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Alicia Marie is a television and media personality, freelance writer, business owner, fitness champion, and model currently splitting time in New York City, NY and Atlanta, Georgia. An avid fitness enthusiast and movement expert, Alicia has been a fitness and health contributor on various television and radio programs such as Good Day New York, the WB11 morning news, MSNBC and MAXIM radio.

You can see Alicia now on MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION as the fitness expert and coach for the channels hit television series SuperMADE which is airing now (check your local listings)!

Alicia was also the host of HBOs cult program, CHAT ZONE. Prior to working with HBO, she could be seen co-hosting the Comcast Cable Networks half-hour weekend primetime program, Scene 8 on CN8. She was a featured character on Comedy Centrals The Dave Chappelle Show.

Alicia Marie has been able to develop her love of performance and her knowledge and experience in the health and fitness industry into national recognition as a BSN spokesmodel, fitness athlete, magazine columnist and expert. As the first ever Ms. Muscle & Fitness 2006, Alicia has appeared on the pages of Muscle & Fitness magazine, HERS, Oxygen, Flex magazine, Ironman, Musclemag, Planet Muscle, Fitness, SELF, O Magazine, Glamour, Natural Bodybuilding & Fitness and most recently on the covers of Fitness RX for women and Oxygen magazine. As a freelance fitness writer, her articles, dating advice column and workouts have appeared in numerous publications such as Mens Health and Mens Edge magazines.

Tami Ough IFBB Pro
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For those of you who don't know me, I am an IFBB Pro Fitness competitor, Registered Labor and Delivery Nurse, certified personal trainer with my own business "Toughfitness Personal Training", I am a wife of 13 years, and a mother of 2 beautiful children. I have a very busy life... and I LOVE it!!!!!!!

I have always been a very active individual. My passion was gymnastics and dance for most of my childhood, then came tennis and cheerleading in high school, and eventually weight lifting during college.

All of this brought me to my journey of fitness competitions.

Please feel free to enjoy my website, and don't forget to check out my journal entries... be prepared because I tend to be a little... "unfiltered" You will hear a lot about raising kids, training, and all of the other crazy stuff my family and I do. Enjoy!

TAMI XX

Tanja Bardsen from Oslo, Norway
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Tiffani Bachus, R.D. is a Nutrition and Fitness Consultant who specializes in weight management, sports nutrition, child obesity and wellness education.
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Tiffani currently provides nutrition counseling and personal training in private practice in Scottsdale, Arizona. She offers her clients nutrition planning and motivational tools to achieve their nutrition and health goals as well as a progressive fitness training program that includes weight training, Pilates reformer instruction, aqua, sports conditioning and stretching to help them gain strength and energy, lose weight, and achieve enhanced performance. She also teaches spinning, a weight resistance class and a Pilate's reformer class at the JCC (www.vosjcc.org). In addition she has recently developed the nutrition component of an 8-week weight loss program that incorporates nutrition education, goal setting, behavioral modifications and meal planning. This program is unique in that it's not a DIET but a program that will help you achieve a lasting healthy lifestyle.

She received her B.S. in Nutrition from California State University of Northridge and completed her AFAA certification as a Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor. She went on to complete her Dietetic Internship at the University of Northern Colorado, and completed all training and testing to become a Registered Dietitian. She believes that nutrition and fitness go hand-in-hand and continued her fitness education by completing Pilates training through Polestar as well as becoming a Certified Johnny G. Spinning Instructor.

My name is Trina Gillis, I was born June 15 1977. The most unique thing about me is I have the most amazing twin sister in the world.
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Growing up I was always a bit of a tomboy, I rode horses and was athletic. I still am very much a tomboy. I love to snow board in the winter, in the summer I love pretty much any outdoor activities, especially playing baseball and rollerblading, now living in the Cayman Islands I am hoping to learn to windsurf, kite board, and scuba dive.

I started lifting weights when I was 13. My mom bought me my first 5lb dumbbells, I remember they where white in colour. Of course I really had no idea what I was doing with them but every night I had a routine I would go through, doing dumbbell curls and whatever else I could come up with.

When I was 16 my mom bought me my first gym membership, boy was I intimidated walking into the gym for the first time. It was a tiny little gym full of mostly boys, but I was ready and willing to do whatever they told me. That was where I saw my first copy of a bodybuilding magazine and saw my first picture of Lenda Murray. I think that is where my dream of bodybuilding began.

GET FIT QUICK

Need to shape up in a hurry? Use these six tips from two-time Figure Olympia queen Jenny Lynn to get dialed in

By Eric Velazquez with Jenny Lynn

1. Minimize carbohydrates from your diet. Stick with carbs only in your first meal when your body is primed to use those carbs for energy rather than fat storage. For the rest of the day, stick to protein and veggies.

2. Increase and then deplete your water intake. Start drinking as much water as possible, up to a gallon, everyday. Having made a note of how much water you're averaging, cut that amount in half two days before your event or target date. The day before your target date, cut that amount in half. And the day of your target date, drink as little as you can, sipping here and there. "You should drink as little as you can without feeling ill," Jenny says.

3. Cut sodium. Two days before your event cut out as much sodium from your diet as possible. Salt will result in water retention at a time when you're cutting your water, dehydrating you further.

FOUR GET-LEAN NUTRITION STRATEGIES

Want to torch more bodyfat ASAP? Of course you do. These four nutritional tips will help you get leaner right away

By Joe Wuebben

Everyone knows that if you're looking to burn more bodyfat, you need to train harder and smarter. But there's still a stubborn contingent of you out there that refuse to acknowledge the role diet plays in your efforts. What you eat can, in fact, ruin your shot at a lean, shapely physique.

Use this four tips to start building a foundation of fitness in the kitchen!

1 Feast on fiber for breakfast.
Along with protein and healthy fat, you'll want a complex carbohydrate at most meals, especially breakfast. We suggest two slices of whole-wheat toast to accompany your eggs or whey protein shake in the morning. Two reasons: (1) sustained energy for the next several hours, as whole grains digest slowly and feed your brain and muscles gradually, and (2) the fiber present in 100% whole wheat has been shown to aid fat loss and keep you feeling full so you don't overeat.

MET-Rx will be "Shaping Every Body" at the 21st Annual Arnold Sports Festival

MET-Rx, the leader in sports nutrition, announced today that they will be attending the 21st Annual Arnold sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio March 6, 7 and 8, 2009. The Arnold sports Festival, formerly known as the Arnold Classic, is the largest sports fitness show with attendance upwards of 100,000 people.

MET-Rx will be exhibiting with a high-energy, fun-filled booth (#527) which includes a pancake station featuring MET-Rx delicious high protein pancakes; MET-Rx high protein brownies served up gooey and warm; and samples of consumers' favorite MET-Rx bars, drinks and shakes. The booths "theme" is based around the brands principle goal of "Shaping Every Body", which uses quality protein products to help shape a consumers body, nutrition and overall lifestyle for optimum health. A new book appropriately entitled "Shaping Every Body" will also be launched at the show. According to Brand Director Patrick Cornacchiulo, "the Arnold is the best show to reach our consumers and help educate them on the best ways to train and eat".

In addition to all the delicious protein products that you can try at the booth, several feature athletes will be there to sign autographs and take pictures including IFBB Pro and MET-Rx athlete Phil "the gift" Heath and Phil von Kaenel, Switzerlands IFBB Pro Bodybuilding champion. And competing for the winning Arnold title, MET-Rx's very own Marcus Haley will be onstage representing the brand.

MET-Rx will also be hosting a special guest appearance by Gregor Edmunds, Scottish champion of the World Highland Games -- an event held throughout the year in Scotland and other countries as a way of celebrating Scottish and Celtic culture and heritage. Competitions include bagpipes, the kilt, and heavy events such as a caber toss and throwing the hammer. Edmunds is also famous for winning Scotland's Strongest Man and as a World Record holder in the Atlas Stones contest.

By: Ian Matthews

Have you ever gained 22 pounds in 11 hours? Have you ever dramatically improved your strength in a single day just from changing your diet? Well I have. In my last Bodybuilding.com article I detailed my bulking diet and how I followed up a carbohydrate depletion period with a day where I consumed only fruit juice to create a glycogen supercompensation effect.

So What Is Glycogen Supercompensation?

Glycogen supercompensation is when your muscles are able to hold a greater amount of glycogen than they normally would be able to. They will not only appear fuller and more pumped, but they will also have plenty of fuel to work hard.

Muscles need energy to contract. The muscles use ATP for energy, but ATP stores are quickly depleted. At first the body will create ATP by having creatine phosphate donate a phosphate molecule to ADP, but creatine phosphate is also depleted quickly. For the muscles to continue to work over longer periods of time, ATP must be created from muscle glycogen through glycolysis. Therefore, the more glycogen the muscles can hold, the more ATP can be produced for anaerobic muscle contraction.