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Munoz Guam's top bodybuilderDate: 22.11.2006
Posted by: Anabolic Info Team
Dan Munoz has the best-sculpted body on island, according to judges of the 2006 Guam National BodyBuilding Championship held last Saturday at the Hyatt Regency Guam.
Munoz, winner of the light heavyweight division in the competition, was also the winner of the overall category.
"But I am not even close to where I feel I need to be," Munoz said.
Next year, he said he hopes to go off island to try for bigger bodybuilding competitions -- perhaps "the Pacific Games or something even bigger."
As the winner of the overall category, he may represent Guam in bodybuilding at the 2007 Pacific Games in Samoa if he chooses to do so, according to Carmela Rapadas, vice president of the Guam National Physique Committee.
The 1997 George Washington High School graduate said he grew up wrestling and playing baseball and football. "(As a Gecko), I just thought that I wasn't doing great in the other sports, so I ventured into bodybuilding," Munoz said.
Prior to last Saturday, Munoz had competed in five bodybuilding events since graduation.
"But in the past, I've always come up short -- including a 2003 second place in the light heavyweight division," he said.
That changed in his sixth career competition. Munoz said he was very determined to win.
"Everybody has always seen the potential in (Munoz) in the past," said Steve Oshiro, winner of the welterweight division at Saturday's event. "And it was evident early on or midway through that he was serious (about winning)."
Oshiro, who also worked hard to try to win the overall title this year, said: "I've always known that Dan has a beautiful symmetry for a big guy, and it was just a matter of proper dieting."
He added that during the competition it became obvious that other competitors would come behind Munoz.
Munoz is an enlisted man in the Guam Army National Guard, where he works part time for the 1224th Engineer Detachment in Barrigada. He is also a full-time student at Guam Community College.
He was deployed to Afghanistan last year for 15 months in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He and other members of his detachment returned to Guam last April.
Munoz said as soon as he got back he went right into his routine -- cardiovascular workouts in the morning and attacking the weights in the afternoon.
In the end, the hectic schedule finally paid off.
"Bodybuilding is a really rough sport," he said. "You sacrifice a lot of things."
Besides giving up his social life, he said, his activities were pretty much restricted to the Bodyarts Dance Fitness Center in Barrigada Heights, where he worked on his posing routine, working out at the gym and going to school.
When he was prepping for the competition, a typical day would start at 5 a.m. and end early in the evening. Munoz said he worked out for five days and rested on Wednesdays and Sundays.
Now, though, he is concentrating on his studies at GCC. He is currently an undeclared freshman, but said he thinks his calling may be to become an electrician.
Not a personal trainer?
Munoz said he thinks he can easily obtain his credentials as a personal trainer. But learning about electricity, he said, is something he'd want to do because he likes working with his hands.
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