Become America’s Next Fitness Star
ExerciseTV is holding auditions for a new show called America’s Next Fitness Star, where you can launch yourself into fitness fame, and receive a one-year paid contract with ExerciseTV to appear in an original series. Entering the contest can be done August 1st – November 30th, 2006:
“Calling all trainers, fitness instructors and health gurus, I’m looking for the next generation of fitness stars. Think you’re the most exciting and motivating fitness talent in America? Think you have the personality to inspire millions to get in shape? Then you could be America’s Next Fitness Star! ExerciseTV presents a nationwide search to launch one innovative instructor into fitness fame.”
ExerciseTV is a television network dedicated to fitness, motivation and sports training and is designed exclusively for video-on-demand (VOD) and emerging media platforms. ExerciseTV was developed by Comcast and Jake Steinfeld of Body by Jake.
Hat tip: The Eye of FitSights
A virtual powerlifting meet for international bloggers
The Finnish powerlifter Kristoffer Lindqvist (and blogger: Under the Bar), suggested a brilliant idea to bring together strength training bloggers in an RAW and Natural Open Virtual Powerlifting Meet:
“The idea of staging an international raw meet with near simultaneous lifting venues around the world has been brewing in my head for at least a year now. I don’t know about you, but personally I feel this could give us bloggers the opportunity to be a bit hordish in the spirit of camaraderie and learning from each other. Besides, the idea is wickedly cool, isn’t it?”
Yes, it certainly is, Kristoffer! Here’s a picture from his one-man RAW meet:
About the author
The gymrat (aka Magnus Branzén) works for THE Swedish bodybuilding and fitness magazine. This blog will feature some of the many news items I come across – from my perspective. Most of them should be useful for weight training athletes. Or at least good for a laugh.
Contact me at magnus@body.se.
A small blurb for BODY: “The magazine BODY, formerly B&K Sports Magazine, has written about and developed Bodybuilding and the fitness industry in Sweden since 1981.”
Recommended resources
Book: Precontest Bible by Larry Pepe. Finally, there is one book, one comprehensive reference source, that gives you the EXACT CONTEST PREPARATION BLUEPRINTS of over 30 of the world’s best bodybuilders. Now you can see the exact ins-and-outs of how Mr. Olympia winners and top pro & national champions get into incredible, shredded, contest-winning condition. 475 pages with over 700 training and contest photos.
Book: Bill Pearl's "Keys to the INNER Universe" is the most complete and comprehensive manual ever published on bodybuilding and weight training. 638 pages (8 1/2 x 11) of photographs, anatomical drawings, charts, exercises and sound reading covering every aspect of bodybuilding and weight training from the novice to the heavy weight.
Book: In The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding Arnold Schwarzenegger covers the very latest advances in both weight training and bodybuilding competition, with new sections on diet and nutrition, sports psychology, the treatment and prevention of injuries, and methods of training, each illustrated with detailed photos of some of bodybuilding's newest stars. 832 pages (10.9 x 8.6 x 1.8).
DVD: Still fascinating 30 years later, Pumping Iron follows the 28-year old five-time Mr. Olympia, Arnold Schwarzenegger, as he competes for his 6th title in 1975 Mr. Olympia. The 25th Anniversary Special Edition DVD has Iron and Beyond a new featurette looking at the impact of the film and Raw Iron The making of the film including outtakes.
Book: If you're not into your training and don't know what to do, Brother Iron, Sister Steel will teach you. If you were once and forgot, the book will remind you. Dave "The Blond Bomber" Draper , one of the Golden Age bodybuilders, stills practices what he preaches. In this book he delves into everything bodybuilding.
336 pages, 6x9 paperback, 80 photos, indexed, 17 page resource appendix.
Magazine: Flex is the voice of champions, and shows dedicated bodybuilders how to add size and symmetry for extraordinary results with scientific nutrition updates, champion-level workout routines, competition profiles, and international contest coverage.
Magazine: Muscular Development features the latest information on all aspects of training, nutrition and supplements from the world's leading experts and athletes.
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