{"id":375,"date":"2018-06-01T18:06:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T01:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unifiedlifestyle.com\/granitegym\/?page_id=375"},"modified":"2018-06-01T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T02:23:09","slug":"who-is-grant-roberts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.unifiedlifestyle.com\/granitegym\/who-is-grant-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Grant Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unifiedlifestyle.com\/granitegym\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Grant-Solo.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Solo\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"711\" width=\"1024\" title=\"Grant Solo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grant Roberts\u00a0is a former Mr. Canada bodybuilding champion, and is a personal trainer, nutritionist, lifestyle coach, actor, author and philanthropist. Roberts was born in Toronto, Canada, and is also a citizen of Ireland. He currently resides in Canada and the United States.\u00a0Roberts career gained international recognition for his work in transforming the physique of actress\u00a0Hilary Swank\u00a0in the\u00a0Clint Eastwood\u00a0film\u00a0Million Dollar Baby\u00a0(2004). Swank went on to win both the Golden Globe and Actress Academy award for Best Actress and paid tribute to Roberts on both occasions, acknowledging his contribution.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts had a cameo appearance in the film\u00a0Million Dollar Baby, as the corner-man for actress and real-life professional world champion\u00a0Lucia Rijker\u00a0who played the 140 champion &#8216;Billie the Blue Bear&#8217; in the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts would team up again with Clint Eastwood and\u00a0Morgan Freeman, playing\u00a0Ruben Kruger, a\u00a0flanker\u00a0alongside co-star Matt Damon who portrayed team captain Francois Pinnear for the\u00a0South Africa national team\u00a0the Springboks that won the\u00a01995 Rugby World Cup, in the 2009 film\u00a0Invictus.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts is actively involved in charitable work, founding www.healthystudentbodies.com an organization dedicated to educating, motivating and creating healthy invigorating lifestyle for all students of life regardless of age. Roberts\u2019 foundation provides fitness equipment to schools and fitness programming including &#8216;Jog Your Memory&#8217; a science based pre-educational primer that enhances oxygen and blood flow to the brain enhancing focus, retention and cognition with the additional benefit of aiding in controlling excess body fat.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts is the chairman and director of\u00a0Healthy and Fit Communities, a global initiative that provides web based tools and actively encourages comprehensive fitness strategies using Roberts&#8217; ten www.UnifiedLifestyle.com principles as the foundation for improving appearance, strength, confidence and overall level of fitness regardless of age, gender of athletic ability.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Initial City, led by Mayor\u00a0Mick Cornett\u00a0of\u00a0Oklahoma City, featured on\u00a0The Ellen DeGeneres Show, has proven to be an inspiration for other communities as the list of participating cities continues to grow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Roberts\u00a0is a former Mr. Canada bodybuilding champion, and is a personal trainer, nutritionist, lifestyle coach, actor, author and philanthropist. Roberts was born in Toronto, Canada, and is also a citizen of Ireland. He currently<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedlifestyle.com\/granitegym\/who-is-grant-roberts\/\"> Read more&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedlifestyle.com\/granitegym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedlifestyle.com\/granitegym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedlifestyle.com\/granitegym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedlifestyle.com\/granitegym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedlifestyle.com\/granitegym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedlifestyle.com\/granitegym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedlifestyle.com\/granitegym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/375\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedlifestyle.com\/granitegym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}