As I prepare for my first Bodybuilding competition at the ripe old age of 39, I have gone back to some of the first bodybuilding books I ever owned, Franco Columbo's Complete Book of Bodybuilding. Being 5'7" tall, Franco Columbo always provided me so much inspiration. I share a love of power lifting as well as bodybuilding that makes our frames quite powerful looking for someone under six foot tall. But I will stop gushing about a personal hero.
Franco was a strong advocate for smaller meals at a much more frequent pace as well as an overall smaller diet then most of his counterparts. He was blown away by how much American Bodybuilders ate when he first arrived in the United States. In his book he preaches about the need for a balance between digestive, circulatory, skeletal and nervous systems as well as muscle training. If one of these is sacrificed, your health is at stake.
My decision to compete started as a "bucket list" thing. Then I noticed that, like Franco, my power lifting frame from heavy power lifts training for football, wrestling and rugby had give me a great frame in which to build upon. I spent 3 years rebuilding and reshaping my body over the past three years.
At the right side of the top of the page is a set of pictures. One is me in Feburary of 2008 and the other is this past July prior to calorie loading for this December contest.
On this blog I will post video, pictures and blogs about my last 8 weeks and discuss the modern versus the classic bodybuilders (Pre-1997).
Stay tuned and work hard.
-Alex
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