Nick Boucher - Before and After!
OCTOBER 2006:
Someone that I know who happens to have undergone an amazing transformation is Nick. What better place to start with my new found PT skills than using someone I know well personally as a guinea pig?!! Well, after me harping on about health and fitness for years and having done BFL since March '04 he finally gave in and began his own challenge...........and my god, look at the results! Without being totally biased, I think they speak for themselves.....
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NICK'S STORY:
When I met him back in 1993 he was a beer drinking University lad from Auckland New Zealand weighing in at around 93 kilos - and a lot of it was body fat. His diet was utterly atrocious living off pies, beer and junk, he had no energy at all and wasn't happy or confident in himself. Yet once he set his first goal he really began to believe in himself. He wanted to get healthy, he wanted to look great and had started to train for another goal - a half marathon. So after almost a year and a half of preparation and training, he came so close to doing the half marathon but was unfortunately hindered terribly by shin splints and had to pull out. But still, as a result of his training efforts, he looked great. He slimmed down to a lean 77 kilos, but over the years the weight crept up a bit again and finally, his goals changed.
With his shins still playing up a bit he found another love when we moved to the UK in 2001 - cycling - so he bought a top of the line mountain bike and cycled everywhere and went out on mountain bike trips with the boys throughout the greenest parts of England. He still loved running too but the move to the very hot Middle East meant that he was going to be outdoors a lot and running and cycling would have to be seasonal. And living in the Middle East means that you are constantly in your board shorts with your shirt off by the pool, so this time Nick really wanted to focus on changing his body shape. He also wanted more muscle and energy, so I decided to use my new PT training and BFL experience to help whip him into shape. And here are the pictures to show for it!!!!! In between the long hours at work in his new role, he managed to stick to my program, his nutrition plan and reach every one of his goals that he had set for himself.
As you can tell from the photos most of Nick's changes occurred in the first 6 weeks - his progress was rapid. He has always found it really difficult to build muscle though, so I recommended he integrate some quality supplementation into his nutrition program in order to help achieve his goals. In those first 6 weeks alone Nick lost 6cm off his waist, put an extra 5cm of muscle onto his quads, added 4cm of muscle to his chest, reduced his bodyfat from 13% to 6%, and replaced the 8lbs of fat lost with 8 lbs of muscle!!!!! Funnily enough his weight of 80kgs stayed exactly the same (good sign of muscle building) but it was the body fat and muscle measurements which went off the chart. A great achievement for my first client and one that now has a renewed sense of confidence and self belief, not to mention an amazing new body shape.
Supplements Nick has used over the last few months: EAS Myoplex shakes and bars, EAS Nitron 5, EAS Phosphagen Elite (this we found was a massive difference maker for Nick's muscle building potential), and EAS Muscle Armor. He also favours Xenadrine EFX for fat burning, and is currently trying EAS Thermo Dynamx to reveal a bit more of that 6-pack! Good on you Nick. Keep up the good work.