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Today I'm sharing client's feedback about working with me 1-on-1 (after hesitating to pull the trigger for 2+ years!):
"Regardless of what you know or think you know, working with PD Mangan is life altering for the better.
I’m a lifelong casual athlete, now in my 60s, rarely in ‘gym shape’ but usually close enough; but until working with PD, often had that unfortunate last 10 - 15lbs of middle aged regret. I spoke with him 2 years prior to finally signing on, the gap being, “well, I pretty much can do this on my own, I mostly know what I’m doing”.
HOWEVER! I called him back, when in 2 years I hadn’t really changed too much on my own. And he again said some pithy insightful things about how to approach training and eating. They were seemingly small, easily integrated ideas and changes to my normal, casual routines. Emphasis on “seemingly”
PDs recommendations are the result of his science based research. I kept doing my own routines, but added in his 2x a week 30 minute routines, and those are what made an enormous difference. By making small changes to how I used weights, fat started coming off, and muscle packing on; I literally had to get new clothing because my chest and shoulders are bigger. And it’s not just “gym show” — I have a very physical job in construction, and suddenly I’m hoisting a lot more over my shoulder and easily moving uphill with it, or up ladders, whereas before, it was efforted, and I figured, ‘well that’s just getting older’. Nope. After awhile, I dropped a lot of the gym stuff i HAD been doing, dropped the time spent exercising, and I’m much stronger than I had been before. Also, I feel much more protected around my joints, stance, and posture, and these things are measurable.
Same thing with “how to eat” / “what to eat” — a few small changes to what I was doing — combined with the exercise piece — and I could feel my always ongoing hunger drop; for the first time in years I didn’t feel hungry all the time.
With both exercising and eating, nothing radical, like diets we’ve all tried, or hard crossfit type gym attacks, neither of which ever worked for me — instead, just some calm insightful tactics, which overall led to enormous differences. And also for my other family members…they went along with what I was doing, and they too benefitted (they were free riders on my paid program)
PD has clearly used his science training and personal experience / trial and error — to figure out practical attainable parameters and techniques for quickly resetting people back to the physical baseline of their early 20s.
Another piece of his calm, warm, and simple approach: “Accountability”. I’m fairly self motivated (perhaps a theme of this is that i THINK i am, but i’m not? perhaps you’re the same?); but just his conversation around ‘do you need to check in with me about being accountable’, added some accountability; not that it was stressful / high stakes ‘coaching’, but just knowing I had support and backup for questions, was useful. I was a little dubious about a few things, he gave me the over/under on them, I tried them, he was right every time, and it was great to have his support to check in.
His system of checking in, of personal training as needed, of clear video examples, of being in touch whenever needed — it’s a testament to having a direct approach, of being clear, concise, to the point, nothing extraneous.
It is the best money I have spent on health, and I only wish I had done it sooner. Yes, it’s nice to have the outside affirmation, “you look 20 years younger” “you look like a movie star” etc (i’m not exaggerating here), but real gratification is feeling as strong as I did 35 years ago, running upstairs easily, carrying heavy things, etc etc. Again: completely worth the cost, it would be worth it at twice the rate; I would gladly forego a lot of other things in order to sign on to PD’s system"
Source:https://www.trustpilot.com/reviews/66f281e67a78571b54017afc
Hope this gave you a helpful glimpse,
P.D. Mangan
P.S. If you want to explore what it would be like working together, use this link.
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