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2003/05/10, 05:56 PM
A few years ago, the young mother was what a kind relative might euphemistically have described as “a big girl.” In fact, she weighed nearly 200 post-baby pounds and was beginning to think that maybe the weight was the price paid for bearing two healthy sons.
The after picture shows an energized Michele as she is today, hard-bodied, radiant and seemingly ready to jump off the poster. Down from a size 18 to a size 4 in less than a year. Without changing her diet.
What Michele learned and now teaches with the fervor of a tent evangelist is TaeBo, developed by muscled media darling Billy Blanks.
It is fitting that Michele is on that poster in the training center’s vestibule for she surely has become the poster child for the overweight, depressed and despairing of ever escaping obesity.
TaeBo, she declares, took her mind off her outside and focused on her inside. And that’s when the pounds began melting away to reveal a woman she had not imagined existed.
“TaeBo is not about size, weight or appearance. It is about feeling confident, healthy, strong and focused,” she said, curled cross-legged in her office chair. “We don’t do numbers and measurements and weight goals here. I want to help others find out what they’re made of. I want them to know that they can walk through the fire and conquer anything in front of them. If I had not lost the weight, I still would be doing TaeBo for what it did for me inside.”
For every nonathletic person who ever has felt too intimidated to enter a workout facility where what one wears is as important as the task at hand and dates are made at the juice bar, there is TaeBo.
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