Getting Buns Of Steel: It Is All Done By The Book
By Stephen Weir
Jamaican Canadian fitness guru Andre Rose is holding a book launch
tonight and he knows that everyone is going to want to look at his Buns of
Steel. No, not his rear end (although
the former body building is in fine fine shape) it will be about his just published
book, Buns of Steel: The Unstoppable Pursuit Of Fitness.
The evening launch of his first book is taking place the Brunswick
Bierworks in York. The 39-year old has spent the last two years working on a
book that is meant to help men get fit,
healthy and age gracefully with a healthy mind and body. "This will help you
break out of your mediocrity and negative mindset, and get you onto a new,
exhilarating, passionate path of divine purpose and a life of freedom!"
"The time to think about your health isn't once you turn 70, it is now
when you can still do something!" he told the Caribbean Camera in a sit-down
interview on Monday. "Battling in the
fat wars and being overweight is not a comfortable or healthy way to live.
People dramatically shorten the length of their lives. Why do we get
overweight, quite simply by not doing enough physical activity."
Rose is talking to all men _ not just the super fit gym rats. He discusses diet, health issues, recipes and
workouts for the average guy who doesn't have the time or money to religiously
hit the health club. He has designed
workouts that can be done at home and at work.
Rose started getting serious about fitness at the age of 22 while he was
working as a professional retail sales specialist, and personal shopper, for
Collectibles in Kingston, Jamaica. His
boss, concerned about the lack of productivity amongst the employees, organized
Tuesday and Thursday night exercise sessions at a nearby health club. It didn't take long to get him hooked.
When he came to Canada 8-years ago, as a refugee, he couldn't afford at
first keeping up the health club regime. He landed a job building mattresses at
Serta in Vaughan and turned 8-hours of
repetitive construction tasks _ like building box springs -- into body building
exercises.
"That is not for everyone of course, but you can.t walk away from
exercise just because you are work," he continued. "Regularly standing up, stretching and walk
away from the computer can make a huge improvement on your health."
Rose, a few months away from becoming a Canadian citizen and also
turning 40, now works at Amazon during the day and at night is the man with the
steel butts. In addition to his own
regular workouts he also has created his own online underwear company that
manufactures bamboo skivvies here in Toronto!
"When you work out your thighs became more muscular and the crotch of
your underwear gives out fairly quickly." He found that bamboo absorbs
moisture, is sustainable, and is an eco-friendly fibre. He calls them Steele by
Andre Rose and is made with bamboo, which helps the pants slide easier, and
makes it more durable.
Andre Rose is a true man in motion.
The new book, his underwear company, a soon to launch personal training
programmes, a book signing at Indigo and of course those buns of steel.
Toronto Caribbean Camera Newspaper
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