Ashley Greene is famous for her role in the Twilight saga and now she is making a mark in the modeling world. She has lost a significant amount of weight since starting the series and according to www.examiner.com Greene follows a healthy diet and trains up to five days a week. According to the examiner her workouts consits of cardio, yoga, martial arts, circuit training and Pilates.
Who is Giavanni Ruffin you ask? He is a football player and someone I guarantee you have seen but didn’t know who he was. He is someone we all should look to for motivation and he is someone who has never stopped chasing his dream despite adversity. He is a real role model. He just isn’t in the NFL...yet.
To start off Ruffin is a football player with a lot of ambition and claims to “take no days off.” Ruffin is 23 and played at a low level college because of his grades. To make it worse apparently he was benched behind a returning player when he joined the squad. According to his website http://www.giavanniruffin.com He was put in to the teams sixth game for his chance to be able to prove his worthyness on the field and that he did. With averaging 153.6 yards per game and rushing for 768 while carrying 11 TD’s in just five games. Eventually he transferred to East Carolina where he got into some trouble with the police and was suspended from the football program. This life lesson taught him the meaning of all around athlete and showed him that what you do off the field affects what happens on the field. He was left out of the NFL draft and was a virtual no name.
With all of this the man never got discouraged and he used his experience as motivation to out work his peers. He never gave up on his dream of making the NFL, and too this day he works extremely hard at making this goal become reality. Giavanni explains on his site that, "twenty-three Pro Bowlers were undrafted free agents last year so, it's something to work for."
Now why does he train it right and how you probably know who he is but didn’t know his name; A video that his friend shot of Ruffin’s intense training went viral. The video motivates, hypes you up and makes you question your own work ethic and asks you…how bad do you want it? The video that went viral is narrated by a motivational speaker named Eric Thomas aka the Hip Hop Preacher.
Now there is a part 2 that motivates you even further because the work never stops.
His drive and mission statement “take no days off” inspired him to create a clothing company that has boomed #TNDO is the hashtag on twitter. Many of us use this term, I know I do. I just didn’t know where it came from. He also has been releasing a documentary that now has 4 parts. You can watch them on his website on the landing page before enter. It really shows you inside his life even more about who he is, what he does, what he wants, and what drives and motivates him.
Giovanni Ruffin on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Giavanni_Ruffin
Eric Thomas on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Ericthomasbtc
About the author:
Alicia Bell is a Kinesiologist and Personal Trainer based in Toronto, Canada
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Who is DeStorm Power? When I first met him I thought he was slightly crazy but soon found out he is an internet genius, fitness phenom, creates all of his own music, jumps cars and takes on challenges. Not your usual combination but it seems to work for him and “the people” love it. He calls his fans and admirers “the people” and his catch phrase that he begins all of his videos on Youtube with is “Wassup world!?!?” Not only is he an artist and athlete of sorts but he inspired me so much and is the reason why I started to pursue my own career further.
Destorm according to his Wikipedia page is the 55th most subscribed to user and the the 16th most subscribed to musician. His youtube accomplishments speak for themselves. He has more than 200 videos that have been watched close to 200 million times. He started his career in music by interning and ghostwriting for Atlantic, Universal and other record labels according to his Wikipedia page. Destorm recently released a mixtape entitled “Be Careful” which he released in May of this year.
Where fitness is concerned he can be seen posting fitness videos often and tweeting about how summertime is coming and trying to motivate people to get off the couch. DeStorm himself was a former triple jumper and even was a personal trainer at one point. All his fitness and workout videos are inspirational. I even got to shoot a hilarious video with him where we were running all around North Hollywood.
I had the chance to workout with Destorm at a Hollywood gym and he goes hard. He runs about 3 miles to the gym and back from his home. Once he reaches the gym the hard core fitness phenom performs a number of circuits using the bosu, free weights and machines. He takes little rest by performing active recovery between his sets. That means his rest is another exercise. One of his favorite exercises is a single leg deadlift on an overturned bosu.
His two youtube channels are https://www.youtube.com/user/DeStorm and https://www.youtube.com/user/DeStormTV
You can also follow him on twitter https://twitter.com/#!/DeStorm
Try this Ab Workout. If you hate laying on the ground or are just wanting to try something different for your abdominals Jillian Michaels has this standing ab workout for you.
According to Tesco Phone Shop. The top ten workout tracks are:
1. Queen - 'Don't Stop Me Now'
2. Survivor - 'Eye of the Tiger'
3. Tina Turner - 'The Best'
4. Scissor Sisters - 'I Don't Feel Like Dancing'
5. Eric Prydz - 'Call On Me'
6. Irene Cara -' Flashdance... What a Feeling'
7. Lady Gaga - 'Born This Way'
8. Katy Perry - 'Firework'
9. LMFAO - 'Sexy And I Know It'
According to Shape magazine. Anne Hathaway sculpted her body to fit the a cat suit for The Dark Night Rises. According to shape she prepared for the role for ten months. Her workouts included a 5 day a week plan with stunt training, dance workouts, Bikram yoga, martial arts, and a vegetarian diet.
Rosa Acosta is famous for her ridiculous body. Her and her trainer Mike T work very hard at keeping it healthy and toned. Rosa is so dedicated to her fitness that she recently has adopted a Youtube channel featuring her Ab workouts amongst other things. Below is Part 1 of her series. Give it a try!
Ever wonder what some of your favorite NBA players do during the off season? Some of them recorded their lockout experiences and training sessions. Check out Episode 1 of Poor Hungry Driven featuring Terrence Williams of the Sacramento Kings from last off season.
The Truth On Health website was launched by non other than Paul Pierce of the Boston Celtics. According to the sites information Pierce founded The Truth Fund in 2002 to provide educational and life-enriching opportunities for under-served youth. Pierce launched The Truth on Health Campaign to help empower and encourage young people to lead healthier lifestyles. The Truth on Health includes an awareness campaign and sustainable programming for young people to live healthy lifestyles – incorporating physical fitness and healthy eating, and encouraging a commitment/pledge of 60 minutes per day dedicated to physical activity.
Its always great to see athletes such as pierce giving back to the community in a positive way like promoting health and fitness. We've got to give our props to Paul because he is definitely "Training It Right!"
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