mjs_grmi’s BodyBlog

I am happy to report that I took 1st PLace in the Ava Cowan Tropical - FAME-WNSO - Fitness Model Contest held Saturday, May 17 in Ft Lauderdale Florida

I won the Fitness Model Division - Masters Category. 

It was my first contest and I was excited to compete and found the show to be a lot of fun!  There are some great people in these shows that work hard and have a lot of dedication to fitness and exercise and love to show it off!

The FAME Founder -President Jeff Kippel and his staff were fantastic - as well as Ava the host and Armond Scipione who worked backstage organizing the athletes.  Thank you to all of them for making my first contest experience a great one!

After a day off from good clean eating (oh yeah i had a nice pizza Saturday  night and a hot fudge brownie sundae from Dairy Queen!) I am ready to get back into the gym and work towards the North American Championships this Fall in Miami!

I would like to thank my Trainer - Andy Sziraki  (www.andysziraki.com) for all his work and support - get ready Andy - its time to push forward to get ready for the next one!

Stayed tuned for more photos from the contest and future updates on my Fitness and Modeling work!

Marc 

Three days to go - final countdown now to get those final shredds - tight muscles and tan - all ready for this Saturday’s FameWorldTour-WNSO - Ava Cowan Tropcial Fitness Model Contest!

This will be my first contest!  I am a little nervous - but looking forward to showcasing my hard work and tight - lean - shredded body!

Will work with my trainer today and probably tomorrow or Friday for our last sessions before Saturday!

Marc 

Been well over a year since I have written anything here -and LOTS has happened since then!  The biggest change is that I moved to Ft Lauderdale, FL in November 2007!  Love it down here- sunny, warm, and some awesome gyms and inspiration!

I am trying to work as a model but while doing so I am bartending and doing some personal training.

I also hired my own trainer to change up my routine and really push me.

Recently I decided to enter the FAMEWorldTour -WNSO Ava Cowan Tropics Fitness Model COmpetition here in town!  The contest is May 17 and I am really pushing hard to be in great contest shape!  My trainer is really fired up about my progress.

I hope to continute updating this page and will post pre-contest pics next week and also contest pics the week following!

So for now that is a quick update of my life here in FL and my Fitness Life!

Wow- with all that has happened in my life since the last posting I havent had a chance to update this on a regular basis.

I left a career of 20 years in college athletics to pursue my ambitions to be a personal trainer and excersise consultant…. so now I am working at FItness  19 in the Grand Rapids MI area - as one the Personal Trainers… most all my day is spent there working with clients and trying to get clients as well as working out myself…..

 I love being in the gym so this gives me that opportunity….

Been working out pretty hard the past several weeks with a solid workout partner - who happens to be the Head PErsonal Trainer…

Right now working on a program that is supposed to get me lean and pump the muscles …. 

IF anyone needs a personal trainer and you are in hte West Michigan area please email directly at mjs_grmi@yahoo.com  and be clear in the subject line so I do not delete you ..

Again I seem to not keep this up as much as before now that I am updating my training and so forth in my Forum.

 The Holidays came upon me fast as we were playing Football through Dec 16 !!! GVSU _ DII National Champs!  So I had one week to get ready for my family Christmas gathering we had to host!!!! 

After that it was just the 2 of us -totally relaxing and catching up on some much needed R&R.

My workouts suffered some as I got pretty lazy for a period .. I ate decent -didnt gain much over this time-maybe about 2-4lbs- and mainly muscle - I think anyway…

Back in the gym on my 2nd phase of the new 12 week program- be back to work full time next week so the training will occur again in the early am!  Love that start to my day and the feeling i have all day being pumped and fired up from a good gym session!

So I posted some new pics- a couple taken just before I did some wrestling about 4 weeks ago I guess now and the others are from last week immediatly during and following my workout session -

Train hard! 

Wishing all of you the best Holiday Season and more to come!   Keep up the great work and pump hard -

Happy New Year to all the Bodybuilders out there and friends of the sport as well and may 2007 bring you all the best!!!

I have been so blessed this past few months since I joined this site to meet so many great people into this sport -I hope to meet more and continue the friendships with everyone I have met so far!

WORK HARD_ TRAIN HARDER _ !!!

I am feelign really great with this new training program from Alex … The diet part is the hard part- eatng that much food .. dont want to get fat but want to add muslce!  I am trying to get that regulated with the hours I keep at work!

The Training is great though - into week # 2- andI feel a burn every day in teh muslce groups I am training!!  Love the split he has me on .

MOnday - Chest and Triceps

Tuesday -Legs # 1 (Hammies)

Wednesday - Back and Biceps

Thursday - Legs # 2 (Quads)

Friday - off

Saturday - SHoulders/Traps and Biceps

Sunday - off

Cant wait to see the growth in muscle!

Have not updated this in a while -took a 10 day period off from training for a recovery and rest period - after 10 weeks of HARD  - Intense Training..

Back to working out again as of yestarday witha new 12 week routine and diet program to help me gain the muscle I want for next year! 

Will be doing a training journal in the Forums section.

Can definetely tell I am in need of some time off- another not so great shoulder day today - just could not push the heavy wts!

DB Press- 95/4  * could not get the second set of 95 even up to start… so dropped down to 70/5

Military Press Machine - Selectorized- 216/6   216/6

DB Raises - 40/4 45/4  * those I was so ticked from the other lifts I just blasted them- seemed I got a burst of energy from being mad!

Traps- Barbell Shrugs- same thing - bore down and said wtf and hammered out 365/4  365/4  315/6  225/8 !!!

Weekend was good - 2 days of no training and good eating - and work…..

Monday morning here hit the training hard ! Was up at 5:00 am in gym by 6:00am!

Back -

Pullups -50 reps - 4 sets

VBar Pulldowns - 228/6  228/6

Barbell Rows  225/4  225/4

Low Rows- Machine -plate loaded - 180/6 180/6

FOrearms -

Barbell wrist curls - 115/4  115/4

Db wrist curls -  40/6 45/6