Siobhain’s 6 Day 6 Pack Testimonial

Following months of declining performance at the gym due to hectic work travel schedule, which induced VERY poor eating habits, decreased workouts, and lack of sleep, I knew I needed to take a drastic step and get back on track.

I kept promising myself on “Monday” I would set myself straight, clean up the diet, and make things right again. And Monday kept turning into Tuesday, Wednesday…and I wasn’t doing anything to get back to the healthy happy me I once was.

As the opening of CrossFit Quantum fast approached, I started to realize I couldn’t keep delaying. As a trainer, I wanted to ensure I was able to give people the same incredible life-altering experience CrossFit has brought into my life.  I don’t want to just be a trainer; I want to be an incredible trainer.  For me, a big part of that is “walking the talk.”  No one wants to go to a dentist with cavity-ridden teeth, or the obese doctor who smells of smoke, or the hairdresser with a bad perm!  I don’t want to represent Quantum with less than my all, modeling poor nutrition habits and sloth-like performance. I want to be a model of all the good CrossFit brings into one’s life, inside and outside the box.

Enter Simon Marini.

Through the wonderful worldwide web, I “met” Simon.  He put out a call for female guinea pigs to “get shredded!’  Well of course, I couldn’t ignore that!  I mean, health and wellness aside, the vain in me will always want to be the gal looking fit and tight in her Lululemons!

I am not an advocate of Fad Diets.  As a former chubby gal, I know the havoc this can induce.  Lose five pounds, only to gain ten.  Since going Paleo, I have been able to maintain a weight I am pretty happy with, and more importantly feel really good everyday.  Since my slip into the cookie-laden, travel packed, sleep-deprived workaholic lifestyle these past months, I needed a kick-start.  A gentle but impactful hoof to the butt.

This is NOT a lifestyle plan, and I respected Simon’s program for being so clear about this.  It s meant for short duration, extreme results.  It’s for the weigh in, the upcoming school reunion, the bridesmaid dress you HAVE to wear in a week!  Or in my case, the kick-start you need to get back on track, to stop the excuses, and start being the role model you want to be.

So I committed to 2 weeks of training with Simon, OUCH, and then the 6-Day Program. And I was blown away by the results! I lost 9 lbs, and 1 inch around the waist. I have never had such a rockin’ mid-section in all my life…even when I felt I was at my fittest.

More importantly than the loss on the scale and the before and afters, is what I GAINED on this program, and how it will keep me focused on staying healthy going forward.

Months of food abuse and just general mistreatment of my body had me in an unhappy way.  Declining progress at the gym, low mood, high stressing, and just all round icky!  The more I packed myself full of poor food choices, the tighter my pants got, the more miserable I got, the more cookies seemed like a good solace….and the cycle just got uglier!

I was tired of falling off the Paleo wagon…getting run over by the damn wagon…being dragged by the blasted wagon.  I wanted on the wagon, safely seat belted in, and to enjoy the ride…minus bumps and falls.

Simon’s 6-Day Program was my ticket to the Paleo wagon!

I regained the trust and cooperation of both my body and mind.  I relearned that food is fuel for the body and not an emotional escape for my mind.  I regained an appreciation for good nutritious foods.  I rediscovered cravings for delish brightly coloured fruits and vegetables.  I also became obsessed with crunchy things…but I am not sure that is meant to happen!?

This was exactly the “magic pill” I needed!  Except it wasn’t magic at all.  It was all inside of me, and completely self-driven.  I just needed the right map, and that was Simon’s program.

I don’t have a gown to fit into.  I don’t have an upcoming fight to weigh in for. For me, this program was about getting a kick in the butt.  and that I DID GET!  It was tough, and at times slightly painful.  It made me challenge my body to work hard, and my brain to work even harder.  Most importantly, it helped me GAIN back self-control and healthy feelings toward food again.  I am so much more aware of what my body needs, instead of what it says it wants.

So now it’s back to normal life. But my normal has a new standard.  I can’t thank Simon enough for taking me on as his guinea pig.  He put a lot of work, and trial and error into his program.  He used himself as tester over and over…and if you’ve done the 6-day program…you will know that that, in itself deserves a reward.  He gave his own time to train with me, and reassured me numerous times “I was not dying!”

If you’re battling the food demons, and can’t seem to get it together, this may be the very 6-Day Program to set you on the right path.  For me, it was exactly that!  Drop Simon a line…he’s “mean” but super friendly!


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The UGLY TRUTH behind personal training!

It’s about time somebody wrote this… People must know the truth!

Walk into any Globo-Gym (Goodlife, 24 Hr Fitness, Premier, Bally’s, etc) and you will NOT find personal trainers.

You will find a group of people, very happy and willing to take your money in exchange for fitness magazine workouts ($7.95 an issue), and working hard at ensuring you make only minor progress, enticing you to buy more sessions.

I know this, because I have been there. I was never able to rip people off like other trainers. I trained how I wanted to be trained. I treated each client as a friend. My goal was NOT to have the same client stick with me fore 10 years. My goal was to get them to their health and fitness goals in the fastest way possible, and in the process, teach them the proper know-how so that they may go out on their own and continue to make great success.

The main problem with most trainers is simple… They just don’t care. I’ve seen people buy 144 sessions a year, and look EXACTLY the same for the past 5 years!

Would you keep going to the same restaurant every week if every single time you ate there you experienced explosive diarrhea? I doubt it!

But wait, there’s more problems with these idiots! The next massive blunder is that there is NO form of regulation on personal training. There are no certifications required, or even the slightest bit of formal education. All that is needed is basic CPR and First Aid, something that even a receptionist at the gym requires…

I have worked at a gym that out of 13 trainers, 7 were certified through Canada’s most basic, useless training institution around, AND 4 had no certification whatsoever. You should see these certification programs anyway, I learnt absolutely NOTHING when I did mine, and this was way back before I even knew much about fitness!

PLEASE GOD, ASK FOR CREDENTIALS! ASK FOR EXPERIENCE! DEMAND A FREE SESSION! MEET YOUR “TRAINER”!

Would you let some random guy on the street stick his finger up your ass because he told you he’s an amazing proctologist? FUCK NO!

DO NOT SPEND A DIME WITHOUT FIRST LEARNING A TRAINERS FULL EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE!

There is WAY more to fitness than bodybuilding. For $70 a pop, you deserve more than the latest muscle magazine workout of the month.

Thank you,

Simon Marini

Diploma in Fitness and Nutrition

Crossfit Level One Instructor

Crossssfit Gymnastics Instructor

Crossfit Business – Biz Network

Movement Training Specialist

Core Conditioning Specialist

Functional Training Specialist

Professional MMA Fighter

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Horrible misconceptions…

I hate it when I’m training a female, and as soon as I have her touch a damn weight she starts crying “But I don’t want to get too bulky!”….

Are you ladies seriously that retarded? Guys spend year after year trying to get big, spend thousands on supplements, resort to drugs, try out every fucken program they can find! And still they remain small. If men, whom have a SHITLOAD more testosterone in their bodies, and are supposed to be bigger and stronger than women, have such a hard time gaining mass, what makes you think you’ll explode into a massive beast over night?

Weight lifting, even if it’s a program specifically for hypertrophy (muscle size increase) only works if it’s accompanied by the right diet, and lots of rest. And even then it’s sometimes a damn bitch.


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These women are by NO means fucken normal. You think they ACCIDENTLY got this big by lifting too much weight? HAHAHAHA! If you’re that gullible, please give me a call cause I got some beautiful gold for sale, looks just like pennies, but trust me, it’s this new type of browned gold…

Number one, this is what these ladies want, believe it or not. They like it, it’s what their “sport” demands. Number B, these ladies are on so much testosterone and steroids that they have more test in their bodies than most high level male athletes. And number *, don’t you think you’d maybe notice WELL before it got that far out of hand? Ya know, like after only 5 lbs you say “wait a fucken minute!”. However if you’re stupid enough not to notice an increase of, oh let’s say 80lbs then being a jacked man-woman is the least of your worries hahaha.

Now, something much more pleasing to the eyes. Here are some hot crossfit babes. These chicks lift heavy ass weights, very often going for 1 rep max attempts, they blast through workouts hard (using both body weight as well as external weight), they do exercises in any rep range from 1 to 100, and in many cases crush the men in the class all while using the same damn weight regardless of their much lower bodyweight!


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Now you can’t seriously tell me that the ladies out there wouldn’t want to look like one of these gals! They’re gorgeous, and completely functional! I would put my money on any one of these ladies over some idiot gym rat bodybuilder ANY-FUCKEN-DAY!

PS. For any guys out there, those last 3 pics, they happen to be the top 3 reasons for men to do Crossfit :D Find an affiliate near you!

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