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my name is Martyn Williams I am 54 and
I’m retired military it was about two
thousand six in July fellow said in july
in january 2006 i quit smoking us to
pick to pack a day smoker and six months
went by and I couldn’t see any savings
of money it’s like I need to do
something so at the end of the month I
can say this one he went to something
that was healthy and I saw an elite him
and make commercial on TV and said hey I
can do that so I came down and I worked
with high on the pads and he came in and
said try class I said okay so I came in
to the cardio kickboxing class almost
died not as a joke it was it was pretty
intense but it changed my life for a
long time I mean the older I got it
seemed like I put on more weight i was
like 50 pounds overweight when I got
here and I just I didn’t know what to do
I tried every fad diet on TV I’ve done
everything that everybody had said to
try but there was just no formula
because i had them discipline I didn’t
know what to do I tried different kinds
of things I’d signed up to like some gym
this place and tried to robeks here and
nothing work I could but nothing was fun
they seem to care I came down and they
interacted with me they didn’t act like
they were better than me there were no
big eyes the little use it was a
family-type atmosphere I would sure if I
could do it not collected size 50 years
old 50 pounds overweight and I’m like
but just like the last house on the
block I said let me try it I came down
and just one day I did it and I made it
through and I said okay if I made it
through one I can make through another
and I kept coming and I kept coming and
it changed my life well I’ve dropped
about I’d say 30 pounds I probably added
10 pounds of muscle I have cardio that’s
I’m in better shape now than I was when
I was 21 years old there’s nothing i can
do I mean I work out with kids half my
age here and at the end of the class i
can’t say i’ve got moidered you need
anybody else but I don’t have any less
energy than anybody else I can I can
hold my own it really boosted my self
confidence and the different types of
martial arts that they teach here
it can you can adapt to it instead of it
happening adapt to you everybody that
says I’m a different person now I mean I
ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in a
couple of years about three weeks ago
and you looked at because because I
can’t believe you i was look at you like
he goes you’re different in ankara what
do you mean because you’re just
different because you got more
confidence he goes looking here in shape
because what are you doing it I told him
I said I’m doing martial arts because no
way you’re a just did yeah I am he said
you don’t get her i said no i said it’s
it’s fun it’s a safe practical fun way
because i just can’t do that Richard
Simmons you know aerobics it just it’s
not for me this is I believe that
anybody can do this and it got rid of
the i cain’t because i was always like
well so maybe we’ll have you tried them
i came through that and i can’t do this
just you come in here and you give it a
hundred percent and you get a hundred
fifty percent back and i’ll tell you i
mean the way I carry myself my self
confidence I can walk down the street at
night and walking my dog and not have to
worry about anything it’s it just just
changed my life it really has