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Jim is my therapy seven

days a week. I'm in the joke! Bring it up,

ah, there you, go bring it, up bring it up,

bring it up, bring it up, squeeze, one,

two, three, four, five, all the way good,

keep going, keep going, keep going, keep

going,

eleven twelve thirteen fourteen one more

all right,

Oh, Dan, that was the craziest workout

ever!

Yeah! I got into bodybuilding just

hanging around with a couple of

girlfriends that were involved with it. I

was always involved with competitive

sports growing up and I just felt like I

was kind of losing myself in a sense of

I had no real goal, so I kind of wanted

to just try it just to kind of see how

far I could take it and then, after the

first show, I just wanted to keep doing

it to see how far I could go. That's the

way. That's why you're training harder

than nobody else. Every time you're in pain

there, you are training harder than anybody

else. Okay, let's do that again.

How long Charlotte has been doing my coaching...

She's absolutely amazing, she reached

the olympia stage and stepping on with

the best of the best of the world.

It took me almost 15 years before I turn

pro and turn pro in 2003 and I've

started to train people. Everything has

to be perfect at that level because it

can be just one little thing that will

make the difference of who wins and who

doesn't win, you know. The color, to makeup

the hair, the suit, everything, everything.

You're at the level

where the judges that they're looking

for the pro. When you come out on that

stage the judges eyes has to go straight

to you and you want their eyes to stay

on you. I was overweight for my whole

life. When you're heavier you're just

uncomfortable a lot of the time, you're

uncomfortable and things you're doing.

You're uncomfortable in your clothes.

It's uncomfortable to do physical things,

certain activities. I never really got a

grasp on doing anything about it and

till about six years ago I didn't want

to end up being... I guess older. I was 41. I

was getting older. I didn't want to be to

the point where I'm getting in my 50s, my

60s, and I'm having deteriorating health,

I'm having hard time walking around,

maybe I have joints arthritis problems... I

wanted to stop that before it started

happening.

Get it up, guys! High heels, get those

butts. That's it, guys, get there, get there,

push, push, push!

Tracey, your arms are looking like insane!

I need arms like that! I get a lot of

compliments in my arms. I actually am

pretty happy about that.

Especially man, some guys will say to me

"gosh, I wish I had your arms". If I wasn't

doing this right now I'd probably be

over indulging in a lot of stuff. So to

keep me on track it's sometimes hard to

imagine. I'm the same person, it's just a

lifetime ago. And it would be good if I'd

started sooner, but I'm there now and I'm

healthy and I want to keep it going and

I'm really enjoying this lifestyle. So

I've been doing crossfit for about three

and a half years before I started

getting into the bodybuilding. I wanted

to try something different and there

were actually a few people at my gym

that compete and it really interested me.

So I just made a decision one day that I

want to give it a try and see how it

goes. My exact category is "Grand Master"

figure. That category is 45 and over. I'm

hopeful that I'm in good enough shape to

place in that top 5. I'm 47.

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So I need to measure a 10-gram BCAAs, you

see, and 5 grams glutamine, and then same

thing for pre-workout and post-workout.

That's not what you can take the ISO 100.

The whey powder often have to measure

it about 28 grams up, so right now I'm

currently sitting at 146 pounds, 12 weeks

out from "Candy Nationals" and the goal

weight will be 120. So that's roughly

around 26 pounds right now that I have

to lose over the next 12 weeks. It's our

next little job. If you don't mind, we'll

do 60 grams for carbs. It makes us very

supportive when it comes to me pursuing

this. It's a very selfish sport plain and

it can be very hard in

relationships, very hard, very stressful.

When she first started doing it, I was

like... I was like... "man, it's gonna be... it's

gonna be hard". Let's be realistic. Most

guys like the little bikini girls, right?

A little bit leaner sleek muscles as

opposed to a woman that can probably

bench more than they can. I mean... I

remember him looking at me one day and

say "Mike, are you gonna get much bigger?".

Like "you're gonna be bigger than me soon".

But he kind of laughs it off. I don't

think I'm like that. I'm grateful that I have

him because like for me to accept

myself, and I truly love doing this, and I

love who I see in the mirror and the

fact that he accepts that. I think that's

a truly great relation.

What are you gonna have for supper? I

don't know what are we making... Would

you like chicken? Well, you have a choice!

the March again so for shrimp I can have

six point five ounces of shrimp last but

not least just the oatmeal for tomorrow

morning and if you could count up 19

almonds 19 hours 1919 a o now would be a

perfect time if you start doing the

dishes but if you're already helping you

actually keep okay

hold it hazel okay Oh

anyways Joanna sit sit down to tell you

to sit ba what hungry turn it on to 375

is good okay

so how is your weight going it's

actually going Goods last night I had a

nice little draw to pound sleep is good

too yes Teresa have been friends for

about 26 27 years she told me just one

day she's like I don't really know if I

should tell you you're gonna think I'm

crazy but I want to do figure

competitions so I said I don't think

you're crazy I just think you need to

take care and do it properly because

it's extreme I think she thinks it's

stupid I'm not sure she thinks it's that

can be harmful to your body it's a

little drastic she's not sure why people

would want to do this is that what you

think I don't think it's stupid I just

think that it's like we always say

moderation for everything right and I

don't think it's moderate I think it's

excessive and I just worry about her

health

she looks great like I'm proud of her

everyone always says you always brag

about it well yeah cuz it's amazing how

she's transformed I just worried that

she'll farmers harm herself harm her

body she likes to err on the side of

caution I think these are almost done

how much did you pay for it huh only 110

dollars yeah she actually gave me a

little discount it was awesome it could

bring a lot of money some of these suits

can cost fifteen hundred dollars

so does it push it pushes up a lot

there's nothing to push up sorry it just

adds it makes you look a little bit more

symmetrical you're all natural and you

train so hard and then there's these

other competitors that take the

supplements and they have the fake

breasts and stuff like that and they

place better because they have it's just

more I guess attractive which I don't

necessarily agree with but is all about

the look this this is a it's a figure

competition to see is how good your

physique could look so when you have

somebody flat-chested it's it just

doesn't look as nice have you thought

about getting fake breasts I've

contemplated it I don't well 50 year old

not that you're 50 years old but almost

50 year old getting an amazing breasts

I'm just like such a waste

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the bodybuilding industry is so focused

on physical aspect steroids are very

prevalent in this industry I've thought

about steroids but I it's just not

something that I want to do personally I

want to do this naturally and it takes a

little bit more effort and I won't get

as big as some girls but my end goal

isn't to be as big as I can be my goal

is to be as good as I can be a little

ball of steroids really GLE anabolic

steroids are legal in natural shows not

in IFBB Pro shows they don't test you so

I was very hesitant to to try them but

once you start progressing in the levels

obviously you have to grow in size we

like in bodybuilding like to call it a

dry crisp look so you see a little bit

more muscle definition it gets to a

point where one steroid isn't enough so

then you end up having to take more and

there's always that one person that's in

the background that says oh I'll never

do it and guess what

they end up taking it because in order

to be the best you got to play with the

rest I don't know too many pros that

don't take let's be plain and simple and

if they don't they must have pretty damn

good genetics or they've been doing this

for 20 years so the way I look at it I

mean I'm I'm 29 - turning 30 I don't

think I have ten years in this sport

because it like injuries I want to have

family testing the waters with

testosterone and blocking your estrogen

levels where even a female can't have a

period for up to say

six months because when they're dieting

and competing how you can have a family

I don't think that's possible be true to

your heart the rest will follow

I'm it kind of just hits home just

something that like I always kind of

read just reminds me of like what my

family said and like we didn't grow up

with a whole lot its way so for somebody

to say that you could never be anything

and do something with your life I just

feel like this is the best way that I

can show Who I am which is through my

athletic ability I just I know I have

what it takes to just be a pro athlete

and that's just also be like my dream is

just to be a pro athlete

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so what events are figure grandmaster

and they all look pretty good so it's

going to be some stiff competition so

what's the first thing you're gonna do

when you're done for saying I do and I'm

done is probably goes a little liter of

water looking good yeah that looks

really good I like it

thank you yeah I have good luck welcome

to the year 2016 northern Alberta

bodybuilding championships from Edmonton

athlete 49 Theresa Popovich

your figure

place

remember

49 Teresa vintage

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it looks like Oh like that thank you

just from carb-loading

my vascularity and stuff is starting to

come out

I took an Al doc dome this morning which

is a diuretic so that starts cutting

your water and as of 12 o'clock noon

today no more water I'll be even drier

in the morning you'll be able to see

everything tomorrow morning

okay yeah but Rossi are you figure man

physique physique

so I believe there's over 350 athletes

registered for the event so we women's

physique a and then I got my number

which is number 45 nice and brown we do

leads you see me tomorrow we get dark

under

Hey Girl hey good look ahead looking

awesome

it just stand right there okay give me a

front double bicep

very hard okay good face Tevere Christie

I went into your back double bicep I

really want you to push down push down

those lats okay okay you know for me

there you go

you see right there okay last pose we're

going to do a side tricep okay there you

go show them your tricep that's right

my smile good

kick relax good looking good you feel

that you're drying out you're drying out

yeah no water okay catch that will just

ruin the whole thing okay it's the last

time you're going to do that show

tomorrow you I want you to go on that

stage tomorrow and visualize and say

this is my this is my stage this is my

pro card and that's it I'm not coming

back here okay yeah I'll be listening to

you guys all the way through just

failure is not an option to me right now

I'm gonna keep going until I get it

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single

sometimes you can

King walk-and-talk but

I'm not worrying about anybody else you

know Murray themselves

Weezer's worried about the winter miners

worried about me

a

Oh

45 and 37 switch please

front double bicep please

choice inside side chest back double

bicep please

choice of side side tricep thank you the

top five finalists for the women's

physique a open division top five pilots

I need out here on stage from Alberto

number 45 Chrystia but trophy

congratulations ladies

I'm um Oh don't buzz how do you feel

amazing so bas we don't fire y'all so

it's out of my hands now so now it's

just finals combat fun fun time right

also this is probably one of their

strongest class I've seen in a long time

the girls are getting saline bag and so

ripped and so hard and so grainy so

you've got to realize you've got to be

out before well you're gonna finish

tonight I don't know where you're gonna

finish if we go with the placing on

stage looking for second second factor I

don't know go rest that's very important

put your legs up and rest this this time

right now you never know what's gonna

happen if she went goodnight she gets up

she gets a pro card to get a trophy and

no money there's nothing much more to it

it's more the title anything anything

else

you're going to compete at the pro level

then you're going to compete against the

entire world okay so you're going to

hand up with 35 on stage and to win the

money its first three I think it's just

a matter of competing I think it's the

sports itself you have like only one

percent of the people can do that you

have to really want it

the athletes love the competition they

love the sports and that's why they go

into the max

a reward for doing this is just getting

the knowledge that you're strong enough

to do this you have the discipline if

you want to pull it out of yourself to

do this it's it takes a lot of

commitment and I think part of the

reward is knowing that you didn't give

up on something and you accomplished it

what you want to accomplish I think

that's a big part of the reward evidence

and the winner of the 4500 would be to

visit Terry

unless it

the event went pretty good I mean I'm

not going to play stop toy yeah I was

hoping for a little bit better result

but there's a really stiff competition

it's being a great experience

get that trophy home

hey get some hardware hold that the plan

I'm just blessed that people care so

much about me and following my passion

very lost I just want to let anybody

down or myself so I just want this so

bad I know it is put every ounce of

everything I had it it's open it all

goes accordingly sorry I'm really

emotional right now

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Shayne stars and

sky blazing trails

run candles burning bright

to see

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three the time

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car's gone

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all right how important is first place

here tonight first place is an automatic

and even crow that Awards going to go to

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four please really

are you serious again

I'm kind of disappointed Hawaii I am but

there's nothing I can do

um I really don't know what the judges

were looking for

I really don't they were going for

bigger girls um I don't want to get

bigger so this is as big as I ever want

to get as a female in competitive body

you look amazing baby I love you know my

guess is I'm probably around four

percent body fat for a woman it's normal

to be around 22% people at work will

complain about my drinking water when

were in a meeting

you have one slip-up and it could be all

over for you winning or he's cake

sometimes I thought the cake

you

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