There's no shortage of fitness transformations on Instagram. Each side-by-side image speaks to a journey: maybe someone lost weight, or bulked and gained muscle, or just squatted their way to a killer butt. But trainer John Benton's images tell a different story; his transformations highlight the exact number of inches his all-model clients lose on their hips and waist in mere weeks. Models fly to Benton's studio from all over the world to whittle down their waist-to-hip ratio - and in turn, he helps to launch their careers.
As the exclusive trainer for all modeling agencies in Dallas, Benton spends his days training only female models - but it didn't start out that way. "About five and a half years ago, one of my friends who was a booker for Kim Dawson agency - the largest model agency in Dallas - liked the way that I trained. He referred one of their girls to me - she had a lot of potential but her hip measurements were a little too big for the industry," he says. At the time, she was his first model client. "I stepped back and realized I couldn't train a model the same way I train normal girls," he says, explaining that his previous female clients had been more concerned with overall toning - particularly their posterior. "Normal girls aren't that worried about their hip measurements."
Soon Benton realized that everything he thought he knew about toning the female body - particularly as it applies to weight and strength training - didn't apply to models. "With female modeling, waist measurements and hip measurements can make or break your career, so I stepped back and through a little bit of trial and error adapted the way that I trained and changed the way I recommended diets." In just a few months, Benton's new techniques got that one client's hips from 37.5 inches to 34 inches; she eventually moved on from being the top model in Dallas to signing with an agency in New York City. It wasn't long before word of Benton's success stories spread like wildfire throughout the modeling community.
Conventional fitness wisdom says you need to do squats and lunges to tone your thighs and butt, and then chug a protein shake after working out to solidify all your hard work. That's all wrong, says Benton - if a lean model body is what you're after. In fact, studies have shown that immediately reaching for protein after a workout might not be all that necessary. "Most of the girls who come see me are already in really good shape, they’re just doing the wrong exercises for their specific model goals. They're eating very healthy already, they’re just eating the wrong types of food at the wrong time," he says. "So what we try to do in the gym is we try to burn some body fat off their hips and waist, but at the same time not build up any muscle."
His technique is a mix of cardio and isolation toning of the inner and outer thighs, hips, and waist - with a heavy focus on building a strong core. These techniques are effective on their own, but Benton trains his clients for almost two hours a day, five to six days a week to maximize their results. And what's even more astonishing is that their bodies begin to shrink within the first week. "There’s a fine line with being a model and getting a really good calorie-killing, fat-burning workout that will tone-up the areas you need to tone, and at the same time not build muscle on where you want to stay small," he says
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