Exclusive Jeff Willet and Skip La Cour Podcast Series starts today!

Skip La Cour and I have joined for an exclusive podcast series that starts today at 10 AM EST. Listen in on our candid conversation about a variety of topics including our thoughts on steroids, pro-hormones, our personal bodybuilding origins and our thoughts on the sport of bodybuilding as it stands today. Hope you enjoy! Believe....

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Stop the long duration cardio madness!

While I was channel surfing last night I caught a show on E! – “True Hollywood Story – Female Bodybuilders.” Like a car wreck, I had to peak on my way by. Part of the story was following an amateur figure (maybe it was fitness, I can’t remember which for sure) competitor who was trying to win her pro card at a national NPC event. What jumped out at me was when she...

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"Lost" Footage!

One of my favorite features in my latest DVD release “Posing to Win” is the bonus “lost” footage we included. When going through tapes we stumbled across footage that I didn’t think we had. It is a segment of me practicing mandatory poses just 2 weeks before the 2003 NPC USA. It was filmed by my friend and fellow IFBB Pro Derik Farnsworth in San Diego, CA. In fact,...

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Drug Free Competitor Tip of the Day

Too many drug free competitors, especially first timers, focus too much on weight loss and abandon the real goal of bodybuilding which is to build muscle – hence the name “BodyBUILDING”! Your goal should be to build and maintain as much muscle as possible while getting as lean as possible. This is different than simply trying to drop weight. If you are a novice competitor you...

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Take advantage of every day.

I was recently asked what were the biggest strategies that allowed for my dramatic increase in placing from 2002 to 2003? I would not say it was any different strategy but rather an improvement of my mindset and greater execution of the plan for a longer period of time. Let me explain….. In February of 2002 around the Arnold Classic time there was talk about the NPC making a rule change...

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One from the archives!

While going through some photos to include in the posing DVD we are producing I came across this picture taken at the 1991 NPC Novice Michigan Championships (Redford Theatre). It was my first bodybuilding contest and I won the 18 and under division as well as the overall teen title. I was 17 years old and had been training serious for about 1 year. A little history about the start of my...

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