Den 29.-30. Juli bliver der afholdt USA Bodybuilding Championship, hvor der skal deles 3 nye Pro Cards ud. Det fungerer traditionelt på den måde, at vinderen af henholdsvis "Super heavy", "Heavy" og "Light heavy" får et Pro Card, og dermed får lov til at stille op til IFBB-shows med de store navne.

Til dem der misser denne gang, er chancen der igen senere på året til Nationals.

Sidste års vinder af Super heavy klassen samt overall har allerede fået en del opmærksomhed i år:




Derimod er der ikke blevet talt så meget om de 2 øvrige vindere.

Den tidligere gymnast, Vladimir Sizov gjorde dog en flot debut til Flex Pro:



Han kommer nok aldrig til at vinde de store pro shows, men han er med sin fortid altid mand for en lækker rutine, og han misser aldrig sin form.

Vinderen af Light heavy, Al Aguste, har endnu ikke luftet sit Pro Card, men det gør han i den kommende weekend til PBW.







Og fra dette lille tilbageblik er det blevet tid til at kigge frem.

Flex har lavet en lille serie, hvor vi følger Juan Morel, Tamer El-Guindy og Pete Ciccone frem mod årets USAs.

Chapter 1 - Part 1: http://bcove.me/7u09mac2
Chapter 1 - Part 2: http://bcove.me/618g7ch1

Pete Ciccone blev nr. 2 i Light heavy sidste år efter Al-Aguste, og dermed står han som et af de mest oplagte navne til sejren i år:


Tamer El-Guindy var ikke på scenen sidste år, men han tog en 3. plads i samme klasse i 2009:


Juan Morel skippede USAs til fordel for Nationals sidste år, hvor han hev en 2. plads hjem i Heavyweight


En anden spændende person i Light heavy er An Nguyen, der blev nr. 4 sidste år:



Matthew Lowden fortjener også at blive nævnt, men hans manglende ryg holder ham desværre fra de helt store placeringer:


Hos de lidt tungere drenge i Heavyweight ligner Jonathan Delarosa den store favorit til snuppe sejren.


Du kan se mere til Delarosa her:
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Udover Morel ligner Zinjun Croon en seriøs konkurrent til sejren på trods af hans latterlige nipples:



I Super Heavy klassen fik vi pillet toppen af sidste år, da både Burneika og Huh fik Pro Cards.

Keith Williams opfylder bestemt ikke de traditionelle kriterier for en flot og æstetisk fysik, men han blev nr. 2 til både USAs og Nationals sidste år, så han er svær at komme udenom:




I samme boldgade har vi Dusty Handshaw:



Som et mere æstetisk alternativ til disse kæmper ligner Steve Kuclo et godt bud, hvis han kan naile formen, hvilket han traditionelt har haft problemer med.




Du kan se mere til Kuclo her:
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Chad LaCount er blandt outsiderne i denne klasse, selvom han måtte nøjes med en skuffende 7. plads sidste år:



Et sidste bud på en topplacering er Drew Jemmott, der kun har været med i toppen i få år, men hvis han får formen til at spille, kan han nå langt med den struktur:

33-year-old Joe DeRousie trains legs seven weeks out from the 2011 USA Championships bodybuilding show July 29-30 in Las Vegas, Nevada. DeRousie, from Prosser, Washington, is a professional fire fighter with the Richland Fire Department. In 2010, Joe took the overall at the NPC Emerald Cup This video was shot on June 7, 2011 at Smittys Gym in Richland, Wa. This is his first national level show and he is setting his sights on a pro card. Joe has a 720 RAW deadlift and has been training for since 1996. Special thanks to Caleb Ralston of BelieveMedia for the kick ass edit.

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Lang vej til et Pro Card, men cool video.

BPI Presents coverage of the 2011 USA Championships, July 29-30

Victor Del Campo trains back and triceps seven weeks out from the 2011 USA Championships


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Jon Delarosa trains legs with Melissa Di Bernardo. Four weeks out from the USA's.

Kyle Witherspoon 4 uger ude

Mange spændende emner at holde styr på, men især An Nguyen synes jeg har potentiale. Han bliver nok aldrig Mr. O - men hans form er smuk, linjerne er rene, hårde og æstetiske og hvis han dræner sig helt tør, kommer han til at feje scenen med de andre konkurrenter ved Light Heavy.

Delarosa 3 uger ude @105kg

Bryan Barth 15 dage ude @102,5kg




Stiller op i heavy.

Kuclo 2 uger ude

Kyle Witherspoon 2 uger ude

Leaving no stone unturned, the 2009 Jr. USA Overall Champion Darron Hollywood Glenn shares with viewers an intense workout filmed at the downtown Tampa, Florida Powerhouse gym. Hollywood is headed to the USA's and with Trainer and IFBB Pro Don Long in his camp. If Hollywood can get his conditioning right Long may hit the trifecta adding to his stable of new pros that include Bodybuilders Brandon Ray and Al Auguste, who recently won the Tampa Pro 202 in his debut. Hollywoods' intensity and hunger for the overall USA title shown here raise the bar for his competition.

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Billeder af ham fra 09:

Chad Martin 2 uger ude. Heavydeltager.

Nyt billede af Delarosa:

Hatten af for alt det info billeder og lir du bringer fra den amerikanske BB verden!!
Der ligger sgu noget arbejde bag.

Lenyn Nunez 9 dage ude:

Jon Delarosa 6 dage ude

NPC USA CHAMPIONSHIP PREVIEW: MEN'S LIGHTHEAVYWEIGHT BODYBUILDING!

July 25, 2011

FLEXONLINE.COM

Last year’s USA light-heavy champ Al Auguste jumped into the IFBB Pro League’s 202 this year and won his debut, and Troy Alves (who later won the USA heavy class), Johnnie Jackson and Mark Dugdale are among the USA light-heavy champs who’ve posed in the Olympia. Is there a future pro title contender in this year’s USA light-heavy division? Here’s 5 possibilities.
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PETE CICCONE
National Level History: 2010 USA, light-heavy, 2nd; 2009 USA, light-heavy, 5th; 2008 USA, light-heavy, 6th
Our Take: After over 15 years of competing, San Diego’s Cicccone took a huge leap forward last year with his second in this class. If he can match last year’s condition but bring more upper body density, he’ll join training partner Derek Farnsworth in the big league.



TAMER EL-GUINDY
National Level History: 2009 Nationals, light-heavy, 3rd; 2009 USA, light-heavy, 1st; 2008 USA, light-heavy, 4th; 2007 USA, middleweight, 2nd
Our Take: As befits his nickname, “Razor” always brings the cuts, but El-Guindy, who won this class two years ago, previously lacked enough fullness to earn a pro card. We’ll see if two years of growing allowed him to fill in his 5'8" frame.



LORENZO JONES
National Level History: 2010 Nationals, light-heavy, 4th; 2009 Nationals, light-heavy, 6th; 2008 Nationals, middleweight, 4th
Our Take: After six Nationals dating back to 2002, two North Americans (he won the middleweight class in ‘04), and his overall victory at last year’s Junior USA, this is Jones’ first stab at the USA. Expect the 44-year-old Texan to be in the mix again.



LENYN NUNEZ
National Level History: none
Our Take: At this May’s California Championships, New Yorker Nunez (now living in Los Angeles) carried home the light-heavy and overall trophies. Amazingly, it was his first open contest, and his only other show was as a teen. Can the 29-year-old have a similarly shocking impact at the USA?



KYLE WITHERSPOON
National Level History: 2010 USA, light-heavy, 7th
Our Take: Sporting one of the most symmetrical physiques in the class, this Arizonan made his mark with a seventh here last year. Now the 5'6", 33-year-old is looking to move into title contention.

Mere med Nunez der er i stald hos Chris Cormier

Heavyweight bodybuilder An Nguyen trains arms two weeks out from the USA Championships in Las Vegas, Nevada July 29-30, 2011. In this video, Nguyen discusses his workout with his trainer Paul Finn.

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James "Freakin" Stewart is ready to make a splash in the heavyweights at the USA Championships. Check this guy training arms ten days out!

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Evil guns going on

Check out the workout between Joe "The Beast" DeRousie and Stan "Rhino" Efferding! Some heavy inclines in this one!! Joe is 1 Week out from USA's!!

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Sweet

In this video, NPC USA Championships super heavyweight hopeful, Steve Kuclo, trains shoulders with NPC USA competitor Jeff Dwelle and IFBB Pro Sarah Hayes. Kuclo and Dwelle discuss the changes they have made in the past year and talk about the different approaches their respective gurus, Hany Rambod (kuclo) and George Farah (Dwelle) bring to the table. Hayes is training for the Europa Battle of Champions in Hartford this weekend.

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IFBB Pro Bodybuilder Don Long shares his philosophy going into so-called Hell Week leading into the 2011 NPC USAs with one of his clients Darron Hollywood Glenn.

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After nine years off the USA stage Houston's Bryan Barth returns. With two years of training under George Farah this year Barth is doing no cardio and feeling rested and confident about his return to the Vegas stage.

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TheCzech skrev:

In this video Eli Blahut trains back while prepping for the light heavyweight division of the 2011 USA Championships. Blahut has done well in the past couple of years placing first at the 2009 Excalibur as a welterweight, first in the 2010 Jr Nationals as a middleweight, and first in the light heavyweights at the 2010 West Coast Classic.

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Haha, han er fandme underholdende! Godt der stadig er nogle originaler tilbage i Gold's.

"And I would also like to thank my mother and my father for giving birth to me, so that I can experience this"

NPC USA CHAMPIONSHIP PREVIEW: MEN'S HEAVYWEIGHT BODYBUILDING!

July 26, 2011

FLEXONLINE.COM

This USA class has traditionally been a bit of an enigma. Since the creation of the super-heavyweight class in 1998, only three heavyweights have won the USA overall, the first of whom was Phil Heath in 2005. That said, two of the last three USA overall winners have been heavies (Brandon Curry in 2008, Mark Alvisi in 2009), so this class has been on a role of late. Will that heavyweight strength continue this year?

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ANTHONIEL CHAMPAGNIE
National Level History: 2010 Nationals, heavyweight, 3rd; 2009 Nationals, heavyweight, 5th; 2008 Nationals, heavyweight, 4th
Our Take: Making his USA debut, New York’s Champagnie has a pleasing combo of size and shape. If he’s filled in his back and hams, he can move up from his third at last year’s Nats.


ZIN CROON
National Level History: 2010 USA, heavyweight, 4th; 2009 Nationals, heavyweight, 6th; 2009 USA, heavyweight, 5th
Our Take: Croon has been consistent: in the mix to pose on Saturday (i.e. top five), but not a strong threat for a pro card. He just needs to display a little more size (especially in his chest) and little sharper condition than last year to take that next step and be in the fight for first this year.


JONATHAN DE LA ROSA
National Level History: 2010 USA, heavyweight, 2nd; 2009 Jr. Nationals, light-heavy and overall, 1st
Our Take: This New Yorker burst onto the scene with his Atlantic States and Jr. Nationals overall victories in 2009, and he very nearly nabbed a pro card on his first try at last year’s USA. If he can come in near the top of the heavy’s 225-limit and a bit tighter than last year, De La Rosa will be tough to beat.


KEVIN JORDAN
National Level History: 2011 Jr. Nationals heavyweight and overall, 1st; 2010 Nationals, heavyweight, 10th
Our Take: Because we liked his great lines and full muscle bellies, we made Jordan one of our “4 To Watch” despite his double-digit finish in last year’s Nats. This year, he proved us prophetic by winning the overall at the Jr. Nationals. Need we remind you of another Jr. Nats champ who then leapt into the same year’s USA as a heavyweight? Hint: his nickname is “The Gift.”


AN NGUYEN
National Level History: 2010 USA Championships, light-heavy, 4th
Our Take: Northern California’s Nguyen opened a lot of eyes with his light-heavy fourth in last year’s contest. A bit leaner, and he may well have won the class. This year he made two moves: down to Southern California (training at the Mecca) and up to the heavies. We’ll see if both moves pay off.





NPC USA CHAMPIONSHIP PREVIEW: MEN'S SUPER-HEAVYWEIGHT BODYBUILDING!

July 26, 2011

FLEXONLINE.COM

On paper, the super-heavyweight battle looks to be the most intriguing NPC skirmish in a decade. There will be at least five guys to watch, but because this looks like a three-man race for the title, that's where we're focused. We have the perennial “bride’s maid,” Keith Williams, coming off a monumentally frustrating year in which he was second in three pro-qualifiers. We have super newbie, Juan Morel, who was second in two pro-qualifiers last year, but as a heavyweight. And we have the (still) young gun, Steve Kuclo, who seems to have all the tools--but needs to finally sharpen them. Collectively, they racked up five seconds and a third in pro-qualifiers last year. Something’s got to give.




KEITH WILLIAMS
National Level History: 2010 Nationals, super-heavyweight, 2nd; 2010 North American, 2nd; 2010 USA, super-heavyweight, 2nd
Our Take: The 5'10" Williams doesn’t have the ideal shape, but he’s getting the most of it. After his runnerup trifecta last year, has he filled out his weaker areas (quad sweep, lower lats) enough to get over the hump this year?


JUAN MOREL
National Level History: 2010 Nationals, heavyweight, 2nd; 2010 North American, heavyweight, 2nd
Our Take: New York’s Morel displayed a balanced attack last year as a heavyweight, but at 5'11" he was simply too tall for a class that limited his weight at 225. We noted then that his best fit would be with the unlimited class, and he’s moving on up this year. If he simply brings a bigger version of his 2010 form, he’ll be fighting for a top spot again, perhaps in the overall posedown.


STEVE KUCLO
National Level History: 2010 Nationals, super-heavyweight, 3rd; 2010 USA, super-heavyweight, 6th; 2008 Nationals, super-heavyweight, 3rd
Our Take: When a 5'11" guy competes at over 260, he doesn’t lack muscle. Unfortunately, for Kuclo, he’s repeatedly lacked cuts. He has the fullness, even in areas like calves that other guys don’t, but, throughout his career going back to the Teen Nationals (where he won the heavyweight class twice) he just hasn’t come in dry enough to nab an overall title or a pro-qualifier class win. Still, he’s only 25. Will this be the show Kuclo pulls it all together and fulfills his immense promise?


Så er alle store navne vist nævnt.

Joe Derousie - 3 dage ude

Just two weeks out from his next attempt at earning a pro card, Steve Kuclo trains back with Jeff Dwelle. While these guys are usually found at Metroflex, today they are escaping the heat and working out at another gym. Can Kuclo take the super heavies? We will find out Saturday night!

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In this video, John Delarosa gives us an quick look at what he is bring to the stage in a few days at the 2011 USA's.
Jon talks about some of the finishing touched his contest prep Guru George Farah has done and what the gameplan is between now and the USA's

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Heavyweight bodybuilder An Nguyen trains legs ten days out from the USA Championships in Las Vegas, Nevada July 29-30, 2011. In this video, Nguyen discusses his workout with his trainer Paul Finn.

http://mdtv.musculardevelopment.com/tre ... -usas.html

An ser satme godt ud.