Hi my name is David Kimmerle...

 

I was born in California, raised in Utah, and adopted at the age of 9. I grew up with a horse, large yard and 3 sisters. I played high school football which led to a love of fitness and eventually bodybuilding. I have followed the sport ever since.  

 

After graduating from high school, I owned a construction company and traveled to several countries and states for work. I have also owned a supplement distribution company in Oregon and ran several tanning and retail stores. But like the majority of us, I became a victim of the housing market and economy downfall. I lost all I had worked so hard to achieve. So at thirty, I made the decision to close my doors and lock up that future.

My attitude was horrible, I was not happy, and I was wondering what my future would hold. My reality was that I was overweight (26 percent body fat) single and unemployed. April 2008, I was home by myself and ready to do nothing (as I had been doing for months) when the gym called. The guy on the line called to invite back to the gym. I decided to pick myself up and go, and have been working out ever since. I decided it was time to stop looking back and change my life.

 

Since that time I have made the conscious decision try to reach my potential. I want to be the example of what hard work and faith can do for the quality and extension of life. I started my new path sleeping on a friends couch, driving back and forth to LA and with very little money for survival. My dream became important to me, and through hard work and determination I began to achieve my fitness goals one at a time. I began to feel so much better about myself and my life. I finally decided to move to LA and pursue a career in bodybuilding and training so I could share what I had learned.

 I have had a lot of help and many blessings in my attempts to make a living and reach goals (covers, modeling jobs, etc.) I acknowledge everyone who has supported me and helped me succeed. Nothing comes easy, but I have learned the more I want it, the harder I try. By the grace of God, and lots of support, this has all been made possible for me.

 

My personal motto has become: Be proud of how far you have come, have faith in how far you can go. It is my opinion that in fitness every step counts and every little achievement should be recognized. I have come a long way but do not take it for granted so I will continue to work hard every day.

 

I've been there....

 

 

Well I was broke, fat, single, depressed and confused; pick a subject. I had fallen so far down the hole that-- all I had left was potential.

 

 

Then I started back to the gym, really only because it was something I could do for a dollar a day. I could kick my own butt while releasing all the pessimistic thoughts that were consuming my life. I am not kidding, nothing is worse than feeling like a life loser.

 

I have been climbing the potential ladder out of that hole ever since.

 

Shortly after training and seeing results I made a goal in 2009 to build the body of my dreams. I decided to fuel my efforts toward this goal using the anger and frustration in my tank. I did not realize however that my life would get better, the anger would run out and I would be left with an empty tank.

 

I had only one tank left and it was positive, but I had no idea how to tap into it. Transitioning from a negative person into a positive person is so hard but I needed fuel.

 

Trying to figure out how to tap into my positive gas tank felt impossible but then it came to me. I remembered the frustration of being a consumer of products labeled with pictures I thought I could never look like. So I set another goal to go with the first one. I want to be the example of what that box or bottle can do with educated bites and steps and share my equation with the world.

 

Setting this specific positive goal allowed me to hold my efforts accountable and gave me an avenue of revenue. So everyday I take all my pills and supplements, I eat 6 times and train hard. I want to mold my body into something that an 18 year old kid or middle aged man would want to look like. I think because I am natural they will believe they can duplicate my results (which they can :) not getting discouraged after the first bottle or steps do not manufacture their vision of themselves.

 

 

 

3.4.11 David shoots with top Hollywood fitness photographer Noel Daganta. Noel has shot several of David's famous photographs and some of his videos.

3.3.11 Inside Fitness, Canada's number one fitness magazine chooses David as their cover model for April issue. David also has an interview in the magazine.

3.1.11 Bodylogix flies David to the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio. He also shot with Pink Elephant Photography while in town.

2.1.11 World Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation magazine Fit & Firm chooses David as their first male cover model.

1.14.11 David signs with South Seas Skincare as their face and spokesmodel for the year 2011.

1.11.11 David lands his third Muscle & Fitness cover. It's the magazine's book called "101 Muscle Building Workouts & Nutrition Plans".

12.20.11 "I AM AN AVENGER" Marvel comic book chooses David as model for the Justice character. It is David's first comic book character shoot.

 

12.17.10 David signs with Bodylogix Supplement line as one of their sponsored athlete. He flies to Canada to shoot their 2011 campaign.

11.15.10 David writes an article for Fit & Firm Magazine entitled "Anger".

10.25.10 Versa Grip chooses David as it's model for its campaign. The campaign also involves model Brooke Mora and is shot by Los Angeles based photographer Noel Daganta.

10.10.10 David is featured on November issue of Men's Workout.

10.1.10 David graces six book covers in a span of two months. The books are mass market paperbacks and are published by several publishing companies.

9.23.10 Muscle & Fitness gives David a cover try.

9.18.10 WBFF World Fitness Model competition finals in Toronto, Canada. David clinches second place among competitors from around the world.

9.1.10 Muscle & Fitness features David as a "Training Notebook" model.

8.28.10 David attends "Reality Cares" Emmy Gifting Lounge in Beverly Hills sponsored by Joico Cosmetics. Joico is one of David's sponsors for WBFF Competition.

7.16.10 Muscle & Fitness continues to feature David as it's Training Notebook guy for it July, August and September issues.

7.2.10 Men's Workout uses David's images for it September issue workout layout. David has been featured in the magazine multiple times in the past two years.

6.2.10 David is featured on a multi-page Maximum Fitness layout.

5.2.10 Muscle & Fitness Czech/Polish Edition is out and David makes the cover. This cover has been published in June 09 US M&F

5.1.10 Austin Fit Magazine is in the shelves and David lands a spread in their annual swimsuit edition. He is the only male model selected for this year's edition.

4.19.10 David is featured in June 2010 Muscle & Fitness' body transformation article "How I Did It". He is also on the "Training Notebook" guide of the magazine. Watch David's interview with M & F on it's website.Muscle & Fitness' "How I Did It" Video4.19.10 DavidKimmerle.com is officially launched.

4.8.10 - David shoots for Austin Fit Magazine in Austin, Texas.

4.1.10 - Men's Workout Best of 2010 is out and David Kimmerle makes the cover for it's annual issue.

This is David's second cover with the magazine. The magazine also gave David his very first cover ever in 2009.

3.30.10 - Strength Training Anatomy book is out. David is the book's model in it's 3rd edition.

It is the biggest selling book ever published on strength training, with more than 2 million copies sold worldwide.

3.22.10 - David shoots for Muscle & Fitness Training Notebook. This is David's 4th time to be chosen as the designated "Training Notebook Guy'. He was the only person, celebrity and non-celebrity alike, to be on the cover of Muscle & Fitness twice last year.

2.26.10 - David flies to Paris, France for a shoot with Strength Training Anatomy publisher Human Kinetics. He was chosen after a worldwide search for the book's model.