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70 || FITNESS MAGAZINE || JUNE 2015 || EDITION 1 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 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: %u201cTrain Insane or Stay the Same%u201d-Did you come up with that as your personal motto? What other personal mottos do you live by?CW: I didn%u2019t come up with the saying, %u201ctrain insane or stay the same.%u201d I found it on the Internet, but it%u2019s 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 fitness 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.By: Darcy Tharp>>>