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John here. I am 51. My wife and I have four kids from 17 - 29 and I am a huge Beach Body supporter and fan.

Lots of people know about, fondly, Smallville and The Dukes of Hazzard. What a lot of people don't know is that just two years prior to my starting that show (I'm that John Schneider) I weighed 245 and had a 48 inch waist! Two months of low carb dieting and joining what was then a

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John here. I am 51. My wife and I have four kids from 17 - 29 and I am a huge Beach Body supporter and fan.

Lots of people know about, fondly, Smallville and The Dukes of Hazzard. What a lot of people don't know is that just two years prior to my starting that show (I'm that John Schneider) I weighed 245 and had a 48 inch waist! Two months of low carb dieting and joining what was then a new gym called Nautilus and extreme diligence later and I had lost 50 pounds! More on that story later.

I became a trainer at the local gym for a year and then Dukes started for me in 1978.

While doing that show I was a member of a legendary, now sadly gone, gym in North Hollywood called Vince's Gym. Vince was a dear friend and a great trainer. I honestly believe that P90X and the Beachbody workouts are the only workout philosophies that he would have agreed with today. He was tough and these are tough. That is why I decided to join up!

When you do a film you first have to take an insurance exam. They need to make sure actors are in good health before a film starts. Well.... when I saw that my weight had gone up to 222 I was shocked! Wearing those big coats on Smallville made it so I hadn't paid much attention to how I looked on screen in awhile I guess! 222 was the most I had weighed since I lost that 50 pounds back in 1976!

After watching an infomercial this past New Years (my family and I were in Orlando doing an event for my Children's Miracle Network, the phrase "Do your best and forget the rest" stuck with me. I decided to order P90X and see if there was anything to it.

Remember.... I was one of the first celeb types to speak about childhood obesity issues on Larry King Live a few years ago. This stuff is important to me. I don't just say good things about a work out and product line unless I have tried it and honestly believe it is life changing.

Okay.... After the first few weeks I was amazed. I looked better, I felt better. Now I decided not to do the diet because when I diet my face gets real thin and gaunt. My wife always tells me when I am getting gaunt and reminds me that that makes me look older. Anyway.... after 90 days on P90X. Working out at home, in hotels, in dressing rooms (yeah, I went for it), I had not only transformed my body but LOST 22 pounds in the process without ever going on a diet!

Loving that!

Plus.... somehow my face didn't get gaunt at all. people tell me I look younger than when I first started Smallville! Truly amazing and I can honestly say that Tony and the P90X workout is what did it.

So now I'm trying "Insanity" and I want to be a coach. Wish me luck.

By the way.... watch for a new movie this year called "Doonby" I think you'll like it. Hopefully coming to a theater near you in September.

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