Eat To Win—Diet & Nutrition for Bodybuilders and Fitness Competitors

Diet and Nutrition for Fitness Competitors

While the physical work of training gets all the glory, diet and nutrition play a huge role in meeting your goals. In fact, some experts say that mastering nutrition is 70% of the overall contest-preparation challenge.

And the first step is figuring out how much you should eat a day to reach your goals.

Total Caloric Intake…

Develop Your Own Winning Posing Style

NPC Competition Tips - Developing a Winning Posing Style

While standard poses are important, the best competitors are masters at going beyond that to develop their own posing style.

They learn the poses that best suit their unique physiques and combine them with choreography and showmanship that best suits their personality.

For example:

  • If you’re an upbeat person, choose pose…

9 Tips to Perfect Posing

9 Tips to Perfect Posing

Posing is key to winning on stage.

It demonstrates confidence and preparation. It announces that you are knowledgeable and experienced, and know how to present your body in the best light. Any hesitation or insecurity will create negative energy that will be magnified on stage.

The purpose of standard poses is to show off your physique…

Get Shredded with Cardio

Competition Training Tips - Get Shredded With Cardio

Many bodybuilders hate cardio. To some, it seems like a waste of time to sit on a bike for 45 minutes.

But champions know cardio is important to getting the shredded look you need to succeed on competition day. During the off season, you can limit cardio. But once you are in a training mode, cardio must be part of the plan.

Cardio will not just burn fat…

The Final Countdown to Competition Part 3 – Last Minute Checklist

Final NPC Competition Countdown - Checklist

After many weeks and months of training, the big day is finally at hand. Hopefully, you made sure your submission was in by the date marked on the registration material and joined the NPC already (if not, do it now!).

Here’s a list of items to make sure you have before you leave for the competition:

• A map—you may even want to…

The Final Countdown to Competition Part 2 – Your Training

Contest Preparation - Training

You’ve been training so long and now it’s time to shift gears in the last few weeks before the competition.

At this point, your goal is to walk the line between low intensity workouts and high intensity maximum lifting so you build and maintain muscle without injury. That means staying out of lower repetition ranges and avoiding anything that could lead to injury.

But do not change things up tremendously…