Santa Ana Gym Scores Top Awards at Venice Beach Championship

SANTA ANA, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- September 05, 2006 -- Iron Bodies Gym, Santa Ana's hard-core fitness and neighborhood bodybuilding gym that produces award-winning bodybuilders, today announced its personal trainer Larry Brown, and his client Kimm Winn, received top honors at the Venice Championships Body Building and Figure Contest.

The competition, held Monday, Sept. 4 at Venice, California's Muscle Beach, attracted a crowd of more than 300 people and an appearance by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Brown won first-place in the heavyweight division and the Best Posing Award. Winn garnered first-place in the women's heavyweight division and the Best Overall Award in the women's category.

"The audience erupted whenever either Brown or Winn stepped on stage and didn't stop until they walked off champions," said David Pereira, personal trainer and partner at Iron Bodies Gym. "Again, for the second consecutive show, the deafening cheers for them, led by the crew and members from Iron Bodies Gym, spread throughout the crowd like a virus until close to 90 percent of the audience was cheering.

"Winn started training with Brown at Iron Bodies about two years ago," added Pereira. "During that time, Winn has gone from weekend weightlifter to a champion competitor in women's bodybuilding."

Brown and Winn also took top honors in July at the Los Angeles Bodybuilding, Figure and Fitness Championships. "It was our first competition together and we had 50 Iron Bodies Gym members there to support us," said Brown. "Just like yesterday's Venice competition, the large, loud-and-cheering crowd from Iron Bodies Gym got us pumped-up and ready to win."

The duo brought home four top trophies at the LA Bodybuilding Championship. Brown took home Heavyweight and Novice Heavyweight Awards, and Winn was acknowledged as Women's Top Heavyweight champion and overall winner in the women's category.

"Iron Bodies Gym is where you come to sweat, pump iron and get loud during your workouts," added Pereira. "Our members would be thrown-out of the chain-store gyms for being disruptive."

"Iron Bodies Gym is a hard-core, bodybuilding warehouse-type facility that encourages all levels of fitness to join," said Winn. "I was totally new to bodybuilding when I started at Iron Bodies Gym -- and after training with Brown and getting really comfortable at the gym -- it just became a lifestyle for me to hang-out with friends and pump iron."

Along with the awards, Brown received a prize of $4,000 in gym equipment for Iron Bodies. "We've been renovating and improving the gym all year," added Pereira. "With the new equipment and our facility improvements this year, combined with the visibility from Brown and Winn's awards, are getting our neighborhood gym noticed and growing our membership."

About Iron Bodies Gym

Iron Bodies Gym is a Santa Ana-based, neighborhood fitness and bodybuilding facility that has served the community since 1979. Based on the belief that exercise should be healthy, fun, and inexpensive -- the gym offers low-cost gym memberships without contracts, automatic debit, or long-term commitments. For more information, please visit www.ironbodiesgym.com

About Larry Brown

Larry Brown is a natural leader and teacher with a focus on each client's particular body type to maximize his/her exercise and dietary regimen to achieve optimum performance and visual results. Brown earned certifications as a personal trainer and nutritionist from various organizations, including AFFA, CPA (a specialization for training disabled persons) and APEX, one of the most comprehensive personal training programs in the country. For more information, please visit www.ironbodiesgym.com/trainers/LarryBrown.html

About David Pereira

David Pereira III is a certified fitness trainer, Iron Bodies Gym business partner, and former U.S. Marine. He provides the members of Iron Bodies Gym and his personal training and fitness clients with the most up-to-date programs available, including personalized weight training, nutritional plans, fitness strategies and supplementation training. For more information, please visit www.orangecountybody.com