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is an ACE-Certified Personal Trainer, owner of Results Gym and Fairhope Fitness, and creator of Extreme Results.

Eddie Henry

Photography Jeff Nelson

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With the manageable timeframe, Bill focuses more on his true passion: family. Like most parents, he didn’t think he had time for fitness. But he soon found the time when he couldn’t keep up with his kids’ activities.

“Now I can be physically active, which helps me engage with my kids and I think kids respect you more when you can hang with them.”

It’s the little things he enjoys: running across the baseball diamond, reeling in the third amberjack for his sons without being physically exhausted.

“I wanted to be more functionally fit,” said Bill. “I wanted to surf, play with my kids, fish, do everything I enjoyed. I want to be able to do them well, often, and when I want as long as I want. And with Extreme Results, I can.”

Bill no longer fits Einstein’s definition of insanity. Instead, he is the definition of Extreme Results: creat-ing and maintaining a level of fitness that allows you to enjoy life to the fullest.

How Does He Do It?

By Kimiko Wadriski

Bill Hixson owns two businesses and raises three young boys with his wife Allison. By day, he is Dr. Hixson, a radiation oncologist at Gulf Coast Cancer Centers. In the evenings, he is a family man coaching his son’s baseball team. During spring and fall, he’s a competitive runner participat-ing in 5k races. During winter, he takes his family out west to ski. During summer, he surfs and wakeboards and goes offshore fishing on Lady D Charters.

With such a packed schedule, it’s easy to put off exercise. But Bill is not only active and fit; he is in the best shape of his life.

“People always ask ‘How does he have time to do it all?’” said Eddie, Bill’s Extreme Results trainer. “He found a way to balance his life with the program.”

“You just have to make time,” said Bill, “You have to find time and make it a priority.”

“Excuses don’t really fly with Extreme Results because it makes you more efficient in every aspect of life,” said Eddie. “I normally hear ‘I’m too busy’ or ‘I’m too tired.’ With the program, you’re more productive when you’re busy; you have more energy when you’re tired. That’s what hap-pened for Bill.”

In the previous issue, Coastal Lifestyle Magazine introduced Eddie and Extreme Results. Each successive issue will highlight Extreme Results cli-ents who have balanced and improved the quality of their lives through the program’s five variables of fitness: aerobic conditioning, anaerobic condi-tioning, recovery, stress management, and nutrition.

Bill’s balance began with aerobic conditioning. Bill entered Extreme Results considering himself fairly active. He went to the gym and ran at least five days each week, but he never broke 40 minutes for a 5k race.

Explaining Bill’s routine, Eddie quoted Einstein’s definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. But his training volume produced more injuries than results.

“I was ready for a change,” he said. “I wanted to not hurt. I wanted results.”

“Event-specific training programs, like marathon running plans, are very one dimensional, which is fine if that’s all you want to do,” Eddie said. “But if you want to go out, enjoy life and do everything better, you have to be multidimensional.”

“In Extreme Results, strength circuits combine with cardiovascular exercises for high-intensity interval training. The constant state of mus-cle confusion stresses the body in ways it has never been stressed before, which recruits new muscle stabilizers allowing the body to respond quicker and better.”

Bill experienced the results firsthand. He not only began breaking his personal bests in running, but he did so without injury. “I didn’t expect weight workouts would help my cardiovascular conditioning,” said Bill, “But I have never run this fast before Extreme Results.”

“I don’t do event-specific training anymore because part of Eddie’s philosophy is be ready, stay ready,” said Bill. Before Extreme Results, he would be sore after a day of surfing, but now he stays on the water longer, catches bigger waves, and is more aggressive.

“My body stays so functionally strong, I can go out and do anything without prepping for it.”

And the best part: it’s only an hour.