Kiss Your Age Goodbye is a personal fitness consulting studio specializing in reversing the affects of aging by using tried and proven methods of specific mild exercises and responsible eating. Founder, M.J. Diebold, is the designated heir to the personal training legacy built by the recently deceased Michael M. Abrums. Mike was well known in the Beverly Hills inner circle as the "TRAINER OF THE STARS."


Mike was a confident and dignified man who exhibited no need for boasting or name dropping, he had trained hundreds of actors, actresses, models, socialites and public figures whose names are household words throughout the United States and the world over. Mike's family knew of his fondness for Ronald and Nancy Reagan which grew out of their ongoing training relationship; otherwise, you were only likely to learn about his clients from the clients themselves.

 

No one had ever seen Mike’s client list until M.J. learned that he had left the list to her. Although M.J. has the list hanging in her studio among other memorabilia, she has decided to keep it confidential.


Mike had dedicated his entire life to learning and teaching life-style and nutritional habits that allowed the body to thrive and maintain balance, fitness, beauty and youthfulness. Perhaps motivated by a devastating disfiguration which resulted from childhood polio and his subsequent quest for a way to restore his body to health, he set upon a mission in high school and never looked back.

M.J.'s enthusiasm was as intriguing to Mike as her own progress was to her. In his words, “After 68 years, I have finally found someone with the same passion for health and fitness as I have had.” He began to pour himself into teaching her the ins and outs of the techniques and knowledge he had acquired during his lifetime of helping people back to health, beauty and fitness. He fondly nicknamed M.J. " Mike Jr." and often referred to her as his “ masterpiece”. He let it be known that his wish was for her to be the carrier of the methodologies and legacy he had developed.


Three years into their master/student relationship Mike gave her the nod. It was time for her to take what she had learned and share it with others. She was ready.


M.J. began working with a few acquaintances in her home in Louisville, KY. Within a year, it was obvious that she was consistently getting the same results she had experienced under Mike's guidance. The word was out and in January 2003, she opened the KYAG Studio in Prospect, KY. Mike and M.J. continued their mentoring relationship until his passing in June 2008.

He began his career as a trainer in the U.S. Marine Corps during WWII. He lived what he taught and he had refined and proven his methods for himself and for scores of clients who demanded results and who also could afford to avail themselves of any resources available. Until the moment of his passing at the age of 93, he remained an amazingly fit, vivacious, and youthful gentleman who stood erect and danced like a man in his twenties.


M.J. first heard about Mike at her Kentucky Derby party in 1999 from a beautiful, FAMOUS, blonde Hollywood celebrity who was one of Mike's clients for many years.  For M.J., the thought of a "Hollywood" trainer conjured up images of working out with a Jane Fonda video -- been there, done that; no thank you!  She had tried the fad diets and "fool-proof" exercise routines from all the magazines and was content to not exercise and eat all the wrong things.

By the age of 45 and overweight by 50 pounds, MJ was paralyzed by feelings of hopelessness and futility, M.J. was well aware that she was quickly sliding backwards down the slope of American middle-aged resignation -- always tired, disinterested, comforting herself with junk food to avoid the pain of merely existing as an empty shell of her former, youthful, vibrant self.


For a year, her famous blonde friend relentlessly prodded her to make an appointment to see Mike. Still, she wouldn't.


Finally the famous blonde hoodwinked M.J. into a visit with Mike by inviting her out to a luncheon which, unbeknownst to M.J., turned out to be at Mike's gym. M.J. sentimentally recalls that first meeting as the major turning point of her life.

Thankfully, Mike’s methods were not difficult. It only required a few minutes of simple exercises and some adjustments in the types of food she was eating. They were so simple that, at first, M.J. was waiting for the "real training" to begin. Then something amazing happened. Within five days, M.J. started to notice the subtle changes taking place in her body.


Her energy level had definitely taken a drastic upturn and, best of all, she wasn't having food cravings for any of the foods she had been accustomed to before. Within one month she had lost 17 pounds and it had seemed effortless.


Now motivated by obvious success rather than failure, M.J. began to immerse herself into her training -- listening and learning, studying anatomy, quizzing Mike daily about nutrition and health enhancing habits of how to stand, walk, sit, and breath. All the while her body was reshaping itself. Her complexion cleared and her skin tightened as the cellulite vanished. Even her facial features were lifting and growing noticeably firmer. She noticed that even her hair and nails were growing healthier. How could it be that this man had perfected this science and news had only traveled within Beverly Hills?

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In the mean time, M.J. had opened a second studio in Beverly Hills and is committed to the science of helping people be their best in the tradition started by Mike Abrums.


KYAG continues to grow and M.J. stays very busy with clients in KY and CA.  M.J will be credited as personal fitness consultant for actress, Linda Gray, who plays a leading role in a Hollywood Movie due out around the Holidays 2010.  We’ll keep you posted.






ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
M.J. expresses a debt of gratitude to the Abrum’s family for allowing her the privilege of honoring Mike’s lifetime of dedication to his craft through her work. She also cherishes his specialized equipment, now left in her possession in her Beverly Hills gym.

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