I was wrapping up a meeting with one of my clients, Pura Vida Fitness and Spa, when the CFO showed me a photo of an attractive woman and asked if I knew who it was. I immediately recognized her, as I had just spent some time chatting with up with her husband. The woman was NBC’s “Biggest Loser” trainer, Kim Lyons and significant other is of course none other than Gunter Schlierkamp. Gunter is one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet and is currently featured in the “rethink” commercial by Saturn. I last saw them together at the Olympia in Las Vegas.
Enough of my personal connection to the two. Susan Brown, from the Denver Post, caught up with Kim and here is a bit from her featured story.
Win back your health with help from “Loser”
You wouldn’t know it from looking at her washboard abs and wide smile, but Kim Lyons was once overweight and miserable. Lyons, 34, now a trainer on NBC-TV’s “The Biggest Loser” and author of “Your Body, Your Life: The 12-Week Program to Optimum Physical, Mental & Emotional Fitness,” (Sterling, $17.95, to be published in February), wasn’t always the picture of health.Lyons’ father was an Air Force pilot, so the family moved around a lot while she was growing up. To fit in at each new school, Lyons focused her energy on sports, participating in softball, track, gymnastics and cheerleading. Her teen years were spent at Lewis-Palmer High School in Monument (where her parents still live), and after graduating, she went to Colorado State University to study human development and family studies.While she stayed active, “The weight sneaks up on you,” Lyons said, noting that a year after college graduation she was carrying an excess 30 pounds on her 5-foot-3-inch frame. “It made me shy, insecure and uncomfortable,” Lyons says.
