I met fitness expert David Corder at Colorado Springs PrideFest earlier this year and that's where I found out about his participation in an online reality-show type contest to become Project Breakout's Next Fitness Phenomenon. David was number one in popular votes throughout most of the competition but now that voting has ended, did he take home the title?
What is Project Breakout’s Fitness Phenomenon and how did you become a contestant?
Originally I found an ad for it on RealJock.com and it was a competition to search the United States and Canada for the next big Richard Simmons or Billy Banks or Jane Fonda they want someone to create fitness products and DVDs type stuff for sale.
What set you apart from the other contestants?
My specialty as far as training goes is kinetic chain which is basically posture. It’s how kinesis works throughout the body. Most people don’t use good posture in everyday life. We slump over our computers.
Guilty as charged. I’m slumped over like the Hunchback of Notre Dame as we speak.
Back in the ‘50s posture was all about how you looked to other people. Nobody would hire you or date you if you slouched. Today it’s about health. The entire nervous system runs through the spine and between each spinal disc are nerves that get pinched when you’re in bad posture and you don’t get the proper signals through your nervous system and it causes a lot of problems from diarheea to male pattern baldness. If we can correct posture early we can correct a lot of these issues.
What’s your Number One piece of advice for improving posture?
Get rid of your chair or just don’t sit back in your chair. Get a chair without a back. It forces you to sit straighter and it forces your tailbone back and helps you sit up straighter. My advice is for everybody to get rid of their office chair and just use a fitball to sit on.
I have two offices of about 30 members who have switched out all their office chairs to fitballs and they are feeling better already.
Well, let's end the suspense. How did things work out for you as far as Fitness Phenomenon?
Voting is over and the winners were announced on Monday and I came in fourth. But considering that it was United States and Canada and I was up against one guy who already had his own syndicated cable TV show and a woman who was one of the top trainers from the Institute for Human Performance, considering who my competiton was, coming in fourth, I thought, was really good and I want to thank everybody who voted for me.
You were up at the top of the charts for most of the competition, weren’t you?
Yeah, number one in popular votes up until the last day and then I dropped to third. I was averaging 1600 votes a day.
So what do you think you gained from the competition?
The biggest thing that came out of the competition is that on a personal note I felt very empowered by the votes and support I got from the community - not just the gay community, but my member community and their families.
And out of the process I ended up with a great DVD workout program. When I first designed it about 10,000 people downloaded it and now it’s an original DVD with original music and the members of my gym are the people participating in the workout. It has different levels of intensity and group workouts and small group workouts and individual exercises with a step-by-step walkthrough of proper form.
And where can we get our hands on it?
It’s available at PerfectFitWC.com. It’s in final production now and will hopefully ready by November.
What would you like to say to readers of MileHighGayGuy.com?
Thank you for all the support. Thank you to you, Drew, and to your readers for all your support.
