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Please tell us a little about yourself? My name is Raechelle Chase and I am an IFBB Pro Figure competitor, Fitness Model & TV presenter. I write for The NZ Fitness Magazine and my most important role is as a Mother to 3 beautiful children Dior-Rose 3yrs, Carlos 4yrs and Annaliese 10 yrs. I am very much a family girl and prefer to spend time with my fami[...]

Getting cut and defined isn't just about calorie counting. Heck, if that were true, anyone and everyone could get lean easily. While modifying your total calorie intake certainly plays a major role, the key to successful fat loss lies in strategies that actually alter your body's metabolism. Lets Begin Most think of altering the metabolism as "boosting i[...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? I got started with bodybuilding, a little just by working out in college. I used to go to the gym at night and run on the treadmill and then I would sneak over to the weights and just do curls and lateral raises (since that was all I knew) I slowly progressed from there, as I was an acrobat and interested in being [...]

Easily one of the most promising new faces within the fitness community is 18 year old Bianca Baker from Southern Indiana.  I had the pleasure of meeting and training Bianca this past January at the annual Dr. Joe Fantasy Camp (www.perfectpeaking.com - I will have an article and video recapping that weekend shortly!).  Aside from being a bad ass in the gym[...]

If you’re a serious competitor or a physique fanatic you know exactly what the title of this blog means. Here we are, at the end of January and going into February. Those of us who are competitors are a month or two away from contest prep and the rest of us are look at the bulging waistlines as the after-math from a too-short holiday season. Buildin[...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? Well, honestly, I had no intentions of actually competing until a few years back. I started lifting shortly after I joined the Marines. I was always in decent shape, but I was pretty weak. Coming out of bootcamp I was a bag of bones sitting at 150 lbs. I was a cardio monster, but couldn't even lift my own bodywei[...]