Announcing the Katy Slimdown Challenge Winners (and how they did it)

This years Katy Slimdown Challenge was a huge success.  We had 125 people enter the free competition and saw some amazing transformations.  The most amazing transformations came from Darrin and Lorie Yu, the winners of this year’s Katy Slimdown Challenge.

In order to make this event possible, CompuSolutionX and Medical FItness Pros donated a $500 shopping spree to the top male and female who had the best physical transformation.  Medical Fitness Pros also donated 4, “One Month of Personal Training” prizes throughout the contest.

While most of the participants were individuals, a few couples also entered the event.  As it turned out, the couples did better on average than those who entered the competition on their own.  I’ll share my insight in a another post in the near future about the trends I saw in those who did well or did not do well.  For now though, let me focus on Darrin and Lorie Yu.

In the competition, we took a look at several factors to determine the winner.  We evaluated weight, inches, body fat percent change and total amount of body fat.  After evaluating, if we still couldn’t determine a winner we evaluated percentage of all of these numbers in coorelation with the percentage of weight of the individual.  Here are some of the numbers for Darrin and Lorie after 15 weeks and before and after pictures.

Darrin Yu Before / After (Front)

Darrin Yu Before/After (Side)

Lorie Yu Before/After (Front)

Lorie Yu Before/After (Side)

The Before and After photos are rather remarkable, aren’t they?  For the last month of the contest, they won one month of personal training from Medical Fitness Pros’ personal trainer, Jason Harley.  Here is what they had to say about that experience.

“Working out with Jason for the past few weeks have been fun and enjoyable; each workout was creative and always different from each other. The level for each workout was customized for my ability.
One of the cardiovascular exercises I really enjoyed was sprinting on the treadmill for 30 secs and walking 1.5 minutes in between. I have added this exercise to my weekly workouts.
Jason has a quiet approach and has a good sense of humor which makes it more relaxing for me.

More importantly, Jason is very approachable and easy to talk to. No one should feel intimated when training with him. Plus, he will seek out answers with any questions he is unsure of. I would recommend Jason to anyone that is looking for a trainer and/or someone to workout with.” – Darrin Yu, 2010 Katy Slimdown Challenge Winner

I’m going to let Darrin and Lorie tell you the rest of their story, so you can learn from them.

I couldn’t be prouder of all they accomplished as a couple.  If you want to see some of the informational articles that Darrin was talking about, you can view them on my regular blog.  We will continue to send out informational articles as well.  You can receive those by subscribing to our newsletter.  I would like to thank CompuSolutionX for donating one of our prizes, New Day Image for taking photos, and all of those who participated in the event.

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