Fit to eat, eat to fit
Before you haul your New Year's resolutions to the gym, take stock of what you're eating. Local fitness gurus are becoming menu planners, they tell Mike Peters, because diet can be the first step to that beach body.
Garry Wang is a cheerful, confident fitness coach who never thought he'd go back to the days when he was chubby - an 11-year-old who felt left out of school sports and other activities.
"My brother was lean - the class athlete, he got the girls," says the Chinese-Australian entrepreneur, now 26. Wang started going to a local gym in Sydney and pumping iron, setting out on a path that would ultimately take him to competitive bodybuilding. Two years ago, having relocated to his parents' homeland, he entered a provincial contest in Shandong.