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Officers hope to arrest bad eating, exercise habitsDate: 14.01.2007
Posted by: Anabolic Info Team United States
Friendly fitness competition is for charity but promises to get intense
Tallahassee police officers are working on a New Year's resolution: Fewer slices of pizza (we didn't want to say doughnuts), more exercise and winning the battle against the bulge.
Their competition: Those crosstown rivals in green, Leon County sheriff's deputies.
It's all for a friendly challenge and charity. And it helps when it comes to chasing criminals.
These law-enforcement officers have entered the nationwide Ninth Annual 911 Fitness Challenge. For 12 weeks, several teams at both agencies will work to lose body fat and gain muscle. They're competing for a $5,000 prize that goes to the Shriner's Hospital for Children in Tampa.
Jokes about doughnuts aside, the officers have some very serious reasons for competing.
Lt. Bruce Gaines, of LCSO, lost 50 pounds and started his bodybuilding career after competing in 2005's challenge.
"Hopefully this 911 competition will get me back on the NPC (National Physique Commitee) circuit," he said. Gaines won first place in the 2005 Southern USA competition as a super heavyweight. Gaines said the Sheriff's Office has eight teams of three to four people competing this year.
Deputies and officers got their body fat measured by skin-pinching calipers and had their weight recorded and pictures taken at Gold's Gym on Friday and Saturday. Gold's, along with GNC and Bodybuilding.com, is sponsoring the challenge.
The "Plain Clothes Posse," a group of TPD investigators, met at Gold's Saturday morning to get their stats.
Investigator Scott Beck served as inspiration for some of his collegues. Last year, he lost 38 pounds and 10 percent of his body fat.
James Besse said Beck's transformation helped him decide to join the challenge, but "being able to see my belt and not wanting to buy a new one" is a motivator, too.
Their group's unofficial trainer, Philip Hinds, said he plans to make them work out a couple of hours daily.
As he measured Hind's body fat, Gold's trainer, Brandon Alkire, listened to the conversation and smiled.
"A good trainer has a minor case of sadism," he said.
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