Brian heads his business called Body Works Personal Training. He's had the business for about nine years and he wants his customers and potential customers to know that he is always there for them.

"I love doing it," Brian says of the personal training. "I became addicted to it." Brian started working out when he graduated high school at a time when he was really thin. He would go to the gym with a couple of his friends. His friends lost interest. Brian kept at it.

"I pretty much self taught myself everything," he says. "I picked everyone's brain and learned as much as I could. Now I can associate with people who are heavy or thin. I can associate with every single person. I have never come across a person that I could not workout with."

Body Works trainers focus on strength training, lean muscle building, rehabilitation, diet and nutrition and general conditioning for people at all levels. Brian has two people working with him at Body Works, including Dana Ventetuolo, a nationally ranked fitness competitor. "She's been a real asset to my business," says Brian.

Body Works trainers go all over Rhode Island to homes, businesses and of course gyms to meet with customers for the personal training sessions. A regular day for Brian has him up at 4:30 a.m. and meeting his first client of the day at 5 a.m. He usually doesn't get home until 8 p.m.

"It's non-stop all day," says Brian of his work. "Saturdays, Sundays, any time." Normally, training sessions last a half hour or hour and rates depend on how far Brian or another trainer has to travel. Brian says the half-hour meetings are increasingly popular. "I get a ton of stuff done in the half-hour sessions," he says. "Those seem to be really popular right now."

Brian says he has a few customers now who are working out just twice a week, working non-stop in half-hour sessions. The clients have lost 80 to 90 pounds, he says.

"It's commitment," says Brian, "but it's not a huge investment of your time. If you just make a little bit of a lifestyle change, alter your diet a little and exercise for a half hour three or four times a week, you'll see huge results. Once you start seeing results you don't want to give up."

Brian has several success stories, one of them, of course being his own, but it seems he takes more pride in the success of his customers. He tells of a man he's been working with for about a year. While working with Brian, the man's cholesterol dropped from 303 to 170. Then there's the 39-year-old-wife and mother of four Brian helped to lose 60 pounds and helped her husband lose 65 pounds. Then there was the lady in her fifties he helped lose 70 pounds and the teenager Brian's been working out with this summer who has lost 30 pounds. Brian has also trained nine-year olds, professional athletes, pregnant women and people in their eighties.

"Anyone can lose weight," says Brian, "what I try to do is lose fat. We get rid of the fat and retain the muscle."

Another one of Brian's satisfied customers is Patrice Pop, who worked out with Brian on a recent Saturday at a Warwick gym. Patrice was a little tentative at first, at the beginning of her workout, but caught onto Brian's contagious energy. Patrice confided that some of Brian's customers call him the "pumped-up Mel Gibson."

Brian is a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association and National Association for Adult Fitness. Call Body Works today at 463.8500.