Terrance tears it up!

March 15th, 2011 will be a day that sticks out clearly in my memory. Earlier in the winter, I distinctly remember walking into the bathroom, taking one look at myself in the mirror and sitting down and crying over what I had become. I was an athlete in high school and college and was always very proud of my physical abilities. Less than two years after college, I found myself a divorced single father struggling to keep his life together while attempting to raise a child. With work, a Masters degress in Education under way (which I am now on the brink of being done with) a house, a baby and a broken heart, the last thing on my mind was my personal health. I mistakenly thought that I could attend to one need at a time. This was before I learned that physical, mental and emotional health are all connected.

It took me four years of living like that to realize I needed to make a change. There was a day that I distinctly remember, I was playing with my daughter and I had to sit down because I was so out of breath. I decided then that it was time to makes some changes My brother had given my the P90X DVDs, and they sat on the self. Until one day, I literally said, that’s it, I am doing this. I started on Monday, March 15th weighing about 230 pounds. I modified the crap out of every move. I could only manage about 5 unassisted pullups. In Chest and Back Tony says “You’ll be doing 20 and even 30 before you know it”. I am able to do more than 160 pullups in any workout now, and can easily bang out more than 30 at once. I never imagined I would have this body, feel this good, be this athletic as I am turning 29 on Friday.

I literally feel faster and stronger than I did playing Strong Saftey in college. I never had a body like this, even then. Three rounds of P90X (two of them hybrids with Insanity) and half of a round of X2 and I better than I ever have in my life. The confidence that P90X has given me has translated to all aspects of my life. I feel like a better version of my old self and I am trying to share it with anyone who will listen. I recently became a coach and have started to spread the work about these programs.

The knowledge and support of TeamRIPPED has been beyond instrumental. I was fumbling my way through the first few rounds with little knowledge of what I was doing, what I should be eating, where to go for answers etc. I stumbled upon the TeamRIPPED website, and six months later I am a Shakeology addict and Coach myself