Joe Lupo, 69
fitness trainer
Coral Gables
Knockout career: I used to be a professional fighter and I turned it into the career I have now. I boxed in the Golden Gloves for a couple years, went pro three or four years. I won 19 fights and lost one.
Building bodies: I own Joe Lupo Fitness centers in Miami and Miami Beach. I train clients more than 100 times a week. Many are judges, lawyers and retired CEOs. Some have been with me as long as 20 years. I'm also the trainer at the Ritz-Carlton twice a week in Coconut Grove.
Strength, cardio: For myself, I go through boxing exercises, I lift weights (a lot of reps, medium poundage), I run a mile once or twice a week in less than seven minutes and before bed I do 2,000 ab exercises, every type you can imagine, (10 sets of 200 with 30 seconds of rest) and about 200 push-ups (four sets of 50 with a minute of rest). Twice a week I go for an eight-mile walk. Lean machine: I have fruit in the morning, usually cantaloupe and grapefruit, and I eat meat every one to 10 days. I'm 5-feet-10 and I weigh 150. I have very little body fat, which is unusual for someone my age. It may sound like I'm bragging, but fitness has been my whole life.
Light on his feet: My wife, Sandy, and I go to New York once a month or we take a short cruise. We do that 10 or 12 times a year. My wife is a ballroom dancer and we like to dance. I'm just a guy from East Harlem who can dance.
Guilty pleasure: I'm addicted to watching the Yankees. I have the baseball channel and I'm up till 11 or 12 looking for them to win.
Family ties: I have two Lhasa Apsos; a daughter, Jackie, who is also a fitness trainer; a son, Roman, who boxes and was an All-American Blue Chip high school baseball player in the mid-'90s; and two grandchildren, Amanda and Alyssa.
