Mr NMB 2007 
"I placed 3rd at the NPC Florida State in Orlando this weekend. I am now Power Lifting for my offseason and on a "bulking phase" continuing to compete this fall in IKF KICKBOXING and MMA."
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July 9, 2009
The 2009 Southern States was NOT my show …. I did NOT make Masters Middleweight 187 pounds could not do the morning cardio … the 180lb. range can only be attained for me by “MORNING CARDIO” 45-60 min 4am before everything every day with “NO CARBS” that was the CURE….. I now have the 2009 MMA Middle Weight fighter physique” after all thats what I am, lean strong and functional not all sucked up on diuretics where I can barley pose like my competition, I am 180 @ 7% ENERGISED and ready to take this show…….
Posted in Training
June 23, 2009
My girlfriend and I live in Miami and we recently went to the beach and noticed just how bad times have changed, I don’t know where the media gets their information from but the beaches here in Miami are not what you see on TV and the movies all. Americans are fatter than ever and Miami Beach Florida is no acceptation to this fact.
My girlfriend and I are both NPC competitors she is a bikini competitor and I’m a bodybuilder both follow a low carb diet and weight train regularly. When we went to Miami Beach last weekend we were looking around for all the fit people at the beach like there used to be, where are they? It’s two weeks before Independence day at supposedly one of the sexiest beaches in the world according to the media but not a sexy body in sight. With the acceptation of a few thin teenagers and children we seemed to be the only fit people there. We stayed there for a few hours even though it was extremely uncomfortable to have hundreds of people starring at us “not because we were fat or out of shape” but because we weren’t. We decided to continue to go to the beaches here in Miami and not let that bother us just to set an example for everyone that even over 40 you can look great! You know it’s very sad that America has become so out of shape and unhealthy that even in Miami 98% of adults at the beach are so obese that my girlfriend and I were the “odd balls” for being in shape when 30 years ago it would have been the exact opposite.
There has never been a time where personal trainers, nutritionist and wellness providers were more needed to educate the American public on how to look and feel good about their bodies again, not just for the sake of the clinically obese but for the countless amount of people falling for every fat burning belly busting advertisement scam there is out there.
My girlfriend and I as “role models” are out there each weekend to demonstrate that it is possible to have a great physique at any age.
That day on the beach when my girlfriend noticed all of this, said to me “it’s sad that people just let themselves go like this” I told her what’s even more sad is the majority don’t even seem to care anymore. I totally blame “the media” for this dilemma because of the billions of dollars of revenue fast food and “junk food” generates and kicks back to the media.
It’s no wonder the American public has been brainwashed and de-sensitized to believe that being FAT is just a normal way of life and it’s getting worse. The average weight and BMI of Americans keeps increasing at an epidemic rate, it even has been adjusted to way above the BMI of Asians and Europeans just to accommodate the ever expanding American.
A Brazilian client once told me that when she worked at a hotel in San Paulo you could always tell which guests were American because they were always the fat ones, is that really what we as Americans want the world to think of us?
In conclusion I really hope Muscle and Body Mag has the guts to print this email because the 1st step we can take as conscientious citizens is to end the denial. Everything in life is not always positive or sugar coated with that being said “letters and emails like this cant always be this way as well”. The 2nd step is Action and that would be to let this email circulate to generate “interest in changing this countries dilemma” and end the negative world view of the Fat American.
Rob Marcelletti CPT
Posted in Training
June 23, 2009
Selective feedback;
it is so strange how I really seem to enjoy all the comments and concerns of other people when I’m doing a competition, all my peers at Paradise Gym Joe, Dr Armando, Al and John are all giving me advice that I listen to , but I pretty much ignore about 90% of it , remember I have been competing longer and have done about 3 times as many bodybuilding competitions as they have. Yes they may have done very well when they have competed but “each person is different” and what works for each one of them may, or may not work for me.
I have learned over the past 14 years of my experience with over 30 competitions of my own and 100s of competitions I have trained others for and also have judged is:
I know now 5 certain things about the sport, myself and my body.
#1. extremely low carb diets work on me best on ME to reduce body fat, but if I get too lean my shape begins to look bad. 7% is my “best looking” body fat percentage, any lower than that and I begin to distort and I start looking like a stick figure LOL. When you do a competition you need to take pictures of yourself weekly and decide when you look the best and at what bodyfat. Many competitors look great then get too lean and begin to look haggard, and sickly the majority of NPC judges “cannot stand this look” and will penalize you by a poor placing for doing this to yourself, it looks terrible on stage and in pictures. Lean is good enough shredded is ONLY good if your big enough ”Pro competitors” NPC Figure, fitness and bikini women should not be too lean as well…
Remember no one is going to take your body fat in a test backstage and everyone looks different at different body fat percentages so here are some recommendations from the NPC.
NPC guidelines for “body fat percentages“ for 2009
Bodybuilding: 3-7% body fat
Fitness: 5-9% body fat
Figure: 7-12% body fat
Bikini: 12-14% body fat
you may or may not “depending on how you look” be at the top or bottom of these guidelines.
#2. Everybody and their mother has an opinion on how I should train and do my diet…. but then again the majority of these people are not competitors or trainers and also are not in a competition so their opinion really means nothing. You want positive feedback if that’s what motivates you , but not every one is motivated by positive feedback. I for one am NOT motivated by positive feedback I need the challenge of “negative feedback“, when people relay to me their own insecurities and doubts about “my physique” I feel it’s my job as a professional trainer to “prove them wrong” and show them how it’s done, remember the most important thing a competitor needs on stage is confidence in themselves, I have never seen anyone “ever” win or even place top 5 in a competition without this.
#3. “Timing is everything” I told Joe, Dr. Armando, Al and John that competing is like landing a plane… once you set the flaps for landing, lower the landing gear, lower your air speed and begin your approach all you do then is wait then “gravity will do the rest” if you force the controls down or lower the air speed too much you will land hard or worse possibly crash. This is what 90% of most competitors do, “myself included”. We are all vulnerable to other people’s opinions and when we trust others more than ourselves we do this, “if it ain’t broke then don’t fix it” if I am loosing bodyfat and still looking big, hard and lean then all I need to do is stay on my diet or “on course” and land where and when I am supposed to, NOT the day before or the day after but on competition day, hopefully at the prejudging.
#4. Diet is primary training is secondary, if I miss a training session or change my training day it really is NOT important to the result of my competition but my nutrition has to be “exact” that cannot be modified or changed at all, or my physique will suffer. Missing meals or cheating at the wrong time will cause the most damage to the out come of your competition. Also changing you diet radically the last few days of your competition can also ruin your physique as well, remember my analogy “don’t force the landing just let gravity do it job for a smooth touchdown.
#5. What other competitors are doing, or may or may not look like is absolutely NO concern to me at all. People like to show me or talk about “so and so” and what they are doing or how they look all the time, well that has NEVER been a concern to me and never will. You are the one who is up on stage and when other people do this to you it’s really just their attempt to transfer “their own” insecurities on to you “usually not intentionally”. What they feel you should look like or be training like is influenced by the fact that they may have seen someone or herd about what someone else did who competes. They will try to help you by transferring this insecurity or “negativity” on to you, well chances are 1,000 to 1 that that person will be standing next to you at your competition so, who really cares? and even if they were in your competition and in your class remember a sad fact of competition is according to the feedback I here from most NPC promoters “at least 5 out of 10 competitors who train and diet and inter for a competition quit before they ever set foot on stage”. They may have suffered an injury or screwed up on their diet, they may have even had a family emergency anyway “**** happens” and NPC competitors are no exception to this rule. Everyone who makes it to the competition they prepared for is a winner for just making it to their show, after all “you cant ever win if you don’t even show up”.
Posted in Training
October 31, 2008
I am the BEST Figure trainer in South Florida. check my clients on my page…..
Posted in Training
July 23, 2008
I have a problem with so called professional fitness experts that talk the talk but never teach there clients to walk the walk.
Hypocrites fill the field of personal training I see them on television all the time pushing overweight people to go, go, go yet they have never been in there shoes. What is the purpose of forcing someone to train hard when that same person is going to go home and eat the weight right back on?
Real results come from “within” train the mind and the body has no choice but to do what the mind has decided.
Loose weight or FAT or gain weight “Muscle” as it is more accurately put what ever it may be is a choice not a task when someone, anyone decides to do either it is the brain that needs the coaching and pushing not the body no one and I mean "no one" with do anything difficult without understanding why. Loosing fat for instance is a “choice” each person must decide when and how much fat they are going to “shrink” is the proper term. Time frame, diet & exercises that will accomplish this are the real task of a personal trainer.
Motivation-Discipline & Determination are NOT the responsibility of a personal trainer but is the responsibility or the client or person that wants the results.
There is a saying that I love
“give a starving village food and water and they will survive for a while until the food and water run out” but teach the village how to grow there own food irrigate and purify water and the village will flourish forever”.
This is true for a person trying to accomplish fitness as well, hire a trainer to “force you” to diet and run and lift and yes you will loose weight and gain muscle until you go on your own and realize you don’t have the motivation or knowledge to sustain your new found fitness and you eventually go back to the same unhealthy body and lifestyle.
Or hire a trainer to “teach you” why your body needs certain exercises and nutrition, what happens when you apply this knowledge and how you can implement this is your lifestyle forever. That is what a Personal Trainer is supposed to do bare in mind that when the client learns this they no longer have the need to pay for the service of the trainer this maybe the reason so many trainers do not follow this doctrine.
If you are a trainer and you are worried this will happen remember there are millions of desperate out of shape, unfit people out there just waiting to be liberated, do not become a crutch for them, “educate” give them the knowledge they need, knowledge is power and with great power comes great responsibility it’s up to them NOT YOU…..
Posted in Training
July 23, 2008
I have a problem with so called professional fitness experts that talk the talk but never teach there clients to walk the walk.
Hypocrites fill the field of personal training I see them on television all the time pushing overweight people to go, go, go yet they have never been in there shoes. What is the purpose of forcing someone to train hard when that same person is going to go home and eat the weight right back on?
Real results come from “within” train the mind and the body has no choice but to do what the mind has decided.
Loose weight or FAT or gain weight “Muscle” as it is more accurately put what ever it may be is a choice not a task when someone, anyone decides to do either it is the brain that need the coaching and pushing not the body, no one and I mean "no one" with do anything difficult without understanding why. Loosing fat for instance is a “choice” each person must decide when and how much fat they are going to “shrink” is the proper term. Time frame, diet & exercises that will accomplish this are the real task of a personal trainer.
Motivation-Discipline & Determination are NOT the responsibility of a personal trainer but is the responsibility or the client or person that wants the results.
There is a saying that I love
“give a starving village food and water and they will survive for a while until the food and water run out” but teach the village how to grow there own food irrigate and purify water and the village will flourish forever”.
This is true for a person trying to accomplish fitness as well, hire a trainer to “force you” to diet and run and lift and yes you will loose weight and gain muscle until you go on your own and realize you don’t have the motivation or knowledge to sustain your new found fitness and you eventually go back to the same unhealthy body and lifestyle.
Or hire a trainer to “teach you” why your body needs certain exercises and nutrition, what happens when you apply this knowledge and how you can implement this is your lifestyle forever. That is what a Personal Trainer is supposed to do bare in mind that when the client learns this they no longer have the need to pay for the service of the trainer this maybe the reason so many trainers do not follow this doctrine.
If you are a trainer and you are worried this will happen remember there are millions of desperate out of shape, unfit people out there just waiting to be liberated, do not become a crutch for them, “educate” give them the knowledge they need, knowledge is power and with great power comes great responsibility it’s up to them NOT YOU…..
Posted in Training
July 23, 2008
I have a problem with so called professional fitness experts that talk the talk but never teach there clients to walk the walk.
Hypocrites fill the field of personal training I see them on television all the time pushing overweight people to go, go, go yet they have never been in there shoes. What is the purpose of forcing someone to train hard when that same person is going to go home and eat the weight right back on?
Real results come from “within” train the mind and the body has no choice but to do what the mind has decided.
Loose weight or FAT or gain weight “Muscle” as it is more accurately put what ever it may be is a choice not a task when someone, anyone decides to do either it is the brain that need the coaching and pushing not the body no none and I mean no one with do anything difficult without understanding why. Loosing fat for instance is a “choice” each person must decide when and how much fat they are going to “shrink” is the proper term. Time frame, diet & exercises that will accomplish this are the real task of a personal trainer.
Motivation-Discipline & Determination are NOT the responsibility of a personal trainer but is the responsibility or the client or person that wants the results.
There is a saying that I love
“give a starving village food and water and they will survive for a while until the food and water run out” but teach the village how to grow there own food irrigate and purify water and the village will flourish forever”.
This is true for a person trying to accomplish fitness as well, hire a trainer to “force you” to diet and run and lift and yes you will loose weight and gain muscle until you go on your own and realize you don’t have the motivation or knowledge to sustain your new found fitness and you eventually go back to the same unhealthy body and lifestyle.
Or hire a trainer to “teach you” why your body needs certain exercises and nutrition, what happens when you apply this knowledge and how you can implement this is your lifestyle forever. That is what a Personal Trainer is supposed to do bare in mind that when the client learns this they no longer have the need to pay for the service of the trainer this maybe the reason so many trainers do not follow this doctrine.
If you are a trainer and you are worried this will happen remember there are millions of desperate out of shape, unfit people out there just waiting to be liberated, do not become a crutch for them, “educate” give them the knowledge they need, knowledge is power and with great power comes great responsibility it’s up to them NOT YOU…..
Posted in Training
June 19, 2008
"Universe Miami" if you live in Florida and you want to see how big this sport is getting, just be in Miami at the James L. Knight Center this weekend you will see the TOP Amateur competitiors in America and some of the BEST in the WORLD compete the Largest Bodybuilding-Fitness & Figure show in Florida.
Posted in Training
June 19, 2008
"Universe Miami" if you live in Florida and you want to see how big this sport is getting, just be in Miami at the James L. Knight Center this weekend you will see the TOP Amateur competitiors in America and some of the BEST in the WORLD compete the Largest Bodybuilding-Fitness & Figure show in Florida.
Posted in Training
June 19, 2008
"Universe Miami" if you live in Florida and you want to see how big this sport is getting, just be in Miami at the James L. Knight Center this weekend you will see the TOP Amateur competitiors in America and some of the BEST in the WORLD compete the Largest Bodybuilding-Fitness & Figure show in Florida.
Posted in Training
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