Tory is a contest prep and posing coach and personal trainer at Team Elite Physique. Tory has been passionate about the health and fitness industry since she started running cross country at the age of 12. She went on to run for the varsity team all four years of high school, and was named Female Athlete of the Year as a senior. She turned down a scholarship to run in college and landed herself at Illinois State University. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science and an emphasis in Food/Nutrition/Dietetics with intent to change people’s lives through diet and exercise. Her passion for running continued in the meantime and since she was 18, has been training for, and thus far, raced 8 marathons in 7 different states. Including qualifying twice for the Boston Marathon and beat “Heartbreak Hill” in 2013. A competitor at heart, Tory has turned her attention from running to weight lifting and has recently entered the world of fitness competitions and contest prep. In her short time in the sport thus far, she won the overall title in the NPC Bikini Division at her first show, as well as the overall in the Muscle Mania Natural Figure Universe Division. She is eager to continue on! Despite her sporty background, Tory has long battled with the same body image issues and lack of self confidence we all encounter at some point in time. It wasn’t until she decided to make a change and commitment to her diet and exercise that the self affirmations and positivity starting rolling in. Tory has taken moments of pain and turned them into pride, and she is living proof it really isn’t “the weight you lose, it’s the life you gain!” Tory wants to help show you what living fit, happy and healthy really means and assist you in understanding the parallels to the gym and life, while giving you the confidence to throw in a flex and show off the guns every now and then, just for good measure. Team Elite Physique was created by head coach Adam Bonilla in 2000 with one mission, to win, and to do so excessively using only the most cutting edge evidence based practices in exercise and nutrition science. We have a proven system over the last two decades training world champion physique athletes all the way down to basic weight loss transformations. Team Elite Physique is well recognized as one of the top teams in the world and proven and awarded top team in Colorado breaking nearly every Colorado state NPC record.