{"id":553,"date":"2016-03-11T09:55:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T17:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smarterexercise.org\/blog\/?page_id=553"},"modified":"2020-06-22T15:47:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T15:47:28","slug":"about-thom-tombs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.smarterexercise.org\/home\/about\/about-thom-tombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Thom Tombs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thom Tombs, co-owner of Smarter Exercise in Encinitas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My own introduction to strength training took place in a rather nondescript office park in Encinitas, California. I would walk by a nondescript “by appointment only<\/em>” sign to get to the nondescript office park delicatessen. Then, I would walk by the sign again with my lunch order in hand back to my office. Some days, I walked by the sign several times… for breakfast, for lunch, and then again for dinner. My expanding waist line and I were working a lot of hours in those days. As the Senior Director of Information Technology at a fast-growing company, I honestly believed I didn’t have enough time to exercise.<\/p>\n

One day, out of curiosity, I ignored the sign and poked my head in the door. I didn’t know it then, but what I discovered in that nondescript office park was about to change the course of my life forever. What I discovered was that I absolutely did have time to exercise, and that I had not even known what exercise really is.<\/p>\n

After just a few workouts with my instructor, this computer guy was actually gaining muscle! Having new muscle was inspiring me to eat better. As I began to pay attention to what went into my mouth, I started losing fat. I felt better physically, and my clothes fit better. As time went on, it seemed to me that I didn\u2019t catch every flu bug that came by. I even stopped smoking, eventually.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m so happy with the results and the health benefits that I continue to enjoy that I gave up my former IT career. I studied to become certified in SuperSlow, and together with my wife Sandy, we opened our own strength training facility so we could share this remarkable workout with others.<\/p>\n

I’m in the best shape of my life now. I feel stronger and better at age 48 than I did as an 18 year old Marine. I got that way by exercising once (sometimes twice) each week for 10-20 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My own introduction to strength training took place in a rather nondescript office park in Encinitas, California. I would walk by a nondescript “by appointment only” sign to get to the nondescript office park delicatessen. Then, I would walk by the sign again with my lunch order in hand back to my office. Some days, … Continue reading “Thom Tombs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":219,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-553","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarterexercise.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarterexercise.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarterexercise.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarterexercise.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarterexercise.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarterexercise.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarterexercise.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/553\/revisions\/997"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarterexercise.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarterexercise.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}