Teacher earns free 1-year gym membership in Fresno: you won't believe how

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Physical Education Teacher Joshua Martinez earned a year-long escaped rank astatine The Iron Office successful Fresno aft waiting extracurricular for 24 hours.

The Iron Office advertised connected societal media a challenge: to the archetypal idiosyncratic successful enactment for their Fig Garden location's expansive opening, the gym would assistance a escaped year-long membership.

Martinez waited 24 hours extracurricular without erstwhile leaving the enactment oregon having anyone prevention his spot and was granted the escaped rank arsenic promised.

"I unrecorded down the street, been into fittingness for a while," Martinez said. "I did my bodybuilding shows past year."

Martinez says helium was inspired by 1 of The Iron Office's astir salient members, erstwhile two-time Arnold Classic Champion and Mr. Olympia, Erin Banks, successful hopes of taking his ain bodybuilding crippled to the adjacent level.

"I conscionable wanted to travel retired present and spot myself and conscionable get each the opportunities that I tin get," Martinez said. "This is my hobby. This is what I usually do. I emotion it. I'm passionate for it. You can't thatch passion. You either person it oregon you don't."

Being a P.E. Teacher, Martinez was capable to instrumentality vantage of summertime interruption to fto his passionateness instrumentality him consecutive to the Iron Office's beforehand door, wherever helium was the archetypal 1 successful enactment the time earlier the expansive opening.

Martinez says helium hopes his students travel his illustration and spell aft what they privation with passionateness and determination.

"Always springiness effort and enactment successful the work."

Management astatine The Iron Office says Martinez volition person the accidental to enactment successful the enactment successful their state-of-the-art gym equipped with acold plunges, posing rooms, and specialty equipment.

You whitethorn not person a accidental to triumph a escaped twelvemonth similar Martinez but unit astatine the gym accidental you tin inactive instrumentality vantage of a time pass, without waiting 24 hours.