Blake Kassel
Your chiseled workout partner and instructor:

Hi. My name is Blake Kassel and I have been exercising since I was 13 years old. Why did I start exercising? When I was 11 years old I attended my first bodybuilding show, The Night Of Champions in New York City. I was blown away! These guys had created huge muscularand powerful bodies. I wanted to do the same.

That’s when I began my relationship with resistance training. I had my first set of weights and a bench press when I was in eighth grade and since then I never stopped.

After about 9 years of resistance training and bodybuilding, it was time to see how I would do on stage. I competed in two Bodybuilding shows. The first show was in 1990 and the second was in 1991. Back in those days, I was Chiseled!

Since then life has become busy; career, marriage and three young children. I have lost a great deal of muscle and my body is anything BUT chiseled.

So, now I am on a quest. I want to look chiseled and fantastic like I did 19 years ago. Can I do it? I know that I can – come join me and lets get Chisled together!!

This is what I looked like in the heyday
This is how I would like to look again

Take a look at my recent before picture, taken on Friday, November 27, 2009
Not the worst, but certainly NOT Chiseled

Here is the pic of me posing next to Terrell about 1 year ago, EEKS!!

My Credentials: In 1994, after about 10 years of serious training with weights I Became certified through the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). Whoa, was that an eye opener! I realized that I had been training incorrectly for years, performing exercises for a certain muscle that really had nothing to do with that muscle. In addition I was exercising in ways that could actually be harmful to my body.

In 2000 I was also certified in personal training by ACE. Although I needed the certifications so that people would see that I had some formal training, certifications really mean nothing. Many of them are just a piece of paper – they do not mean that your instructor/trainer has real life experience.

I have collectively been in the gym for years and have made all of the mistakes. Like many of you, I listened to people in the gym who had no clue how the body and muscles worked. The bottom line…I have made all of the mistakes, so you do not have to. I will pass on all of my knowledge to you so that you train properly and achieve the results that you want.

Thank you for joining us and I look forward to your success in becoming CHISELED!

Best Regards,

Blake Kassel