One day at work one of my friends mentioned there was a kettlebell class in Crown Point, I had no idea what kettlebell was so I figured I would check out the website. After looking over IFC website, I figured this might be interesting so I made an appointment to meet with Coach Angela. While meeting with Angela, she asked me on a scale of 1 to 10 how bad did I want this. I thought about it and … [Read more...]

“Joining the 8 week body challenge has definitely been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life! I have tried many, many ways of losing weight without any success. Sure, I would lose five pounds and then gain ten later. But with these workouts not only are you losing weight but gaining LOTS of muscle. It is not easy but it definitely works. As I recall the first day that we worked out at … [Read more...]

"The real beginning of my journey started in August of 2008, in the recovery room after a surgery from a torn rotator cuff as a result of a car accident. I can remember hearing the nurse say “Call the Doctor, he is not breathing” and could feel the nurse rubbing her knuckles on my chest trying to wake me up. I had difficulties breathing due to my morbid obesity. Afterwards, I took a sleep … [Read more...]

“Before I started this challenge, I was in not such a good place. For the last 5 years, I had been caring for my son who was a cancer patient (now in remission) and also has special needs. I let his health completely get to me in the sense of I was so focused and determined to get him better that I lost sight of me. I was always an active person and played sports but his cancer took over myself, … [Read more...]