MICHELLE GRISSOM Proving that age is no detriment to progress IRON VIC SPEAKS! Protein powder confusion THE PARRILLO PRINCINPLES A BODYBUILDER IS BORN Puncturing myths Fitness: you are the company you keep MUSCLE MEETS MEDICINE BY JOHN PARRILLO Muscle gets no respect Supplements of mass construction Photo by Amir Marandi JOHN PARRILLO’S September 2016 PERFORMANCE PRESS What's your story? MICHELLE GRISSOM MUSCLE MEETS MEDICINE Are you a... 8 • Bodybuilder? 4 • Fitness Model? • Gym Owner? • Personal Trainer? • Contest Competitor? • An Avid Parrillo Product User? Or maybe you... • Have an amazing transformation story. • Would like to inspire others. • Want to show everyone what you've accomplished. Then we want to hear from you! 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The subscription rate of one year (12) issues is $29.95 ©2016 by John Parrillo. All Rights Reserved. For information, Please contact Parrillo Performance at (513) 874-3305 or e-mail to [email protected] michelle grissom michelle grissom ® MichelleProving that age is no detriment toGrissom progress Michelle lives in Dayton, Ohio and is are immediately absorbed. “I love for over thirty years. His methods part of a fitness family: her husband CapTri and find that when I take are proven to work. I have used the By Marty Gallagher Rob is a competitive athlete. “Rob it consistently my energy levels Parrillo Performance Press as an taught me that to make real gains remain high – a wonderful thing information source for decades.” an athlete has to step outside their in the final weeks leading up to a comfort zone. It is not an easy show when I am melting off fat.” She Michelle has adapted and adopted Michelle Grissom was first concept to put into practice. Rob is also a huge fan of Pro-Carb™. “I the Parrillo “three-phase” set into exposed to serious fitness always coaxed me in the best way, love to take a Pro-Carb™ shake after her own training sessions. “The at age 17 when she took a job at saying things like, ‘Why all the self- a workout. The energy surge I get whole idea of combining stretching a commercial fitness facility. The doubt? Who says you can’t do it? All after drinking a Pro-Carb™ shake is with weight training is ideal for instant she was exposed to formal you have to do is train for it.’” Like unmistakable and immediate.” One bodybuilding. I will typically pump a fitness, Michelle fell in love with jumping into the deep end of a pool, look at the photos accompanying muscle maximally, going to positive all aspects of fitness, including the those that are able to make that this article reveals just how failure, usually 10-12 reps. I might business side of it. Three decades leap make the progress, while those successful and effective Michelle’s add some forced reps, or add a drop later, at age 47, Michelle is a that remain frozen on the sidelines, training and nutritional approach set or two, I like to go to failure and champion Physique competitor,still a unable to fully commit, never obtain have been for her. “I have used beyond. I will follow this maximum highly sought after personal trainer the sensational gains that come to John’s supplements for years. His pump with an intense Parrillo Fascia and someone that is in love those that are able to step outside products are potent and delicious. Stretch. I hold these stretches and with fitness: she still trains hard their comfort zone. Rob got Michelle I love John’s no-nonsense super- try and improve the duration and and still eats with determined to train and diet outside her comfort intense approach towards weight depth of the stretch. Finally, after discipline. She exemplifies the zone and low and behold Michelle training and aerobics.” Michelle pumping and stretching, I will bodybuilding lifestyle and has a made sensational gains, the best added, “John has been a leader in the pose the pumped and stretched physique that wins and places gains of her life. She understands fitness and bodybuilding community muscle.” Flexing the target muscle, high at major Figure and Physique that in order to build muscle and competitions. “At my most recent melt off body fat, the twin goals of Scott Canatsey show I won the women’s Physique bodybuilding, the bodybuilder must division. This was at The Julie enter into the pain and discomfort Palmer Showdown on June 4th of zone. As John Parrillo points out, 2016. I felt good about my condition “No one ever got better doing the and it is always reaffirming to win same things over and over. The duty a competition.” And, we might of the successful bodybuilder is to add, especially at age 47. The Photo by Amir Marandi continually push past capacity - that female competitive categories have is where the gains are and this is expanded dramatically over the past never comfortable.” In order to cope decade and Michelle is relatively to the women’s Physique division. “In my early years, I was an aerobic with the intensity of truly effective new to the Physique format. “I Michelle has competed eight times athlete. That all changed for me weight training and to be able to competed in the Figure division for in high-level Figure or Physique when I saw my first bodybuilding cope with really intense cardio, years. I placed in the top five in the competitions. competition. I was 18 years old Michelle uses Parrillo Performance majority of my Figure shows. I liked when I saw the Mr./Ms. Dayton Products to heal her battered body. Figure competitions, but I felt that eightAlong the way Michelle also bodybuilding championships at Intense training is shocking to the the Physique format offered me a found time to train for and run in Northmont High School. I thought body and the best way to recover new set of challenges.” Michelle has marathons(26.2miles)! She that bodybuilding was the coolest is to follow John Parrillo’s timeless been a bodybuilder and competitive also competed in two half Iron thing I had ever seen. I left the show advice, “In the aftermath of a athlete for decades. She entered Man competitions, ran several completely motivated and ready to body-shattering workout, flood the her first competition as a Figure half-marathons and currently become a bodybuilder. I wanted to body with healing and regenerative competitor in 2003. The following competes in Obstacle Course build some muscle and compete.” nutrients.” year, 2004, Michelle entered and racing. Her lifelong passion for At age 17 she got the job at a local won the prestigious Mountaineer running has proven the perfect fitness club. “Right away, I loved As a long® time Parrillo product “I have really appreciated all the terrific advice Open. In 2011 Michelle took 5th training compliment for her lifting everything about fitness and the user, Michelle particularly favors Scott has provided on all things related to training place at the GNC National Figure and bodybuilding-style nutrition. business of fitness. I took to it so CapTri and supplements with it and nutrition. His knowledge is vast and I find his Championships and in 2013 placed Running helps keep her lean and fit much that I couldn’t wait to go back daily. Medium® Chain Triglycerides enthusiasm motivating and he is extremely helpful." high (3rd) at the Mike Francois and enhances her figure/physique to work the very next day after my are highly combustible and® when calories Classic. Michelle placed 4th at Mike’s competitor efforts. Michelle fell in first day at work.” CapTri is consumed, it is converted 4competitionSeptember in 2016, but 2016 switched1-800-344-3404 love with fitness at an early age. into energy and the CapTri www.parrilloperformance.com September 2016 5 michelle grissom john parrillo’s performance press Photo by Amir Marandi Photo by Amir Marandi Photo by Amir Marandi limit-exceeding weights. “The other key point is consistency: show up! Train hard! Be consistent outside the gym: eat with real discipline. Be consistent in all aspects of training and be consistent in all the aspects of nutrition.” Michelle is extremely consistent “Be consistent. Believe in yourself. You are in her eating. “As I get older I have stronger than you think you are. It is you noticed that proper nutrition and against you. Have a goal, focus on the goal, proper supplementation becomes be consistent and above all be patient. so much more important. As I age, Fitness is a lifestyle and not a temporary fix.” Those locals lucky enough to recovery takes a lot longer.” If you engage her services as a personal train with the intensity needed trainer always make terrific gains; to trigger gains, the body takes a manages himself.