Chance Griffiths

At the start of my high school career I wanted an edge on the competition. I was a good athlete but I only played one sport in the spring. I wanted a program during the off-season to become faster, stronger, and healthier. From freshmen year to junior year I work out various gyms ranging from hardcore boot camps to local gyms. Every time I saw results but they were not the results that I wanted. I may have gained a few milliseconds on my sixty and learned some training drills but I did not learn how to work out or how to keep myself healthy.

At the beginning of my senior year I began working out at Chris Marino’s body shop and I began seeing the results I had wanted all along. Within the first six weeks I had gained seven pounds of muscle and lost one percent body fat. The reason for all my success was not putting me in a group of ten kids and making me run wind sprints, but rather, it was Chris teaching me how to workout and how to eat every meal of the day. Chris showed me step by step every exercise and every stretch. Chris answered all my questions and provided me with books and shopping lists on how to become a healthier athlete and a more physically fit person.

Within weeks of working out with Chris I could see results in my baseball swing and in my throwing arm. In the batting cages the balls were jumping off my bat faster than they ever had. I could feel myself putting every muscle, even muscles I never knew I had, into my swing. I began impressing coaches at winter camps and eventually signed to play D3 baseball at Haverford College in November of my senior year.

During my senior season I saw all my hard work with Chris turn into results. I went from batting .210 with one homerun in my junior season to batting .390 with 5 homeruns in my senior season. I attribute much of my success to the work I did with Chris.

In the end my I enjoyed every day I worked out at Marino’s body shop. I actually enjoyed going to the gym because I knew every time I went I was getting results. If you are looking for somewhere you can find personal attention and results in a great workout atmosphere I would got to Marino’s body shop.