DAMN, big X is diesel!! 6% is awesome for any age, but especially you since you're older than a bunch of us so you're metabolism has slowed down quite a bit. 99% of us aren't 6% bodyfat, so post up some pics X!

212 at 6% is diesel, good job X

He looked like a fuckin' MAC truck in his previous pics.

What were you then? 230? 240?

how tall is the doctor

I'm 5'9". Not sure how much I was in those pics but I'm sure it was around 240

Post some pics X, 6% is great.


Vaps, making me jealous bro. Keep kicking ass. Can't wait to see how well the competition goes for you.

Looking FUCKING jacked Vap. Go out there and win that fucking Comp.

How did you enjoy your first contest? Saw the pix. Are you doing any other shows coming up?

Vap can you post your comp pics or a link to them?

I actually had a lot of fun, even though I didn't sleep Friday night at all and was nervous the whole day. We didn't start our routines til midnight on Saturday... needless to say I was dead tired. This competition was MUCH tougher than the previous Contra Costas. There were 17 people in the light heavyweight class, meaning we all had to do two call outs which is SO tiring.

A good way to tell the competition was a lot tougher was the fact that I placed 2 places above the guy who got 2nd last year. He ended up getting 9th and looked exactly as he did the year before so all that changed was the competitors.

I kinda had a bad draw because on the first call out I was in between the Overall winner and the 2nd place winner lol. And as you can conclude, if you are near a well conditioned/developed physique it is going to make you look worse compared to being next to a less conditioned and developed physique. Unfortunately I happened to be sandwiched between the two best lol.

The 2nd place light heavy actually competed in a Pro qualifier, the one where Phil Heath earned his pro card. Pretty intense! Majority of these guys were over 30 and have done multiple competitions as I already predicted.

I did as expected after seeing the line for the weigh ins. My weight ended up being 191.5, a 26 lbs drop in 7 weeks. I would bet anything that if I dieted for 12 -15 weeks I would have ended up in the top 5 no doubt, but for only dieting for 7 I placed 7 out of 17th which I am not disappointed in what so ever. Again, my goal in this competition was to learn, placing was not important (would be fun to place high but not a priority to me at this point in my journey).

It was pretty much as I expected and came away with what I was hoping to achieve, and that was experience. My goal as of now is to lean bulk for 2 years and find a couple competitions at the end of 2010 and get no less than 1st. I will not be competing as a light heavyweight ever again, as my goal is to be much larger so trying to get 1st next year in the light heavy means nothing to me really.

Anyway, here are the comparison pictures, I'm wearing the maroon trunks if you can't recognize me. Oh yea, learned another thing about competitions: you look a lot fatter/smaller on stage than you do in person or back stage. Even the top 5 in my class looked SO much better backstage than these pictures, I don't quite understand why but these stage lights are BRUTAL. Live and learn, name of the game at this point.

One more thing, I noticed how small my frame actually is next to other similar sized competitors. Muscle mass wise I am holding my own, but my bone structure and frame is smaller. No biggie, tons of pros have small frames, just gotta fill it out.


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Good shit bro, Light Heavies are definitely one of the more popular groups.

No matter how you did, you still look good up there, not out of place or anything for how short of a time you've been hitting the weights.

On top of that placing better than the dude that got 2nd last year is really good. I mean imagine getting 2nd and being pumped to go back and win a year later, then losing to a guy in his first ever comp. That just shows you got what it takes to keep going.




Do you think you could have went lighter or would you have lost too much muscle?

You look good dude, but you can see why you got beat...legs need more size (specially hams) and you need more seperation in them, but overall, not bad at all, you should be happy.

good job on the competition vap.. You did pretty good for the time you have been lifting.. Def take the next two years to get as big as you can, then take another shot at it. Like you said this was a great learning experience, that most will never be able to say they have done.