Posts Tagged ‘Bodybuilding Championship’

HOW YOU CAN BUILD A FREAKY PROFESSIONAL BODYBUILDER PHYSIQUE

Monday, September 29th, 2008

HOW YOU CAN BUILD A FREAKY PROFESSIONAL BODYBUILDER PHYSIQUE

Assuming that you eat right, train properly, and get enough sleep, there are only two factors limiting your growth; the amount of anabolic, tissue building, and catabolic, tissue destroying, hormones in your blood.

Training causes your muscles to process anabolic hormones. To promote the optimum level of growth, you must learn how long to train before resting and allowing your body to replace the anabolic hormones that have been used up. If you over train, all of the anabolic hormones will be used up and the catabolic hormones will start to dominate. If you under train, you will waste some of the natural anabolic hormones that your body produces.

In the course of learning how to maximize your body’s natural supply of anabolic hormones, you will go through some ups and downs. The catch 22 is that even if you do everything right, you will eventually reach a plateau that you cannot break through. The level of growth at which the plateau is reached is predetermined by the amount of anabolic hormones that your body naturally produces. The only way to break through the plateau is to raise the level of anabolic hormones in your blood.

Anabolic steroids artificially raise the amount of anabolic hormones in the blood and permit further growth. Unfortunately, as I discuss in The Steroid Bible, anabolic steroids are illegal and can be dangerous if misused.

During the course of my research for The Steroid Bible, I have tried countless ergogenic products. As I have reported in the past, the vast majority of these products were totally worthless or provided minute benefits that could easily be obtained through a proper diet. Most products currently on the market are merely expensive forms of reconstituted food. They may work wonders for malnourished individuals who don’t have access to supermarkets, but they are a waste of money for healthy individuals. After all the time and money I have spent researching ergogenic products, I have only been able to find one legal product that produces significant increases in muscle size and strength. It is called Growth Factor-1.

Growth Factor-1 increases the level of anabolic hormones, including testosterone and growth hormone, in your blood. This leads to faster recovery times, increased strength, and increased energy. Most importantly, it provides your muscles with the extra fuel they need to blast through plateaus and move on to the next level of growth. Increasing the level of anabolic hormones, especially testosterone and growth hormone, in your blood enables you to break through your body’s natural limitations. It is the key to serious growth and the only way to build a freaky, professional bodybuilder physique.

Growth Factor-1 has allowed me to experience a level of growth that I thought was only possible through the use of steroids. Growth Factor-1 is the only legal product on the market that will enable you to build the cartoon like muscle that professional bodybuilders display.

Growth Factor-1 can be used by men and women. However, women should be warned that Growth Factor-1, when combined with weight training, promotes a level of muscle growth that leaves a woman with a physique that most people would describe as masculine. Women interested in simply toning their bodies should not use this product. Growth Factor-1 should only be used by people who are interested in building extraordinarily muscular physiques.

Growth Factor-1 is extremely difficult to obtain. There is a limited supply available. It will be sold on a first come first serve basis. Order now and try Growth Factor-1 risk free. If Growth Factor-1 does not allow you to build an impressive, muscular physique that commands attention and respect, simply return the empty bottle or unused portion within 60 days for a full refund.

Former Evendale resident wins bodybuilding title

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Former Evendale resident Dave Candy recently won the 2007 National Physique Committee National Bodybuilding Championship in the bantamweight class in Dallas …
Former Evendale resident Dave Candy recently won the 2007 National Physique Committee National Bodybuilding Championship in the bantamweight class in Dallas.
The National Physique Committee is the largest amateur organization in the United States that governs amateur bodybuilding and fitness for the International Federal of Bodybuilding professional organization.
His first place win at nationals also earned Candy his International Federal of Bodybuilding pro card.
At age 24, he is among the youngest International Federal of Bodybuilding pro card holders.
For the 2002 Moeller High School graduate, weightlifting was always part of his conditioning as a four-year varsity wrestler for the Crusaders.
As an Academic All-Ohio, he wrestled at 119 pounds his senior year.
He set an American Powerlifting Association World record in 1998 for his age and weight class in the bench press, dead lift, and totals.
It wasn’t until his freshman year in college that Candy developed an interest in bodybuilding and the rest is history.
Winning his first competition at the 2003 National Physique Committee Northern Kentucky Open in both the Teen and Men’s Open Bantamweight divisions motivated the Pitt freshman to continue to train and compete.
He won several regional competitions before he captured three national bantamweight titles.
Those included the National Physique Committee Teen Nationals and the National Physique Committee Collegiate Nationals in 2003 in Pittsburgh at age 19, and the National Physique Committee Junior Nationals in Chicago in 2004.
At previous National Physique Committee National Championships, Candy placed second in 2005 in the bantamweight class in Atlanta, and in 2006 he took third place in the lightweight class in Miami.
In July he was the runner up at the 2007 USA National Championship in Las Vegas.
Then he stepped onto the Dallas stage in November in absolutely perfect condition, lean and muscular at 143 pounds to capture the 2007 Bantamweight National Physique Committee National Champion Bodybuilding trophy.
Candy graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences in 2005.
He is a certified athletic trainer, who will complete his doctorate of physical therapy at Pitt in April 2008.
Check the February issues of FLEX, Ironman, and Muscular Development magazines on local news stands for photos and articles about Candy’s win at the National Physique Committee Nationals.

12 teams confirmed for Mr Malaysia C’ship

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Kota Kinabalu: Twelve teams have confirmed their participation in the Mr Malaysia Bodybuilding Championship to be held here from July 25-27. …

Kota Kinabalu: Twelve teams have confirmed their participation in the Mr Malaysia Bodybuilding Championship to be held here from July 25-27.

Sabah Amateur Bodybuilding Association (SBBA) secretary Joseph Sylvester said they are still waiting for entries from Johor, Terengganu and Kedah.

“We are expecting Johor to submit their team list today while Terengganu and Kedah are expected to do so by this weekend,” he said.

He said Sabah will be parading a full squad for the championship in the hope of wresting the overall title from defending champion Police.

Meanwhile, SBBA has appointed experienced official Hamdin Kadir as the State team manager.

Joseph said the former SBBA deputy president has been involved in the sport for more than 15 years and that his vast knowledge would certainly help the State bodybuilders.

He hoped they would do their level best in the prestigious championship that Sabah will be hosting for the fourth time.

Joseph was speaking to reporters after the handing over of a t-shirt sponsorship to the State squad here on Thursday.

He said Hamdin has also been named as one of the judges from Sabah for the championship, adding that the latter is a qualified judge having the ABBF (Asian Bodybuilding Federation) and national judge certificate.

The championship will be held in two venues with the prejudging held at the Port View Seafood Village on July 26 while the final on 27 will take place at the Hongkod Koisaan KDCA Hall in Penampang.

Entry for the prejudging is free while for the final, tickets have already been on sale since last week.

Building the perfect body

Friday, April 18th, 2008

By Nancy Bartley Janet Guenther, 56, will compete at National Physique Committee Masters National Bodybuilding Championship in Pittsburgh this summer. …
She’s buff and bronzed, and in a world of bodybuilding babes with stiletto heels and breast implants, Janet Guenther is no Barbie.

The rippling muscles, displayed beneath her tank top and shorts as she works out in the Edmonds Community College gym, were acquired through diet and exercise — not steroids — and she’s proud of it.

Every skinless-chicken-breast-and-green-bean dinner, every oatmeal breakfast and every 90-pound weight she lifts with one hand, has paid off. Not only did she win the overall masters championship at the largest amateur show in the country, the Emerald Cup, at Bellevue in April, but now she’s bound for the national masters competition in Pittsburgh later this month.

But even more important to the Edmonds CC physical-education instructor, bodybuilding helps keep her diabetes under control and inspires her students to not just take up the sport but to set high goals and work to achieve them.

“She’s amazing,” said one of Guenther’s students, Zoe Lefrancois-Hanson. “She’s been bodybuilding forever and really knows her stuff. … She works herself really hard and looks 40 at the oldest.”

In the weight room, there’s music and a student-made poster marking the countdown to nationals. Guenther, 56, lies on a bench and lifts the 135-pound barbell. Once. Twice. Three times. She sets it down gently. She does a rowing exercise, raising a 90-pound weight in one hand. and then she pauses to flex before the mirror.

“Mirrors aren’t just for doing our hair,” she said. “They’re for checking our muscles.”

Guenther works out every day, combining weightlifting with the elliptical trainer and step aerobics.

She began bodybuilding 25 years ago after a student introduced her to the sport, and she has become known as a “natural” because she has developed her body without drugs or cosmetic surgery.

Liposuction and breast implants, in particular, are common in bodybuilding because women lose breast tissue when their body-fat ratio drops low and muscle develops.

The only pills Guenther pops are vitamin supplements. There is no drug-testing in bodybuilding competitions and steroid use is common, though few women admit it, Guenther said. Competitors on steroids have an abnormally heavy muscle mass, unlike women in the “natural” shows, which tend to feature women whose muscles are simply well-defined.

It’s that natural look she encourages students to go for, the ability to develop muscles and be strong.

Why shouldn’t women have strong, well-defined muscles? she asks.

The first time Guenther competed in the Emerald Cup, which has competitors from all over the region, she didn’t place and the competition seemed fierce, especially from her buffed-up, steroid-enhanced competitors.

After coaching from personal trainer David Patterson, who helped refine her routine, she came away a winner.

Competitors have to be able to hook the audience in a few seconds, Patterson said, so they use mime, props and music, which allows them to flex their muscles to their best advantage.

Guenther is an excellent mime, he said.

Some faculty members and students Lefrancois-Hanson and Stephanie Singer were at the Emerald Cup to cheer her on.

About a year ago, Lefrancois-Hanson saw a show and admired how in shape and toned the women were, and told Singer, “We’ve just got to do this!”

Now both are planning to compete, Lefrancois-Hanson in the “figure” division for women with less-muscular builds, a division Patterson disdains as no more than a “bathing-suit competition.”

Nevertheless, bodybuilding is appealing to more women now than before, says Elaine Craig of Craig Productions, which produces the Emerald Cup. When it started 25 years ago, there were only 25 women. In April, there were 150, some from overseas.

In her fitness classes, Guenther has had all ages, including a woman of nearly 80 who is lifting weights to stay fit.

“She’s my hero,” Guenther says. Others have included people with multiple sclerosis and other diseases who want to improve muscle tone.

When Guenther began bodybuilding, the doctors who treated her for diabetes told her to take it easy. But now, with new research showing that exercise has benefits when it comes to living with the condition, she said, they endorse her training.

Knoxville’s Putnams make their mark in bodybuilding, figure

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Putnam, 30, finished second in his weight class at last year’s USA Bodybuilding Championship. Peter Putnam flexes during a recent workout …
Peter and Jessica Putnam would be the first to admit that bodybuilding and figure competition require many personal sacrifices.

A big, greasy Southern-style breakfast? Never.

A wild night on the town? Forget about it.

A nice dinner-and-movie date? Maybe in the offseason.

“It is a consuming lifestyle,” Peter Putnam said. “Your meal schedule, your training schedule dictates your day.”

But the effort has paid off for the Knoxville couple. They’re two of the hottest names on the bodybuilding and figure scene, according to Allan Donnelly, writer and editor for Flex Magazine.

Recently, they became the first married couple to ever appear on the cover of back-to-back issues of Flex, a popular industry magazine.

Peter Putnam, 30, finished second in his weight class at last year’s USA Bodybuilding Championship, and Donnelly said Putnam is the favorite for a top finish at this year’s event on Friday and Saturday, which would potentially give him pro status.

Jessica Paxson-Putnam, 24, meanwhile, is a star in figure competition, which focuses on proportion. She won the 2006 New York Pro Figure competition and placed fifth at the event in mid-July.

“They are in a unique position, going through the same things at the same time, making their mark on the industry at the same time,” Donnelly said.

Despite worldwide fame within the bodybuilding community, the Putnams are virtual unknowns locally beyond their roles as trainers at the Walker Springs Rush Fitness Complex.

“It’s pretty amazing we don’t hear more about them,” said Eddie Reymond, owner of the Health Shoppe, a health food store on Kingston Pike.

Bodybuilding is a growing niche in Knoxville, Reymond said. There are about 100 people in the Knoxville area who compete, he said, and many more who participate recreationally.
“You can kind of see it grow, and having people like Peter and Jessica is probably adding to that,” Reymond said. “People think,