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Local body builder earns second placeDate: 17.05.2007
Posted by: Anabolic Info Team Canada
After months of training and working out, body builder James Newton claimed second place in Stratford's Festival City Bodybuilding competition, lightweight division.
According to Mr. Newton, when training for a competition, he works out five days a week, consisting of resistance training concentrating on one area of the body each day, mixed with two sessions of a cardio-work-out.
"It's a pretty intense schedule getting ready for a show," he says. "For about 16-weeks prior, it's at least three hours a day and then you work on posing too."
As a personal trainer at ACTS Headwaters Family Fitness and Tennis, Mr. Newton says body building is a life-style that can be taken up at any age because there is all different divisions that compete.
During the competition bodybuilders are judge on physique and presentation.
"I competed against six others in my division," he said. "We begin with a weigh-in and then we are on stage, individually and as a group."
The judges watch each competitor complete mandatory poses, a 60 second routine that is set to music and a final free-style pose when all the competitors are on stage at the same time.
"The routine set to music is a real crowd pleaser and a great motivator," said Mr. Newton.
He began training 10 years ago and decided to compete for the first time in 2004, at the age of 27.
"It really is a life-style choice," the body builder said. "You work into it because you start to think about diet and exercise. It becomes a habit even when you aren't training for a show," he said.
Since winning second place at the level 1 competition, considered a local show, Mr. Newton is now eligible to compete regionally, the next level.
"There are four levels to compete in - local, regional, provincial and national."
He says he has two years to compete and he has decided to take a year to concentrate on family before he competes again, but he will compete at the regional level.
"I will take some time off and in that time I will be able to work on my performance and improve on things," he said.
He says he is appreciative of the local support he has received during his training and in competition, especially from his sponsors, ACTS Headwaters Family Fitness and Tennis and Orangeville Equipment Rentals.
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