I started having a lot of pain, I started not being able to stay in shape, I gained weight, and lost track of how to keep myself healthy. I needed something to change, something to help. Now I am learning how to care for my body in a different way- it's been eye opening for me. When you get older and your body changes, you have to respect how to take care of it the best way possible, and I’ve learned that here.

I always looked at [health] as all of one thing or another, and I never really did a good job with focusing on balance. It's a balance of what I put in my body, the work I put out through exercise, and the recovery in between. Focusing on those three things feels like it has made [all my progress] possible.

What Stark did for me was bring everything together. Everything in the program, and everything in the whole company, is interconnected together. So my training program is tailored exactly to me, my nutrition program is tailored exactly to me. Because of all the work we do with the doctors and bloodwork, we can tailor my program to what's going to suit me. Outside of the gym, I now have more self confidence, and I have more determination to achieve the things I want to achieve.

Stark is a full cycle service - so learning about having the right sleep, having the right stress level, working out, and eating the right food really helped.