 cool and completely FREE promotions worth $159 worth of personal training:

1.  Bring-A-Friend Week:  Currently active clients may bring their friends in to train at Athlon Elite for FREE!  That’s right ALL Athlon Elite clients can bring in as many friends as they want to train for a full week here at Athlon Elite at no cost… nothing… zilch!

and

2.  FREE Week for Athlon Members:  All currently active Athlon Health & Fitness members can come in to train inside Athlon Elite for the entire week, August 24th through August 29th, absolutely FREE of charge.  No obligations, no pressure, just good healthy training for a week.

Let’s have some fun next week!

Here’s the schedule…

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 6:00AM, 7:30AM, 9:30AM, Noon, 3:30PM, 5:30PM and 6:30PM.

Just call us at (805) 440-0215 and let us know you’ll be coming and when and we’ll get you signed in.  It’s that simple.

Don’t miss this great opportunity…

over $159 in personal training for FREE!

Scott Lighty advanced his undefeated record to 5 – 0 by dominating Mike Cook Saturday night with superior technical skills, and of course, superior conditioning!  Cook could not contend with Lighty’s powerful strikes and after a strong left kick to the body followed with a left punch to the body Cook waived for the referee, Big John McCarthy, to intervene at only 2:05 in the first round and end the assault.

Great job Lighty enjoy some time off of training at Athlon Elite, you earned it!  (but not too long, there’s work to be done…)

More fight pics click here:

http://www.sherdog.com/pictures/event/5/Pictures-Strikeforce-Carano-vs-Cyborg-19135