Why Choose RetroFit Week

Austin Andrews

"The Softball field had a huge grassy outfield that I felt stretched for miles. Of course, my face was in the dirt and my eyes just above the grass, so my perspective was distorted. I looked up, and above me was a man wearing a yellow shirt. The man was yelling at me. Yelling words of encouragement. He said, "Don't you dare quit; don't you dare check out." This man was my teammate, and he knew his job was to help motivate me. I kept doing my "military crawl" across the dirt, and then I stood up and punched the boxing shield my teammate was holding up to his chest. He was excited that I was still going. I was still trying hard - but mostly I was continuing because of His encouragement. This moment in the field was the beginning of a 6 week mental transformation that I was just embarking on. Up until this moment with my teammate I had just been coasting through the experience of NBC's "The Biggest Loser." I had been working out, but not working to my potential, and it was only my teammates to whom I could listen and would really know that THEY GOT IT. It is interesting that the very thing I needed was the thing that up to this point I had totally pushed away - I understand now that when I was embarking on my journey towards health I had to have people around me to help support me in my dark moments. I would never have changed on the inside if my teammate hadn't pushed me to do so, and if I had not learned to trust and rely on others for my strength and motivation. I cannot say that I immediately understood the significance of that moment in the field. Over the next 6 weeks I began to realize that the moment where I pushed through the end of the workout, THAT moment was significant in my spiritual life in addition to being crucial in my physical life. Barriers in myself, barriers that I had just lived with for a decade were lifted. Over the next six weeks God began to show me revelations about who I am, and what I mean to Him- and it was these moments of realization that were the seedlings of God's transformating me on the inside. I could show you the softball field at The Biggest Loser Resort Malibu where my life was changed, but I'd much rather meet you at the newest Biggest Loser Resort, in Niagara, and show you the ground where God wants to start YOUR Transformation. I hope that you will Invest in your relationship with God and your physical life by coming to the RetroFit Week at the Biggest Loser Resort Niagara." - Austin