MELISSA CARPENTER

I met Roc and Gina in January 2006 during my first figure competition. Gina was helping me with my posing for my upcoming February show. I did alright for my first show placing 4th in my class. After the show I knew these competitions were something that I was going to be a part of for awhile. I took a break for a few months but realized that the longer break I took the harder it would be to get back in shape. I finally decided in May to talk to Roc about training with him. I knew that if I wanted to get to that caliber of training then I was going to have to have Roc’s help. I’ve worked out since I was in high school and have always been athletic but I was missing something and didn’t know what it was. I’m a personal trainer myself and couldn’t understand how I could work so hard and follow the diet I had set up for myself and only place 4th. It wasn’t until I met with Roc and he set up a nutritional plan for me that I realized that no matter how hard I worked and how dedicated I was that I needed his knowledge to make me the best. I had heard all about Roc training sessions either through current clients of his or from reading other testimonials but there’s no words to explain his actual sessions. There is no book, magazine, or website that will even come close to explaining how a training session with Roc is and how it should be done.

I’m now 3 weeks out from my August 2006 show and I look better now than I have my whole life (see above). 30 is really the new 20! Thanks to Roc and of course his wife Gina, I feel completely confident that I will succeed in my next show. Thanks to Gina’s advise and preparing me for the show including the color and cut of my suit, what kind of shoes to wear, and the most important, posing, I am ready!!. I would have been completely lost and embarrassed if I didn’t have Gina’s help with my posing during my February show.

To all of you who are thinking about preparing for a competition or just to better yourself you must talk with Roc. To tell you the truth the first time I trained with him he scared me to death. Now he and my boyfriend, of course, are my biggest supporters. I call Roc with any questions and he is always there for me.

Melissa at the 2006 Coastal USA championships

Melissa Carpenter