About me

   THE FIRST REP…

From a young age, I remember always wanting to be fit and in shape. It was all I saw on TV and on the big screen. The leading guys were always lean, ripped, and buff. They had it all: beautiful women, cars, and big homes. That’s where it began! I picked up the weights and started lifting. As my passion for fitness grew, so did my thirst for knowledge. I read everything I could get my hands on. I was the only 14 year old kid going to the magazine stand and buying the latest issue of Men’s Health every month. I trained, worked with and under other trainers, and studied. What started as a hobby became a lifestyle.

LIFE HAS A FUNNY WAY OF GUIDING YOU…

I was 18 years old, healthy, fit, and going to college. Though, as we all know, life doesn’t always go as planned. At 18 years of age, I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Yep! Show’s over, close the curtains, we are done here folks! Well, that is what it felt like at first. I looked at the doctor and asked, “I’m going to have to give myself insulin for the rest of my life? Are you kidding me?” The doctor wasn’t kidding. It wasn’t a big joke. It wasn’t Hugh Laurie. It wasn’t an episode of punk’d. This was real. I was now one of the 80 million Americans that have T1D.  I wasn’t unhealthy. I exercised. I worked hard. I did everything I was supposed to do to stay healthy and yet, my pancreas decided to go kaput! (Pancreas is the organ responsible for producing insulin in a person’s body).

~ Edwin Louis Cole