(And ladies, you may want to be sitting down when you do.)

This is the second Men’s Health cover for Wilson, a 34-year-old fitness model who regularly demonstrates the benefits of good health in advertising, on television and even in film. He keeps in shape not only by acting as a personal trainer to several celebrity clients, but also by working on his body in the gym five days a week (up to four hours each day).

But that wasn’t always the case.

When Wilson was growing up in Lakeland, he was a self-described “skinny kid” who was popular with the ladies when it came to helping with homework. When he entered ninth grade at Auburndale High School, he decided to make a change and began working out with members of the high school football team, training his body in various sports so he could have “the body of an athlete.” He also began playing basketball and football with friends, and running.

And soon, he began to see the results of his hard work.

Ten years ago, Wilson, then a personal trainer, moved to New York City to pursue modeling, which proved to be a bit of a challenge at first, so Wilson focused on establishing his reputation as a great personal trainer.

“I came here to pursue modeling and my first four years or so, I kept hearing, ‘no, no, no,’ so I started pursuing training,” he said. “I (offered) training in Florida before I came here. I love helping people go from out of shape and turning their life around.”

Then one day, a very prestigious modeling agency literally came knocking on his door.

“Wilhelmina, one of the top agencies in the world found me on the Internet,” he laughs. “I walked in and they said, ‘Where have you been?’ I’d been looking for almost five years and they found me! Within a month or two, I was booking jobs left and right.”

Some of those jobs have included fitness modeling for major brands like RocaWear, Timberland, Nike and New Balance, photo shoots for Muscle Fitness and Men’s Fitness, a role as an extra in “Sex and The City 2,” and coaching a live fitness segment for CBS News.

During a shoot for Men’s Fitness, Wilson happened to stumble into yet another field — writing.

“That was very unexpected,” he said. “Men’s Fitness needed someone to do (a very difficult exercise) called ‘the human flagpole.’ I told them how I trained to do it, so I wrote the article too, which was amazing.”

The human flagpole exercise has been dubbed “the Loch Ness monster” of exercises by Men’s Fitness. It’s so difficult to achieve that it’s rare to find an athlete who knows how to do it. The position involves hanging from a bar and pushing/lifting your body into a horizontal position using tremendous arm and abdominal strength.

The Men’s Fitness editors were so pleased with Wilson’s writing that he has subsequently submitted other pieces for the magazine, with his most recent article on how to meet your fitness goals in the new year.

In addition to his Men’s Health cover, which will hit the newsstands next month, he’s also working on a slew of projects right now to help grow his fitness brand. That includes releasing a workout video and putting his martial arts training to more use in the coming months.

“My next goal is to be a stunt man in movies,” he said. “I’m very athletic and have been training mixed martial arts for five years. I’m looking to next work with any stunt coordinators or film crew.”

According to Wilson’s personal friend and workout buddy Matt Scalza, there’s no doubt in his mind that Wilson can achieve any (and every) goal he sets for himself.

“His work ethic and drive are like nobody else I know,” Scalza said. “He’s in amazing shape, but it’s his drive that makes him successful. He’ll work for hours a week, and he understands nutrition and training. I’m in real good shape, but even he taught me things I never knew. He’s got the drive to get ahead.”