Congratulations to the following fitness athletes who all earned their Pro cards at the 2009 IFBB North American Championships in Cleveland this weekend.
Tammy Patnode, Zoa Linsey, David Goodin, Mark Antonek, Shawn Rhoden, Silvana Salvati, Cheryl Brown, Lavonda Ezell, Kira Rivera, Jessica Lawrence, and Kat Holmes.
Maybe we’ll soon get to see you on the stage at [...]
Jen Hendershott, the 2009 Fitness International champion, is on the cover of the September issue of Iron Man Magazine. There’s a guy on the cover, Tony Breznik. We wish him luck but Jen is a Columbus girl and long-time friend of the Arnold Sports Festival and we couldn’t let the moment go by without pointing [...]
Two weeks ago we told you how to prepare fresh corn on the grill to give it added flavors and a carmelized coating. Last week we used that corn to make a black bean and corn salsa that is perfect for scooping.
This week we want you to modify the salsa recipe by adding a few [...]
I’m guessing the next James Bond film will have Danny MacAskill as Daniel Craig’s stuntman performing these tricks through the streets of Bucharest, Mogadishu, or Beijing, in pursuit of the latest enemy of the Crown.
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Valerie Waugaman poses during one of the rounds in the 2006 Fitness International on the stage of Veterans Memorial Auditorium. Valerie didn’t place well in her first exposure to the Arnold Sports Festival competitive stage finishing out of the top six.
However, she did go on to a few other stage performances as “Siren,” one of [...]
Mark Coleman and MMA
The Columbus Dispatch recently wrote about college wrestlers abandoning international competition to go into mixed martial arts which has a higher profile and offers better financial rewards. Columbus MMA fighter Mark Coleman, a champion wrestler at Ohio State University and a champion in the UFC, says the transition is easy for college [...]
Have you ever wondered what a professional trainer does on his day off? Mike Davies spends his day, and some evenings, training professional and amateur athletes for fitness and bodybuilding competitions throughout the world. His success is shown in the number of his clients who have won and placed in the top ten in IFBB-sponsored [...]
One lost both legs to an accident. The other is legally blind. Best of friends and wrestling teammates, the pair overcomes personal tragedy and social stigma to succeed at sports and academics.
ESPN tells the story of Leroy Sutton and Dartanyon Crockett in their senior year at Lincoln-West High in Cleveland, Ohio. This is more than [...]
Last Friday we told you how to properly grill your corn for additional flavor and visual aethetics. Now we’ve got a recipe to use that same corn for more than pulling from the cob with bright, white, strong teeth.
Black Bean & Corn Salsa
4 servings in 10 minutes
1/4 cup reduced fat mayonaise dressing
2 Tbsp. lime juice
1/2 [...]
Dave Mihalov is a former college football player who has only been competing in strongman competitions for about three years, but that doesn’t mean he’s ready to short change his goals.
“My main goal for the future is to make a World’s Strongest Man telecast,” said the 25-year-old from Bridgeport, Conn. “And I am planning to [...]
