{"id":19046,"date":"2025-10-28T19:36:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteaactive.com\/west6\/?post_type=personal-trainers&#038;p=19046"},"modified":"2025-10-28T19:36:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T23:36:50","slug":"chris-blancas","status":"publish","type":"personal-trainers","link":"https:\/\/alteaactive.com\/west6\/personal-trainers\/chris-blancas\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Blancas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Started off in school to be a Nurse and lived the aspect, learning the biology of how the body work,s but wasn&#8217;t willing to pursue nursing as a career. I wanted to take a year off to &#8220;work on myself&#8221; and found a passion for fitness. Being quite skinny and smaller than all my friends, fitness gave me the confidence I needed as I started to notice more positive changes in myself, as well as my mindset. 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