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Michael Olajide, Jr., is a former middleweight champion, the “godfather” of boxing fitness techniques, and trainer to several Victoria’s Secret Angels. He is a co-founder of the AERO program, a revolutionary machine-free bodyweight workout. Olajide has appeared on Entertainment Tonight, the Martha Stewart Show, and the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Live Pre-Show, and has *been featured in TheNew York Times, Vogue, Men’s Vogue, Women’s Wear Daily, Time Out New York, SELF, and Marie Claire* (UK). He lives in New York City with his wife.

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Fight fat and win with the revolutionary "no-gym" machine-free at-home workout program to sculpt, firm, and "SLEEKIFY!" your body-in as little as four weeks.

When Victoria's Secret models need to look their best for a runway show or ad campaign, they call Michael Olajide, Jr.

The former championship boxer has a patented fat-melting fitness program that has helped reshape the bodies of stars like Liv Tyler, Sports Illustrated model Alyssa Miller, and Victoria's Secret Angel Adriana Lima.

Now you can have Michael Olajide as your personal trainer, too. This is your chance to experience the same sculpting, firming, sleekifying results that have been turning heads on the red carpet for years.

This twenty-eight-day fitness and nutrition plan-the same one Olajide gives his clients-lets you unleash your body's natural energy at home without having to invest a fortune on useless gym equipment. Instead, Olajide is in your corner every day, every step along the way-a one-man entourage urging you on as you build strength, tone muscle, and lose weight without bulking up. SLEEKIFY!'s techniques are rooted in the "sweet science" of boxing, but you don't need a class, a ring, or a punching bag. All you need is a jump rope-and the will to be your best.

Equipment-free, plateau-proof, and, most important, fun, this workout puts the power in your hands. You dictate the intensity of the workout and, ultimately, your success.

Had enough of what you see in the mirror? Ready to punch out stubborn belly fat and build the stronger, more streamlined body you've always wanted? Leave the machines behind and SLEEKIFY!

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Fight fat and win with the revolutionary “no-gym” machine-free at-home workout program to sculpt, firm, and “SLEEKIFY!” your body—in as little as four weeks.
 
When Victoria’s Secret models need to look their best for a runway show or ad campaign, they call Michael Olajide, Jr.
 
The former championship boxer has a patented fat-melting fitness program that has helped reshape the bodies of stars like Liv Tyler, Sports Illustrated model Alyssa Miller, and Victoria’s Secret Angel Adriana Lima.
 
Now you can have Michael Olajide as your personal trainer, too. This is your chance to experience the same sculpting, firming, sleekifying results that have been turning heads on the red carpet for years.
 
This twenty-eight-day fitness and nutrition plan—the same one Olajide gives his clients—lets you unleash your body’s natural energy at home without having to invest a fortune on useless gym equipment. Instead, Olajide is in your corner every day, every step along the way—a one-man entourage urging you on as you build strength, tone muscle, and lose weight without bulking up. SLEEKIFY!’s techniques are rooted in the “sweet science” of boxing, but you don’t need a class, a ring, or a punching bag. All you need is a jump rope—and the will to be your best.
 
Equipment-free, plateau-proof, and, most important, fun, this workout puts the power in your hands. You dictate the intensity of the workout and, ultimately, your success.
 
Had enough of what you see in the mirror? Ready to punch out stubborn belly fat and build the stronger, more streamlined body you’ve always wanted? Leave the machines behind and SLEEKIFY!

Leseprobe
Chapter 1

The Secret of Sleek

Before I co-founded Aerospace High Performance Center in New York City and became known for my intense workout classes . . . Before I started training everyone from average housewives and senior citizens to supermodels and celebrities, including Hugh Jackman, Eva Mendes, and 50 Cent . . . Before I taught classes that were attended by everyone from Mary J. Blige to James Taylor . . . Before the world took notice when I helped Victoria’s Secret Angel Adriana Lima lose all of her post-pregnancy weight so she was slim, sleek, and show-ready in just five weeks . . .

Before every opportunity I’ve ever been blessed with throughout my twenty-plus-year career in fitness, I was a boxer. In fact, by the time I was twenty-two, I was just one fight away from accomplishing my life’s dream of becoming the International Boxing Federation Middleweight Champion of the World. But if you think I’m sharing my boxing past because I want to impress you with my successes, you would be absolutely wrong.

Instead, I hope to inspire you through my losses.

MY STORY

My signature eye patch isn’t a fashion statement. Instead, it covers up an injury that closed the door on my professional fighting career forever, and opened the door to the fitness career I’ve enjoyed for two decades. It also reminds me every day about something I believe in quite strongly.

Sometimes, the stories that end positively are the ones that are born from something negative. It’s through the choices we make—and the effort we put into those choices—that we decide how our own story ends.

I was fifteen, living in Vancouver, British Columbia, with my mom, when my sister reminded me that my dad—a former pro boxer—had a gym where he trained fighters, and suggested I try the sport. At the time, I really didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life, but I had always been mesmerized by the spirit, athleticism, and abilities of boxers like Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and George Foreman.

When I went to live and train with my dad, my career left the ground pretty fast. By the time I turned eighteen in 1981, with less than a year and a half of amateur boxing under my belt, I was ready to go pro. Four years later, I earned a contract with Madison Square Garden, found myself ranked among the top fifteen middleweight contenders worldwide, and moved to New York City to fulfill my dream.

I was undefeated and only a few fights away from a title bout when I took an uppercut to my right eye while sparring. The punch hit me so hard, it destroyed the orbital floor in my face, causing what some call a bombardier fracture—or a permanent drop of the eye within its socket.

I continued to fight—and win—and eventually became the number-one middleweight contender in the world, despite the fact that I was suffering from double vision and depth perception issues. But the reality at that point was that my journey to become world champion had become a whole lot harder.

I wouldn’t realize until fighting junior middleweight Olympic gold medalist Frank Tate for the middleweight title in 1987 that my dream would be impossible.

We fought that night for fifteen rounds, and I remember feeling drained and lethargic, even though I’d been training hard for the bout. I remember being very aware of everything around me, which is unusual for a fighter when they’re focused and the adrenaline is flowing. But that night, I could hear the crowd. I could even hear people talking. And I could feel every single punch. Being in that place—having that lack of focus—is never a good place for anyone to be, whether you’re a fighter, another sort of athlete, …