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How did you get started with bodybuilding? When I was 19 years old I started working out to gain some weight as I was very skinny at the time. I really didn’t want to get into bodybuilding but whiIe training I saw great results real quickly so I kept working out. This also motivated me to learn as much as I could about training and nutrition to make sur[...]

If you’re like most people, from time to time you’re going to find your motivational levels starting to wane, which can seriously derail your goals. Now let’s talk about what it’s going to take to increase your will to succeed. We hope this feature will help light that fire under your butt to go to the gym and push yourself to levels you never though[...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? I started competing roughly 7 years ago at the age of 18 as a bikini model. In 2010 I won the Arnold Classic Amateur Championship, and that was when I became a professional athlete. My first Pro Bikini Competition was in Detroit, which I won and that allowed me to compete at the Ms. Bikini Olympia in Las Vegas. [...]

The Back consists of a number of interconnected, powerful muscles, like the latissimus dorsi, teres major, rhomboids and trapezius. While specific isolation exercises target each of these, creating a thick, massive back requires multijoint moves designed to hit all of these muscles. Pull-ups, lat pulldowns and cable rows are part of a complete back program, [...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? My passion for fitness came from my father's health issues. Watching my father at the young age of 47 suffer a massive stroke told me I needed to evaluate my lifestyle. When I started my fitness journey I was out of shape, I couldn't even do a push up! At this time, I had a successful career as a Pharmaceutical Edu[...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? My best friend, Chris Heitman, always wanted to be a bodybuilder, so he asked me to help him with that considering I was already a personal trainer at the time. However, I felt that there was a lot of information that the books were not able to cover. So in order for me to become a better coach/trainer I felt that [...]

“I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you’re striving to do your best.” Kurt Thomas “Goals are dreams with deadlines.” Diana Scharf Hunt[...]

How did you get started with bodybuilding? I have had a fascination with bodybuilding since I was 16 years old. After the birth of my daughters I started looking up fitness models and different federations to compete in. I met with WBFF Pro Bree Lind in October 2010 and a week later lifted my first weight. Where does your motivation come from? My motiv[...]

If you’re like most people, from time to time you’re going to find your motivational levels starting to wane, which can seriously derail your goals. Now let’s talk about what it’s going to take to increase your will to succeed. We hope this feature will help light that fire under your butt to go to the gym and push yourself to levels you never though[...]

Everyone wants to get ripped and peeled, but usually only a few ever make it. With the hot months on the horizon, everyone at the gym starts talking about their upcoming diet and how excited they are to get the ball rolling. Photo Credit: Iron Man Magazine A common scene really, but it’s uncommon that someone’s efforts actually payoff the way they or[...]