diff --git a/pl_examples/full_examples/imagenet/imagenet_example.py b/pl_examples/full_examples/imagenet/imagenet_example.py
index 3e45abd073..3dbe4a600a 100644
--- a/pl_examples/full_examples/imagenet/imagenet_example.py
+++ b/pl_examples/full_examples/imagenet/imagenet_example.py
@@ -22,14 +22,10 @@ import torchvision.datasets as datasets
 import pytorch_lightning as pl
 
 
+# pull out resnet names from torchvision models
 MODEL_NAMES = sorted(
     name for name in models.__dict__
-    if name.islower() and not name.startswith("__")
-    and callable(models.__dict__[name])
-)
-NORMALIZE = transforms.Normalize(
-    mean=[0.485, 0.456, 0.406],
-    std=[0.229, 0.224, 0.225],
+    if name.islower() and not name.startswith("__") and callable(models.__dict__[name])
 )
 
 
@@ -133,6 +129,11 @@ class ImageNetLightningModel(pl.LightningModule):
 
     @pl.data_loader
     def train_dataloader(self):
+        normalize = transforms.Normalize(
+            mean=[0.485, 0.456, 0.406],
+            std=[0.229, 0.224, 0.225],
+        )
+
         train_dir = os.path.join(self.hparams.data, 'train')
         train_dataset = datasets.ImageFolder(
             train_dir,
@@ -140,7 +141,7 @@ class ImageNetLightningModel(pl.LightningModule):
                 transforms.RandomResizedCrop(224),
                 transforms.RandomHorizontalFlip(),
                 transforms.ToTensor(),
-                NORMALIZE,
+                normalize,
             ]))
 
         if self.use_ddp:
@@ -159,13 +160,17 @@ class ImageNetLightningModel(pl.LightningModule):
 
     @pl.data_loader
     def val_dataloader(self):
+        normalize = transforms.Normalize(
+            mean=[0.485, 0.456, 0.406],
+            std=[0.229, 0.224, 0.225],
+        )
         val_dir = os.path.join(self.hparams.data, 'val')
         val_loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader(
             datasets.ImageFolder(val_dir, transforms.Compose([
                 transforms.Resize(256),
                 transforms.CenterCrop(224),
                 transforms.ToTensor(),
-                NORMALIZE,
+                normalize,
             ])),
             batch_size=self.hparams.batch_size,
             shuffle=False,