Fit to Print Volume 23 Issue 4 December 2014 | Page 16

The Difference Makers...
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Ronnie Demyen & Jim Cordova

Cathy Rende & Eileen Jacinth

Amy Llinas Lynch & Maddy K

Joe Skorubski & Rob Ames

perform to reach her goals were pretty
intense. This worried me because she
seemed like such a gentle and
tenderhearted person, which indicated
that she might have difficulty in
generating the degree of intensity
required for adequate muscle stimulation.
My concerns were realized when I took
her on the gym floor and noticed that this
was indeed the case. To make matters
worse, like many people that are new to
fitness, she was intimidated by
movements such as the dead lift and
squat, which were the two most
important exercises in her new routine.
I remember watching Ronnie struggle with
the dead lift while holding only 15lb
dumbbells in her hands. On more than
one occasion, I had to give her lengthy
Tony Robbins-style motivational speeches
just to convince her to progress to 20lb
dumbbells, which was, from her
perspective, analogous to lifting the back
end of a car. I'm not going to lie. At times,
I wondered how in the world we would
ever reach her goal, given that it had
taken over a year before we began to
produce the type of intensity required to
accelerate her progress. Nonetheless, I
had hope because Ronnie possessed a
healthy abundance of dedication and
perseverance.
Where is Ronnie at today? She warms-up
with 50lb dumbbells in each hand for the
dead lift. She can place an 80lb dumbbell
in each hand and dead lift it nearly ten
times! You can frequently find her
performing barbell squats with 150
pounds for over ten reps, which is no
small feat, especially given that she
weighs only about 120 pounds.
Sometimes I wonder if this woman has an
'S' on her chest. Of course, her physique is
a glowing example of her hard work. She

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has lost a great deal of body-fat
resulting in a streamlined appearance,
and all while displaying a level of
muscle tone that is reminiscent of an
Oxygen magazine model. I have really
enjoyed working with Ronnie over the
years, as I have watched her become
a living demonstration of what can be
achieved with a simplified regimen,
hard work, patience, and relentless
dedication.

well. She is one of the fittest women at
Fitness Incentive, squatting upwards of
200 pounds for reps and performing a
dead lift approaching 300 pounds, all
while weighing less than 130 pounds!
Finally, Jennifer Sorice has been working
with me for going on three years. It
seems as if she gets stronger with every
pound that she loses, currently dead
lifting 100 pound dumbbells in each hand
for eight reps!

Jackie Tierney is another client of
mine who began training over three
years ago. She had never touched a
weight before coming to see me. One
of our goals was to have her perform
calisthenic exercises such as
bodyweight dips and pull-ups, all
while completely avoiding the
dreaded “bulky” appearance that so
many women fear will happen as a
result of resistance training. Today she
can perform almost a dozen wide-grip
bodyweight pull-ups and twenty-five
bodyweight dips, which is simply
beyond amazing! To top it off, Jackie
appears more petite and toned with
each passing year.

How many men do you know that achieve
the feats that these women are able to
demonstrate on a regular basis? Don't feel
bad if you don't know any because there
aren't very many. If you do come across
any that desire to reach the outstanding
level of strength and fitness that the
incredible women discussed throughout
this article have achieved, feel free to
send them my way for a consultation. In
a short time, they too will be armed with
both the insight and the passion that it
takes to train like a girl!

Truth be told, I could probably take up
all of the space in this newsletter
illustrating the amazing
accomplishments that many of my
female clients have attained. Debbie
Woltmann has worked with me on a
relatively consistent basis over the
past five years. She can perform more
pull-ups and dips than I can count, in
addition to squatting and dead lifting
enough weight to impress a world
class powerlifter. She developed
tremendous strength without any of
the bulk, and possesses one of the
lowest body fat levels of anyone in
the gym. Silvana Gaskin has worked
with me on and off for five years as

Holidays 2014 FIT to Print

Eileen Jacinth
Cathy Rende:
Up until about two years ago, I embraced
the concept of "staying fit" and
maintaining good health, but I came up
short of actually embodying it. I was a
regular fixture at FI…except during the
summer because the kids' schedules came
first…or the holidays when there was so
much going on…or on weekends when it
was my husband's turn to go, and I
needed to stay home with the kids…
In other words I wanted to be fit but
wouldn't or couldn't actually devote the
necessary time and effort to actually
being fit. After all, fitness was a “luxury”
since I did not work full time and there
were other things that were more
important than, well, my health or just
me. Enter Eileen Jacinth and her quiet,