Rick Copley testimonial

I wanted to share this testimonial from Rick Copley; he was a phenom before Advocare products - now that he's on products you can read the results below yourself. Rick takes Excel Gel, Rehydrate, Night Time Recovery and Post Workout Recovery. He qualified for Xterra Worlds in Maui recently and last weekend blew the field away in Jacksonville. He will be our special guest for the next Performance Elite Webinar. Z

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As a young athlete I had a lot of success in shorter endurance races. I enjoyed championship seasons in Cross Country and Track in high school then as a Division I athlete at the University of Massachusetts. After graduating I experimented with some longer and more challenging races. I always loved to ride bikes so bike racing and triathlons became a natural fit for me as I entered my late 20’s and early 30’s. I had success but not the success that I had hoped for. When the races got really long or really hot I just melted. I was never able to nourish myself properly.

Fast forward to 2009. In April I competed in the Duathlon National Championships in Richmond Virginia. The day turned out to be unseasonably warm. The first run was good for about a mile then I fell apart. On the bike I cramped within a couple of miles. The second run was simply surviving and not completing. The race was an utter disaster! Why wouldn’t it be? The temperature was in the mid-90’s at race time and all I had leading up to the race was water. During the race I had one gel that was in my race packet and one bottle of water which I milked for the entire bike ride. At the end I finished 15th in my age group and was lucky to get that.

That was my wakeup call.

Soon after I was working with a coach, Zahid Buttar, and putting Advocare into my body before, during and after workouts and at night to recover. What a difference in my workouts! Despite the Florida heat I was still about to get in quality and quantity. The test was 7 weeks later when I went back to Richmond. This time it was the XTerra Atlantic Cup. My body was in kick tail and take names mode and that’s what I did! Seven weeks earlier I had finished the first run in 18th place for the 35-39 age group. Now I did the XTerra run and not only was FIRST in my age group but also I was first OVERALL for the amateurs in the 10k run! To finish in 19th place overall and 6th for the amateurs was a truly inspiring result for me. What a remarkable difference!

My performance was even more remarkable considering that I had a broken leg in 2008 and I had only done one XTerra race since October of 2006. Clearly the Advocare products helped me immensely!

Now that I am nutritionally squared away I have some massive goals to annihilate. First and foremost this year my goal is to finish on the podium at 3 world championship races: Powerman Worlds, Short Course Duathlon Worlds, and XTerra Worlds. Beyond that? Ironman Worlds, Leadville 100….