The Name`s BOND, James Bond The Bond Experience

The Name’s BOND, James Bond
The Bond Experience
By Mary Nearpass
M
eet David Zaritsky, an extraordinarily, hard working
executive and President of Roska Healthcare
Advertising; quite an accomplishment for a man
in his mid forties. (A brief biography of his
work history can be found at the end of this
article). He is happily married and the
father of two terrific kids, residing in
Newtown, PA. As is all too common for
many executives, all the intensity
of climbing the corporate ladder
leads to a pinnacle point in a
successful career. However,
by the time David was thirty-nine, he began to realize
that he didn’t make time to
incorporate appropriate diet
and fitness into his lifestyle,
until - James Bond. One of David’s passions
outside of work is the movies. “I’ve always been a movie buff.
I’m a well-known James Bond
fan. I remember my father letting
me stay up late to watch Bond
films with him on TV—a ‘bonding’
experience for sure. Once I had some
extra money, I began collecting movie
props and costumes. Today I have one
of the largest archived Bond collections in
the country, and often give tours of my private
collection. Additionally, I use it for charity events
and have even lured had clients visit with their families. That being said, my wife wants everyone to be assured
that my world-class collection is sequestered in a separate and lower level
of our home.”
David was never seriously overweight, but he was not in shape due
to time constraints. Entertaining clients involves many meetings around
dining out. During that time period, David didn’t monitor his caloric intake or quality of nutrition because it simply wasn’t foremost in his mind.
One day, in 2007, David was watching a James Bond movie starring
Daniel Craig, sat right up in his chair and thought, “If I want to be like
James Bond, then I have to work on looking like him!” Most of you
have seen the physique on Daniel Craig, well, right then and there, David
began to turn his light bulb moment into reality. He began intensely researching all he could online about Daniel
Craig’s build, and found a gluttony of information. He went so far as
seeking out a twenty-five-year old personal trainer by the name of John
Fulton, who has also become his sensei and colleague. John was a stunt
extra in several films and had studied nutrition and exercise. He has a
seventeen year background in martial arts and is a second degree black
belt. He began training David with all of the workout routines that Daniel Craig does in order to maintain his shape. Part of making the commitment to fitness is making the time to do it. 34 | PHILLYFIT
With David’s hectic schedule, typically speaking, on workout days he gets
up at 4:30 am in order to fit it in. For David, it has become therapeutic and
worth the discipline it takes to rise at that time.
The next hardest part of initiating a journey of fitness
is the motivation to get the body moving and the heart
pumping. “Once one finds the key motivation, the
journey not only begins but continues along with
consistency.”
Some people work out to look better to
or for others. Some people work out because of doctor’s orders. Others, like me,
work out to compete with themselves, to
push themselves beyond their own perceived disciplines and limits. “That all
being said, I have to admit that I use
James Bond as a motivator. I have
a wardrobe of Bond inspired clothes
and immerse myself in the Bond essence, which includes listening to
Bond thumping soundtracks to keep
me pumped when I’m really pushing
it in my workout.”
“Will I ever hit that echelon of
looking like Daniel Craig? Probably not,
but that goal and bar is raised enough that
I am continually striving for that mark.”
When I began to seriously commit to fitness
at age forty-two, I weighed in at 188 pounds
on my 5’8 ½” frame. I lost seventeen pounds
rather quickly, and have worked hard to maintain
this weight where my body quite easy and naturally now resides. My wife and I work out five times a
week. We have two kids, one is studying at West Chester
University and is quite the artist, and the other is an aspiring
film maker and editor. All four of us are avid walker/hikers.”
“We love hosting theme parties at our house, watching movies, enjoying wine and good cheese. As a matter of fact, just this past October,
we hosted a Fiftieth Anniversary Bond Halloween Party.” David also
loves traveling and can usually rustle up an adventure or two on even the
most mundane trips. He is also the chief correspondent for a cool video
podcast about living the James Bond lifestyle. www.thebondexperience.
com. (You can go to the Videos icon on the webpage, scroll down, and
see the video of the above-named Halloween Gala.)
Body-By-Bond, also known as, “How to get the Casino Royale
Body”, is a three-part video series David also developed for those of you
who may be interested in striving to achieve “the Bond Body” look. Currently, the three-part series of “The Bond Body, a James Bond Video Podcast, can also be found on David’s www.thebondexperience.com webpage. Part one trains the chest and triceps, part two concentrates on the back and
biceps, and part three focuses on the shoulders. Additionally, David created a seven-minute abdominal routine that is sure to challenge.
There will also be future discussion on the importance of protein
and nutrition in general. “I myself will be ‘tweaking’ my diet to lower
my carbohydrates (again) and to raise my protein intake. In addition,
what arbohydrates I do eat will be before 2 pm in the afternoon.”
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You could literally spend hours just perusing the abundance of
material on David’s website, and if you are a true James Bond buff, it
will most assuredly be time well spent. You can even subscribe for free
to the website via email, and share your very own Bond Experience(s)
under the most popular Bond Blog Posts.
All of us have “bucket lists” or things on our “to-do” list while
we’re still on this earth, Close to the top of the list for David is, you
guessed it, to be a stunt extra on a Daniel Craig, James Bond movie.
Something tells me that just might be one he’ll be checking off soon.
David is an authoritative voice in healthcare marketing. He has
worked with most of the top and mid-level pharmaceutical companies,
setting standards for best practices and helping marketer’s triumph
over challenges. With over twenty-two years of experience in direct
marketing, multi-channel marketing (MCM), and customer relationship
marketing (CRM), he brings a broad vision to his innumerable skill
sets, which include consolidation of messaging, brand identity, as well
as global and regional marketing. David is an executive member of
PhRMA and a tenured member of the PDMA. His articles regarding the
pharmaceutical industry have appeared in PharmaVoice, Med Ad News,
and Pharmaceutical Executive Today. The readers named him one of
the 100 Most Inspiring People in the Life-Sciences Industry.
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