Joel Ballantyne and Santi Aragon
Guest Host: Joel Giacobbe, M.Ed.

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• Training high school for successful college athletic careers
• Training and dieting for the Teen National Bodybuilding Championships

Joel Ballantyne is a high school track and cross country coach with enormous success in preparing athletes for championships. His girls cross country team has been ranked one of Broward County’s top five teams for two straight years, while qualifying for the state championships both years. He has helped bring the boys track program three straight district championships. His athletes have also gone on to compete in colleges from Division I through Division III. He coaches privately during the summer for the USATF and AAU National Championships. Each high school athlete he has privately trained has qualified for the National Junior Olympics in sprints and distance events. Coach Ballantyne emphasizes not only periodization of training modules, but also proper nutrition in order to achieve the best performance at the right time.

Santiago Aragon is a 19 year old NPC bodybuilder. He has been bodybuilding competitively for the past two years. He is recently undefeated in his bodybuilding career, winning the 2007 NGA Florida championships, 2008 Mid Florida Muscle, 2008 Southern States and the 2008 Teen and Collegiate Nationals. He is planning to take a year off to bring up lagging body parts and come back strong at the 2010 NPC Junior Nationals. Currently Santi is going to college in Orlando, FL majoring in Business Administration. He hopes to one day start his own business in the Bodybuilding and Fitness industry.

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