Tag: fitness

Once a 300-pound weakling, now champion of fitness and health

Once 300 pounds, now fitness expert

April 23, 2013:

When Devin Wicks is on the job, helping people get healthy, lose weight and shape up, he’s got a special kind of credibility: He’s been there. Once a 300-pound heavyweight, he got active, shed 100 pounds — and now is a familiar blur of action around the Recreational Sports Facility as director of fitness and health operations for UC Berkeley.

Pioneering UC Berkeley Wellness Letter celebrates its silver anniversary

November 16, 2010:

For more than a generation, people looking for plain-spoken, science-based guidance on healthy living have turned to a short-on-frills, long-on-substance, monthly known as the UC Berkeley Wellness Letter.