Trainers: Eric Wiseman

scott fitness personal trainer, eric wiseman

Contact Eric Wiseman

e: ealexanderca@mac.com
p: 816.769.0425
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"Besides being the cornerstone of my modeling career, fitness is the single most important element of my life."

"For over 15 years I enjoyed success in many sports, but from day one, my true passion was always soccer, which I played for nearly all 180 of those months. I ate, drank, and breathed the game. However, my career came to an end while I was playing college ball in South Florida. I decided I no longer wanted to devote all of my energy and sacrifice most of my time for the sport I'd been playing my entire life; I wanted something different. I had a thirst for change.

scott fitness personal trainer, eric wiseman Since my first photo shoot at age five, modeling was something I always wished I had the time to pursue, but soccer was my priority. Now that this was no longer the case, I decided to give modeling my all. Only one problem: I'd been working the door at a club in downtown West Palm Beach, eating like a king, drinking like a fish and lifting heavy in the gym four to five days a week for a year. Entering high school, I stood at a lanky six-foot, one inches and tipped the scales at a scrawny 155 pounds - with, at the most, eight percent body fat. Now, my sophomore year of college, I was only two inches taller, but 100 pounds heavier, with 23 percent body fat. My suit grew four sizes to a 46L, my waist expanded from 32 inches to almost 37 inches, and there wasn't much muscular definition on my body. Sure, I was strong as an ox, but there was no six pack in site. Agencies were telling me that men needed to be near 200 pounds. This seemed an impossible goal. Even though I started resistance training when I was just 15, and had undergone years of the toughest conditioning training out there, I didn't have the knowledge to get into modeling shape. Performance/strength training was all I knew, and no agency cares how much you can bench press.

However, the fates have their way. My dad heard 'Coach Hammer', a professional fitness trainer, speaking on a sports radio show about his training clinic: proper dietary habits, lifestyle, etc. On a gut feeling, he put us in touch with one another. This was, hands down, the most valuable, influential contact of my life. Coach took me under his wing and educated me on what a healthy, fitness-oriented life really was. In just three months, between his coaching, and my hard work, I was down to 215 pounds of rock-hard, lean muscle. This new life I was living not only got my body into great shape, it got my life into shape. My productivity at work increased dramatically because my energy levels shot through the roof. My clean, healthy nutrition habits became second nature, and I felt absolutely awesome.

I soon moved to NYC and signed with a top modeling agency. Two months later I was booking national work. The transformation was so rewarding that I wanted to help others attain what Coach Hammer helped me achieve. I combined the wisdom from Coach, countless books, and other personal trainers with my own experience, and started training in NYC. Modeling is very much a full-time job - so my clientele was kept small - but the results were anything but. No matter what is going on in life, staying fit and healthy will allow you to tackle even the biggest issues, which, when fit and healthy, seem a lot less 'big'. It is extremely gratifying to help my clients obtain the health, the body and the life that they never thought possible.

Every element of my clients' programs is custom-tailored to his/her specific, personal goals. Although everyone is different, and needs to be trained according to these differences, there's a common response that all my clients share: a big smile."
~ Eric Wiseman