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Overall Goal: To be a well-rounded fitness expert, excelling in ALL the components of fitness: muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, and body composition.
Fit Status:
New progress pictures coming soon!
Motivation Level: 10/10
Personal Info And Background:
Real Name:
Adam Clawson
Sex:
Male
Age:
26
Location:
Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States
Occupation:
Personal Trainer
Personal Website:
Primary Gym:
College:
High School:
When I Started:
Sep, 2002
How I Started:
I have always been involved in sports. Got my start with Tee ball, soccer, and basketball. I kept playing baseball through high school, and started running cross country and indoor/outdoor track. I started lifting a little during indoor track, and put on a little size, but wasn't very serious with it. In college I stopped running and got more serious into lifting, I was a bit of a meathead for a couple years. Then I started taking classes in exercise science and working as a fitness instructor at my school gym. Over the last couple years I've been looking at improving my overall fitness, and focusing not just on lifting heavy weights, but including more cardio, pilates, flexibility training, and including more physioball and bosu ball work in my training. I love the results I've been seeing, and hope to one day enter a bodybuilding competition.
Why I Love It:
Its the only time I have for myself, when I'm not thinking about anything but working out a getting a good sweat and feeling the burn.
How I Stay Motivated:
Being a personal trainer helps to keep me motivated, I need to set a good example for my clients. I just love the anticipation of a good workout, the drive I get during the workout, and the satisfaction of having completed a tough workout. Also I want to stay in shape for my girlfriend. I don't think I'll ever be satisfied, which keeps me motivated. I want to inspire others to start an exercise program, and to push themselves to their fullest potential.
BB Accomplishments:
Forum Signature:
High Intensity Training...People might think you're crazy, or that it's not enough, but I dare you to try it and tell me how you feel after 5 minutes.
To be a well-rounded fitness expert, excelling in ALL the components of fitness: muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, and body composition.
Goal (Long):
Muscular Strength:
To reach 300 lbs in the bench press, do 1 pullup with 90 lbs hanging from my waist.
Muscular Endurance:
To do 100 pushups and 20 pullups in a row, also to hold the plank position for 10 minutes.
Cardiovascular Fitness:
To get my 1 mile run time below 6:00
To be able to run 10 miles
Flexibility:
To be able to touch the ground with my hands, without bending my knees.
To be able to lay on my back, with my arms out at my sides (like the chest fly), and have them lying on the ground.
Body Composition:
To get to 6% bodyfat.
For the past year, i've been training using certain variations of high intensity training (total body workouts, split routines). A few weeks ago, a friend of mine, after having been put through a high intensity chest routine by me, wanted to put me through one of his leg workouts. ...
Recently I've been doing the following workout program:
Running 2-3 times/week, anywhere from 1-3 miles, track workouts, steady state workouts/interval workouts on the treadmill, and trail running. Also I've been biking 1-2 times a week, 10-20 miles per ride.
I agree with HIT! I use it quite a bit, too. More productive time in the gym.....get in, get out. You look great, man! You definitely fit the part for a personal trainer.
for herb, yeah he just wants good people. he is a really cool guy, he is our friend so it was hard to leave the gym but its more money and a better oportunity for the both of us. we needed to think about our futures. if i see him i will put in a good word for you, that gym is cool cause you can really do anything you want and he is cool with it. but keep in touch cause i have to go to sleep gotta work out in the am and go to work! see you soon!
i know i would like to be a wrestler, but i would need polumbo if i started competing i dont know how to diet down properly, but one of the women in the clinton gym competes and maybe i could just use her. do you watch wrestling?
i know its crazy hard with a fast motabolism, i eat crap all the time and still can lose weight. im trying to start eating clean again though, its just really tough, i need to get a nutritionist, but don't want to pay for one lol. my boyfriend told me that dave polumbo was doing nutrition session for like 1500 a year or something crazy like that. he has been working with the wrestler HHH and he has been looking freakin awesome
rudy and i used to work at the gym by the rairoad station in saybrook, its a tiny gym and we had our own weightlifting class called the rudy and tabi experience, it was pretty cool. we got too many people who wanted to do the class so we just started personal training with them all
and thats crazy that you recognized me, i went to florida last year and when i got back one of the kids that was working at the gym we went to down there recognized me on here, and when we went to the arnold in ohio people were yelling our names an freaking out cause they met us, its pretty crazy!
yeah but planet fitness is such a ***gy gym, you can't do anything in there, you can't drop weights, grunt, carry around a gallon of water, wear a bandana, etc.. in shape in branford is way better. planet fatness doesnt want bodybuilders they suck, and they charge 20 bucks for a day pass! lol
omg thats soo funny that you found me on here! i didn't think anyone from around here was on bb.com! im sure you will hear from seana soon they ar desperate for babysitters, hope to see you around, check out my boyfriends page there is a link from my page to his on my page near the top.
Welcome back! I'm hit or miss at the gym, but I'm sure one of these days... I really don't know many people there, because when I work out, I'm in "bitch mode". Headphones in and if I need to use equipment, I just make motions with my hands.... I don't talk to anyone for anything. That's just me though.
Which beach in Old Lyme? Last year during one of those really hot days we had to start forcing people to leave Sound View - it was chaos....
Shoreline Health and Fitness might be a good bet for you. They have at least two gyms, one in Old Saybrook and the other in Clinton. I know a few people who go to a gym in either Guilford or Branford - I'll get the name for you.
I'm in East Lyme & Workout World is just 5 minutes away....summer traffic on 95 is the only reason why I left Shoreline Health & Fitness (not the biggest gym, but newer equipment & great clientele)
Hope that helps!
What area of the shoreline are you headed to? I'm closer to Rhode Island but know gyms as far down as Branford. I'll let you know as soon as I hear back from you.
Yea I mean Gold's is my favorite cuz you get all the crazy people that are pretty damn motivating but we have Planet Fitness and Cardio express and of course little health club that are low key and may not have everything. So, I'd recommend Golds-you really can't go wrong.
Yea man, that picture was two years ago in Sept., I really have to update my picture, I've got Mad lines of toneness all around. Thanks for noticing. :) You better pick up heavier weight though for your abs you've got it going but get bigger muscles on the pack. :)
Adam - congrats on the solid,lean muscle you've added -- not an easy task at our height. God bless as you continue to work toward your goals. Keep it up.
