MEET THE OWNER

     First of all, I don't want to intimidate or scare anyone with my past pictures.  Yes, we were once a musclehead gym back in the 80's and 90's but things havereally changed since then.  Through 2 relocatons and 4 renovations/addtions we've atracted a new clientel member base. 
     The vast majority of our members now are here to lose weight get conditioned and just to imporove theior quality of life and I think that's great.  Don't get me wrong however, we still apply a philosohy of hard work=great results.  Whether you're 10 years old and wanting to become a better athelete, 13 and overweight, an adult that wants to make a physical change or a senior that wants to live longer and healthier we here at the Enterprise truly believe that you must challenge yourself to cause a positive physical change. Ask anyone who is a member and they'll tell you, the staff here is freindly, caring and sensitive to or members needs.

     Well, onward to the bio.  I started training with weights when I was 15 years old in my garage behind my house in Ocrtober of 1968.  I bought a 400 lb. weight set from York Barbell Co. The rest of the equipment I just got from people around the neighborhood. Everythimg was homemade; chinning bar, squat rack, leg extenttion machine, dumbell rack, bench etc.. In 1970 I went to Wingate College and started working out there.  About the same time I joined the rock band ''Sugarcreek''.  For the next 10 years I mixed effort and time between playing music on the road doing some acting and acquiring my A.A. and B.S. degrees from Wingate and Western Carolina University respectively. I entered my 1st physique contest while student at Western in September of 1974.  It was the Mr N.C. contest.  I placed 5th.  Fast forward to 1980.  I went to workout at the Monroe Athletic Club one day and the owner said that he was trying to sell the club.  I thought, why not so I bought it for 10,000.00, 1000 down and he financed the rest.

The club history timelime is as follows:
1983-purchased womens only club across the parking lot
1984-built new club on Myers St
1985-expanded club adding 1200 sq. ft.
1986-expanded club adding 1200 more sq. ft.
1987-jumped in lake and broke neck-slowed progress
1998-expanded club adding 2400 sq ft
2009-relocated re-invented club to the Shops at Nottingham

Personal awards and accomplishments along the way:

Education
     Parkwood high school-graduated 1970
     A.A. degree from Wingate College 1972
     B.S. Degree Physical Educatiin from Western Carolina University 1977
     M.S. Nutrition/Dietetics Degree East Carolina University-2010

Athletics

     Letters in high school in football and track

     Conference and County record in the shot put

     All county honors in football senior year

Bodybuilding

1980 AAU Mr. North Carolina

1976 AAU Mr. All South

1985 5th place Tall class AAU Mr America

1986 6th place Tall class AAU Mr Universe

1978 Mr Appalachia

1981 President Cup champion

1982 Carolina Classic champion

Powerlifting

1982 N.C. State powerlifting champion 242 lb. class

1984  N.C. State powerifting champ 275 lb. class

Records

Four N.C. State deadlift records (best 770lbs.)

1983 deadlft of 770lbs ranked in the top ten deadlifts in the world

Other accomplishments

Inducted into the North Carolina weightlifting Hall of Fame in 2000

Promoter-promoted powerlifting competitions from 1981-87, then again the AAU State Championships from 1999-2003

PACE certifuied instructor

Acting

     “Black Sunday” 1979 (extra)

     “Hit the Road Runnin’” 1983 (Street punk)

     “Lady Gray” 1982 (Musician)

     “Skip Tracer”  1985 (lover)

     “Critical Condition” 1986 (Richard Pryor cell mate)

     “Chain Gang” 1985 (heavy)

       plus commercial acting for Lowes, BoJangles, Chevrolet, Fieldcrest Cannon and   

       various others industrial films and print ads.

 Miscellaneous

        Financed and produced a music video in 2009 for the band Sugarglyder
        Take a look  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of1JxSnQ3YA