Gino Pugliese Body Building, Wrestling, Rugby and Success

Gino Pugliese is a person who perhaps more than just about anyone you will likely meet on the street, at a party, or at a business conference exemplifies success. Pugliese hails from BC Canada, where he is a managing director of an important firm. But the path established for himself to reach the stellar success that he enjoys today has not always been easy, nor has it been clearly defined or delineated. Just like all great men and women, Pugliese has striven his entire life to find out what really matters most to him. He is married and has children, and perhaps family is the obvious answer to the question regarding Pugliese’s top life priorities. But when he was young, it was the exciting and challenging world of athletics and sports that most attracted him and inspired him. He was gifted by nature with an exceptionally athletically fit and powerful physique.

This fact, coupled with his strong determination to achieve his best in whatever endeavor happened to present itself to him, combined to spell out fairly clearly, or so it seemed, that sports, and even professional sports, would be the best path for him to pursue. He was on a variety of rugby and wrestling teams. He eventually even became interested in body building. To Pugliese, developing the finest, most fit and toned up physique was an attractive feat and one that he excelled in, winning several big-time competitions. However, everything seemed to change, almost overnight. When he was 35 years old, Gino Pugliese experienced a dramatic setback that would serve as a catalyst to change his life forever. During an intense and highly competitive rugby match Pugliese suffered a severe injury that would land him in the hospital for a long and arduous stay.

His doctors all confirmed to him that he would never again be able to engage in competitive sports, ever. This came both as a shock to him, and as a sense of a crushing defeat. He had always been active, and couldn’t imagine life without physical activity and sports. He became exceedingly sedentary, overate, and felt depressed much of the time. As a consequence, he put on weight, and eventually weighed nearly 400 pounds. To Pugliese’s credit, at this seeming point of no return, he transformed his life, went back to college to earn an MS and embarked on his new career.