Metabolically Monstrous

Meet your coaches for the America’s Fittest Couple Challenge 3 and see what they have in store!

- Lara Mcglashan, MFA, CPT

If you saw our March/ April 2018 issue, then you’re already familiar with Hannah Eden. With her shock of red hair and bold personality, she’s pretty much impossible to miss. But truth be told, her other half, Paulo Barreto, is equally as commanding, and together they’ve created a fitness brand from scratch that is transforming lives the world over.

Now they are bringing this unique programming to you with the America’s Fittest Couple Challenge 3. Read on to see what they can do for your body, your life — and your relationship!

Of the pair, Eden was the first to fall in love with fitness and went from underweight and emaciated to buff and beautiful in a matter of months. Barreto saw the change in both her physical and mental state and decided to join the party. Soon enough, he was also an exercise devotee, and a few years later, they opened their own gym.

Eden quickly realized that when it came to training her clients, the barbell was one of the most fear-inspiring barriers when it came to starting a program. With that in mind, she developed a concept that eliminated barbells completely, then did away with repetitions and prescribed weights to boot. The result was PumpFit, a program combining bodybuilding, yoga, Animal Flow, functional training, athletic conditioning, plyometrics, bodyweight movements and kettlebell sport — to name but a few disciplines. The workouts were carefully crafted and metabolically intense, packing a ton of work into about 30 minutes with the goal of building strength and lean muscle and burning fat.