Welcome to Phat2Phit.com!

My name is Frank Benjamin, and I am just a "Regular Joe" that is changing his lifestyle, eating better and losing weight. Phat2Phit is the beginning line of my journey to health and fitness. I began this blog to help reinforce my commitment to this change.

Back in 2000 I was a year out of college and started working out. Within the next year, I transformed my old beer gut into fit body and new sense of confidence. For one reason or another, over the years I returned to my old ways.

Through the years of an unhealthy lifestyle, my blood pressure and cholesterol has increased to unhealthy levels. I refuse to be bound to medication the rest of my life so I can eat a cheeseburger!

A couple years ago I began working out again. A friend of mind and I started our own "Biggest Loser" contest. I was finally motivated to use begin using my Bow-Flex and exercise bike again. By the time to contest was over, I lost around 10-12 pounds (for those wondering, we actually tied). But I knew that I could have done better. I refocused on my fitness program and began eating a healthy whole food diet and reading more about fitness and nutrition.

A few months after refocusing on my fitness plan, I had shed only another 10 pounds. But I became frustrated with the lack of results. That's when I joined a gym and got a personal personal trainer. It was a refreshing new start. I was learning new exercises and new workouts. It is then I discovered why I was experiencing the plateaus that I was seeing.

Unfortunately, during the late spring of 2009, I lost track of my fitness goals and put on almost all the weight that I had lost. After months of knowing that I had to get back to the gym and allowing my back to recover, I started back up. This time it is truly different. Along my way, and with help from this site, I hope to motivate others to begin a journey to a healthy lifestyle. Stay tuned to see how I do.

Phat2Phit.com will provide you with the incentive to either start or maintain your fitness regime. I will be continually posting about my own fitness programs, tips that I learn as well as healthy recipes to fill you up and help you burn fat. Be sure to visit the Phat2Phit.com Fitness Store and subcribe to our RSS Feed to be notified by your RSS reader when a new post is posted.

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High Intensity Interval Training: Taking it to the Next Level

This article is part 3 of 3 of a series on High Intensity Interval Training. Please read each article and come back to be sure you have read each post of the series – better yet, subscribe to Phat2Phit’s News Feed and be notified when new articles... [Read more of this article]

High Intensity Interval Training: Phat2Phit’s High Intensity Ladder Workout

This article is part 2 of 3 of a series on High Intensity Interval Training. Please read each article and come back to be sure you have read each post of the series – better yet, subscribe to Phat2Phit’s News Feed and be notified when new articles... [Read more of this article]

High Intensity Interval Training: My Cardio Secret

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Reverse Pyramid Workout: My Fitness Secret

People start their fitness plan for many reasons.  Stereotypically women want to keep a nice and sexy figure while men want to bulk up and build muscle.   When I began heading to the gym again, I was not trying to build incredible looking arms and... [Read more of this article]

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