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A little more about me….
Pat King is a Nationally Renowned Health & Fitness Guru! He has worked in the Health & Fitness field for 12 years and has dedicated his life to spreading the importance of living a conscious healthy life. He had been a teacher in the field and last year started his own Health & Fitness training and developing company. Pat teaches seminars in several states which include Professional Development & Leadership trainings for Fitness Professionals and Health Empowerment seminars for corporations and the general public. Pat’s passion for Health & Fitness proves true in the TRULY TRANSFORMATIONAL seminars that he teaches. Pat hopes to release the first of a series of books in January of 2008 which are what he says to be the answer to the Health Crisis in America. Pat believes that he holds the secrets that will change the way people view there health and how it effects others.
Professional:
Pat started his life long journey in the Health & Fitness Industry over 10 years ago. He actually started working in a Gold’s Gym cleaning on a holiday weekend to make some extra money. Soon after he started working at the front desk. Pat quickly recognized his passion for health and fitness and along with the desire he already had to help people, he became a certified personal trainer and certified nutritionist. He took these skills and went on to work with professional athletes, body builders and fitness models through out his career.
After being a trainer for less than a year he set out on his first entrepreneurial quest and started an online fitness and nutrition company. With in the next few months he was offered a General Managers position at the GNC which was attached to the Gold’s Gym where he worked. He gladly accepted. Six months later he was offered the General Managers position at the Gold’s Gym. He gladly accepted.
As a result of Pat’s passion for health & fitness, helping others and his naturally born leadership skills he quickly became an icon in his community not only in health and fitness, but as a leader and business man, all of this by the age of 21 and with no college degree. With in the first 2 years of being in the health and fitness industry he was now a General Manager of a GNC, a Gold’s Gym and President of an online heath & fitness company.
Pat went on to be the leader with in his company and in his field. He went on to serve as an Area Manager and Regional Fitness manager in charge of 15 health clubs where he trained and developed an all new fitness staffs from area managers to trainers. Pat’s ability to lead grew quickly and effortlessly.
Pat eventually went on to become an owner in the greatest health club chain in the world, the Gold’s Gym’s of Raleigh/Durham in North Carolina only to recognize later that his ability to reach people in the masses to help change there lives would be very limited from inside the walls of his health club. He then set out on the journey that he is on now.
Pat decided to enter in to the Real Estate investing arena and again quickly proved to be the natural leader and business man by becoming an instant success in Real Estate. He has been a guest on a Real Estate Investing TV show on two separate occasions. Although RE is not Pat’s true passion, he has used this as a vehicle to give him the freedom to work on great things to come in the health & fitness arena as this is where his true passion lies.
Currently Pat is doing some training and developing work in the health and fitness industry. In his free time outside of his day job Pat develops websites and writes articles about personal development, health, fitness, healthy living, coaching, entrepreneurship and many other empowering topics.
Personal:
Pat’s personal life stays in line with his passions in life, helping others, health, fitness & wellness.Pat become a competitive body builder to help him explore his own physical limitations and to test his own personal will and boundaries. He says that you learn a whole new kind of discipline in this area. Pat’s last competition was in 2003 at the NPC Virginia State Championship.
Again showing his passion to be true, Pat has studied in Martial Arts for over 15 years. Most of his training lies in Judo & Ju Jitsu where he has become a certified instructor. Pat believes that a Martial Arts program extremely beneficial for all and should play a significant role in raising a child. Pat says that the mental discipline that you learn from a good martial arts program is priceless. Pat’s last competition was in one of the largest Judo competitions in the United States at the United States Naval Academy where he finished 2nd only losing by a 1 point decision to a Navy Seal.
Fitness outdoors proves to be his favorite as he really enjoys hiking and backpacking. He frequently travels all over the Unites States hiking, camping and backpacking. Pat says that this is where his best thinking happens, in nature meditating.
Mind Muscle is what Pat refers to when he talks about meditation. Meditation is part of his daily routine and he attributes all his good ideas and success to tapping in to the unlimited power of the mind through meditation.
Being of service to others has proved to be a passion for Pat not only in his business, but also in his personal life as well. Pat enjoys doing any kind of service work that he can find time for. He says that nothing makes you happier than finding a way to help others. His favorite quote is that of Albert Schweitzer “One thing I know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve”. Pat has spent weeks to months doing volunteer work and is currently on a quest of his own to start a non profit organization to help educate people about the importance of health and wellness and a balanced mind, ,body & spirit.
Pat currently spends a lot of his time educating himself so that he may be of more benefit to others. The rest of his time aside from his daily physical and mental training is dedicated to writing and developing new articles, ideas and transformational programs to help people.
