My heart sank deep into my chest when the doctor told me there was nothing they could do.

My brother, my partner in crime, my BEST friend lying on a hospital stretcher with no brain activity was... gone. It was to late, there was nothing anyone could do.

I was devastated!

I now had to make that dreadful call that I thought I would have NEVER had to make in a million years to my parents.

I felt like I was in a FREAKING nightmare wanting to wake up.

How did I get here.

You see a few months back everything was going well. I had a great career, friends and was engaged to be married.

Then one early Saturday morning I got a phone call from one of my brothers friends. He told me that my brother (who was at a Livestock concert) had past out in his tent.

He told me he was trying to carry him through the crowd screaming for help to find some medical help. As he reached the paramedics, they took my brother away in an ambulance.

I quickly jumped out of bed and rushed out the door along with my roommate. I really didn’t think it was anything serious, I thought maybe he had to much to drink and past out.

When we arrived at the hospital the doctor came out and said something to me that I will NEVER forget.

The UNTHINKABLE happened. He was already gone. He was brain dead. I LOST my brother due to a drug overdose.

Four months after his death, my fiancé of 5 years walked out on me.

I was crushed, confused, depressed and left alone. My life would never be the same again. I knew I needed a change and desired to start over.

Through all the pain and turmoil I rediscovered my faith in God.

Without him I would of continued to go into a downward spiral.

I then became very interested in fitness. I only became interested to get my mind off of things, but over the years it became an obsession. It became so part of my life that I decided to create a website called, TurnAroundFitness.com

It’s for those who want to turn their life around through getting fit. No matter what struggles you may have faced in life whether its an addiction, being overweight, lost a loved one, a breakup, whatever the case is you can turn it all around through physical fitness.

It’s amazing how well and confident you'll begin to feel when you get in the BEST shape of your life and how doors of opportunity will magically begin to open up in your favor.

As I continued to change my body, major things began to happen. Here is a before and after pic of me getting fit and pursuing my dreams.

I even entered a transformation contest and became one the TOP 12 winners to be on the Delmonte Pro Team.

What is the Del Monte Pro Team?

The Del Monte Pro Team will be a group of 12 individuals who will represent and endorse the No Nonsense and Live Large approach to lifting and life. In short, these 12 people will be my online ambassadors. These 12 people must be action-takers, committed individuals who have used my programs to transform their minds, bodies and lives through my approach to nutrition, training and living. These 12 people that make up the Del Monte Pro Team will work with me toward one incredibly ambitious and important goal: to help 1-million guys transform their bodies, without drugs or bogus supplements, by the year 2020.

Fast forward about 10 years later and I got married to the women of my dreams, run my own fitness business and have 3 beautiful kids.

At the end of the day, I'm a husband, father and writer for my blog covering various topics ALL related to fitness. I post daily in every area of fitness so you can turn your life around through being fit.

It’s been quite a journey and If you ever feel like your stuck in life I can assure you that getting physically fit can turn so many things around that you will feel that your past is a different life.

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