fitness
Breakthroughs
Noun: soldier – an enlisted man or woman who serves in an army. You must possess
the qualities of bravery, loyalty and discipline. Noun: model – someone worthy of imitation or may be an act of representing something. As a model, you have to be confident,
inspiring, perhaps daring and of course unique. Noun: athlete – a person trained to
compete in sports. You have to show athletic prowess such as: endurance, vigor, balance, determination and intense energy. Noun: father – a male parent and the founder
of a family. A father has to be supportive, nurturing, patient and understanding. It is a
big responsibility to carry, but all in all, Colin Wayne has proven he did. It actually requires a proper training. We are not just talking about a typical preparation but a very
rigorous training. He did it like a hero, but by being a man and a leader.
He was born on August 25, 1989 in Huntsville,
AL. He has a small athletic frame while growing up.
He played all types of sports like football, baseball,
basketball and soccer during his high school years. After which, he pursued JROTC (Junior Reserve Officer
Training Corps) and later on realized that he wanted
to pursue a career in the military. On September 26,
2006, Colin enlisted in the Alabama Army National
Guard, a month after his seventeenth birthday. He was
shipped off to basic training and AIT (Advanced Individual Training) as a Military Police. Colin was out in
Missouri for about twenty three weeks. He was deployed to Cairo, Egypt in support of Operation Bright
star in late 2008.
Colin’s military career is usually in between
deployments. He worked as a Security Operations
Manager of a gated retirement facility. He was considered very young at that time. Later on, he resigned
in 2009 to be deployed to Iraq in support of Operation
Iraqi Freedom. In June 2011, his life changed when
his son was born. It was the best thing happened to
Colin Wayne. Late 2012, he went into (Inactive National Guard) and deployed to Afghanistan in support
of Operation Enduring Freedom as a DOD civilian
contractor. Sometimes some things we cannot control.
May 3, 2012, there was a 107mm rocket impacted 3.5
feet from him in a gym that he was working out at. He
was medicated twice and seven days later, he arrived
back in the US to do further treatment. Colin sustained
a lumbar contusion L1-L3 in his back, permanent tinnitus in his left ear, and shrapnel to both arms, stomach
and a piece went all the way through his leg, missing
his shine bone by centimeters.
Colin Wayne’s professional modeling and being an athlete of today’s generation actually started in
December of 2012 where he shot with Golden (Furious
Fotog) and on the 29th of December 2012, he launched
his first ever fan page. Since then, he got picked up by
the best fitness modeling agency in the USA and have
shot with several of the United States best photographers from New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Ohio,
and Tampa and everywhere in between. He got sponsored by SHREDZ in March 2013 and he is the face of
the company for physique. In short, he started training
in 2009 right before his deployment to Iraq at 145lbs,
and have been training nonstop ever since. As what he
said “Train insane or stay the same.” Apart from working with privileged people, he also won some awards
by being the cover model and has appeared in various
magazine publications. Colin Wayne’s incredible story
filled with struggles and triumphs can truly amplify
the hearts of the people and most especially be a role
model and be an inspiration to our today’s generation
and the next to come. Indeed, we are heroes in our
own unique way. All you have to do is write them, and
write it for others.
“Train
Insane or
Stay the
Same.”