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Topic: DEF LEPPARD Guitarist Discusses His TuraroundPosted By: Metalbaswee
Subject: DEF LEPPARD Guitarist Discusses His Turaround
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2010 at 7:46am
Phil Collen, lead guitarist and singer for DEF LEPPARD
with over 65 million in album sales, lifts weights, kickboxes and lives a
bodybuilding and fitness lifestyle. It's all caught in an eye-opening
interview in the most respected and longest-running fitness and
bodybuilding magazine to date, Iron Man magazine. The legendary photo shoot accompanying the article was caught on video, and can be viewed below.
Phil's
inspirational success story will open your eyes to his successful
lifestyle turnaround as he reveals how to mix workouts, healthy eating
and life on the road in a feature in the January issue of Iron Man magazine.
Enthusiastic about his feature in the first issue of 2011, Phil's
interview marks the New Year and gives his fans the opportunity to
learn about his workouts and healthy eating. He's been featured in many
magazines, but the Iron Man magazine feature is unique because
this publication is a pioneer in the fitness/bodybuilding world and
shows what people can accomplish with weight training, and healthy
eating. Now Phil is a part of the legacy, helping his fans to become more fit and healthy by hitting the weight room. Today, Phil is one of the fittest rockers on the scene.
Phil says he has more energy and feels better now at 52 years old than he did when he was 25. Phil loves Iron Man
magazine and what it stands for. This publication truly opened the door
to helping average men and women achieve their fitness and bodybuilding
goals with weight training.
Iron Man magazine publisher John Balik
said: "The magazine is known for providing answers to common questions
and ending the confusion of proper workout strategies. It combines
decades of tried and true bodybuilding strategies with the latest
science on exercise, nutrition and supplementation. It bridges the gap
between workout science and real-world application."
Phil
shares his passion for fitness and shows how others can also achieve
their fitness goals through living a balanced, fit, and healthy
lifestyle. He feels people need to know how important resistance
training is, and how they can increase their endurance, energy levels
and stamina while feeling better than ever before.
Ian Sitren,
a highly-regarded writer/photographer in the bodybuilding and fitness
industry, interviewed Phil for his editorial feature. He was able to
capture Phil's wonderful enthusiasm and limitless energy in his exciting article. He gives plenty of details of Phil's lifestyle departure from drugs and alcohol to becoming a fitness industry role model.
The January 2011 issue of Iron Man magazine is on newsstands now, and is also available at Barnes & Nobles bookstores.
For more information, visit http://www.ironmanmagazine.com/" rel="nofollow - www.IronManMagazine.com .
Collen will set aside his axe and join the highly successful Los Angeles Fitness Expo as a special guest presenter on January 29 and January 30, 2011. Phil will be joined by his longtime trainer, international Muay Thai kick boxing championship trainer Jean Carrillo.
Attendees of the Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center will find
over 300 exhibits offering the newest in fitness, diets, nutrition,
strength and wellness products and services.
As a rock and roll guitarist in an internationally successful rock band, Collen
didn't start out as a health and fitness enthusiast. After years of
playing hard, partying hard, and leading a self-described "very
unhealthy lifestyle," Phil decided to make a change. In his early thirties Collen decided to quit drinking and partying. His live-saving conversion came just before his DEF LEPPARD bandmate and "terror twin" of the party scene, Steve Clark, died of a prescription drug and alcohol overdose in early 1991. Inspired to lead a healthier lifestyle, the sober Collen
no longer needed to "recover" each day from the previous night's
debauchery, and instead found himself with numerous free hours in his
day. Collen began exercising, running to start, and later taking up the martial art of Muay Thai kick boxing.
Collen has trained with Jean Carrillo for six years and together they will be offering a special series of interactive workout classes and demonstrations at the Los Angeles Fitness Expo. Jean
brings with him a wealth of experience including his personal service
in the French Special Forces, and working with the French Foreign Legion
in Africa as an instructeur in close combat. He holds black belts in
karate, tae kwon do and kick boxing, as well as being a French and
European champion. Holding a Bachelor's Degree in Physical Education, on
top of his many other awards and accomplishments makes Jean Carrillo the optimal instructor alongside Phil Collen.
As the fathers of young children, both Collen and Carrillo
know the importance of teaching our youth about good nutrition and
fitness at a young age. They firmly believe it takes educating both
parents and school teachers to help children gain the foundation of a
healthy lifestyle at a young age and carry it throughout their lives.
But, as someone who was himself a late "bloomer" in the exercise field, Collen feels that anyone can achieve a healthy lifestyle, no matter what age they start. Reflecting on his own background in rock, Phil
laughs, "At nearly 53 years old, I can tell you, it is possible for
everyone to be healthy and fit at any age, it just takes knowledge and
dedication."
Collen began training in the martial art of Muay Thai kick boxing with Carrillo six years ago and now both men, vegetarians as well, believe in bringing their positive experience to the masses.