Craig Titus and Kelly Ryan arrested

Craig Titus and Kelly Ryan were arrested on charges of murrdering their assistant. The warrant was issued and it quickly led to a man hunt, probably because of the star status the two champion bodybuilders have. They were caught outside Boston, in a parking lot while Kelly Ryan was having her nails done and Craig Titus was drinking a beer. They were arrested by the FBI so it seems serious but we don't know that much about the incident. If you know something extra be sure to email me.

Great Body - Bill Davey

Our great body of the day is a guy that is labeled as a natural bodybuilder, is a trainer and has quite a lot of success in the busines! Bill Davey definitely has a physique others would kill for. He was born in 1966 and has started bodybuilding between junior and senior high school years. The reason behind it was that he was involved in football and the coaches wanted him to become bigger. Bill Davey is 6 feet tall and his weight during off season is 225 to 230 pounds. During competition he weighs 215 lbs. His competitive record includes:

# Musclemania - 2002 SuperBody - 1st place (Professional Division)
# Musclemania - 2002 World Championship -- 6th place
# 1997 AAU Mr. America - 1st Heavyweight and Overall
# 1996 Musclemania Natural Championships -- 1st Heavyweight
# 1996 WNBF World Championships -- 12th Open Division
# 1996 NPC Team Universe -- 7th Heavyweight
# 1996 NPC Junior Nationals -- Didn't place Heavyweight
# 1995 ANBC USA Nationals -- 1st Tall Class
# 1995 NPC Junior Florida Heavyweight and Overall
# 1995 ANBC Tampa Bay Natural -- 1st Tall Class and Overall
# 1994 NPC Florida West Coast -- 1st Light-heavyweight and Overall
# 1994 NPC Sarasota Championship -- 1st Heavyweight and Overall
# 1994 NPC Naples Championship -- 1st Heavyweight and Overall
# 1992 Florida West Coast -- 1st Light-heavyweight

Davey had a lot of success in his career and even launched a special DVD with his personal training routine. I saw it and it is quite good, very motivational. I saw it on Repetrope Here

If you never saw this guy before here is a presentation of natural bodybuilder Bill Davey:

As a bodybuilding trainer Bill Davey also has some tips written in All Natural Muscular Development that I think you should take a look at:

1. GO HEAVY----- OR GO HOME.
2. CHANGE YOUR WORKOUT EVERY THREE WEEKS.
3. TRAIN ONE MUSCLE GROUP PER SESSION.
4. MAKE EVERY REP OF EVERY SET COUNT.
5. WHEN YOU THINK YOU CAN'T TO ANY MORE REPS IN A SET, DO TWO MORE.
6. KEEP WEIGHT TRAINING SESSIONS TO ONE HOUR MAXIMUM.
7. ALLOW FIVE TO SEVEN DAYS BEFORE TRAINING MUSCLE GROUP AGAIN.
8. LEARN EACH MUSCLE GROUP'S RANGE OF MOTION -- AND WORK THAT MUSCLE THROUGH THAT FULL RANGE OF MOTION.
9. STRIVE TO DEVELOP NEUROMUSCULAR CONTROL.
10. DON'T NEGLECT SPECIFIC ROTATOR CUFF EXERCISES.

Looking forward to seeing this guy at the next competition! His full biography and official webpage is BillDavey.com

Great Body - Eugen Sandow

Now I am sure that most bodybuilders today have no ideea who Eugen Sandow was and that is why I decided to pick him as today's Great Body of the Day. Eugen Sandow was born Friederich Wilhelm Mueller on April 2 1867. He died on the 14th of October 1925 but he is the individual that people refer to as the "Father of Modern Bodybuilding". We basically have to thank this guy as much as we have to thank Weider or Arnold for promoting this sport.

Sandow loved Greek and Roman statues of gladiators together with other statues of heroes. He loved them so much that he considered the physique depicted in them to be how a man should look like. By the tender age of 19 he had already reached part of his goals and was performing stunts in different side shows. People din not care about how much he lifted, they were amazed of how he looked. That is when a famous promoter, Florenz Ziegfeld, became his manager and had him perform shows in which Sandow showed off his body. They were called "muscle display performances". This can be considered the "father" of bodybuilding shows and competitions as later on in time a competition was also organized, the first ever bodybuilding competition. Eugen Sandow even built the first ever line of equipment and was among the first people in history to market a product by using as brand his own name.

Eugen Sandow did a lot for this sport and so few people know about him that I just had to let at least some know about him. To read all about him go to this great Wikipedia article dedicated to Eugen Sandow.

Jay Cutler on Pro Bodybuilding Weekly

Pro Bodybuilding Weekly will celebrate tomorrow the airing of episode number 75. Because of this event a special guest will be on the show, none other than Mr. Olympia himself, Jay Cutler. There have been a lot of rumors lately saying that Ronnie Coleman is gaining momentum in his quest to re-capture the Olympia title. With this show specialists believe that Jay Cutler will announce his official start to his 2007 Olympia preparation. News from around the IFBB will also be on the schedule.

Milos Sarcev suspended for 1 Year

Milos Sarcev has been officialy suspended for one year from bodybuilding by the IFBB. It looks like he was punished for different words he said and unless Milos decides to start an appeal (which seems to be very probable with Bob Cicherillo as his representative). The pro bodybuilder was presented with this official letter confirming the suspension:

May 29, 2007, to Mr. Milos Sarcev, C/o Koloseum Gym, 1101 South Placentia Avenue, Fullerton, CA, 92831 USA. Sent by e-mail to milos@milossarcev.com and to milossarcev@gmail.com and by International Courier

IFBB PRO LEAGUE DECISION
IN THE MATTER OF YOUR CONDUCT
DURING THE BODYBUILDING COMPETITION AT THE ASIAN GAMES,
DOHA, QATAR, DECEMBER 8-9, 2006

1. On January 3, 2007, the Pro League notified you that, on receiving letters of complaint from Mr. Paul Chua, IFBB Executive Assistant to the President, IFBB Vice President for Asia and Secretary-General of the Asian BodyBuilding Federation (ABBF), and Mr. Walter van den Branden (Netherlands), President of the Netherlands Bodybuilding & Fitness Federation and IFBB International Judge, it had appointed an ad hoc Pro Disciplinary Committee to investigate your conduct during the Bodybuilding competition at the Asian Games, which were held in Doha, Qatar, on December 8-9, 2006. To read the rest of the letter click here!

Work Out with Jay Cutler

I bet a lot of you have thought about what it would be like to workout with a pro bodybuilder and even the big man himself - Jay Cutler. Well the only thing I really lifted was a camera but I did get to watch while Jay worked out with his lifting partners in the "Pit" at world famous Muscle Beach right on the boardwalk at the beach in Venice California.

So let me tell you how this happened. I was at the Junior California NPC competition in Pasadena CA on Saturday. Jay was in town as the guest poser for this show along with his good buddy, IFBB Pro Derick Farnsworth. Well I got the phone call in the late afternoon that Jay was possibly going to come out to the "Pit" to workout and he would also be videotaped for his brand new DVD to be released at the end of July. (Read the rest of the entry)

Craig Titus – The Way to Professional Bodybuilding

Craig Titus was born in Detroit, the city where you can find the centre of all the big car companies in the USA. During high school he got his first connection with a gym and was immediately struck down with love for bodybuilding as soon as he saw results. In 1983 he weighed 65 Kg. and was 1.65 m. high. After high school he grew 5 more cm. until he was 20 and a little more afterwards.

Craig Titus started working in underground excavation, at the subway, with his father. He is still working there but Craig quit after 3 years and started a job as a personal trainer in order to earn a living while his mind was centered on a professional bodybuilding career. This is what he did since 1988. In 1991 he weighed in at 93 kg. and won the Ironman Cup for amateurs. In 1995 he weighed 103 kg. but Craig Titus lost the nationals in front of Denis Newman, which got the professional card Craig was looking for. In 1996 he decided that would be his last attempt to win the nationals and to obtain the professional bodybuilding card the winner automatically gets. If he would have won a professional career would have been a reality. If not he would come back to underground excavations with his father. It was a turning point for Craig Titus as he was turning 30 and MET-RX, a company that sponsored the bodybuilder in the past three years would have taken back the contract if he lost the nationals. His wife also divorced him after three years of loosing and not being able to raise money to raise his family, which grew with the birth of his daughter.

As you can imagine Craig Titus won the nationals and got a great two year contract with MET-RX. He became a professional bodybuilder and he categorizes himself as a refined professional, a category that includes people like Lee Labrada, Flex Wheeler and Shawn Ray among others. Craig said monsters are people like Dorian Yates, Nasser El Son Baty, Paul Dillett, Kevin Levrone and Ronnie Coleman.

Ronnie Coleman Won A Lot As Mr. Olympia

With the Mr. Olympia status you can expect to gain a lot more than just fame. Ronnie Coleman for instance made great money from other activities outside of bodybuilding like seminars, sponsorships, demonstrations and modeling. One example was a commercial for equipment made by N.P.C. Active Wear. Ronnie Coleman won outside of the competitions a total of half a million dollars in one year. As long as you are Mr. Olympia you get a lot of offers that make you gain money. Any bodybuilder that can stay on the top for 3 or 4 years can get set for a pretty well lived rest of his life. This comes in comparison to when Arnold was Mr. Olympia. In that time the winner got $1000 and around 10-15 extra during the rest of the year from seminars and demonstrations.

Silvio Samuel wins His First Major Contest

The Europa Super Show in Dallas, Texas marked the win of Silvio Samuel, his first major contest win in a professional competition. Samuel actually won 2 days in a row as the day before he also won the Under 210-poung class. The bodybuilder declared:

"It all goes along with what trainer Charles Glass and I had planned. he plan was to try to get a victory and then go to the Olympia with a win. I plan on putting on some size between now and then to really give myself a chance to be at the top at the Olympia."

The competition was quite close as Bill Wilmore and Will Harris were good threats for Samuel. The interesting factor was weight. Silvio weighed in at 40 pounds less than Harris and Wilmore. Conditioning and shape proved to be the winning combination. Harris came second and Wilmore finished third.

Harold Poole is Back

Surely bodybuilding fans from around the world will be happy to hear that the former Mr. America and Mr Universe, Harold Poole, decided to return to the public eye after a very long absence. The last time he competed was at the 1982 IFBB World Pro Championship. After that he removed himself from the spotlight. We can see the interest towards bodybuilding thanks to Poole's new Website: www.haroldpoole.com You can check it out, it has some interesting information there.

Harold Poole started it all as a quarterback on his football team at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis. After that he placed fourth in the school wrestling championship and had a lot of physical achievements. His bodybuilding career was also filled with success and all culminated with the induction in the IFBB Hall of Fame in 2004 and in the WBBG Hall of Fame in 2007. He still lives in Florida and keeps and training and practicing martial arts. Truly a great body and a great inspiration in bodybuilding.

What is Mr. Olympia?

Here is what every beginner bodybuilder is dreaming about: the Mr. Olympia title. Let us see some things about this competition. It is held annually by the International Federation of Bodybuilders and winning this award is considered to be the highest title you can reach in your professional bodybuilder career.

Mr. Olympia was created by none other than Joe Weider in order to get the Mr. Universe winners to compete more and earn money. The first ever Mr. Olympia took place on the 18th of September, 1965 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. The winner then was Larry Scott and the second winner was the same man in the following year.

As you might now, the record number of wins in the Mr. Olympica competition is of 8 wins, record held by Lee Haney (1984-1991) and Ronnie Coleman (1998-2005). The 2006 edition of Mr. Olympia is very interesting because it marked the first win of Jay Cutler, after he came second for 3 consecutive years. This is a great build up for this year's competition as everyone is wondering who of the two will be successful now. Others can be a surprise as well. Mr. Olympia is the biggest stage of bodybuilding and everything can happen there!

Contrary to popular belief, there are not many bodybuilders that won the title along the years. Arnold Schwarzenegger won it 7 times, Lee Haney and Ronnie Coleman 8 times, Dorian Yates 6 times, Frank Zane and Sergio Oliva 5 times, Franco Columbu and Larry Scott 2 times, Chris Dickerson, Samir Bannout and Jay Cutler once. So you can see, during the 42 Mr. Olympia competitions we only had 11 winners.

Women Bodybuilding Thoughts

There is this conception going around that bodybuilding is harder for women than it is for men. This is not really true, or at least it is not true from a woman's point of view. Many consider it as big of a challenge for both sexes.

When it comes to bodybuilding there is not really that much special things you need to know, unless you want to go into competitions. That is where you really need to have a handle on this sport. Every human has the same muscles and basically the same build. There are differences of course but they are not that huge. Just because a woman is practicing bodybuilding does not mean she has fewer chances of succeeding as she would have had if she was a man.

The biggest debate at hand stands in the fact that men are aided by testosterone and many think this is why men develop stronger muscles at faster speeds. Women have estrogen, a hormone that is known for its fat-building capabilities. The fact is the only time when estrogen can damage a woman's body is when she quits bodybuilding. That is when a woman will pack weight faster than a man.

Facts are simple. A woman practicing bodybuilding has advantages and disadvantages. The main advantage is mental. Women gain huge confidence about their capability to defend themselves and more. Contrary to popular belief, many women look sexier after doing bodybuilding, which can basically be a stronger fitness work out routine. They do not need to look like a man, just build up some muscle.

When it comes to disadvantages the main one was already stated. If a woman stops bodybuilding she will pack on weight at a very high rate. This can really be demoralizing so if a woman wants to start bodybuilding she really needs to think about this. Also, keep in mind that a woman will have a body that looks exaggerated only in competitions and not outside of them.

Great Body - Jason Pace

Jason Pace is definitely a great body and has recently enjoyed some success in bodybuilding with a win at the 2007 Teen Nationals in USA. He started this sport at the age of 13 in his basement. When he got to the eight grade he already weighed 96 pounds, as opposed to the 75 pounds he had when Jason Pace started bodybuilding. As time passed he started wrestling and eventually switched to follow a career in bodybuilding. Jason Pace attended his first competition at the Oklahoma Classic and eventually took third place at the welterweight class at the 2006 Teen Nationals. His career culminated with the win at the 2007 same event.

Stats:
* Age: 19
* Born: St. Louis, Missouri
* Height: 5' 5"
* Weight: 195 Lbs
* Contest Weight: 165 Lbs
* Years Bodybuilding: 2
* Favorite Bodypart: Back
* Favorite Exercise: Straight Leg Deadlift

Jason Pace's favorite bodybuilders are Arnold Schwarzenegger, Phil Heath, FLex Wheeler, Ronnie Coleman, Shawn Ray and Jay Cutler.

Who's Gonna Compete at Mr. Olympia?

Well, with Mr. Olympia just around the corner on the 28th of September, let us take a look at who is going to be there and how they managed to qualify. First we have the first 6 bodybuilders in the 2006 Mr. Olympia: Jay Cutler, Ronnie Coleman, Victor Martinez, Dexter Jackson, Melvin Anthony and Gustavo Badell. Markus Ruhl will of course be there after his 3rd place at Austria Pro and another German, Ronnie Rockel, qualified thanks to his third spot at the Netherlands Pro. A Russian is also on the list, Sergio Shelestov, qualifying for Mr. Olympia thanks to his 3rd place at Romania Pro. Hidetada Yamagishi from Japan will be there after his Sacramento Pro 3rd place. The first 5 placed bodybuilders at Ironman Pro will be there and more. 5 bodybuilders that are qualified might not compete because of different reasons: Phil Heath, Branch Warren, Dennis James, Desmond Miller and Kai Greene.

In total we have 27 competitors. If you want to see the entire list plus the participants for Ms. Olympia, Figure Olympia and Fitness Olympia just CLICK HERE

Relieve past Mr. Olympia competitions and success stories on DVDs by clicking HERE or on VHS by clicking HERE

Great Body - David Draper

David Draper is a very well known bodybuilder, author and actor. He was born on April 16, 1942, in Secaucus, New Jersey and his nickname is "The Blond Bomber". This guy started working out at the tender age of 10 and was actually pretty well built at just 12. Just like many professional bodybuilders, David Draper was involved in a lot of sports including wrestling, gymnastics and swimming. As you can imagine from the looks of his body, he was mainly drawn to weight training.

The age of 21 meant the first important win for Draper, as he was the winner of the 1962 Mr. Jersey competition. To know more about David Draper, visit his Wikipedia Page

Bobby Lashley on Flex Magazine

Bobby Lashley is truly an incredible great body and it does not matter what he is doing, he always trains hard as you will see in a minute. He was featured on Flex Magazine, and here is a video of the photo shoot, which happened right before he had a shoulder injury in a wrestling match. Bobby Lashley is an incredible wrestler and bodybuilder, one that really has a body to be admired.

What to Buy? Hardcore by Ronnie Coleman

There are people that ask me what they should purchase in order to get real information on bodybuilding related topics. This is why I decided to start a category here on Great Bodies that will be called "What to Buy?". I will present different recommendations of various material that is truly useful as opposed to books or DVDs that offer nothing at all. The first one presented is "Hardcore" by Ronnie Coleman and Michael Berg. It is labeled as "Ronnie Coleman's Complete Guide to Weight Training". I purchased this one together with "Huge: A Complete Workout Regimen from Bodybuilding's Superstars" by Flex and I was satisfied by both although Ronnie Coleman's "Hardcore" was a lot better. This here is the biggest collection of inside info on Ronnie Coleman workouts and he highlights what made him big along the years. Here is what other two buyers said:

"Ronnie Coleman's complete guide to weight lifting is a very good and simple book, unlike Arnold's book and many other writers, Ronnie spoon feeds you the routines in such a way that you dont have to read the entire book to know. For chest he gives an outline in big bold letters his 4 routines the sets and reps, then if you want to read more you can. Ronnie's excersices are common one's not the dumb one's youd find in Men's Fitness, and he doesnt over train you like Arnolds book does, the only thing thats really lacking is the nutrition section, where he only gives his own eating regiment which no normal person could expect to follow, good read!"

"Ronnie Coleman give the wannabe bodybuilder the mindset of what hardcore training is about. It is not for the weak hearted! I have started to lift "hard and heavy" - heavy weights with higher reps and my body hurts. I am starting to see results in only 3 weeks but its painful. I cannot even work his split - my body cannot recover that fast. I am doing a one bodypart every every 6 days and even that hurts. To follow this book will encompass a lot of pain - but if you are strong, you will have a well condition body - in a few years. When you go to the gym, you will recognize the serious bodybuilders from the recreational lifters. Be careful, its easy to burnout on this program. As far as diet and supplements - I had to do the calculations to determine ratios for the cutting and bulking but it may not work for everyone. Otherwise, very good book."

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Toney Freeman - Special Bouncer for The Jerry Springer Show

Toney Freeman was asked to take part in The Jerry Springer Show but not as someone invited but as the guy that was supposed to separate fights. Well, a bodybuilder should not really do that but it would be interesting to see what went on in that episode. Toney Freeman basically made an appearance as a special guest bouncer. He did declare that one of his sponsors, Headblade, is also sponsoring the head of security on the show, Steve Wikos, and also other individuals involved in The Jerry Springer Show. Freeman also said that there were some fights, one in each of the classic three segments of the show and he did break up all of them and he was in the middle of the action.

It looks like the producers liked this top class bodybuilder and they have asked him to make a return appearance. According to Freeman, both the producers and Jerry loved him so he will do this job as guest bouncer on a "semi permanently" basis. This episode was filmed on the 4th of November and will air somewhere in the next months. It would be fun to see a bodybuilder as a bouncer and hey, it is popular in clubs, why not on TV shows?

Mike Matarazzo Suffers Heart Attack

Flex Online recently reported that Mike Matarazzo suffered from a heart attack on November 5th. This is really sad news and the bodybuilder was hospitalized for 2 days, with him now being back at home. We all know that Matarazzo was diagnosed with heart problems some time ago and in December 2004 he went through triple bypass surgery. Now Mike has a pacemaker installed and it seems that he is supposed to take it easy for some time although until the heart attack this man still continued to eat clean and train regularly according to Mike Matarazzo himself, which contacted Flex Magazine and let them know what happened.

Matarazzo also informed the magazine that doctors told him only 25 percent of his heart is working. This will definitely not stop him so we do think he will recover quickly.