2nd Chance Fitness And Boot Camp — Local services in Mansfield

Long post warning, but good stories always take a little time to tell.

Seems like a long time ago, but in 2018 I sat in my doctor's office listening to some pretty rough test results. At one point, he even told me that on my current path I was going to die. His recommendation, was prescription based. In his defense, he had been telling me to change my lifestyle for a long time, but at this point, I had let things get out of hand. I had high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, and I was pre-diabetic. My weight at my heaviest was around 260. I begged him to give me time. I didn't want the list of complications that came along with the medicine added to an already long list of issues I was experiencing due to my poor health. September 2018, I left my doctor's office at one of the lowest points in my life with a list of precriptions and a follow up appointment.

I spent the next 2 months wrestling with fad diets, researching quick fixes, and generally doing the same thing I did every other time. My weight fluctuated some, but it wasn't going to be sustainable, as I wasn't really committed to the change, and saw anything I was doing a bridge to continue a lifestyle ultimately detrimental to my health.

Thank God for my wife!

For our wedding anniversary in December, she signed us up at 2nd Chance Fitness on a 21 day challenge. I met Shawn Serfass for my weigh in, initial measurements, was given a meal plan, and told that if I put in the work, I could drop weight and get in better shape. Me being me, I was sceptical. I made excuses for why the meal plan wouldn't work, or why I couldn't do the exercise. Shawn gave me things I could do to make the diet fit my issues, and encouraged me to give the exercise a try. I even remember hearing go at your own pace at one point. I tried to make excuses for why it wasn't going to work, but Nancy reminded me, that she had paid for this, and I was going to at least try.

I showed up to the first workout. About 30 minutes later, covered in sweat and breathing hard, I had survived. I will not say that I did all the exercises correctly, or that I looked good doing them, but I did do them. I modified my meal plan to fit into my lifestyle, but followed the recommendations of the trainers.

That first week was hard, but the second was harder. One of the issues I dealt with alot due to my weight was complications from allergies. During my second week of the challenge, I ended up needing a steroid shot, and was told no workouts for a few days. I continued to eat per plan. In total, I probably only got to workout 7 times in that initial 21 day challenge. I weighed in on my anniversary, December 24th. My expectations were not high. After all, I had missed almost a full week of workouts, and how effective could this really be. The scale was down 14 lbs. It took a minute for that to sink in. This small change had manifested in 14 lbs dropped in 21 days. I was ready to keep going, so I signed up for membership.

In my first 60 days, I was down 30 lbs. At my six month checkup, I was down 40lbs, and the test results indicated that through diet and exercise, I had dropped all those bad numbers. Cholesterol and triglycerides were down, blood pressure was normal, and my blood sugar was low. Nevertheless, my dr scheduled a followup to see where I was in 6 months, and to ensure I kept it up. At that appointment, Sept 2019, I was down 60 lbs, and he was asking me for advice. I completed my 1yr weigh in at 69 lbs down.

Weight 258 at my heaviest - 189 @ 1yr Chest 47 in start - 40 in @ 1yr Stomach 47 in start - 34 @ 1yr Hips 46.5 in start - 40 @ 1 yr Bodyfat over 37% start - 18% @ 1yr

The things I learned here have helped me to maintain the weight I lost, even during all the Covid lockdowns.

If you are looking for a change, Shawn and his team can definately help you on a path to...

I joined in October for the 6 week challenge, and in my first meeting and signing, I was told by the owner Shawn that if I do the challenge and even if I didn't lose the 25 lbs, I would still get my money back, because that was the goal challenge to lose 25 lbs or 6% body fat, so come to find out after the challenge was over, you get your money back only by joining a year membership, and that was not explained. Then afterwards they have you download an app so that everyone at the FBC can communicate with each other and to check on you if you are not showing up to the classes....and that is not true, they checked on me maybe 2 times in the 4 months there...also his wife will tell you that she will be there to watch your baby while you workout, NOT TRUE!.so if you have an infant just be aware of this...so all in all they got me for about 700 dollars....so just be alert on their speech into getting you aboard, it is not totally honest...so take from my experience and learn from this, I'm making sure this doesn't happen to another new mother, by telling friends and family, and Facebook friends.....SO JUST BE AWARE...

This is a clean facility with a positive atmosphere and you will most definitely get the full body work out that you are looking for. The trainers are very motivational and uplifting. They have a passion for fitness and changing lives by helping you to change your lifestyle by their work outs and their nutrition plan. I enjoy the company of all of the employees that work here. I happened to find this place by a random recommendation on an old post and then I started to see advertisements for it. There was a deal going on for the start of this year for an extremely affordable price, so I jumped on it. I have lost about 14 lbs in 3 weeks, I transformed my diet and I work out here 5 times a week. I highly recommend you to try it out if you want to change your life and your body. It is a judgement free zone and there are people of all fitness levels that attend in case you may be nervous to...