Metzger Fitness Guru Opens Personal Training Facility with a Parrillo Twist
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This dynamic dude lives tant monitoring of client progress. ize their physical dreams.” Mark in Tampa, Florida and runs one of “My reputation rides on the results has an infectious enthusiasm about the premier training facilities in I obtain for each and every client. I all things fitness and bodybuilding the Tampa/Saint Petersburg area: Metzgerbodies Personal Training & Fitness Center. Mark is a full time fitness professional and a top- flight competitive bodybuilder. He 2011 is the perfect guy to obtain dra- Southern matic results for his varied clien- tele. “I hadn’t really given serious USA Over 40 consideration to becoming a fitness Winner facility owner when the owner of the personal training studio I had Photo by Pamela Vick worked at (as a personal trainer for the past four years) put the place up for sale. The owner decided to move to the northeast and my wife Stephanie and I decided to pur- chase the place.” As soon as the ink was dry on the paperwork, Mark and Stephanie began a top-to-bot- tom renovation. They worked hard to give Metzgerbodies a cosmetic facelift. “We had the gym painted and the new colors brightened the place up and made it look twice as big. The comments that we have gotten from our clients have been tremendous. We wanted to Mark Metzger and his wife Stephanie, team owners of Metzgerbodies in Tampa, Florida. Mark says Stephanie also loves Parrillo products the place to have an updated look and she’s addicted to the Fudge Brownie Protein Bars™! December 2012 / Performance Press 1-800-3-30 www.parrillo.com www.parrillo.com 1-800-3-30 Performance Press / December 2012 JOHN PARRILLO’S PERFORMANCE PRESS Mark METZGER strategy is that we work with each ing Parrillo strategies. The Parrillo the intense weight training; the in- and every client and we work on a Performance nutritional approach tense cardio amps up the metabo- bunch of different levels in order to and Parrillo supplements (along lism and burns off fat; the potent build muscle and lose body fat. You with John Parrillo’s unique training Parrillo nutritional supplements lift have to teach the client about nutri- strategies) have long been a part of the whole process to the next level. tion and supplementation; you have Mark’s own bodybuilding training “I love Parrillo supplements; I use to teach the client about what a real and preparation for eons. “I have them in my bodybuilding prepara- weight training session feels like; been a competitive bodybuilder for tion and recommend them to all my you have to teach the client about a long, long time. It wasn’t too far clients.” Mark began competing how to perform a truly effective into my bodybuilding career when in 1992 when he entered and won aerobic session, one that is intense I was introduced to Parrillo prod- his first ever competition, the All enough to burn calories and boost ucts and Parrillo strategies. You South Bodybuilding Champion- the metabolism. You don’t get this can’t get too far into competitive ships. In 1994 he took 6th place at type of time and attention if you be- bodybuilding at any level without the Junior Mr. USA and two years “I understand how difficult it is to create physical progress...My own long to a commercial gym.” Well, running into someone that uses later, in 1996, he jumped up to a th struggles give me real insight into what is required to spark results.” you can if in addition to shelling John’s products.” Mark was quick 4 place Junior Mr. USA placing. out for the commercial gym mem- to pick up on the totality of the Par- Mark took some time off and re- related. “Everyone that trains at what is required to spark results.” bership, you lay out another $50- rillo approach towards all things turned to the bodybuilding wars in our gym gets the personal attention Fortunately Mark is a good com- 100 dollars per week for a personal bodybuilding-related. “It all ties 1998, when he took 3rd place in the they need and deserve. We have an municator and a master motivator. trainer – just don’t expect too much together: the lifting, the cardio, the Junior Mr. USA contest. Mark won outstanding team of trainers here Metzgerbodies is not the classical personal attention from the typical Photo by Doris Barrilleaux nutrition and the supplementation. hired gun personal trainer. Most The Parrillo approach is a system.” who do a wonderful job.” Mark is a commercial gym where you pay “It all ties together: the lifting, longtime Parrillo Product user and you fee and basically rent their personal trainers that ply their trade the cardio, the nutrition and the Indeed, the Parrillo training and carries Parrillo supplements while equipment for a workout. “Our in the jungle that is the commercial supplementation. The Parrillo nutrition strategy is so interrelated espousing Parrillo training meth- approach is a system.” and integrated that one aspect can- ods and Parrillo nutritional ideals. not really exist without the other. “We recommend Parrillo Products, gym scene beat have one strategy: the most potent on the market; we beat the living hell out of the cli- “The high calorie Parrillo approach use the Parrillo nutritional strate- ent during the paid training session towards nutrition enables the body- gies, the most effective I have ever and then tell the client to eat ‘per- builder to train as hard as necessary come across; we teach Parrillo- fectly’ until they meet again. How to make muscle gains; the intense, style resistance training and cardio hard is that? Parrillo-style aerobic training burns because I am all about real results fat and revs up the metabolism, for regular people.” Beat ‘em up and then relate to the particularly if it is done first thing client that if they, the client, ‘wants in the morning before breakfast. Mark was first introduced to Par- it bad enough’ they’ll exercise per- The Parrillo supplements are the fi- rillo methods, tactics and nutrition fect control over their eating in the nal piece in the bodybuilder puzzle. almost twenty years ago. As a se- interim. No wonder the success rate John’s supplements are not only the rious bodybuilder Mark knows all for PTs is miserable. Is it any won- most powerful supplements I have about how to elicit real results for der that 90% of clients fire their personally ever used – they are also himself. But a great player does not personal trainers within a month? the tastiest supplements I have ever necessarily make for a great coach. The Mark Metzger approach is the encountered.” Parrillo Products “I understand how difficult it is to complete opposite. “Every client is are so widely used in competitive Photo by Doris Barrilleaux create physical progress. I know given a customized workout and nu- bodybuilding circles that it is near “I love Parrillo supplements; how hard it is for me in my own tritional plan and they are expected impossible to achieve any degree of I use them in my bodybuilding bodybuilding aspirations. My own “We teach Parrillo-style resistance training and cardio because to stick to the plan.” A huge part bodybuilding success and not run preparation and recommend struggles give me real insight into I am all about real results for regular people.” of custom planning involves invok- into them. The nutrition underpins them to all my clients.” December 2012 / Performance Press 1-800-3-3-30 www.parrillo.comwww.parrillo.com www.parrillo.com 1-800-3-30 Performance Press / December 2012 JOHN PARRILLO’S PERFORMANCE PRESS Mark METZGER to make progress; I con- According to many people who “I am planning on competing in the a 3% body fat percentile. In the off- tinue to build muscle and were at the show, I would have 2013 Junior National bodybuilding season I will not let my bodyweight I am continually finding made the top 5. While standing championships that will be held in go above 205 pounds carrying an new ways that allow me onstage at the morning prejudg- Chicago next June. I always seek to 8% body fat percentile. In order to to achieve ever-greater ing, my right inner thigh suddenly train as hard as humanly possible, get super-lean at a contest, I need to degrees of contest con- cramped and cramped hard. This but I never sacrifice technique and ‘eat clean’ all year round. If I never dition. As long as I am was immediately followed by se- form for the sake of handling more get above an 8-10% body fat per- able to improve I shall vere cramping in both hamstrings.