ARNOLD CORNEJO

My name is Arnold Cornejo – but you can call me A.C. -and I'm currently holding certifications with SCW, TRX and AFAA and started as a personal trainer here at Epic Fitness last January with our “Get Lean in 2014” contest held before spring.  Just to give you a little background, I'm 37 and a proud member of the gym, along with my wife Jenny.  You can find us there training hard about five days a week.  In the past, I was a successful (and burnt out) General Manager at a retail flagship location in downtown Chicago in charge of increasing profit growth year after year.  Then one day in 2006 changed my life.  I fell 26' off a ladder onto concrete at work and almost died, cracking my skull and losing a ton of blood, along with having a traumatic brain injury, resulting in the need to take numerous medications that also happen to be famous for causing obesity in their patients - so I'm definitely familiar to such obstacles when training.  I ballooned from a skin-and-bones 130 lbs and a 30" waist the day of the accident, to 206 lbs with a 38" waist and 42% body fat about two years ago when we joined the gym.  One thing in the business world I was always known for was getting results; and one of my greatest strengths was in training faculty and staff.  Blessed with the opportunity to change my direction in life, I took a structured approach to training and transforming my own body.  Then, almost immediately, I started to see results.  Followed by further progress, I truly began to develop a passion and submersed myself in the fitness industry.  I'm now in the absolute best health of my life:  175 lbs with a 31" waist and 9% body fat - and I'm not through yet either.  And with training people as one of my assets, I decided that being a group fitness instructor & personal trainer for people looking to improve their fitness level and transform their body is my calling; and my clients can attest to it, as they also have seen amazing results. 

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