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JANUARY 27, 2012
Leesburg Man Sheds Pounds Through Boxing Kara Clark Staff Writer
Leesburg resident Tom Nesslage got a reality check just less than two years ago during a routine doctor’s visit. Nesslage had never been in poor physical condition, but his 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. desk job was not doing him any favors. “You’re behind the computer for eight or nine hours a day and you’re not moving,” he said. “I slowly started gaining weight year after year. I looked at myself in the mirror and said I’m heavier than I wanted to be.” During his physical, Nesslage’s doctor told him he had stage one hypertension, otherwise known as high blood pressure, and was at risk for diabetes. He was only 30 years old. “It was one of those little snapping moments. My waist size had gotten above 40; I couldn’t go up the stairs without losing my breath,” he said. “It was a kick in the pants that I needed to do something.” At the time, Nesslage’s employer Verizon was making the move to a building in Ashburn that had a gym. Nesslage resolved to take an hour each workday to hit the gym and set small goals for himself. The first was to trim
his weight from his then 235 pounds to 200. “Over the course of the next couple months I made small gains, I lost a couple pounds. I eventually got down to where I was closing in on 200,” he said. “I thought this is working, I’m pretty happy with it.” But months later upon visiting Silver Eagle Group in Ashburn, where Nesslage is a member, he noticed that the popular gun range also was offering fitness classes. He combed through the list of classes, which included Brazilian ju jitsu, muay thai, mixed martial arts, wrestling, boxing and judo, and decided to give boxing a whirl. “I got my tail kicked the very first day I went in,” Nesslage recalled. But, despite the “ridiculous amount of physicality required,” he said at the same time boxing was a lot of fun. And the results didn’t hurt either. “I had spent the previous year trying to drop 35 pounds but now I was dropping 30 pounds in a number of months,” Nesslage said. Down to a 32-inch waist and 172 pounds, his blood pressure and blood sugar had also dropped to acceptable levels. NessContinued On Page 35
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