March – NPC News Online

Bianca Martin

ajensen — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:47:33 +0000

COMING NATURALLY I am from Brazil, right beside Rio De Janeiro – I came here a year and a half ago. I have been training for 17 years and have been a personal trainer and now a nutritionist for eight years. When I did my first contest in October 2012, I decided four days before,

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Pamela Snyder

ajensen — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:24:11 +0000

NPC Contest History 2013 Battle on the Beach 1st Class B and Overall; 2012: South Beach Classic 2nd Class B; Ft Lauderdale Cup 4th Class B, 5th Novice Class A EARLY START “Growing up I was in gymnastics and then switched to cheerleading in high school, both of which I loved! I was always pretty

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Nicole Kupser

ajensen — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:23:47 +0000

Contest History 2013: San Diego Championships 1st Class C and Overall; Arizona State Championships 1st Class and Overall RUNNING START “I started at working out seriously in 2007 but back then my main focus was running. But I didn’t like what was it was doing to my body, so started lifting light. After a lot

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Rachel Pecoraro

ajensen — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:23:01 +0000

Contest History 2013 Baltimore Gladiator Championships 1st Heavyweight; MuscleMax Championships 1st Heavyweight GETTING INTO IT I played Little League baseball and ran cross country and track in high school. In college I started weight training and getting into lifting. Because I’m a federal police officer, I maintained my fitness through that and then last year

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John Durante

ajensen — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:22:36 +0000

Contest History 2013 Sunshine Classic, 1st Middleweight and Overall; 2011: Junior Nationals, 3rd Middleweight; 2010: Arnold Amateur, 5th Welterweight; 2009: Southern States, 1st Middleweight BROTHERLY LOVE “I grew up studying martial arts. I played soccer during my freshman year in high school. But after that, I wasn’t really involved in much athletics. It was shortly

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Bradley Martyn

ajensen — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:22:28 +0000

GIVE IT A TRY I had always been a very active kid, playing football, basketball, as well as extreme sports such as dirt biking, and snowboarding. I first started working out at a young age around 16, but really started to find a love for it at the age of 17. I had always been

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Kristine Duba

ajensen — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:22:09 +0000

NPC Contest History/Highlights 2013: Vancouver Natural and Tanji Johnson Classic 1st Fitness and Overall, 1st Figure Class C and Overall; 2012: Washington Ironman 1st Fitness and Overall, 1st Figure Class B; Fit Stop 24 1st Figure Class B and Overall; Washington Stage Championships 1st Fitness and Overall, 1st Figure Class B and Overall; 2008: CJ Classic

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Amber Leon

ajensen — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:08:08 +0000

Amber Leon did a little bit of everything growing up. “I started with ice skating, but that was too cold so I moved on to gymnastics,” Leon says. “Then, in middle school and high school pole vaulting, until I tore my ACL so I stopped doing that. Then it was the cheerleading thing from

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Michael Anderson

ajensen — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:05:18 +0000

Michael Anderson admits there was a learning curve the first time he competed in the Men’s Physique division.“I didn’t have a clue what I was doing, “Anderson says. “I went out there pumped up and flexed and looked like an idiot.” But Anderson kept at it. After some feedback from the judges gave him

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Kelsie Bergin

ajensen — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:00:51 +0000

Kelsie Bergin of Kaufman, Texas wasn’t really thinking about entering the Ronnie Coleman Classic – that is, until her trainer told her she was, one week prior to the contest. “He told me I was doing it and I was like – but that’s next Saturday!,” Bergin says. “And he said, ‘Youre doing it.

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Angela Masino

ajensen — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:58:26 +0000

Training hard was engrained in Angelina Masino at a young age. “My dad was an Ironman Triathlete,” Masino says. “He used to take me to the gym before school when I was like 10 or 11. I’ve always had that background.” It wasn’t until she met a bodybuilder two years ago, however, that she

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Glenese Markes

ajensen — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:50:13 +0000

Four years is a long time to away from the stage – enough time that, just simply getting back into contest shape is an accomplishment all on it’s own. But Glenese Markes wasn’t going to stop there. Markes, who last competed in figure in 2008, originally was looking to make her return in the

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Sheena Ohlig

ajensen — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:39:58 +0000

It isn’t often that an athlete wins their class in their second-ever physique competition, then looks in the mirror and decides it’s time for a change. But that’s exactly what Sheena Ohlig did after winning her class in figure at the 2011 East Coast Classic last year. “I’ve always been a heavy lifter and

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George Peterson

ajensen — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:55:21 +0000

George Peterson wasn’t just flying under the radar coming into the 2012 Steve Stone New York Metropolitans – he was so far under, he might as well have been on the subway. His last contest was in 2008, when he place 7th in the middleweight division of the Mets. Four years later, he was

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