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About Rooster

Scott "Rooster"
United States Marine

Founder — Iron Rooster Fitness & Nutrition

NCAA All-American athlete. United States Marine. Disabled veteran. Business builder. Husband. Father. And the man who looked in the mirror one night and decided that what he saw was not acceptable.

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Rooster

USMC

United States Marine Corps
Once a Marine. Always a Marine.

NCAA

All-American Athlete
Nationally Ranked Program

65

Years Old
Best Shape in 30 Years

70 LBS

Fat Lost — 265 lbs to 210 lbs
15 lbs of Muscle Added

The Full Story.

Iron Rooster was built by a man who needed it. This is that story.

Rooster was an athlete before he was anything else. Team captain. College scholarship. NCAA All-American honors. Part of a nationally ranked program. He understood discipline, competition, and what it meant to push a body to its limit.

Then he became a United States Marine. And the Marine Corps did what the Marine Corps does. It asked everything. He gave it.

The price came due over time.

The List

Left shoulder — rotator cuff torn. Labrum torn. Both. Full reconstruction surgery.

Screws in the neck.

Both knees compromised.

Left foot crushed.

Two traumatic brain injuries.

Remaining eye compromised.

One eye. Gone.

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I'm not listing these for sympathy.

I'm listing them because if you served — if you worked the job — you have your own list.

"You know the list."

After the military came the civilian world — corporate work, then building businesses, then marriage and kids and all the responsibility that comes with being the man a family depends on.

Somewhere in all of it, health took a back seat.

He went from 201 pounds to 265. Not overnight. A little at a time. The way it always happens.

Rooster in the gym

Rooster in the gym — 65 years old, screws in his neck, one eye, rebuilt shoulder. Best shape in 30 years.

Until one night after a shower he looked in the mirror. And he felt something he hadn't felt since before the Corps.

Disgust. Not at the weight. At what it meant.

The Marine was gone. The athlete was gone. The man his wife married — gone. What was left was soft, out of shape, and angry about it. Always in a bad mood. Moving like an old man. Barely bending over to tie his shoes. Energy wrecked. Sleep garbage.

He wasn't the father his kids deserved. He wasn't the man he'd spent his whole life being.

And he had every excuse in the world to stay that way. The injuries alone would have given him a free pass.

"I didn't take it."

He attacked the problem the same way he'd attacked every problem before — with discipline, research, and a refusal to quit. He read hundreds of peer-reviewed studies. Human metabolism. Fat burning. Strength training for injured bodies. Recovery science. Nutrition that actually works for real men with real lives.

Then he rebuilt the system from the ground up. Not for an uninjured 25-year-old in a commercial gym. For a man like him. Hardware in his neck. Reconstructed shoulder. Bad knees. A brain that took a hit. A job, a family, and real responsibilities.

That system became Iron Rooster.

Today Rooster is 65 years old. Blind in one eye. Screws in his neck. Rebuilt shoulder. Knees that have seen better days.

And he is in the best shape he has been in 30 years. Not in spite of everything his body has been through. With everything his body has been through.

If his body can do this — yours can too.

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The Transformation

Started At
265
pounds
↓
210
pounds today
Fat Lost
70
lbs of fat burned
+
15
lbs of muscle added
Off Meds
4
medications eliminated
↓
0
blood pressure · pre-diabetes · pain · statins

Off blood pressure medications. Off pre-diabetes medications. Off pain medications. Off statins. Metabolic age below 50. At 65, with screws in his neck, two TBIs, a crushed foot, one eye gone and one compromised, and a rebuilt shoulder.

This is not a before and after photo shoot. This is a man who refused to quit.

The Iron Rooster Mission

Iron Rooster exists to help veterans, first responders, and men over 30 rebuild what modern life has taken away.

This is not a fitness app. This is not another fad program. This is a system built by a man who lived the problem — and built the solution from the ground up.

Your family deserves a strong man.

Your life demands discipline.

Your body deserves better.

We are all wounded. Every vet, every cop, every fireman, every EMS worker who has carried the load for years — we all have a list. We don't talk about it. We just carry it. At 40 that load gets heavier. Men must be strong. Modern life is designed to make us weak.

Iron Rooster was built to fix that. For us.

Strength. Discipline. Health. Control.
Iron Rooster... Hit It Hard.
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