Before Tom came to me, he was undergoing a renaissance period in his life. Back in the year 2023 he realized that being introverted, having a desk job as an accountant and a sedentary lifestyle wasn’t going to give him the life he wanted. So he decided to do something about it starting with his physique.

One day he passed by my personal training studio in Boonton and picked up a brochure with some of my info on it and was inspired by the success stories there. He opted to take charge of his nutrition before working with me and to his credit, lost 50lbs completely on his own.

Then around new years, he was cleaning his apartment and found the flyer he picked up and decided 2024 was the year to turn his life around. He reached out to me to schedule the free trial.

At the end of the free trial, when we were sitting down for his goal assessment, knowing he is an accountant and we were heading into tax season, I tried to steer him towards one of the twice a week programs. Tom was adamant he could do 3x per week and would make it happen. Having worked with accountants, I wasn’t so sure he could pull it off and reluctantly signed him up.

But Tom defied my expectations. To his credit he showed up every single session ready to bring his best. And applying his work ethic to my program design despite going through the trials and tribulations accountants do during tax season, he got massive results all across the board.

In the first 12 weeks, he took a weight that was heavier his one rep max bench press and was able to do 90 reps in 10mins, went from 1 chin up to 6 chin ups, his squat 1 rep max he did for 2 sets of 15 sub-maximal reps, his Romanian deadlift he was easily doing sets of 6 with weights heavier than his starting 1 rep max. That is a massive increase in his strength. But that’s not the only thing that completely transformed.

He started dressing more stylish and his physique had improved dramatically and people started complimenting him. With his new found confidence he started going out and doing more social things, some of which were with friends he met training alongside at Eric Moss Fitness.

One of my taglines is strength for life, living and the pursuit of happiness, because we should all have the physical capacity and physique to live life on our own terms. Tom’s story is the perfect example of what I’m talking about.

Now at just a little over a year later, he took a new job which is more fulfilling for him and we switched to a remote format until tax season is over. Currently he’s doing sets of 5 chin ups with 10lbs added and his sub maximal bench press training weight is a whopping 100lbs heavier than his 1 rep max was last year, and he got 27 reps in 5 mins with it. Let the enormity of that sink in for a minute.

When you look at the difference in year to year, often times we get stuck doing the same old thing day after day, year in year out and just accept it. Tom is proof that life can be better and part of that starts with the confidence that comes with improvements to your strength and physique. Nothing improves confidence like doing something tough, and coming out the other side way stronger and way more muscular and that transfers to life. Because life is for living.

If you feel stuck, maybe it might be time to check out my free trial. Just text me at 973 476 5328 to get started.

Eric Moss is a personal trainer in Boonton and moonlights as a world-record-holding modern-day professional performing strongman, author, and motivational speaker. In the tradition of the strength performers more common during the turn of the century, he performs feats of strength such as bending steel and breaking chains as part of a live show and travels across the country doing presentations on goal achievement for conferences, corporations, associations, nonprofits, and government entities as well as for schools and universities. His personal training studio is located on Main Street in Boonton New Jersey and is close to Mountain Lakes, Denville, Montville, Kinnelon, Pine Brook, Butler, and Parsippany New Jersey.