How Does He Do It?The Bowflex Man's
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By Terry Dunkle, DietPower CEO |
Michael Polinko, of Waynesboro, Va.,
is
a quality-assurance director for the Neuman
Aluminum company, a
manufacturer
of metal
slugs
that are
stamped into
beer cans, lipstick
tubes, and
similarly shaped
components
of
your
everyday world. By night, he plays bass in the rock
band Torque. But he's won fame in other ways, too.
At work one day nine years ago, Polinko felt a pain in his
chest. "The safety guy took my blood pressure: 160/127,"
Polinko told me by email. "They sat
me
down for an hour.
It didn't help, so I got an
ambulance ride. After an EKG and
a
family history (my parents both died of heart problems
before age 70),
the doctor gave it to me straight. He said
I
had three
options: 1) lose weight and get in shape with
good
nutrition and exercise, 2) start taking tons of medication, or
3)
don't make any changes, but expect a serious stroke or
heart
attack before I hit 45."
Believing that his body might be as malleable as those aluminum slugs, Polinko armed himself with three secret weapons. One was a Bowflex home exercise machine—the kind you've seen on TV. It worked so well that a few years later he found himself in a Bowflex commercial declaring, "I'm Michael Polinko. I'm forty-nine, and this is a real Bowflex body! Thanks to proper nutrition, exercise, and resistance training, I'm in the best shape of my life!." And indeed he was: He had trimmed his weight by 35 pounds and his blood pressure to normal levels with a resting pulse of 55.
Bowflex wasn't Polinko's only secret, however. The email that he sent me revealed two others: "I've been using DietPower for years," it said, "and I use Body Tracker, too. Together, these tools have not only helped me get in shape, but stay there." He keeps copies of both programs on display in his exercise room and proudly demonstrates them to visitors. He calls DietPower "my nutrition plan for life."
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Today Polinko has passed age 50, but except for his balding pate, he doesn't Women, too, can make their bodies leaner, lither, and lovelier— If Michael and Angela can do it, so can you and I. Let's get started! (To download a free trial of DietPower right now, click here.) |
