This month, Competitor Texas magazine featured Kathy Redden and her client, Ryan Battle. The two won the Muddy Buddy co-ed Division last May - and even more importantly, Ryan won the "battle of the bulge". Article excerpts below. An inspiring story.
"The moment of truth arrived on a Saturday night. Getting dressed to take his wife out for a date, Ryan Battle bent over to tie his shoes. All that excess around his waist compressed against his chest, and as he recalls, "I found myself having difficulty breathing." His wife, Kim, had been gently nagging him to beat the Battle of the Bulge, even tugging at his sensitivities as a husband and father of two daughters. "If you're not caring for yourself, do you care about us?" she asked.....
For Battle, a 41-year old software engineer who lives in Austin - a guy who played college soccer at 165 lbs, but had since ballooned to 240 - that epiphany arrived when he mentally slapped himself in the face after tying his shoes. "Internally," says Battle, who is six feet tall, "I said enough's enough" The shoe moment arrived in August 2006. Six months later Battle was down to 190 lbs, where his weight has settled; though in the heat of the baking Texas summer he dropped to as low as 186. "
The article details his lifestyle changes, workouts, and how meeting Kathy Redden, Fitness Specialist as Pure Austin, helped him turn his health around. In his own words, "I just need someone to kick my ass", and Kathy did just that. Battle says, "She's the person most responsible for my weight loss." Kathy and Ryan meet three times a week, with weight resistance and core exercises. She also changes his routine almost daily.
More about Kathy and Ryan (and their Muddy Buddy victory) in this month's Competitor Texas, available for free throughout town and also at Pure Austin.
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