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Wednesday, Jan 29, 2014

Pushing past barriersBy JAKE WADDINGHAMCNA staff reporter [email protected]

After trying several fad diets of weight loss pills, drinking apple cider vin-egar and trying other “off-the-wall” methods, Russel Finehout was frustrated with no results.

At 23, Finehout was about 390 pounds. His weight was starting to take a toll on his health, causing chest pain because of an enlarged gallstone. He also suffered from nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

“He (the doctor) was pretty straight up with me,” Finehout said. “He told me that I basically had more years behind than I did ahead if I didn’t change the way I was living.”

Finehout, a 2006 Cres-ton High School graduate, started to study weight loss and realized all of the fad diets he had tried in the past shared a common theme — a caloric deficit.

“I started using just a ca-loric deficit for my diet and

tracking my calories,” Fine-hout said. “That’s when I started to see the weight ac-tually come off, when I was tracking what I was putting into my mouth.”

Finehout used a three-ringed binder to log every-thing he ate throughout the day. His goal was to have a deficit of 500 to 1,000 calo-

ries daily.He also started to do

workouts at the gym.“I was kind of embar-

rassed to be in the gym, but I really didn’t let that stop me,” Finehout said.

Because of his weight, Finehout could not run or do other fitness activities

for a long duration, so he adopted a high-intensity training method.

One of his workouts would be to run for a min-ute, then recover by walk-ing for a minute. His next set would be to run a little harder for 40 seconds be-fore a rest.

Breaking barriersFinehout’s weight-loss

journey started in Decem-ber 2011. Within about a

year, he had reached his first milestone, breaking the 300 pound-barrier.

“One day I was coming back from the gym and it was really an emotional ex-perience,” Finehout said. “I had been trying to do it for such a long time.

“I started like crying in my car on the way home from the gym because I had finally pushed past this bar-rier that I had been fighting

forever.”Finehout also started to

enjoy weight training, but knew it would be difficult to continue to lose pounds and build muscle. He worked on perfecting his weight-lifting form, but his focus remained on counting calo-ries and losing weight.

After fighting through a plateau at 270 pounds, Finehout’s next milestone was breaking 260 pounds —

his high school weight.Finehout’s three-year

battle with his weight reached it’s pinnacle in June 2013 when the scale read 189 pounds on his 6 foot, 1 inch frame.

“I got to the point where I was happy with my weight, and I actually

n Finehout loses more than 200 pounds with caloric-deficit diet

“I got to the point where I was happy with my weight, and started going back with a dif-ferent mindset of gaining mus-cle instead of losing weight.”

— Russel Finehout

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Contributed photo and CNA photo by JAKE WADDINGHAMAt 390 pounds, Russel Finehout, right, knew he wanted to make a lifestyle change, but had no success with several fad diets. In December 2011, he started a caloric-deficit diet in addition to working out and by June 2013, Finehout cut his weight to 189 pounds.

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started going back (to the gym) with a different mind-set of gaining muscle instead of losing weight,” Finehout said.

Future goalsInspired by his new life-

style, Finehout is currently enrolled in sport’s nutri-tion classes at Southwestern Community College to be-come a personal trainer.

He also works for Back 40 Barbecue and Culligan in Creston.

Using his background and studies as experience, Fine-hout wants to help others who are struggling and frus-trated with weight loss.

“You can’t go on a diet, diet is a dirty word,” Fine-hout said. “You have to go on a lifestyle change.”

Finehout said the majority of the battle is in the kitchen and he wants to help push people to work hard in the gym and with their diet.

In his free time, Finehout stays active. He organizes a group to play ultimate Fris-bee, bikes, reads and is con-stantly working on his form for power lifting.

Finehout still enjoys the high intensity training he used when he first used when he returned to the gym three years ago.

“That’s what I really en-joy, picking heavy stuff off the ground and then putting it back down,” Finehout said.

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Creston High School graduate Russel Finehout com-pletes a squat workout at Southern Prairie YMCA Jan. 14. Three years ago, Finehout was about 390 pounds before he committed to a caloric-deficit diet and work-ing out at the gym.

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Local run club mixes fitness and fun

CNA photo by BAILEY POOLMANCreston Run Club members, from left, Bill Ralson, Melissa Richardson, Julie Schultz and Mark Hayes take a 9 a.m. jog in the frosty weather Jan. 11.

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Whether you sprint, or blend walking and jogging, there is a spot on Creston Run Club for anyone.

Creston Run Club, found-ed by a group of runners in the summer of 2012, is a so-cial running club, according to Rose Wignall, founder of Creston Run Club.

“The goal, I guess, was to socialize,” said Wignall. “You know, to have fun running and add some social aspect to it.”

Club member Wilma Os-mun agrees with Wignall that Creston Run Club is a group devoted to fitness and fun.

“We just have a good time,” said Osmun. “We visit when we run, and we get good ideas of what someone else is doing when it comes to training. I think it’s more the friendship aspect.”

Fun runThe idea of social running

was planted in 2012, and since

then has sprouted into the Creston Run Club.

“I am a member of the Y, and friends with Rose, and a few of us would get together on a Wednesday or Satur-day, and we just got to talk-ing it would be a fun idea to get more people together and run,” said Osmun. “This would be a good way for run-ners of all levels to get togeth-er.”

Southern Prairie YMCA hosted the club the first year, when members signed up to train together for Dam to Dam, a 5K and 20K in Des Moines. The first year there was a membership fee.

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Wednesdays are focused on social runs, and occa-sionally there are bonfires and potlucks after the run.

Saturdays consist of long runs, ranging from eight to 18 miles.

The time and location is posted on the club’s Facebook page, https://w w w . f a c e b o o k . c o m /Crestonrunclub?fref=ts.

“I put things on there at least once a week during the running season,” Wig-nall said. “And, usually, we

meet on Saturdays unless there’s a race.”

Future goalsThe club members all reg-

ister for local runs through-out the year, whether they run together or not.

Osmun said the group will run Market to Market, a Des Moines relay, again this year.

“That’s one thing that we’re going to do as a run club. And, actually our shirts say ‘Creston Run Club’ on them,” Osmun said.

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Bill Ralston, a Creston Run Club member.

Club members also search out local 5K runs, such as the Firefighter 5K in November, the Balloon Days 5K in September or the Doctors Dash in Corn-ing in July.

Other races members plan on running include Drake half-marathon and Dam to Dam 20K.

The main goal the club is focused on now is increas-ing the number of members.

“I hear people say they’re intimidated because they

can’t run, or keep up with the people that are in the group,” Wignall said. “And, I wish we had the whole gambit.”

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