53-year-old man becomes personal trainer


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WASHINGTON, Washington County — Age can sometimes hold people back when it comes to staying healthy and fit, but Wesley Williams is throwing all those age stereotypes out the window.

Williams is the CFO of Sunwarrior in Washington City, in Washington County. He has now added three more letters to his resume — CPT — certified personal trainer. However, that was not the original plan. He thought he was just out of shape, so he joined the company fitness challenge a couple of years ago. He really embraced it.

Williams said, "I improved my eating habits, lowered my calorie intake ... just started eating healthier ... eliminating the fast food and junk food and dropped 30 pounds and 15 percent body fat."

He transformed his body in about eight months. "As I was going through this change a lot of people would ask me, 'What are you doing? How are you doing it? Can you help me?" Williams said. So that's why he took it a step further and did all the necessary additional work to become a certified personal trainer.

One of his trainees, Cody Roberts, is only on week two and has already seen a difference. He said he's down 10 pounds and has more energy. It helps that they work next to each other. "Our offices are literally right next to each other, so he's right there and he's able to help me do those exercises properly," Roberts said.

He's also training Sunwarrior's CEO, Russ Crosby, who said, "He's shown me that it's not all about age, and you're not really affixed to some certain physical outcome based on age."

Crosby also realizes once he hits his goals he won't be done. "I have to accept the fact that eating cleaner, being more physically active, counting calories is really, I think indefinite," Crosby said.

Williams said health is 80 percent what you eat and 20 percent what you do, and you can't let your age limit you. "When you're younger you have more energy, you have a faster metabolism and it's just easier to stay in shape," Williams said. "You have to work a little bit harder when you get older."

And most importantly you have to find something you like to do and then make time to do that.

The key, Williams said, is eating right. He said, "Then getting some exercise to go in there and that's really going to improve you and you can do that at any age."

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