By: Darcy Tharp
Colin Wayne, the fitness
model, personal trainer, and military veteran hailing
from Alabama, strives to be his best every single
day. The handsome muscle man has fashioned a
successful fitness career for himself out of a love
of training and a desire to help and inspire others
to train and be healthy. Following an illustrious six
year stint in the military and a traumatic incident in
Afghanistan that caused him to be sent home with
numerous injuries, Colin managed to get himself
on multiple major fitness covers, create a massive
social media following, and turn it all into a full time
job. It must be the military training from a young
age that instilled in him that drive and motivation
to be better, which he now seeks to help others
do through his online personal training packages,
one on one coaching, and fitness tips and advice.
That training started as early as high school when
he joined JROTC, and at 17 years old he enlisted
in the Alabama Army National Guard and shipped
off to Basic Training and AIT (Advanced Individual
Training) as a Military Police Officer. He has since
deployed three times in support of the US Military,
twice with the Army to Egypt and Iraq, and the last
and most memorable one, as a DOD government
contractor in 2012 to Afghanistan. Just recently
married this March, Colin still took time to open
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up to MOST Fitness about how that tragic event
changed his life, how he found a new career doing
something he loves, what his next projects are, and
how even a fitness model enjoys the occasional
junk food. Gauging from that six pack, though, it is
clear that Colin knows a thing or two about training
and achieving physical perfection.
FMM: “Train Insane or Stay the Same”-Did you
come up with that as your personal motto?
What other personal mottos do you live by?
CW: I didn’t come up with the saying, “train insane
or stay the same.” I found it on the Internet, but it’s
definitely something that everyone should live up to
in the fitness community to make changes. Push
your body out of its comfort zone and the results
will follow.
FMM: How did the original transition into fitness
modeling start and how did your first photo
shoot come about?
CW: My transition into f itness modeling was really
something that I had no clue about what to do
nor expected to be so successful at. I did my
first photoshoot with Furious Fotog who lives in
the same city as me in Huntsville, AL. I created
a Facebook fan page with the images that we
took, and my page started to go viral and within 4
months I had over 100k followers. Before I knew it
I had a lot of opportunities come up based on my
exposure from social media. >>>