Q & A with Dawn Alison

[fitbody]

KRACK KLASSIC 2014 RESULTS

BODYBUILDING

GrandMaster Men BB
Mark Bain

Master Men BB
Daniel LaFrance

Junior Men
Jaswinder Brar
Spencer Nedokis
Vlad Raducu

LW Men
Dylan Hernandez

MW Men
Amos Jones
Paulo D’Attilio
Burham Pourmokhtari
Dan LaFrance
Jaswinder Brar
Vlad Raducu
Matt Jensen

LHW Men
Cody Heinrichs
Ian DeJesus
Mark Bain
Spenser Nedokis
Brody Robertson
Jason Zaw
Ramin Azmin
David Santoro
Tim Kolton

HW Men
Bert Sims
Pinder Kaloti
Slavko Mistric
Ryan Williams Storm

OVERALL MENS BODYBUILDER: BERT SIMS
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WOMENS BODYBUILDING

GM Womens Bodybuilder
Alison Fenton

Open Womens Bodybuilder
Alison Fenton
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WOMENS PHYSIQUE
Shannon McDowell
Heidi Gawehns
Emilija Martic
Amy Slater
Roda Heinrichs
Nicole Nouch

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MENS PHYSIQUE

MASTERS
Noland Pio
Adrian Wesley
Anouxa Sitthiso
Gino Pugliese

MP CLASS A
Lucas Adriaco
Kyle Yawney
Joel Carlson
Tarun Patel
James Furtado
Erik Yu
Miguel Marquez
Mike Tobiason
Reginald Valerio
Jermone Briones
Hanchao Xu
Raphiel del Rosario
Qumbar Raza

MP B
Cory Swiegosz
Reid Draney
Alexis Penaste
Daniel Martinez
Mike Schurko
Eric Bell
Ken Leggat
Clayton Fontaine
Cory Amisano
Omar Jundi
Allan Fawley
James Eltinger
Matt Chanway
Matt Shaw

MP C
Alireza Azarbus
Terry Owen
Cameron Richard
Brent Hughes
Dhylan Edwards
Spenser Johnston
Anthony Wild
Peter Johns
Chad Coldwell
Cody Flesher
Marty Ford
Adam Mulford
Jonathon Dykeman
Jonathon Birch
Braden Wilson
Josh Blackmore

OVERALL MENS PHYSIQUE

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FIGURE

MASTERS FIGURE
Andrea Morin
Manita Sandhu
Denise Riley
Sandy Bain
Michele Hadley
Mary Ann MacGillivray
Mercedes Mikal
Krista Conway
Michele Kadyschuk
Anna Anderson
Corine Drainville

FIGURE SHORT
Amanada Kelly
Samantha Warren
Dar Ashmeade
Nerissa Walton
Jodi Gandy
Andrea Pasutti
Nicky Scott
Kimberley Smith
Melissa Merrill
Angela Warnock
Veronique Lalacette
Kate Joyal

FIGURE TALL
Shauna Marie
Jennifer Milidrag
Jessica Peters
Haley Latti
Bronwen Sapri
Nicole Gyukovits
Rosie Ali
Kailee Ryan
Ashley White
Teagan Desousa
Amanda Dykes

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BIKINI (note: placings to 10th more completed list to come)

MASTERS BIKINI
Michelle Meadows
Krista Cowie
Michelle Rickards
Linda Woo
Monique Osborne
Holly Eglington
Julia Willmott

BIKINI A
Claire Wheeler
Kristina Matic
Ashley Kosiancic
Lisa Reavely
Lana Lyn Rarinacci
Kendal Estee Barber
Ann- Marie Kalish
Brandee Stewart
Amanda Bazett
Marissa Leriger

BIKINI B
Megan Swaisland
Shawna Ram
Laura Clendenning
Nichole Schott
Adelynn Tay
Tannace Scarr
Shelby McMillan
Chelsea Konechny
Sarah Openshaw
Louise Tran

BIKINI C
Amy Brown
Adrianna Mitrovic
Montana Saari
Dianna Morley
Anita Ivanic
Rachel Korpach
Koko Billi-biva
Joy Nguygen
Carsen Machin
Ally Finley

BIKINI D
Anna Lavrova
Sarah Bailey
Jennifer Simm
Scarlett Szalontain
Ashlee Kelly
Ayda Sirin
Taylor Haldane
Kendra Cartier
Raelynn Markerth
Pamela Hodgson

BIKINI E
Keegan Clemens
Talia Tanner
Collette Charlebois
Tabatha Kirkegaard
Alisha Dander
Bianca Gilbert
Ashley Banvelos
Tiffany Koledin
Caitlyn Bellamy
Sian Singerland

OVERALL BIKINI

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NOTE: will update more later
GREAT SHOW AND CONGRATS TO ALL COMPETITORS
YOU ARE ALL WINNERS FOR JUST MAKING IT TO THE SHOW
big big thank you to all the volunteers
who without the show wouldn't have been possible

i will be posting where to send for JUDGES FEEDBACK from the KRACK KLASSIC later today.... stay tuned
on the bcabba facebook page (as well as here as soon as i can)
https://www.facebook.com/BCAmateurBodybuildingAssoc

[fitbody]

March 2nd, 2014
pt of the day

To be nobody but yourself
in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else
means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight;
and never stop fighting.
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE....
BE YOURSELF....

“Life is short, live it.
Love is rare, grab it.
Anger is bad, dump it.
Fear is awful, face it.
Memories are sweet, cherish it.”

“Life has two rules:
#1 Never quit
#2 Always remember rule # 1.”

[fitbody]

KRACK KLASSIC OVERALLS 2014

MENS BODYBUILDING: Burt Sims
MENS PHYSIQUE: Alireza Azarbus
MENS BEST POSER: Daniel LaFrance

FIGURE: Amanda Kelly
BIKINI: Claire Wheeler
WOMENS BEST POSER: Emilija Martic

[fitbody]

March 3, 2014
pt of the day

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.
The oak sleeps in the acorn,
the bird waits in the egg,
and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs.
Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

DREAMS ARE THE DRAWING BOARD OF THE FUTURE
YOU CREATE YOUR REALITY
it starts in your mind
your thought shape your future
you create you....

PIC TEAM Fit Body at the Krack Klassic March 1st, 2014
so proud of all you guys

[fitbody]

Mar 3, 2014
pt of the day

Your role in achieving your goal must be giving your all.
Involve yourself whole:
with your heart, your mind and your soul.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Know your goal,
make a plan
and pull the trigger

just do it
Dawn

[fitbody]

Mar 5, 2014
pt of the day

Hunger
My favorite feeling is perhaps the empty hollowness of hunger.
That statement, in itself, is a declaration of the privileged life I’ve led;
it is borderline obscene to boast of such a thing in a world
where 842 million people don’t have enough to eat.
Nevertheless, being lucky enough to have been raised in America
and just competent enough to hold down a job,
I find myself in the enviable position of needing to invoke “discipline”
in order to experience this sensation.
All that aside, I love feeling hungry, both physically and metaphorically.
Physically, being hungry brings something primal out in me;
there is an edge that awakens which feels dormant when I’ve eaten.
I’m sharper, more alive somehow.

When I eat or drink too much, I feel it in my flesh;
I feel the lethargy that comes with food everywhere.
I feel it on my back, I feel it in my limbs, I feel it in my eyes
everything is weighed down and blurred.
When I am overweight,
I find I can go all day without eating and hardly give it a thought.
When I’m training and riding well and my weight is down,
I can eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner and never feel sated.
That is the feeling of hunger to which I refer;
not a desire to starve,
but a physical condition where sustenance feels impossible to achieve.
This is a beautiful state where everything feels alive
and there is a sharpness and precision in every motion.

There is also a metaphorical hunger,
which I don’t think we can achieve without the physical sort.
The metaphorical sort is borne of desire and need.
This is what drives us to achieve more than we normally would.
Sean Kelly talks of this hunger in his book by the same name;
in his opening chapter,
he says he would rather fall into the any of the greenhouses below
the sweeping hairpins along the descent from the Poggio into Sanremo
than face defeat by Moreno Argentin.
That is hunger in the metaphorical sense.

I am a better person when I feel hunger;
I have drive, I have humility, I have courage.
When hunger stirs,
we come alive with an urgency we don’t otherwise find.
Without it, there is no compulsion to act, to fight, or to endure

[fitbody]

Mar 6, 2014
pt of the day

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world,
are the ones who do.”

[fitbody]

Mar 7th, 2014
pt of the day

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Melissa Ward

[fitbody]

Mar 8, 2014
pt of the day

The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

If your determination is fixed,
I do not counsel you to despair.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Great works are performed not by strength,
but perseverance.

TEAM Fit Body's Sandy Sira

[fitbody]

Mar 9, 2014
pt of the day

“Until one is committed,
there is hesitancy,
the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness.
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth,
the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:
That the moment one definitely commits oneself,
then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents
and meetings and material assistance,
which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.”

JUST DO IT

[fitbody]

Mar 10, 2014
pt of the day

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.

Failing doesn't make you a failure.
Giving up, accepting your failure,
refusing to try again does!

TEAM Fit Body's BIKINI BEAUTY Kezzi Loewen
Photocredit: Vicky Lee

[Odysseus]

Oh my goodness...I probably should not have opened that picture while at work. Ahem...but...lookin' good!

[fitbody]

March 11, 2014
pt of the day

"Training is the opposite of hoping."

Great souls have wills;
feeble ones have only wishes.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

Fall down seven times,
get up eight.
JUST DO IT....

[fitbody]

March 12th, 2014
pt of the day

As we grow up,
we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let us down,
probably will.
You'll have your heart broken
and you'll break others' hearts.
You'll fight with your best friend
or maybe even fall in love with them,
and you'll cry because time is flying by.
So take too many pictures,
laugh too much,
forgive freely,
and love like you've never been hurt.
Life comes with no guarantees,
no time outs,
no second chances.
you just have to live life to the fullest,
tell someone what they mean to you
and tell someone off,
speak out,
dance in the pouring rain,
hold someone's hand,
comfort a friend,
fall asleep watching the sun come up,
stay up late,
be a flirt,
and smile until your face hurts.
Don't be afraid to take chances
or fall in love
and most of all,
live in the moment
because every second you spend angry or upset
is a second of happiness you can never get back

JUST DO IT
Dawn
xox

PIC is ME (Dawn Alison)
live, love, life, laugh....

[fitbody]

March 12, 2014
pt of the day

“People of mediocre ability sometimes
achieve outstanding success because
they don’t know when to quit.
Most men succeed because they are determined to.”

“What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight
it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's FEMALE BODYBUILDER
Amy "The PRODIGY" Young

[fitbody]

March 15, 2014
pt of the day

"Persistence is the ability to maintain actions regardless of your feelings.
You press on even when you feel like quitting.
When you work on any big goal your motivation will wax and wane
like the waves hitting the shore.
Sometimes you’ll feel motivated,
sometimes you won’t.
But it’s not your motivation that creates results
it’s your action.

JUST DO IT
Dawn

[fitbody]

Mar 15, 2014
pt of the day

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

See the things you want as already yours.
Think of them as yours, as belonging to you,
as already in your possession.

SEE IT, BELIEVE IT, JUST DO IT, BE IT !

[fitbody]

March 16, 2014
pt of the day


“There's a difference between interest and commitment.
When you're interested in doing something,
you do it only when circumstance permit.
When you're committed to something,
you accept no excuses,
only results.”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Ashlee Kelly
is an excellent example of COMMITTMENT & DEDICATION

[fitbody]

March 20, 2014
pt of the day

To accomplish great things we must not only act,
but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

just do it
Dawn

[fitbody]

March 21, 2014
pt of the day

You learn you can do your best even when it's hard,
even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit.
It feels good to show some courage.

Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's AMAZING Christine Wallace

[fitbody]

Mar 22, 2014
pt of the day

Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles"
if there wasn't a way to get over them.

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

[fitbody]

Mar 23, 2014
pt of the day

"It is only through work and strife
that either nation or individual moves on to greatness.
The great man is always the man of mighty effort,
and usually the man whom grinding need has trained to mighty effort."

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Marianne Ly

[fitbody]

Mar 24, 2014
pt of the day

Stubbornly persist,
and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness
go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.

He conquers who endures.

[fitbody]

Mar 26th, 2014

“Goals determine what you’re going to be.”

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

“Until one is committed,
there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness.
Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth,
the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans:
That the moment one definitely commits oneself,
then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance,
which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body Backstage at the KK 2014 show

[fitbody]

Mar 27, 2014
pt of the day

The secret of success is consistency of purpose.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Nothing will ever be attempted if
all possible objections must first be overcome.

JUST DO IT...

[fitbody]

Mar 28, 2014
pt of the day

.” Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones,
you'll start having positive results.

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

“We are responsible for what we are,
and whatever we wish ourselves to be,
we have the power to make ourselves.”

[fitbody]

Mar 29, 2014
pt of the day

Attitudes are contagious.
Are yours worth catching?

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

The soul does not absorb negativity by accident,
always by choice.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
Give goodness to the day
and before you know it,
the day will be giving goodness to you.

[fitbody]

Mar 30, 2014
pt of the day

“There's a difference between interest and commitment.
When you're interested in doing something,
you do it only when circumstance permit.
When you're committed to something,
you accept no excuses, only results.”

[fitbody]

March 31, 2014
pt of the day

There's a gift of quiet blessing only friendship can impart,
for a friend shares life with gentle hands,
kind words
and a caring heart.

Cherish your life,
Cherish your health,
Cherish your family,
Cherish your friends.
For these are the things that money can't buy
and will define your TRUE WEALTH
.
PIC: TEAM Fit Body at Posing Practice Yesterday

[fitbody]

April 1st, 2014
pt of the day

The height of your accomplishments
will equal the depth of your convictions.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic;
it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

All men dream, but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds,
wake in the day to find that it was vanity:
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men,
for they may act on their dreams with open eyes,
to make them possible.

[fitbody]

April 2nd, 2014
pt of the day

“Learning is a gift.
Even when pain is your teacher.”

“With everything that has happened to you,
you can either feel sorry for yourself
or treat what has happened as a gift.

Everything is either an opportunity to grow
or an obstacle to keep you from growing.
You get to choose.”

[fitbody]

April 3, 2014
pt of the day

The greatest oak was once
a little nut who held its ground.

Perseverance is the hard work you do
after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

He conquers who endures.

[fitbody]

March 4, 2014
pt of the day

"If I had to select one quality,
one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success,
whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination.
The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times
and get up off the floor saying. "Here comes number seventy-one!"

"Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible.
Plough ahead as a steamer does,
rough or smooth - rain or shine.
To carry your cargo and make your port is the point. "

[fitbody]

April 5, 2014
pt of the day

Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it.

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve.
Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose,
the trenchant zeal of a crusader.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's BIKINI CHAMP & BEAUTY Amethyst Lowe

[fitbody]

April 6, 2014
pt of the day

“The most important key to achieving great success is
to decide upon your goal and launch,
get started, take action, move.”

“When obstacles arise,
you change your direction to reach your goal,
you do not change your decision to get there.”

[fitbody]

April 7, 2014
pt of the day

Human beings can alter their lives
by altering their attitudes of mind.

Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.

[fitbody]

April 8, 2014
pt of the day

Ambition is the path to success.
Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

The height of your accomplishments
will equal the depth of your convictions.

PIC is ME ( Dawn Alison (bodybuilder & coach) at 2010 Canadian Nationals

[fitbody]

April 9, 2014
pt of the day


“Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.” ~Unknown

We all do it or have done it at some point in our lives: We compare ourselves to others and gauge where we are based on what we observe them to be doing.

If this was simply an observation, that would be one thing. But in comparing ourselves to others, we often end up judging ourselves. There’s no one worse to judge!

If you have ever noticed, it doesn’t matter how many people are on your side, cheering you on. If you can’t get on your own side, you never get past “go.”

The thing about comparison is that there is never a win. How often do we compare ourselves with someone less fortunate than us and consider ourselves blessed? More often, we compare ourselves with someone who we perceive as being, having, or doing more.

And this just leaves us coming up short.

But our minds do want to quantify. Our minds want to rank and file and organize information. Our mind wants to know where we fit into the scheme of things. So we need to give it something to do.

So, instead of training it to stop comparing altogether, why not simply redirect the comparison to a past and a present self and keep the comparison within?

We are always becoming more. Who you are today is a result of the decisions you made yesterday. We are always in a state of creation. We decide and then we decide again, and the direction is always toward expansion. It is our human nature to expand.

So, when you catch yourself comparing yourself to another, stop for a moment and re-direct the thought. Instead of submitting to the temptation to compare yourself to someone else, ask yourself a few questions instead.

What are you doing today that you couldn’t have done five, three, or even one year ago? How have you stepped out in the last year that you might have found inconceivable before?

What new decisions have you made or what new actions have you taken that have resulted in you moving in a new direction in your life?

What are your wins this year, compared to last year at this time? How has your life improved? How haveyou improved? What have you done recently that you never thought you could do?

What negative behavior have you stopped engaging in, that you never thought you could quit? What positive behavior have you been engaging in that up until now, you have resisted?

How are you doing more of what you said you were going to do and shown up more consistently for your own success?

In other words, how have you continued to become a new and improved version of yourself?

That’s the stuff that counts. Comparing ourselves with someone else is an inaccurate and irrelevant measuring stick.

Think about the faulty logic. Take, for example, an introvert who feels energized after periods of solitude. What does she get by comparing herself to a gregarious, outgoing personality who gets bored by an hour alone with herself?

What kind of illogical conclusions can she come to by this comparison?

Take any one of our perpetual comparisons and question the logic. Most are completely irrational in their reasoning.

We all came in different. We all came in with certain intentions that through life experience, we have continued to hone. In fact, the only masterful creation we have to work with is ourselves.

So, why defame it?

Michelangelo said, “Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”

How well we do this is our measurement.

It doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing with their block of stone. The statue that they are liberating is one of their own intentions. But how well we are doing with our own block of stone is our business.

And we must tend to it with honor, care, compassion, and praise.

Because when we have allowed for more expression this year than we have in the last, and more importantly we recognize it, than we can stand taller as a result of the comparison instead of diminished by it.

[fitbody]

April 10, 2014
pt of the day

The future depends on what we do in the present.

You are the residual result of all your past thoughts & actions....

YOU CREATE YOU...

[fitbody]

April 11, 2014
pt of the day

The victory of success is half won when
one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.
Even the most tedious chore will become endurable
as you parade through each day convinced that every task,
no matter how menial or boring,
brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams...

“You are never given a dream
without also being given the power to make it true.”

PIC is ME (Dawn Alison (bodybuilder & coach) in 2008

[fitbody]

April 12, 2014
pt of the day

Gold medals aren't really made of gold.
They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

I've always found that anything worth achieving
will always have obstacles in the way
and you've got to have that drive and determination to overcome those obstacles
on route to whatever it is that you want to accomplish.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything
and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Alison Fenton BODYBUILDING CHAMPION
(Photocredit: Vicky Lee)

[fitbody]

APRIL 13, 2014
pt of the day


“Successful people aren't born that way.
They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things
unsuccessful people don't like to do.
The successful people don't always like these things themselves;
they just get on and do them.”

“Try and fail, but don't fail to try.”

“Doing the best at this moment
puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

PIC is TEAM Fit Body's Sarah Bailey rocking the stage

[fitbody]

April 14, 2014
pt of the day

“Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction,
strength of character, stick-to-itiveness,
pugnaciousness, backbone,
and intestinal fortitude.
They are mandatory for anyone who wants to
LIVE A FULL & FULLFILLING LIFE...."

PIC is TEAM Fit Body's AMAZING Girl with GUTS: Sherine

[fitbody]

April 15, 2014
pt of the day

“The best preparation for tomorrow
is doing your best today.”

“Little by little one walks far”

To be nobody but yourself
in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else,
is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight.
Never stop fighting.”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's BEAUTIFUL Kezzi Loewen

[fitbody]

April 16, 2014
pt of the day


The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.
Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on
what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.

PIC is ME (Dawn Alison) 2009

[fitbody]

April 17, 2014
pt of the day

“The true measure of success is
how many times you can bounce back from failure.”

Courage is the most important of all the virtues,
because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
You can practice any virtue erratically,
but nothing consistently without courage.

Nothing will work unless you do.

[fitbody]

April 18, 2014
pt of the day

“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes
and cannot tell the difference between reality
and an imagined thought or image.
What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.”

“You are a creator;
you create with your every thought.
You often create by default,
for you are getting what you are giving your attention to wanted or unwanted
but you know by how it feels if what you are getting (creating)
is what you are wanting
or if it is not what you are wanting.
(Where is your attention focused?)”

[fitbody]

April 19, 2014
pt of the day

Your reality is what you see in the mirror which is of your own creation.

So if you aren’t happy with what you see,
you need to figure out what YOU are doing wrong.
What are you attracting into your life and why?
Try looking at the things that are good.
How did you attract them?
What feelings do the good things in your life give you?

Sit in a quiet place and ask yourself these questions
and listen to the answer.
Remember happiness is not the real feeling it is only the end result.
Another words you are happy because you feel …safe, content, healthy.
Those are the types of feelings you are looking for.
Many times if we are not attracting what we want
we are still achieving the feeling we are looking for.
If you are overweight/overfat,
you may have security issues or food is giving you a loving pleasure.
You have to find other more productive ways to get those same feelings
and you will achieve the things you want.

[fitbody]

April 20, 2014
pt of the day

Happiness is an attitude.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or happy and strong.
The amount of work is the same.

Change your thoughts
and you change your world.

[fitbody]

April 21, 2014
pt of the day

I think it's important to get your surroundings
as well as yourself into a positive state
meaning surround yourself with positive people,
not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's EASTER POSING PRACTICES.....
these people are committed

[fitbody]

April 22, 2014
pt of the day

The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't."
That is simply not true.
We can do anything we want
If we don't do something,
it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.

We must all suffer one of two things:
the pain of discipline
or the pain of regret...

ASK YOURSELF...
"will this take me closer to or further from, MY GOAL ?"

[fitbody]

April 23, 2014
pt of the day

Commitment leads to action.
Action brings your dream closer.

Do or do not.
There is no try.

Don't let the fear of the time
it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it.
The time will pass anyway;
we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

PIC: is ME Dawn Alison) taken by Photographer Steve Wennerstrom in 2008

[fitbody]

looking for a great photographer?

check out Vicky Lee
based out of Vancouver Lower mainland

but she will be going to the Fort St John show and doing shoots up there this year

emaill: satireimages@gmail.com

website: www.satireimages.com

[fitbody]

April 24, 2014
pt of the day

Develop your willpower so that
you can make yourself do what you should do,
when you should do it,
whether you feel like it or not.

First we form habits,
then they form us.
Conquer your bad habits
or they will conquer you.

“Whatever we expect with confidence
becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.”

[fitbody]

April 25, 2014
pt of the day

A commitment without a goal
is like a trip without a map:
odds are you won’t get where you want to be.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

I define self-control, in the beginning of life,
as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do.
Once this becomes a habit,
discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want
by doing the very things I now want to do!
I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy
but only after we have worked hard to practice it.

[fitbody]

April 26, 2014
pt of the day

Be so strong
that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
Make all your friends feel there is something in them.
Look at the sunny side of everything.
Think only of the best,
work only for the best,
and expect only the best.
Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
Forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
Give everyone a smile.
Spend so much time improving yourself
that you have no time left to criticize others.
Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

[fitbody]

April 27, 2014
pt of the day

Every choice carries a consequence.
For better or worse,
each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor.
There are not exceptions.
If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment,
why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?

Destiny is not a matter of chance,
it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for;
it is a thing to be achieved.

[fitbody]

April 28, 2014
pt of the day

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy
but the absence of courage.

COURAGE is not the absence of fear...
it's feeling the fear & doing it anyway !

It is our choices ...
that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.

The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is,"
embraces the whole of man's being.
It is so comprehensive that it reaches out to every condition
and circumstance of life.
A man is literally what he thinks.
His character is the sum of his thoughts.

PIX: TEAM Fit Body's INCREDIBLE less than 4 month TRANSFORMATION of
Jacqueline Leigh Halliburn

[fitbody]

April 29, 2014
pt of the day

Know what you want to do,
hold the thought firmly,
and do every day what should be done,
and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.
Just do it !

TEAM Fit Body's Figure Short Competitor for Kelowna Show Marianne Ly
LOOKIN GOOD - GO MARIANNE !

[fitbody]

April 30, 2014
pt of the day


It is not the critic that counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles
or the doer of deeds could have them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but he who does actually strive to do the deed;
who knows the great devotion;
who spends himself in a worthy cause,
who at the best,
knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst,
if he fails while daring greatly,
knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls,
who know neither victory nor defeat.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Jordan Daniels prepping for Fort St John
GO JORDAN !

[fitbody]

May 1st, 2014
pt of the day

All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin' in the sun,
Talkin' bout the things They woulda-coulda-shoulda done...
But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All ran away and hid
From one little did.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Lauren Fuller heading to Kelowna show
GO LAUREN

[fitbody]

May 3, 2014
pt of the day

The definition of success
To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons
and the affections of children;
to earn the approbation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others;
to give one's self;
to leave the world a little better,
whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch,
or a redeemed social condition.;
to have played and laughed with enthusiasm,
and sung with exultation;
to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived
this is to have succeeded.

[fitbody]

May 4, 2014
pt of the day

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards,
and makes no way on the smoothest road;
a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest,
and will reach his purpose,
if there be even a little worthiness in it.
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder
a waif, a nothing, a no man.
Have a purpose in life and having it,
throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work....

I cannot always control what goes on outside.
But I can always control what goes on inside.

[fitbody]

May 5, 2014
pt of the day

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness
a harsh nurse,
who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.
Do not pray for easy lives.
Pray to be stronger men!
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers.
Pray for power equal to your tasks...

PIX: TEAM Fit Body's Sunday POSING Practice

We at TEAM Fit Body start training champions young...
the nut doesn't fall far from the tree...
on center X is Alexa
who is the daughter of Melissa Ward (on far right)
a Canadian Jr Bodybuilding Champ, Bikini Champ
and now debuting in Figure this year. ..
we at TEAM Fit Body love to get family involved
and have fun together. ...

[fitbody]

May 6, 2014
pt of the day

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed.
No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined.
No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled.
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Self-respect is the root of discipline.
The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to one's self.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Dawn MacKay

[fitbody]

May 7, 2014
pt of the day

I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load.
I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road.
Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone,
And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.

[fitbody]

May 8, 2014
pt of the day

Be daring, be different, be impractical,
be anything that will assert integrity of purpose
and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace,
the slaves of the ordinary.

And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than
the risk it took to Blossom.

PIC: is ME (Dawn Alison) 2013

[fitbody]

May 9, 2014
pt of the day

It must be born in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled,
but it is a calamity to not dream.
It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars,
but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
Not failure but low aim is sin!

SO DREAM YOUR DREAM
and DON'T LET ANYONE ELSE TELL YOU OTHERWISE...

[fitbody]

May 10, 2014
pt of the day

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.
A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen.
Objectives are not fate;
they are direction.
They are not commands;
they are commitments.
They do not determine the future;
they are means to mobilize the resources
and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Mina Khtaria
on her way to the Miss Universe Canada Pageant

[fitbody]

May 11, 2014
pt of the day

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Get around the right people.
Associate with positive,
goal-oriented people who encourage
and inspire you.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's ThaiTony Lam

[fitbody]

May 12, 2014
pt of the day

The biggest lie in choosing is, "I can't."
That is simply not true.
We can do anything we want If we don't do something,
it is because we have committed our time, energy and resources somewhere else.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Sunday Posing Practice

[fitbody]

May 13, 2014
pt of the day

The relationship between commitment and doubt is
by no means an antagonistic one.
Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt
but in spite of doubt

Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender,
that is strength.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Brandon Best

[fitbody]

May 14, 2014
pt of the day

Knowing is not enough;
we must apply.
Willing is not enough;
we must do.

Develop your willpower so that
you can make yourself do what you should do,
when you should do it,
whether you feel like it or not.

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons;
great achievements are not possible without them.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Mitch Klarner

[fitbody]

MAY 19, 2014
PT OF THE DAY

I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure
in almost any of life's endeavors.
Your attitude--your perspective, your outlook,
how you feel about yourself,
how you feel about other people
determines your priorities, your actions, your values.
Your attitude determines how you interact with other people
and how you interact with yourself.

I cannot always control what goes on outside.
But I can always control what goes on inside.

ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING....
is yours worth catching ?

NOTE: if you have not seen the movie LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE watch it...
it's a great great story ~ JUST BE YOU & LET NO ONE TELL YOU OTHERWISE

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WESTERN CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2014 KELOWNA RESULTS

JUNIOR MEN
1. Bryce Chaddock
2. Hayden Injates
3. Austin Hawkins
4. Jacob Finamore

Grand Master Men BB
1. Heinz Nussbaumer
2. Raymond Walkerdine
3. Wayne McIntrye
4. Lance Raaen
5. Rob Busch
6. Ken Jones
7. David Vella
8. Michael Hare

Master Men BB
1. Michael Martinz
2. Jeff Meyers
3. David Gilks
4. Tony Chan
5. Luis Ramirez
6. Michael Watson

LW Men
1. Troy Wattley
2. Michael Szeto
3. Matthew Anderson
4. Raymond Walkerdine
5. Lance Raaen
6. Brent Edwards

MW Men
1. Jordan King
2. Matt MacDonald
3. Jared Van Someren
4. Luis Ramirez
5. Brad Willson
6. Eric Beech
7. Justin Wise
8. Kerry Vanderwijk
Cody Emsky – DISQUALIFIED

LHW Men
1. Jeff Meyers
2. Evan Gyurkovits
3. Tarmo Kangas
4. Theoren Peniuk
5. Michael Watson

HW Men
1. Michael Martinz
2. David Gilks
3. Kaleb Sutton

MEN’S BODYBUILDING OVERALL: MICHAEL MARTINZ

MEN’S BEST POSER: TARMO KANGAS

GRANDMASTER FBB
1. Sherry Truman
WOMEN’S PHYSIQUE
2. Tara Lynn Cheng
3. Kailee Ryan
4. Kelly Veillette

WOMEN’S BEST POSER: TARA LYNN CHENG

FITNESS
1. Kristy Mascia
2. Jericho Green
3. Kaylee Mascia
4. Samantha Skelly
5. Nicole Vincze

GR MSTR FIGURE
1. Annette Willson
2. Francesca McCallen
3. Sherry Russel
4. Lynn Willard
5. Susan Willett

MASTER FIGURE
1. Crystal Gretz
2. Chelsea Woloshuk
3. Dianne Goodfellow
4. Claudia Lailhacar
5. Angelique Kronebusch
6. Penny McFarlane
7. Jeannine Cote
8. Isabelle Meunier
9. Kimber MacWilliams

FIGURE SHORT
1. Marianne Ly
2. Jasmine Burnell
3. Nicky Scott
4. Abigail McKague
5. Tara Card
6. Jaylene Llewellyn
7. Amanda Rai
8. Brenna Nakazawa
9. Chandni Chaube
10. Sarah Watts

FIGURE MEDIUM
1. Tiffany Hodsman
2. Erin Crawford
3. Lisa Russell
4. Kate Joyal
5. Shalon Guilbault
6. Jessica Wenger
7. Shauna Erdman
8. Jessica Belyea
9. Christy Farrell
10. Amy Cannan
11. Emily Sedgwick
12. Laura Haddow

FIGURE TALL
1. Heidi Johnson
2. Ruth Saunders
3. Lonnie Heathcote
4. Alyssa Whyte
5. Regan Byron
6. Shannon Thompson
7. Natasha Burley
8. Christine Barton
9. Cara Kerluck
10. Sydney Nakazawa
11. Emily Palfy

MASTERS MEN’S PHYSIQUE

1. William Lopetinsky
2. Clayton Foster
3. Dale Larson
4. Matt Kehler
5. Dwayne Tremblay
6. Thai Lam

MP class A

1. Don Lam
2. Morgan Decksheimer
3. Geoff Cosco
4. Tyler De La Paz
5. Dwight Liburd
6. Mike Li
7. Oliver Cloutier
8. Dimitrios Stephanoy
9. Devin Bonar
10. Brenden Eberle
11. Stefan Gerwin
12. Andrew Jamieson
13. David Rojo
14. Eric Wilson

MP B

1. Dease Watson
2. Chris Wilson
3. Benjamin Edu
4. Joe Porter
5. James Dyble
6. Dylan Klotz
7. Kurtis Rempel
8. Brett Halls
9. Benjamin Worth
10. Gurpreet Sidhu
11. Keenan Staples
12. Jordan Barth
13. Paulo David
14. Jason Laverman
15. Adam Effertz

MP C

1. Edrice Ferdoussi
2. Elijah Vilio
3. Brandon Emslie
4. Jay Frasca
5. Mike De Dood
6. Rocco Hoeller
7. Jordan Groves
8. Joey Bugyinka
9. Logan Van Damme
10. Sahil Sundri
11. Anthony Haralabos
12. James Sutter
13. Jake Sherbinin
14. Max Friesen
15. Mitchell Klarner
16. Isidro Torres Cordova

MP D
1. Jake Young
2. Cori Manning
3. Sage Sturgeon
4. Mitchell Stickney
5. Brett Forsythe
6. Ali Najafian
7. Riley Vigier
8. Michael Gill
9. David Mathieson
10. Chris DeVocht
11. Michael Ranosz
12. Gareth Bryson

MENS PHYSIQUE OVERALL: Dease Watson

BIKINI

Master Bikini- SHORT

1. Janine Godfrey
2. Rachelle Besuyen
3. Tracy Allain
4. Mindy Ambrose
5. Linda Woo
6. Rhea Mandapat
7. Jackie Webber
8. Melissa Phillips
9. Carolyn Riha
10. Holly Neufeld
11. Paige Pearce
12. Lindsay Gray
13. Donna Southwood

Master Bikini-TALL

1. Pamela Steeper
2. Leigh-Ann Smith
3. Jessica Pallas
4. Fawn Lavonne
5. Nadine Martin
6. Sandra Daly
7. Shannon Nolting
8. Christine Gladue
9. Allison Konsmo
10. Patti Lewis
11. Megan Cole
12. Louisa Hardy
13. Melissa Morsara

BIKINI A

1. Alysha Felder
2. Shantel Oranchuk
3. Brittany Bento
4. Elicia Hadley
5. Carsen Gray
6. Taylor Dignard
7. Anne Girtz
8. Amanda Lim
9. Leonarda Alvarez
10. Alejandra Flores
11. Kendal Barber
12. Stacey Lumley
13. Julie McGraa
14. Meghan Urquhart
15. Tamara Colgan
16. Nicole Leier
17. Sarah Smith
18. Miyuki Tomioka
19. Catherine Wheatley
20. Alex Funk

BIKINI B

1. Mackenzie Lee
2. Tiffany Roy
3. Shelby McMillan
4. Kandace Carr
5. Sylvea Minci
6. Melissa Corrigan
7. Elaine Topolnisky
8. Sarah Lingham
9. Stephanie Cartwright
10. Hannah Southwood
11. Victoria Ponsart
12. Jessica Lee
13. Emma Petit
14. Brenda Cady
15. Sarah Rempel
16. Chelsea Young
17. Lisa Watson
18. Chelsea Konechny

BIKINI C

1. Jennifer Weintz
2. Risa Pallister
3. Crystal Mohan
4. Tiffany Breck
5. Chanel Brar
6. Lauren Fuller
7. Justine Rogers
8. Nadia Nosrati
9. Christina Delaportas
10. Brittany Janjic
11. Brittany Jonat
12. Kayla Harvey
13. Stacy Marks
14. Mikayla Tarasoff
15. Krystal Pearson
16. Shay Daigneault
16.Kelcy MacMillan
16. Julia Erb
Gogo Lalli DISQUALIFIED

BIKINI D

1. Eliza Kroeze
2. Nicole Joakimides
3. Nikole Moretto
4. Karley Fraser
5. Kelsey Sciberras
6. Kim Ferguson
7. Tanita Sandana
8. Lisa Brown
9. Cassie Faris
10. Susan Mailey
11. Leah Ewonchuk
12. Jessica Hietman
13. Liz Metcalf
14. Kayla McColl
15. Abby Kambeitz
16. Krystal Wickman
16. Lauren Jones

BIKINI E

1. Fatemeh (Ayda) Amirhosseini
2. Claudia Brietzke
3. Mary Carrizo
4. Brandie Mabee
5. Cassandra Askew
6. Lauren Nutbrown
7. Presley Tynan
8. Crystal Laboucan
9. Jessica Middler
10. Paulina Nowak
11. Susan Plihal
12. Candice Woods
13. Amy Newport
14. Nicole Laderoute
15. Victoria Mokrushnikova
16. Dee Moonen
16.Caitlin Riley
16.Hayley Stewart

Ayrann Kamphuis DISQUALIFIED

BIKINI F
1. Jessica Crome
2. Erica Miller
3. Megan Shallow
4. Kendall Brand
5. Autumn Baker
6. Darcie Powell
7. Chelan Wilkins
8. Crystal Warren
9. Tanelle Bolt
10. Samantha Takacs
11. Faye Anstey
12. Carolyn Thomas
13. Wynter-Lynn Maddox
14. Marissa Baerg
15. Karen Goforth
16. Kelsea Sarginson
16. Stephanie Grassi

BIKINI OVERALL: Jennifer Weintz

[fitbody]

May 20, 2014
pt of the day

All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
Commit yourself to a dream . . .
Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure.
Why?
Because he can always rest assured
that he succeeded in life's most important battle
he defeated the fear of trying.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Kelowna 2014 Crew

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TEAM Fit Body Kelowna Results 2014
clients:

Matt MacDonald - 2nd Place Champ Middle Wt Mens BB
Marianne Ly - Figure Short & Overall Figure Champion
Shannon Thompson - Figure Tall 6th Place
Thai Lam - Masters Mens Physique 6th Place
Mitch Klarner - Mens Physique competitor
Janine Godfrey - Masters Bikini Short Champ
Jackie Webber - Masters Bikini Short 7th Place
Lauren Fuller- Bikini C 6th Place


Posing & Presentation Clients

Luis Ramirez - 5h Place Champ Masters Men BB & 4th Place Mid Wt ChampTiffany Hodsman - Figure Medium Champion
Cori Manning - Mens Physique 2nd Place Champ
Ali Najafian - Mens Physique 6th Place
Cat Wheatley - Bikini A Competitor
Kandace Carr - Bikini B 4th Place Champ

[fitbody]

May 21, 2014
pt of the day

Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender,
that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Thai ThaiTony Lam

[fitbody]

May 22, 2014
pt of the day

Don't be pushed by your problems.
Be led by your dreams.

Dream lofty dreams,
and as you dream,
so you shall become.
Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be;
your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

[fitbody]

May 23, 2014
pt of the day
Confront your fears, list them, get to know them,
and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared.

COURAGE IF FEELING THE FEAR & DOING IT ANYWAY....
LIFE BEGINS AT THE END OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE....
booyah onward ho....

[fitbody]

May 24, 2014
pt of the day

Effort only fully releases its reward after
a person refuses to quit.

The attached picture epitomizes this,
so many I try to help with weight loss, whine "I'm not losing anything!"...
I reply "YES YOU ARE !"...
They come back with "It's so little"...
WELL ITS THIS CONSTANTLY GOING DOWN OF THESE LITTLE INCREMENTS THAT ADD UP TO ALOT...
as you can see in the pic of TEAM Fit Body's Kathy Gelmon progress log
that in 4 months she's down 18 lbs and 16.3% in bodyfat...
and people ask her what is the secret...
"THERE IS NO SECRET, STICK TO THE MEAL PLAN " is her response...

congrats Kathy, she is 2 wks out of FSJ Womens Figure...
you know you are lean when your veins are a poppin'

[fitbody]

May 25, 2014
pt of the day

Be daring, be different, be impractical,
be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision
against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

And then the day came,
when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to Blossom.

[fitbody]

May 26, 2014
pt of the day

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,
but we rather have those because we have acted rightly.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act
but a habit.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Dawn MacKay on her way to FSJ show

[fitbody]

May 28, 2014
pt of the day

Confidence is the result of
hours and days and weeks and years of
constant work and dedication.

Destiny is no matter of chance.
It is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for,
it is a thing to be achieved.

[fitbody]

May 28, 2014
pt of the day

FRIENDSHIP: May I always be a loyal friend.
I will strive to be true in my word and faithful in deed.
My friends are precious treasures with a priceless value.

PIC: myself & one of my most dear friends IFBB Pro Carlos Rabiei...
If you find one human who has the quality & depth of character of this man
in a lifetime you are very lucky.
Words cannot express the gratitude I have for his friendship
and how much he means to me.
I am blessed to have him in my life
& proud to call him my friend.

[fitbody]

May 29, 2014
pt of the day

The big challenge is
to become all that you have the possibility of becoming.
You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit
to maximize your human potential
and stretch yourself to the limit.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Matt MacDonald
2nd Place Middle wt Western Canadian Champion
KELOWNA 2014
CONGRATS MATT

[fitbody]

May 30, 2014
pt of the day

Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style.
Appreciate the members of your family for who they are,
even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours.
Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim.
Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers.
Stop comparing.
There's plenty of room in the forest.

PIX: Brandon Best & Dawn Alison...
married almost 4 yrs,
we have things in common, but in other ways we are polar opposite,
allowing & respecting those differences
allows us to retain ourselves
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE

[fitbody]

today is the day my friend & BC's own Ifbb Pro Carlos Rabiei competes at the Toronto Pro show,
hubby will be posting updates for us all on my facebook wall
https://www.facebook.com/dawn.alison3?ref=tn_tnmn
while i'm work so stay tuned here.....
SENDING LOTS OF LOVE & SUPPORT TO TORONTO FROM BC....
GO CARLOS

[fitbody]

June 1, 2014
pt of the day

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you,
they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Above all,
challenge yourself.
You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have,
what you can accomplish.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Shylah Rayne
1 wk out of her 1st show
GO SHYLAH

[fitbody]

June 2, 2014
pt of the day

The galleries are full of critics.
They play no ball, they fight no fights.
They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing.
Down in the arena are the doers.
They make mistakes because they try many things.
The man who makes no mistakeslacks boldness and the spirit of adventure.
He is the one who never tries anything.
His is the brake on the wheel of progress.
And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes,
because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing,
except criticize those who do things

Do not be too timid and squeamish...
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make, the better.

[fitbody]

June 3, 2014
pt of the day

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Far better it is to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy nor suffer too much,
because they live in the gray twilight
that knows not victory nor defeat.

PIC: is ME (Dawn Alison over the last several years)

[St]

May 28, 2014
pt of the day

FRIENDSHIP: May I always be a loyal friend.
I will strive to be true in my word and faithful in deed.
My friends are precious treasures with a priceless value.

PIC: myself & one of my most dear friends IFBB Pro Carlos Rabiei...
If you find one human who has the quality & depth of character of this man
in a lifetime you are very lucky.
Words cannot express the gratitude I have for his friendship
and how much he means to me.
I am blessed to have him in my life
& proud to call him my friend.


Great pic, is he ever going to step on stage again?

[fitbody]

June 4th, 2014
pt of the day

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Satisfaction lies in the effort,
not in the attainment,
full effort is full victory.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Ali Najafian FORT ST JOHN SHOW BOUND
(photocredit: Vicky Lee)
SO EXCITEDF TO SEE ALI ONSTAGE.... GO ALI !!!!!!

[fitbody]

June 10th, 2014
pt of the day

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain.
It’s not something you learn in school.
But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven’t learned anything”

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body Fort St John 2014 CREW....
GREAT PEOPLE, GREAT MEMORIES, GREAT TIMES.... so much fun xoxo

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By your own soul, learn to live.
And if men thwart you take no heed.
If men hate you have no care.
Sing your song,
dream your dream,
Hope your hope and pray your prayer.

PIC: at Fort St John last sat night after the Northern Classic Show...
arriving at Boston Pizza for our make shift AFTER PARTY....
GREAT MEMORIES, GREAT TIMES, GREAT PEOPLE
these moments I will never forget, thank you for those who share & enrich my life...
for it is these great moments and great people that make LIFE GREAT
xoxoxo love you guys

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TEAM Fit Body FORT ST JOHN SHOW 2014 Results

Sandy Sira
BIKINI OVERALL CHAMPION & Bikini Medium Champion


Shylah Dobbin
Figure Short Champion


Ali Najafian
OVERALL MENS BODYBUILDING CHAMPION & Light Heavyweight champion


Jordan Daniels
Mens Middle Weight Bodybuilding Champion

Marina Wojtczak
Bikini Short 2nd Place Champion

Crystal Coulumbe
Womens Bodybuilding 2nd Place Champion


Bob Cripps
Masters Mens Physique Champion

Kathy Gelman
Grand Masters Figure 3rd Place Champion

Kristin Hazzard
Bikini Tall 3rd Place Champion

Dawn MacKay
Womens Physique 4th Place Champion


Heather Clarke
Grand Masters Figure 4th Place Champion


Tracy Sheepwash – Figure Masters Competitor

Sherina Chandra – Bikini Short Competitor

Monica Bruns – Grand Masters Figure Competitor

Mirela Pilas-Simoni – Masters Bikini Competitor

Alix Daniels – Bikini Medium Competitor

Marina Deveiteo – Bikini Medium Competitor

[fitbody]

June 11, 2014
pt of the day

The difference in winning and losing is most often,
not quitting....

Champions keep playing until they get it right.
If you really want something,
and really work hard,
and take advantage of opportunities,
and never give up,
you will find a way.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Sandy Sira
BIKINI OVERALL CHAMPION

[fitbody]

June 12, 2014
pt of the day

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors.
Your attitude--your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people
determines your priorities, your actions, your values.
Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself.

PIC: my HUBBY Brandon Best wow what a sight for sore eyes...
still not totally wake till I saw this vision of loveliness MY HOT HUBBY...
man we got alot of stuff in our kitchen hahahhaha...
and to my clients.... ya ya those are Storms cereals ontop of the fridge lol

[fitbody]

June 13, 2014
pt of the day

Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind
what he wishes to do.
He puts away all doubt.
It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be;
if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it,
you will do it.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Shylah Rayne FIGURE CHAMPION

[fitbody]

June 14, 2014
pt of the day

Each time a person stands up for an ideal,
or acts to improve the lot of others,
or strikes out against injustice,
he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,
and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring,
these ripples build a current
that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Courage is very important.
Like a muscle,
it is strengthened by use.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Dawn MacKay

[fitbody]

June 15, 2014
pt of the day

It takes a little courage, and a little self-control.
And some grim determination,
If you want to reach the goal.
It takes a deal of striving,
and a firm and stern-set chin.
No matter what the battle,
If you really want to win.
There's no easy path to glory,
There's no road to fame.
Life, however we may view it,
Is no simple parlor game;
But it's prizes call for fighting,
For endurance and for grit;
For a rugged disposition
and don't know when to quit.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's AMAZING BEFORE & AFTER of Monica Bruns

[fitbody]

June 16, 2014
pt of the day

Every choice carries a consequence.
For better or worse,
each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor.
There are not exceptions.
If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment,
why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's INCREDIBLE TRANSFORMATION of Sherine ArrSee

[fitbody]

June 17, 2014
pt of the day

Decide to forgive:
For resentment is negative;
resentment is poisoning;
resentment diminishes and devours the self.
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Only the brave know how to forgive....
A coward never ...
it's not in his nature.
To err is human,
to forgive, divine.

[fitbody]

June 18, 2014
pt of the day

Take chances, make mistakes.
That's how you grow.
Pain nourishes your courage.
You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's AMAZING Christine Wallace

[fitbody]

June 19, 2014
pt of the day

Before your dreams can come true,
you have to have those dreams.
Don't make excuses.
Make things happen.
Make changes.
Then make history...

PIC; TEAM Fit Body's Marina Wojtczak

[fitbody]

June 20, 2014
pt of the day

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom,
and deprecate agitation,
are men who want crops without plowing up the ground,
they want rain without thunder and lightning.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Amethyst Lowe heading to BC Championships

[fitbody]

June 21, 2014
pt of the day

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than

It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
Whe he might have captured the victor's cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out -

The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It might be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

Love only grows by sharing.
You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

PIC: is ME (Dawn Alison)

[fitbody]

June 22, 2014
pt of the day

You can do what you want to do,
accomplish what you want to accomplish,
attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind
not all of a sudden,
perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement
but you can do it gradually,
day by day and play by play,
if you want to do it,
if you work to do it,
over a sufficiently long period of time.

[fitbody]

June 23, 2014
pt of the day

There is no such thing as can't, only won't.
If you're qualified,
all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish,
to make a change.
Go forward,
go backward.
Whatever it takes!
But you can't blame other people or society in general.
It all comes from your mind.
When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's SUNDAY POSING PRACTICE

[fitbody]

June 24, 2014
pt of the day

Don't be reluctant to give of yourself generously,
it's the mark of caring and compassion and personal greatness....

PIC: me & my son Storm Sull
he is one of the most kind, gentle, wonderful humans I know....

[fitbody]

June 25,2014
pt of the day

Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.

Far better it is to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer too much,
because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Paula Lambert
3 days out of the BCs GO PAULA

[fitbody]

June 26, 2014
pt of the day

We cannot choose how many years we will live,
but we can choose how much life those years will have.
We cannot control the beauty of our face,
but we can control the expression on it.
We cannot control life's difficult moments
but we can choose to make life less difficult.
We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world,
but we can control the atmosphere of our minds.
Too often we try to choose and control things we cannot.
Too seldom we choose to control what we can …
our attitude.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Junior Bodybuilder Andraea Adams Before & After

[fitbody]

June 27, 2014
pt of the day

best of luck to all the competitors coming in the BC Championships tomorrow
please remember to..... ENJOY THE MOMENT! (by Gary Bartlett)

Are you competing for the wrong reasons? There was a time when I felt like winning a bodybuilding contest was the most important thing in my small world! I was angry when I didn’t win, and felt that the training and sacrifice were for nothing! It was all about winning, and my self esteem was demolished if I lost. Even though it was thirty years ago, I remember it like yesterday, hanging up on a dear friend and supporter who didn’t tell me what I wanted to hear after my runner up finish at a regional bodybuilding show.
Garry in his Prime with muscles and hair

I was so blinded by my compulsion and need to win; I didn’t want to listen to reason. I like to think that I have matured a lot since those days and that, if anything, age has provided me with some much needed wisdom and insight as to how important competing in a bodybuilding or figure competition should be. Can anything be gained from the experience if you don’t win?

Now don’t get me wrong, it is very hard to justify all the sacrifices in preparation for a competition and just walk on stage with a carefree attitude where winning is not the major goal. Everyone wants to win, but it has to be put in the proper perspective. I have known many individuals who have paid a very high cost emotionally, physically, and financially in their quest to win.

I received an e-mail the other day from a prominent Canadian Bodybuilder who after many years of successful competitions is now questioning if all the sacrifices were worth it? This individual confesses that they loved competing but, in spite of all the wins, still feels unsatisfied and has become frustrated! They are now questioning if continuing to compete will change anything. Unfortunately, after years of training and gearing all your energies towards the goal of winning, to suddenly stop competing can leave a huge void in your life!

So I ask you, what motivates you to compete? Are you competing for the wrong reasons?

Being involved in this industry for the past 30 years, I would like to think I have a bit of insight and a different perspective than many of you reading this. There are some facts that are very clear to me which I would like to share with you.
Atlantic Champion Ron Mayhew competes for all the right reasons

If winning is your main motivation, and you think because you have sacrificed more and worked harder than your peers and that you deserve to win, then you are going to be sadly disappointed. There is no such thing as fair when it comes to a bodybuilding or figure competition. When the lineup hits the stage, the judges are only looking at what is in front of them, not what it took you to get there. Your conditioning, shape, size, and presentation will determine your eventual finish, not the sacrifices you made. Unfortunately, there are those who are simply more genetically gifted than you, and didn’t train or diet as hard, but still won. So if you are looking for justice and feel you deserve to win, I would suggest taking up lawn bowling!

If you do not win, accept it for what it is. Don’t go away raving that you got ripped off and that the judges didn’t know that they were looking at. Try to get some honest feedback, rather than just listening to your friends who will tell you what you want to hear. Regardless of what you might think, CBBF judges are experienced, (some even have international exposure) and are much more qualified than 99% of your friends and supporters.

Should you win a big show, don’t expect sponsors and press to come knocking on your door. The facts are clear, very few people other than family and close friends give a rat’s ass if you win or not! In fact, the average person has no idea what a bodybuilding or figure competition really is. Women bodybuilders will find it even tougher as the general public often looks at them as freaks. Even your friends may show indifference regarding your win by forcing a polite smile. When your back is turned, they will often roll their eyes and question why on earth you would want to look like that.
Canadian Champion Vince Wawryk knows that competition comes 2nd with family being No. 1

The point I am trying to make is that bodybuilding is unlike any other sport. It can become a bottomless pit where you can pour in unlimited resources, be it financial, emotional, or physical, with little reward. Unfortunately, it has been my experience that the individuals who have faired the best in competition are the most obsessed, and often never satisfied even if they do win.

Now with Canadian summer competitions quickly creeping up on us, it is time for you to sit down and do some serious thinking. Try to figure out what motivates you to compete. Try and work out your priorities and be realistic as to what to expect from your experience. How will you handle not winning, and why are you putting yourself through so much personal sacrifice for so little return? Is the sacrifice worth the effort?

Following is a summary of what I think motivates people to compete in bodybuilding competitions, and why these won’t provide you with the necessary satisfaction that you hope for. Do you recognize any of these traits in yourself?

Fame: Should you do well in a competition, chances are you might get a bit of press from your local paper. However don’t wait for them to contact you. Go out and lobby for a bit of press as often the local media is unaware of your accomplishments. Other than a few congratulations from friends, family and your local gym buddies, don’t expect much more. As for press and articles in bodybuilding publications, it is very difficult for Canadians to get featured in a Major publication like MuscleMag. However, a new Canadian magazine does feature top Canadian bodybuilding & figure athletes called “Inside Fitness”.

Money & Becoming a Pro: I can’t think of one Canadian bodybuilder & figure athlete other than top Pro Paul Dillet who has actually made any money as a Pro. In spite of his Pro earnings, Paul still had to find an alternate source of income once his pro career ended. Without question, if you choose to compete in contests, it is going to cost you far more money than you will ever get back. If you think that competing with the ambition of becoming a pro is going to earn you a living, then take up golf or ice hockey. On the positive side, your success as a competitor can be translated into earning opportunities in other ways. A national or even regional title can help you in establishing a reputation as a personal trainer, opening up a gym or working for a food supplement company as a salesperson, model or spokesperson. Quebec’s former Canadian Pro Joe Spinello has done well promoting bodybuilding competitions. In my case I became a photographer & author.

Unfortunately, there are those who tarnish the sport supplementing their incomes by selling illegal drugs. Obviously, not a very good career choice and not much of an option for a pension. Although if busted, you might get a couple years of free room and board compliments of the Federal Government.

Insecurity: Perhaps the biggest motivator that started us training in the first place was being skinny and insecure. Once the muscle started to sprout, instead of developing much needed confidence, a lot of the initial insecurity problems just grew along with the muscle. In most cases as a skinny person, no one paid much attention to you. Now all of a sudden people are coming up to you and commenting on your physique. Unfortunately, a lot of guys have a very difficult task handling the sudden attention and begin to feel pressure to back up the compliments. Of course the proving ground is to get on stage and compete. So then winning becomes part of your self esteem and you must win or face humiliation. The loss is a huge blow and only fuels your insecurity to where you must prove yourself at the next show at all costs. So, you take more drugs, train and diet harder to the point of endangering your long term health. I have seen guys who, in spite of sporting 250 pounds of solid muscle, still act like that little insecure 98 lb weakling.

The Thrill and Challenge of Competition: Now this is where the real winners come from. These competitors are true athletes in every sense of the word; they love getting in shape and enjoy the challenge of competition. Yes, they want to win, but it is not the end of the world if they don’t. They enjoy the moment and savor the entire weekend’s activities, often traveling with a spouse or friend and making it a vacation instead of staying locked in their rooms, nervously wrapped up in a blanket they are out socializing and making new friends. These athletes often developed their competitive nature and social skills playing high school sports and have arrived into the bodybuilding & figure world with the proper attitude. Once their trophies are buried deep in a closet and covered with dust, it is the fond memories from the competition that are most cherished. It is this type of attitude that everyone should cultivate, if you are ever to enjoy your competitive years.

So my friends, as you prepare your diet, routine and contest strategy for this summers national competitions, I would suggest you honestly ask yourself why you are doing this. If your answer is anything other than to travel, meet new friends and have fun competing against Canada’s best, then maybe you should take a serious look at how realistic your goals are. My advice to you: ENJOY THE MOMENT!

[fitbody]

TO ALL THE BC CHAMPIONSHIPS ATHLETES
GO STRUT YOUR STUFF & HAVE FUN....
THIS IS YOUR DAY,
ENJOY EVERY MINUTE OF IT......

The galleries are full of critics.
They play no ball, they fight no fights.
They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing.
Down in the arena are the doers.
They make mistakes because they try many things.
The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure.
He is the one who never tries anything.
His is the brake on the wheel of progress.
And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes,
because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing,
does nothing,
except criticize those who do things

[fitbody]

BCABBA BC CHAMPIONSHIPS FINAL RESULTS

Junior Men BB
1. Jaswinder Brar

Junior Women BB
1. Andraea Adams

Master Women BB
1. Paula Lambert

Master Men BB
1. Glen Brown
2. Bryce Scott
3. Todd Hnatiuk
4. Lee Chambers
5. Heinz Nussbaumer
6. Warren Grant

GrandMaster Women BB
1. Karen Gillich
2. Rhondda Zondag

GrandMaster Men BB
1. Don Weber
2. Heinz Nussbaumer
3. Jesse Santa Cruz
4. Daniel Novotnik
5. Trevor Hildebrand
6. Wayne McIntrye
7. Tim Burroughs

Open Women BB
1. Rhondda Zondag
2. Paula Lambert

LightWeight Men BB
1. Dan McAuley
2. Troy Wattley
3. Abdullah Merzaie
4. Dane Makuch
5. Jason Raman
6. Jesse Santa Cruz
7. Dylan Hernandez

WELTERWEIGHT
1. Lou Noel

Middleweight Men BB
1. Nawzad Palani
2. Amos Jones
3. Mark Serrano
4. Burhan Pourmokhtari
5. Daryl Ranson
6. Aaron Marshall
7. Josh Savage

Light Heavyweight BB
1. Chase Nelson-Murray
2. Daniel Murphy
3. Glen Brown
4. Ryan Miskiman
5. Riley Chambers
6. Charles Witwicki
7. Pinder Kaloti
8. Gerrit Van Zeist
9. Mike Ryane
10. Alex Welsh
11. Jeremy Niles
12. Eric Wang
13. Jason Mellings

Heavyweight Men BB
1. Paulo Almeida
2. Richy Chan
3. Jeffrey Messinger
4. Justin Fauth
5. Lee Chambers
6. Anthony Mattioda
7. Dustin Downer

BODYBUILDING OVERALL MEN’S-PAULO ALMEIDA
BODYBUILDING OVERALL WOMEN’S- RHONDDA ZONDAG

Physique Women-MASTERS
1. Shannon McDowell
2. Tamara Knight
3. Heidi Gawehns
4. Dawn Collins
5. Zeng Allardyce
6. Terri Maglio

Physique Women-Open A
1. Shannon McDowell
2. Karley Green
3. Charis Whittington
4. Zeng Allardyce

Physique Women-Open B
1. Emilija Martic
2. Karien Lanenga
3. Tamara Knight
4. Heidi Gawehns
5. Dawn Collins
6. Terri Maglio

PHYSIQUE OPEN OVERALL-Shannon McDowell

Physique Men's MASTERS
1. William Lopetinsky
2. Adrian wesley
3. Dale Larson
4. Michael Ponte
5. Scott Mercer
6. Bob Cripps

Physique Men's-CLASS A
1. Mirko Maras
2. Dease Watson
3. Nathaniel Werner
4. Cory Swiergosz
5. Kade Vilio
6. Lucas Adriaco
7. Morgan Decksheimer
8. Andrew Ao
9. Jake Saunders
10. Shane Carling
11. Michael Ponte
12. Josh Deweerd

Physique Men's-CLASS B
1. Alexis Peraste
2. Trent Vilio
3. Jonathan Hutchings
4. Jordan Watson
5. Ryan Vardy
6. Shayne Evans
7. Cole Ainsworth
8. Cole Shapitka

Physique Men's-CLASS C
1. Alex Scott
2. Alireza Azarbus
3. Terry Owen
4. Cameron Richard
5. Zac Bruce
6. Kolton Gibbons
David Hewson- DISQUALIFIED

MEN’S PHYSIQUE OVERALL: Mirko Maras

GrandMaster Figure
1. Brenda Whitehead
2. Veronica Yoo
3. Roberta Nechtvatal
4. Andrea Morin
5. Lonnie Heathcote
6. Samantha Barbera
7. Annette Willson
8. Kathy Gelmon
9. Corinne Nearing
10. Yvette Bradley

Master Figure A
1. Tia Young
2. Gillian Nolan
3. Pam Jarratt
4. Sheri Amendt
5. Jennifer Mallette
6. Tammy Humeny

Master Figure B
1. Crystal Gretz
2. Tanya Chartrand
3. Tracy MacKenzie
4. Nicole Lozinski
5. Celeste Lachambre
6. Raj Rana
7. Melissa Hill

Open Figure Short
1. Erica Christy
2. Tia Young
3. Dana Sands
4. Robyn Gill
5. Roberta Nechtvatal
6. Veronica Yoo
7. Pam Jarratt
8. Natalie Coutu
9. Sheri Amendt
10. Tammy Humeny

Open Figure Medium
1. Claire Hayes
2. Laura Hamilton
3. Denean Arntson
4. Angel Simmons
5. Jessica Peters
6. Brenda Peltzer
7. Lonnie Heathcote
8. Jaime Smart
9. Jolene Merrick
10. Melissa Hill

Open Figure Tall
1. Jennifer Milidrag
2. Christine Wallace
3. Nicole Lozinski
4. Samantha Athey
5. Erin deRepentigny
6. Courtney Kerswill
7. Mikayla Custance

FIGURE OVERALL – Erica Christy

Master Bikini A
1. Valentina Guerin
2. Tracy Allain
3. Rachelle Besuyen
4. Janine Godfrey
5. Marlene Long
6. Alisa Stern

Master Bikini B
1. Pamela Steeper
2. Michelle Livingstone
3. Danielle Kirkpatrick
4. Karen Cole
5. Jessica Pallas
6. Myrna Breese - Lew
7. Amy Berukoff
8. Aeryon Ashlie

Open Bikini A
1. Paige Lodge
2. Ashley Kosiancic
3. Shantel Braun
4. Chrystal Jones
5. Amanda Aylen Heins
6. Nasia Karaliolios
7. Laura Clendenning
8. Ami Mills
9. Christine West
10. Amber Welder
11. Amethyst Lo
12. Sasha James-Taylor
13. Sonya Tait
14. Amy De Jesus
15. Jessica Kennedy

Open Bikini B
1. Diana Todd
2. Tiffany Roy
3. Claire Wheeler
4. Crystal Mohan
5. Jennifer Weintz
6. Kristina Matic
7. Adrianna Mitrovic
8. Sandeep Sira
9. Summer Becker
10. Kelsey Harker
11. Shawna Ram
12. Sandy Dosanjh
13. Niki Erfle

Bikini Open C
1. Anette De La Rosa
2. Jill Milonas
3. Leanne McFarland
4. Mary Carrizo
5. Joanna Vulcano
6. Sarah Bailey
7. Kelsey Vurdela
8. Amy Brown
9. Nicole Joakimides
10. Courtney Gervais
11. Kristen Olychuck
12. Amy Berukoff
Samantha Shorkey - disqualified

Bikini Open D
1. Leah Kozak
2. Maggie Resztak
3. Stephanie Jung
4. Alexa Grieve
5. Keegan Clemens
6. Kristin Hazzard
7. Danielle Kirkpatrick
8. Jessica Crome
9. Erica Miller

BIKINI OVERALL- Anette De La Rosa

FITNESS
1. Kaylee Mascia
2. Kristy Mascia

[fitbody]

BCABBA BC CHAMPIONSHIPS FINAL RESULTS

Junior Men BB
1. Jaswinder Brar

Junior Women BB
1. Andraea Adams

Master Women BB
1. Paula Lambert

Master Men BB
1. Glen Brown
2. Bryce Scott
3. Todd Hnatiuk
4. Lee Chambers
5. Heinz Nussbaumer
6. Warren Grant

GrandMaster Women BB
1. Karen Gillich
2. Rhondda Zondag

GrandMaster Men BB
1. Don Weber
2. Heinz Nussbaumer
3. Jesse Santa Cruz
4. Daniel Novotnik
5. Trevor Hildebrand
6. Wayne McIntrye
7. Tim Burroughs

Open Women BB
1. Rhondda Zondag
2. Paula Lambert

LightWeight Men BB
1. Dan McAuley
2. Troy Wattley
3. Abdullah Merzaie
4. Dane Makuch
5. Jason Raman
6. Jesse Santa Cruz
7. Dylan Hernandez

WELTERWEIGHT
1. Lou Noel

Middleweight Men BB
1. Nawzad Palani
2. Amos Jones
3. Mark Serrano
4. Burhan Pourmokhtari
5. Daryl Ranson
6. Aaron Marshall
7. Josh Savage

Light Heavyweight BB
1. Chase Nelson-Murray
2. Daniel Murphy
3. Glen Brown
4. Ryan Miskiman
5. Riley Chambers
6. Charles Witwicki
7. Pinder Kaloti
8. Gerrit Van Zeist
9. Mike Ryane
10. Alex Welsh
11. Jeremy Niles
12. Eric Wang
13. Jason Mellings

Heavyweight Men BB
1. Paulo Almeida
2. Richy Chan
3. Jeffrey Messinger
4. Justin Fauth
5. Lee Chambers
6. Anthony Mattioda
7. Dustin Downer

BODYBUILDING OVERALL MEN’S-PAULO ALMEIDA
BODYBUILDING OVERALL WOMEN’S- RHONDDA ZONDAG

Physique Women-MASTERS
1. Shannon McDowell
2. Tamara Knight
3. Heidi Gawehns
4. Dawn Collins
5. Zeng Allardyce
6. Terri Maglio

Physique Women-Open A
1. Shannon McDowell
2. Karley Green
3. Charis Whittington
4. Zeng Allardyce

Physique Women-Open B
1. Emilija Martic
2. Karien Lanenga
3. Tamara Knight
4. Heidi Gawehns
5. Dawn Collins
6. Terri Maglio

PHYSIQUE OPEN OVERALL-Shannon McDowell

Physique Men's MASTERS
1. William Lopetinsky
2. Adrian wesley
3. Dale Larson
4. Michael Ponte
5. Scott Mercer
6. Bob Cripps

Physique Men's-CLASS A
1. Mirko Maras
2. Dease Watson
3. Nathaniel Werner
4. Cory Swiergosz
5. Kade Vilio
6. Lucas Adriaco
7. Morgan Decksheimer
8. Andrew Ao
9. Jake Saunders
10. Shane Carling
11. Michael Ponte
12. Josh Deweerd

Physique Men's-CLASS B
1. Alexis Peraste
2. Trent Vilio
3. Jonathan Hutchings
4. Jordan Watson
5. Ryan Vardy
6. Shayne Evans
7. Cole Ainsworth
8. Cole Shapitka

Physique Men's-CLASS C
1. Alex Scott
2. Alireza Azarbus
3. Terry Owen
4. Cameron Richard
5. Zac Bruce
6. Kolton Gibbons
David Hewson- DISQUALIFIED

MEN’S PHYSIQUE OVERALL: Mirko Maras

GrandMaster Figure
1. Brenda Whitehead
2. Veronica Yoo
3. Roberta Nechtvatal
4. Andrea Morin
5. Lonnie Heathcote
6. Samantha Barbera
7. Annette Willson
8. Kathy Gelmon
9. Corinne Nearing
10. Yvette Bradley

Master Figure A
1. Tia Young
2. Gillian Nolan
3. Pam Jarratt
4. Sheri Amendt
5. Jennifer Mallette
6. Tammy Humeny

Master Figure B
1. Crystal Gretz
2. Tanya Chartrand
3. Tracy MacKenzie
4. Nicole Lozinski
5. Celeste Lachambre
6. Raj Rana
7. Melissa Hill

Open Figure Short
1. Erica Christy
2. Tia Young
3. Dana Sands
4. Robyn Gill
5. Roberta Nechtvatal
6. Veronica Yoo
7. Pam Jarratt
8. Natalie Coutu
9. Sheri Amendt
10. Tammy Humeny

Open Figure Medium
1. Claire Hayes
2. Laura Hamilton
3. Denean Arntson
4. Angel Simmons
5. Jessica Peters
6. Brenda Peltzer
7. Lonnie Heathcote
8. Jaime Smart
9. Jolene Merrick
10. Melissa Hill

Open Figure Tall
1. Jennifer Milidrag
2. Christine Wallace
3. Nicole Lozinski
4. Samantha Athey
5. Erin deRepentigny
6. Courtney Kerswill
7. Mikayla Custance

FIGURE OVERALL – Erica Christy

Master Bikini A
1. Valentina Guerin
2. Tracy Allain
3. Rachelle Besuyen
4. Janine Godfrey
5. Marlene Long
6. Alisa Stern

Master Bikini B
1. Pamela Steeper
2. Michelle Livingstone
3. Danielle Kirkpatrick
4. Karen Cole
5. Jessica Pallas
6. Myrna Breese - Lew
7. Amy Berukoff
8. Aeryon Ashlie

Open Bikini A
1. Paige Lodge
2. Ashley Kosiancic
3. Shantel Braun
4. Chrystal Jones
5. Amanda Aylen Heins
6. Nasia Karaliolios
7. Laura Clendenning
8. Ami Mills
9. Christine West
10. Amber Welder
11. Amethyst Lo
12. Sasha James-Taylor
13. Sonya Tait
14. Amy De Jesus
15. Jessica Kennedy

Open Bikini B
1. Diana Todd
2. Tiffany Roy
3. Claire Wheeler
4. Crystal Mohan
5. Jennifer Weintz
6. Kristina Matic
7. Adrianna Mitrovic
8. Sandeep Sira
9. Summer Becker
10. Kelsey Harker
11. Shawna Ram
12. Sandy Dosanjh
13. Niki Erfle

Bikini Open C
1. Anette De La Rosa
2. Jill Milonas
3. Leanne McFarland
4. Mary Carrizo
5. Joanna Vulcano
6. Sarah Bailey
7. Kelsey Vurdela
8. Amy Brown
9. Nicole Joakimides
10. Courtney Gervais
11. Kristen Olychuck
12. Amy Berukoff
Samantha Shorkey - disqualified

Bikini Open D
1. Leah Kozak
2. Maggie Resztak
3. Stephanie Jung
4. Alexa Grieve
5. Keegan Clemens
6. Kristin Hazzard
7. Danielle Kirkpatrick
8. Jessica Crome
9. Erica Miller

BIKINI OVERALL- Anette De La Rosa

FITNESS
1. Kaylee Mascia
2. Kristy Mascia

[fitbody]

June 30, 2014
pt of the day

Non-participation gives us hardening of the attitude.
Life goes on, and if we do not participate,
life still goes on.
If a negative attitude is not getting us where we want to go,
then why not change the attitude?
Reshaping attitudes is possible.
Awareness is the key initial step.

PIC: me and my BC JR CHAMPION FEMALE BODYBUILDER Andraea Adams

[fitbody]

TEAM Fit Body’s BC 2014 Results

Andraea Adams JUNIOR Womens BODYBUILDING CHAMPION
Karen Gillich Grand Masters Womens BODYBUILDING CHAMPION
Rhondda Zondag Grand Masters Womens BODYBUILDING 2nd Place CHAMPION
Rhondda Zondag Womens BODYBUILDING CHAMPION
Paula Lambert Womens BODYBUILDING 2nd Place CHAMPION
Kathy Gelmon Grand Masters Figure 8TH
Celeste Lachambre Masters Figure 5th Place Champ
Claire Hays Figure Medium Champion
Christine Wallace Figure Tall 2nd Place Champion
Bob Cripps Masters Mens Physique Competitors 6TH
Janine Godfrey Bikini Masters Short 4th Place Champion
Alisa Stern Bikini Masters Short Competitor 6TH
Myrna Lew Bikini Masters Tall Competitor 6TH
Amethyst Lo Bikini A competitor 11TH
Sandy Sira Bikini B competitor 8TH
Sarah Bailey Bikini C Competitor 6TH
Kristin Hazzard Bikini D competitor 6TH

SO PROUD OF ALL TEAM FIT BODY COMPETITORS
You are all CHAMPIONS in my eyes
Love you xoxo

[fitbody]

July 2, 2014
pt of the day

The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day
regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past...
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's BODYBUILDING BEAUTIES at the BC CHAMPIONSHIPS,
Karen, Paula & Rhondda...
these ladies are BEAUTIFUL INSIDE & OUT,
so proud of them xoxo

[fitbody]

July 8th, 2014
pt of the day

Press on.
Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

PIC: on right TEAM Fit Body's Michelle McBeth last sat
winning 3rd place champion in both
open & masters Womens Physique

[fitbody]

JULY 9th, 2014
pt of the day

Bravery and adventure!
That's the ticket!
Don't sit and gather moss.
Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing,
and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work,
and you don't need to made that particular mistake again,
but at least you won't get old wondering what if you had.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Raman Bains

[fitbody]

July 10, 2014
pt of the day

No matter what,
we always have the power to choose
hope over despair,
engagement over apathy,
kindness over indifference,
enthusiasm over lethargy,
love over hate.
This is our true freedom.
Whatever life may throw at us,
we have the freedom
and ability to choose our attitude.
And I believe it is in those moments of choice
that we manifest our destiny.

[fitbody]

July 11, 2014
pt of the day

Every morning is a fresh beginning.
Every day is the world made new.
Today is a new day.
Today is my world made new.
I have lived all my life up to this moment,
to come to this day.
This moment--this day
is as good as any moment in all eternity.
I shall make of this day
each moment of this day
a heaven on earth.
This is my day of opportunity.

[fitbody]

July 12, 2014
pt of the day

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.
Losers, on the other hand,
concentrate their waking thoughts on
what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do..

NEED MOTIVATION: WATCH THIS
one of the best motivational vids EVER !!!!!!!!!!
The Ultimate Motivational Clip - Rise & Shine!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbkZrOU1Zag

[fitbody]

It is important to live each day with a positive perspective.
It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist,
but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it.
When Goliath came against the Israelites,
the soldiers all thought,
"He's so big, we can never kill him."
But David looked at the same giant and thought,
"He's so big, I can't miss him."

[fitbody]

July 14, 2014
pt of the day

Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression
always takes strength, not weakness.
It takes strength to acknowledge our anger,
and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring
and to channel them into nonviolent outlets.
It takes strength to face our sadness
and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to.
It takes strength to talk about our feelings a
nd to reach out for help
and comfort when we need it.

[fitbody]

July 16, 2014
pt of the day

You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate.
You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water.
You can't reach your goals if you don't try.
You can't reach your goals if you haven't set any

[fitbody]

July 18, 2014
pt of the day

Growth means change and change involves risk,
stepping from the known to the unknown.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven.
He who never risks and never fails
is a failure in his whole being.

[fitbody]

July 19, 2014
pt of the day



It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.
It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give,
and the soul afraid of dyin' that never learns to live.

[fitbody]

July 20, 2014
pt of the day

Every day is a new beginning.
Treat it that way.
Stay away from what might have been,
and look at what can be.

Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.

[fitbody]

July 21, 2014
pt of the day

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.
It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give,
and the soul afraid of dyin' that never learns to live.

[fitbody]

July 23, 2014
pt of the day

Change isn't optional,
and creation isn't something that happened a long time ago and then ended.
It's ongoing,
and we are invited to be a part of it.
The question for us is 'what will we create in this new day?'
How will we make it count?
How will we nourish the things that matter,
and stand in the way of injustice in the small ways that add up to the arc of history?
You are invited to participate in the creation of this day...

[fitbody]

July 24, 2014
pt of the day

Look to this day,
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course lie all
the verities and realities of your existence
the bliss of growth,
the splendor of action, the glory of power..
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well lived
makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore to this day

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Dawn MacKay

[fitbody]

July 26, 2014
pt of the day

Every choice carries a consequence.
For better or worse,
each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor.
There are not exceptions.
If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment,
why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?

[fitbody]

July 27, 2014
pt of the day

Don't listen to those who say, "It's not done that way."
Maybe it's not, but maybe you will.
Don't listen to those who say, "You're taking too big a chance."
Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor,
and it would surely be rubbed out by today.
Most importantly,
don't listen when the little voice of fear inside of you rears its ugly head and says,
"They're all smarter than you out there. They're more talented,
they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier and have connections…"
I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you,
not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others,
but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts,
and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live,
the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respect.

AMEN!

[fitbody]

Aug 1, 2014
pt of the day

I define self-control, in the beginning of life,
as the choice of achieving what I really want by
doing things I really don't want to do.
Once this becomes a habit,
discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by
doing the very things I now want to do!
I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy
but only after we have worked hard to practice it.

[fitbody]

Aug 2nd, 2014
pt of the day

Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender,
that is strength.

[fitbody]

Aug3, 2014
pt of the day

If you believe you can, you probably can.
If you believe you won't,
you most assuredly won't.
Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often,
on your own expectations for ourselves.
What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

PIC is Me Dawn Alison) the day after Canadian Nationals 2013

[fitbody]

BCABBA ELECTIONS are underway by mail in ballot
they can be returned by printing off, scanning & emailing or fax or regular mail
details below

didn't get a BALLOT for the BCABBA election?
and you are a 2014 member....
if you didn't get one you can download one from here: http://bcabba.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Ballot-2014-Executive-Elections.pdf

make sure you put your membership number or your vote won't count,
if you don't have it email: tzonefitness@telus.net

you can print off Ballot, scan and email to, or fax or mail to:
c/o: Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP
Attn: Corporate Services
P.O. Box 10057
2700 – 700 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V7Y 1B8
E-mail: corporateservices@ahbl.ca
Fax: 604-484-9700

Pursuant to Bylaw 12.01(d), the results of the ballot will be made public on September 16, 2014.

ballots must be received Ballots NO LATER THAN MIDNIGHT SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

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TO SEE BIO's of CANDIDATEs
please go to the official Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BCAmateurBodybuildingAssoc

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BCABBA ELECTION information: who gets to vote?
ONLY 2014 BCABBA MEMBERS GET TO VOTE

as per the bylaw update that was voted on and passed at the EGM June 29, 2014 and Filed & Registered July 23, 2014 at the Society Act Registry in Victoria, BC

Bylaw 14.01 (d) the member is up-to-date and has paid the current annual membership fee, or any other subscription or debt due and owing by the member to the Association.

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[fitbody]

Aug 4, 2014
pt of the day

Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts,
and habits can be acquired.
An action repeated becomes an attitude realized.

PIC: is me ( Dawn Alison - bodybuilder, powerlifter & coach)

[fitbody]

Dawn Alison, current BCABBA President & Candidate

"My mission as your President of the BCABBA organization is to continue to uphold, and strive to keep our BCABBA association thriving, creating new opportunities to maximize all resources to enable all of our association’s competitive members and non-competitive members the right to fairness in every protocol related to the sport and it's reflective cause, and to make our BCABBA association a forerunner in Canada, giving back to the sport as it has given to me. We will lead with constant growth, with dignity and honesty, and keep the sport alive."

Current Accreditations/Positions & Titles

• BCABBA, President (February 2014 - Present)
• BCABBA, Vice President (2008-2014)
• Canadian National Champion Women's Bodybuilder 2013
• US National Champion Powerlifter 1991
• Competition Prep Coach & Personal Trainer
• Competitive Bodybuilder for 22 years.

BCABBA current updates and changes during my tenure with the BCABBA:

• New judging protocol; initiating fair judging for all athlete's
• New website created with ease of use for memberships; access to Executive Committee upheld, and access to Athlete Director's for individual classes and fitness categories. I enlisted the help of a webmaster, a current BCABBA member, Darren Clarke, who volunteers his time 100% to create and continually maintain the site
• Official Facebook page created, maintained, and updated continually
• •Widespread online presence via online bodybuilding communities (RX Muscle.com, MuscularDevelopment.com, Siouxcountry.com, Canadabodybuilding.com)

My agenda, for the future with the BCABBA:
• More athletes qualified to all qualifying events
• access to and information to help each athlete in our organization be successful.
• More BCABBA shows, including another drug tested show
• Posing clinics 3 times year: spring, summer, fall
• More information and education provided
• More competitor and show coverage in magazines, social media, web, bio's on our industry's best, and BC athletes
• Year end awards banquet, fundraising, and social events
• More funding to athletes, provide more opportunities to BCABBA athletes
• More sponsorships
• More camaraderie & create an organization with a positive environment

In good health and sportsmanship,

Dawn Alison BCABBA President

[fitbody]

Election info:
Email out ballots July 31, 2014
Deemed receipt: Aug.15, 2014
Final Deadline to receive ballots: Sept.15, 2014 at midnight
Voting results: Sept.16, 2014

Ballots must be received NO LATER THAN MIDNIGHT SEPTEMBER 15, 2014 by:
SEND BALLOTS TO:
c/o: Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP
Attn: Corporate Services
P.O. Box 10057
2700 – 700 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V7Y 1B8
E-mail: corporateservices@ahbl.ca
Fax: 604-484-9700

Pursuant to Bylaw 12.01(d), the results of the ballot will be made public on September 16, 2014.
please make sure you have your membership number, if you cannot find your member number please email: tzonefitness@telus.net
BCABBA ELECTION information: who gets to vote?

ONLY 2014 BCABBA MEMBERS GET TO VOTE

as per the bylaw update that was voted on and passed at the EGM June 29, 2014 and Filed & Registered July 23, 2014 at the Society Act Registry in Victoria, BC

Bylaw 14.01 (d) the member is up-to-date and has paid the current annual membership fee, or any other subscription or debt due and owing by the member to the Association.
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didn't get a BALLOT for the BCABBA election? and you are a 2014 member.... if you didn't get one you can download one from here: http://bcabba.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Ballot-2014-Executive-Elections.pdf

make sure you put your membership number or your vote won't count, if you don't have it email: tzonefitness@telus.net
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you can print off Ballot, AND EITHER: scan and email to, or fax or mail to:
c/o: Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP
Attn: Corporate Services
P.O. Box 10057
2700 – 700 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V7Y 1B8
E-mail: corporateservices@ahbl.ca
Fax: 604-484-9700

Pursuant to Bylaw 12.01(d), the results of the ballot will be made public on September 16, 2014.

ballots must be received Ballots NO LATER THAN MIDNIGHT SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
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running for PRESIDENT
1. Dawn Alison
2. Tamara Knight
3. Michelle Krack
4. JP Cross

running for Vice President
1. Grace Bukowsky
2. Dean Brandt
3. Scott Welch

running for Treasurer
1. Ross Webb
2. Robert (Bobby) Thornton
3. Leslie Billings

running for Director
1. Jeni Briscoe
2. Krista Cowie

To see Bios of Candidates please scroll down the BCABBA Facebook page where they are posted

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BCABBA ELECTION BALLOTS... the ballots will be sent to the registered office of the BCABBA which is the Lawyer office "Alexander Holburn Beaudin + Lang LLP"... and they will be handled and counted by their staff to maintain the integrity of the count, to ensure accuracy, fairness & total anonymity of the members vote

[fitbody]

Aug 7, 2014
pt of the day

Bravery and adventure!
That's the ticket!
Don't sit and gather moss.
Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing,
and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work,
and you don't need to made that particular mistake again,
but at least you won't get old wondering what if you had.

[fitbody]

Aug 11, 2014
pt of the day

DREAM YOUR DREAM and don't let anyone tell your otherwise.....
Dreaming is not an accident.
It is not a wistful idea you hope will come true.
Dreaming is not the stuff of long-haired hippies wistfully running along a beach. No!
Dreaming is a sophisticated tool used by the elite of our society
to make themselves and this world a better place.
People like Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity, Warren Buffet, Col. Sanders
and Walt Disney all started with a dream.
The dreams started small,
but like the trickle of water
that eventually formed the great Grand Canyon,
Dreams are powerful!

[fitbody]

Aug 13, 2014
pt of the day

Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation,
because your character is what you really are,
while your reputation is merely what others think you are.


Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved

[fitbody]

August 14, 2014
pt of the day

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability,
but comes through continuous struggle.
And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom.
A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

PIC:2013 Team Fit Body's Tony Tomra
POWERLIFTER, STRONGMAN & BODYBUILDER

[fitbody]

Aug 15, 2014
pt of the day

Defining myself,
as opposed to being defined by others,
is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

By your own soul, learn to live
And if men thwart you take no heed.
If men hate you have no care.
Sing your song, dream your dream,
Hope your hope and pray your prayer.

PIC: is ME ( Dawn Alison) 2013.
Photocredit: Vicky Lee

[fitbody]

August 16, 2014
pt of the day

Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air.
You name them . . .
work, family, health, friends and spirit,
and you're keeping all of these in the air.
You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball.
If you drop it, it will bounce back.
But the other four balls . . .
family, health, friends and spirit . . .
are made of glass.
If you drop one of these,
they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered.
They will never be the same.

[fitbody]

August 17, 2014
pt of the day

Every man who accomplishes things
sees first in his mind what he wishes to do.
He puts away all doubt.
It makes no difference
how small or how large the thing you want to do may be;
if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it,
you will do it.

pic: YOUR THOUGHTS CREATE YOUR REALITY !

[fitbody]

Aug 18, 2014
pt of the day

I do not ask to walk smooth paths
nor bear an easy load.
I pray for strength
and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road.
Give me such courage
and I can scale the hardest peaks alone,
And transform every stumbling block
into a stepping stone.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Amy Jesso
12 wks out of her 1st Bodybuilding show in November
GO AMY !

[fitbody]

August 19, 2014
pt of the day

Cultivate your own capabilities,
your own style.
Appreciate the members of your family for who they are,
even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours.
Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim.
Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers.
Stop comparing.
There's plenty of room in the forest.
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE.

pic: my son STORM - HAPPY BIRTHDAY he's 13 yrs old today

[fitbody]

Aug 20, 2014
pt of the day

The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day
regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past...
We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is
play on the one string we have,
and that is our attitude.

[fitbody]

August 21, 2014
pt of the day

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy,
the chance to draw back,
always ineffectiveness.
The moment one definitely commits oneself,
then Providence moves too.
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
A whole stream of events issues from the decision,
raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents
and meetings and material assistance,
which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

[fitbody]

Aug 23, 2014
pt of the day

How big do you see YOUR WORLD?
Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl,
will only grow up to three inches.
When this same fish is placed in a large tank,
it will grow to about nine inches long.
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches.
Amazingly, when placed in a lake,
koi can grow to three feet long.
The metaphor is obvious.
You are limited by how you see the world

[fitbody]

Aug 24, 2014
pt of the day

Individual commitment to a group effort
that is what makes a team work


PIC: TEAM Fit Body yesterday
at FABRIC SELECTION for Nov Show
always so much fun & exciting

[fitbody]

August 25, 2014
pt of the day

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards,
and makes no way on the smoothest road;
a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest,
and will reach his purpose,
if there be even a little worthiness in it.
The man without apurpose is like a ship without a rudder –
a waif, a nothing, a no man.
Have a purpose in life and having it,
throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.


PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Sunday Posing practice
or Womens Physique & Bikini...
(sorry forgot to take a Figure & Mens Physique pic)

[fitbody]

Aug 26, 2014
pt of the day

Perseverance is the hard work you do
after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
The race is not always to the swift,
but to those who keep on running.

[fitbody]

Aug 27, 2014
pt of the day

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this world are
the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want.
And if they cant,
make them.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Michelle Mcbeth
4 days out of the North American Championships in Pittsburgh,
GOOD LUCK MICHELLE

[fitbody]

Aug 28, 2014
pt of the day

“We tend to forget that
happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have,
but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
"In every single thing you do,
you are choosing a direction.
Your life is a product of choices."

[fitbody]

Aug 29, 2014
pt of the day

Giving Our Best
Poet: Julie Hebert, © 2012

Every day that we are alive,
We should be asking ourselves whether we,
Are we giving our best to each day,
This is something we may not all see.

See each day we are given is a gift,
And to waste it would be very wrong.
But our lives are just that,
Ours to do with and hope our life's long.

But that's just it, our lives may not be long,
And come to an end before we are ready.
Don't be that person, who regrets,
Live your life full and steady.

Close your eyes and go to sleep,
Knowing you've conquer your day.
You'll life will be very successful,
And you'll be happy to look back when you're gray.


PIX: TEAM Fit Body's Matt Forch BEFORE PIX & MID POINT PIX Jan 2014 till Aug 2014
gunning for Nov show
CONGRATS & GO MATT !

ALSO: PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Michelle McBeth 2 days out of the North Americans
GO MICHELLE

[fitbody]

Aug 30, 2014'
pt of the day


Letting go doesn’t mean
you don’t care about someone or something anymore;
it’s just realizing that the only thing you truly have control over is yourself,
right here, right now.
It’s a necessary process
of adapting to the ever-changing realities of life
leaving behind the past to make way for the present.
WHEN ONE DOOR CLOSES OTHERS OPEN…
OUT WITH THE OLD,
IN WITH THE NEW….
There’s one thing in life that is constant…
that is things will come & go
and there will always be CHANGE !

[fitbody]

Aug 31, 2014
pt of the day

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know THE DIFFERENCE

[fitbody]

Sept 1st, 2014
pt of the day

Limitations live only in our minds.
But if we use our imaginations,
our possibilities become limitless.
IN EACH MOMENT, WE MAKE CHOICES,
these take us closer to, or further from our GOALS...
which way do you want to go?
YOUR DESTINY depends on the choices you make,
moment to moment...
YOUR CHOICE

PICS: below is RECIPES for protein cookies & brownies
that you can eat when having a sweet craving PRECONTEST OR ANYTIME,
recipes credit of TEAM Fit Body's Stephanie Lawson who's doing the Nov Show,
Thanx Steph

COOKIE RECIPE:
1 scoop PB Choc Swirl Protein
½ tsp xanthan gum
1 tbsp cocoa
½ tsp baking powder
2 tbsp egg white
4 tbsp water
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp liquid stevia
In the oven at 350 for about 8 mins

Xanthan Gum :: Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods
www.bobsredmill.com
Gum, Xanthan is used by people who are allergic to gluten
to add volume and viscosity to bread and other gluten-free baked goods.
It is made from a tiny microorganism called Xanthomonas campestris
and is a natural carbohydrate.
Get it at the SuperStore! Organic aisle!
It comes in a bag and pretty much looks like baking powder (it costed me 11.99 for the bag)!!

BROWNIE RECIPE: Take cookie recipe and make it into a cake/loaf.
Then mix up protein pudding, and stuff your cake!
Or use pudding as icing!!

PIC: TEAM Fit Body from Posing Practice this long wkend

[fitbody]

Sept 2. 2014
pt of the day

To be yourself
in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.

Be who you are
and say what you feel,
because those who mind don’t matter
and those who matter don’t mind.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Melissa Tofsrud
9 wks out of her 1st Physique Show

[fitbody]

Sept 3, 2014
pt of the day

"You only achieve what you believe"
MENTAL IMAGERY...
“Peak performers develop powerful mental images
of the behavior that will lead to the desired results.
They see in their mind's eye the result they want,
and the actions leading to it.”
IF YOU CAN SEE IT,
YOU CAN BE IT !
YOUR imagination,
and the thoughts you think & believe
are WHAT YOU BRING INTO YOUR REALITY....
be mindful of your thoughts
because YOU CREATE YOUR OWN DESTINY !

[fitbody]

SEPT 4, 2014 PT OF THE DAY

Let go of Anger and Bitterness
11. Feel it fully. If you stifle your feelings, they may leak out and affect everyone around you—not just the person who inspired your anger. Before you can let go of any emotion, you have to feel it fully.

12. Give yourself a rant window. Let yourself vent for a day before confronting the person who troubled you. This may diffuse the hostility and give you time to plan a rational confrontation.

13. Remind yourself that anger hurts you more than the person who upset you, and visualize it melting away as an act of kindness to yourself.

14. If possible, express your anger to the person who offended you. Communicating how you feel may help you move on. Keep in mind that you can’t control how the offender responds; you can only control how clearly and kindly you express yourself.

15. Take responsibility. Many times when you’re angry, you focus on what someone else did that was wrong, which essentially gives away your power. When you focus on what you could have done better, you often feel empowered and less bitter.

16. Put yourself in the offender’s shoes. We all make mistakes, and odds are you could have easily slipped up just like your husband, father, or friend did. Compassion dissolves anger.

17. Metaphorically throw it away. For example, jog with a backpack full of tennis balls. After you’ve built up a bit of rush, toss the balls one by one, labeling each as a part of your anger. (You’ll need to retrieve these—litter angers the earth!)

18. Use a stress ball, and express your anger physically and vocally when you use it. Make a scrunched up face or grunt. You may feel silly, but this allows you to actually express what you’re feeling inside.

19. Wear a rubber band on your wrist and gently flick it when you start obsessing on angry thoughts. This trains your mind to associate that type of persistent negativity with something unpleasant.

20. Remind yourself these are your only three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it. These acts create happiness; holding onto bitterness never does.

[fitbody]

Sept 8, 2014
pt of the day

Life shrinks or expands
in proportion to one's courage.

It is not the mountain we conquer
but ourselves.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body at Sunday Posing Practice Yesterday

[fitbody]

Sept 9th, 2014
pt of the day


“We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.”
WE CREATE OUR OWN REALITY...
“What we think, we become.”

[fitbody]

Sept 10, 2014
pt of the day

Attitudes are contagious.
Are yours worth catching?
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather,
always bring your own sunshine.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

[fitbody]

Sept 11, 2014
pt of the day

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice,
and is never the result of selfishness.
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind.
I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
YOU GOTTA WANNA SUCCEED AS BAD AS YOU WANNA BREATHE !

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Physique Girl: Dawn MacKay
LOOKIN GOOD in the offseason

GREAT VIDEO: Sacrifice - Motivational Video
http://youtu.be/c0ZzN6hxdzo

[fitbody]

Sept 12. 2014
pt of the day

Welcome every morning with a smile.
Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator,
another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.
Be a self-starter.
Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action
that is certain to echo through your entire day.
Today will never happen again.
Don't waste it with a false start
or no start at all.
You were not born to fail.

[fitbody]

Sept 13, 2014
pt of the day

“There's a difference between interest and commitment.
When you're interested in doing something,
you do it only when circumstance permit.
When you're committed to something,
you accept no excuses, only results.”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Amy Jesso
8 wks out of her 1st bodybuilding show
GO AMY

[fitbody]

Sept 14, 2014
pt of the day


Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles"
if there wasn't a way to get over them.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

When people say to me:
"How do you do so many things?"
I often answer them, without meaning to be cruel:
"How do you do so little?"
It seems to me that people have vast potential.
Most people can do extraordinary things
if they have the confidence or take the risks.
Yet most people don't.
They sit in front of the telly
and treat life as if it goes on forever.
GET ON & JUST DO IT !

[fitbody]

Sept 15, 2014
pt of the day


“To live is the rarest thing in the world.
Most people exist, that is all.”

“Life will break you.
Nobody can protect you from that,
and living alone won't either,
for solitude will also break you with its yearning.
You have to love.
You have to feel.
It is the reason you are here on earth.
You are here to risk your heart.
You are here to be swallowed up.
And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed,
or left, or hurt,
or death brushes near,
let yourself sit by an apple tree
and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps,
wasting their sweetness.
Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Lauralee Cheng
photocredit: Vicky Lee

[fitbody]

Sept 16, 2014
pt of day

“You cannot expect to achieve new goals
or move beyond your present circumstances
unless you change.”

“Every single condition in your life
can be improved
if you learn to be more effective at visualizing what you want
and having the intention to manifest it.”

[fitbody]

Sept 17, 2014
pt of the day

Overcome your fear.
Get out of your comfort zone.
Find out you have a pulse.
Let something give you butterflies in your stomach.
This is how you know you’re alive
how you grow into something new.
Every fear overcome is a freedom gained.
Don’t know how to overcome fear?
Do the thing you’re afraid of.
Cross them off the list.
Make it a game.
Pretty soon, you will be invincible.

[fitbody]

Summary of Election Results came out yesterday
Sept 16th, 2014

The new Executive Committee of the BCABBA
(BC Amateur Bodybuilding Association)
will be comprised of the following:

1. Dawn Alison, President;
2. Scott Welch, Vice-President;
3. Robert (Bobby) Thornton, Secretary-Treasurer; and
4. Jeni Briscoe, Director-at-Large.

[fitbody]

Sept 23, 2014
pt of the day

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
It was character that got us out of bed,
commitment that moved us into action,
and discipline that enabled us to follow through.

YOU WILL ALWAYS MISS 100% of THE SHOTS YOU NEVER TAKE.....

DON'T YOU QUIT....
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than

It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
Whe he might have captured the victor's cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out -

The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It might be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

[fitbody]

Sept 24, 2014
pt of the day

"Now" is the operative word.
Everything you put in your way
is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
You don't need endless time and perfect conditions.
Do it now.
Do it today.

[fitbody]

Sept 25, 2014
pt of the day

“Do not spoil what you have
by desiring what you have not;
remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan "press on"
has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Tracy Sheepwash
& PHOTOCREDIT: Vicky Lee

[fitbody]

Sept 26, 2014
pt of the day

Happy Anniversary to my Wonderful husband Brandon Best....
Brandon sent this to me before we had ever met in person:
" I am completely there for you In all areas of your life
& just love me love me
& know that I will never abandon you or betray you
& will look at you with the same adoration & longing 10 yrs, 20 & beyond"
I typed it out and printed it off and laminated it and to this day over 4 yrs ago
it is still where I taped it on my bathroom mirror and I put the title to it "My Angel"


DAWN & BRANDON OUR STORY:
for those who don't know we were married 4 yrs ago today in Las Vegas on the Sunday of the Olympia Weekend...
we planned & paid for the wedding before we ever met each other in person.
We met not on a dating site, but on a Online Bodybuilding website www.rxmuscle.com owned by my then Coach Dave Palumbo.
Dave started RXMuscle Feb 2009 and gave me my own thread on the Forums.
Brandon had been a Moderator on the Official Muscular Development Magazine forum where Dave was working when I hired him then got fired.
So Brandon along with alot of Dave's loyal followers left MD and came to RX.
Brandon & I struck up a friendship as we would see each others posts, and we would respond both on the forum and private message...
after awhile we both got "Blackberry" cellphones with BBM instant messaging,
so we would message each other throughout the day every day.
Early in 2010 I said "I'm going to the Olympia this year" (I had never been), Brandon said "i'm going to the Olympia this year too"...
more time passes... i said "I booked my flight" Brandon says "I booked my hotel" I ask "Does it have a kitchen?" He said "yes a full kitchen"
so I booked my room there also sharing it with Vicky Lee.
More time passes and that year I competed twice in 2 Canadian National Shows.
Brandon helped me alot and I noticed how he had an effect on me like no one ever had in my life,
I can be quite a livewire and he had an uncanny way of calming me down which i'd never before experienced...
then one day he messages me and asks "would you like to go to this Olympia After Party with me?"
I reply "Well you better be careful or i'll get you drunk and marry you !"
he says "You don't have to get me drunk to marry me"
I thought to myself hmmmmmmmnnnn....
more time passes...
one day we are talking and I message him and say "Hell why don't we just get married on Sunday after the Olympia?"
he said "Ok"... so we did...
we met for the 1st time at the Las Vegas Baggage claim on the Thursday
(see video of it all here: http://youtu.be/4GnMACnQv6Q )

http://youtu.be/4GnMACnQv6Q
we went straight from the baggage claim, to get the marriage license, to get the Olympia VIP ticket, to the grocery store, to the Hotel..
then Friday & Saturday was all day and night Olympia events, and
Sunday we were married.
His flight was Sunday night, when I took him to the airport for a late flight,
and cried all the way back to the hotel, not long after I arrived there he called said he was on his way back to the hotel,
they had overbooked the flight so he got off and was to fly out Monday instead.
So we had our wedding night together after all...
Monday he went back to Memphis, TN, USA and me back to Canada.
He moved up here to Canada Nov 21st, 2010 and we have been together ever since...
not only has it made our lives better, but also my son Storm's life better...
HERE'S TO MANY MANY MORE YEARS TOGETHER,
LOVE YOU ALWAYS, Dawn xo

[fitbody]

Sept 27, 2014
pt of the day

DISCIPLINE:
The ability to make yourself do what you should do,
when you should do it,
whether you feel like it or not.
Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply,
self-discipline enables you to think first
and act afterward.

[fitbody]

Sept 28, 2014
pt of the day

“If I had to select one quality,
one personal characteristic
that I regard as being most highly correlated with success,
whatever the field,
I would pick the trait of persistence.
Determination.
The will to endure to the end,
to get knocked down seventy times
and get up off the floor saying.
“Here comes number seventy-one!”
“I am not judged by the number of times I fail,
but by the number of times I succeed:
and the number of times I succeed
is in direct proportion to the number of times
I fail and keep trying.”

[fitbody]

Sept 30, 2014
pt of the day

There’s only one thing that can guarantee our failure,
and that’s if we quit.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Winners are not those who never fail,
but those who never quit.
People of mediocre ability
sometimes achieve outstanding success
because they don’t know when to quit.
Most men succeed because they are determined to.

I'VE SEEN IT MANY MANY TIMES...
that someone had an unbelievable genetics, and body
but lacked the head, heart & guts to make it to the stage,
and then there was another with total inferior genetics,
but had a GREAT HEART, DETERMINED & STRONG MIND,
and THE GUTS TO STEP ON THAT STAGE...
and it was the 2nd person that reaped the GLORY,
whether they won the title, or trophy or not
they were the one who was successful
purely because they didn't give up and overcame the obstacles,
made the sacrifices
and put themselves out there to finish the race & reach their goal...
THIS IS A CHAMPION
in every sense of the word !

[fitbody]

Oct 1, 2014
pt of the day

"Desire is the key to motivation,
but it's determination and commitment
to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal
a commitment to excellence
that will enable you to attain the success you seek."

"The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a man's determination."

[fitbody]

Oct 2, 2014
pt of the day

Perseverance is the hard work you do after
you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence
in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities:
It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
HEAD DOWN, TEETH CLENCHED & JUST DO IT....
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

PIC: 1980 & 1982 MS.OLYMPIA Rachel McLish

[fitbody]

Oct 3, 2014
pt of the day

”Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan,
in which we must fervently believe,
and upon which we must vigorously act.
There is no other route to success.”

“Crystallize your goals.
Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline.
Then, with supreme confidence, determination
and disregard for obstacles a
nd other people’s criticisms,
carry out your plan.”

JUST DO IT

[fitbody]

Oct 4, 2014
pt of the day

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this world are
the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and, if they can't find them, make them.

The race is not always to the swift,
but to those who keep on running.

[fitbody]

Oct 5, 2014
pt of the day


COMPETITORS OUT THERE.... BREAKING NEWS... CONTEST PREP IS HARD
you will be tired, you will be weak, you will be hungry, you will want to quit, you will want to throw in the towel and say F' K it...
you will wonder how the hell am i gonna workout or do my cardio when i dont' have any energy...
why am i doing this to myself?
this last part of prep IS HARD,
this is what separates the winners from the losers,
and by winning i mean making it to the stage,
if you have fat on your body your body has energy to burn,
it's stored in your fat stores,
thats the way God designed us...
and how do you get lean and get it off?
YOU GOTTA PLAY THRU THE PAIN...
you gotta use YOUR GUTS & YOUR HEART,
YOU GOTTA USE YOUR MIND AND SAY I CAN, I WILL, I AM DOING IT...
you can't quit,
we are a hell of alot tougher than we give ourselves credit for...
OUR SOCIETY HAS MADE US SOFT...
we live in a comfy cozy convenience filled lifestyle...
humans were made to be tough,
look at people who survived real starvation, the Holocaust, concentration camps, Prisoners of War,
back in even in my grandparents days look at how hard day to day life was,
my grandfather was a coal miner his whole life in England, now that is hard work...
REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE DOING A CONTEST IS A CHOICE,
LOOKING A CERTAIN WAY IS A CHOICE,
HOW WELL YOU DO ONSTAGE IS A CHOICE,
IT'S JUST YOU AND YOUR CONSCIENCE UP THERE...
and it's your gig...
you present what you want to present..
and if you dont' wanna do it, dont'.....
and if you are happy with being normal, or average, or where you are then that is ok too...
but if you wanna play this game be prepare it is BRUTAL..
AND IF IT WAS EASY EVERYONE WOULD LOOK LIKE A GOD OR A GODDESS....
REMEMBER IT'S YOUR CHOICE....
but also remember if you are not prepared to do it, someone else will be....
HELL YA !!!!!!!!

PICS ATTACHED ARE SOME OF TEAM Fit Body Prepping for Nov show 5 weeks out
GO TEAM !

[fitbody]

Oct 6, 2014
pt of the day

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful
is the man who will win...
The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack in will.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body at Posing Yesterday 4 wks 6 days out

[fitbody]

BCABBA AGM (ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING)
SUNDAY NOV 9th, 2014 at 10am
in the Hyack Room at the Inn of the Quay
address: 900 Quayside Drive, in New Westminster

members a friendly reminder to get your memberships in for this year.

Non competitive memberships are $25

We look forward to seeing everyone there!

[fitbody]

Oct 7, 2014
pt of the day

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions,
one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
Setting a goal is not the main thing.
It is deciding how you will go about achieving it
and staying with that plan.

PIC: some of TEAM Fit Body's Nov Show Crew 5 wks out

[fitbody]

Oct 8, 2014
pt of the day

The big challenge is
to become all that you have the possibility of becoming.
You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit
to maximize your human potential
and stretch yourself to the limit.

WE CAN DO SO MUCH MORE THAN WE REALIZE
GET TOUGH & SHOW ME WHAT YOU ARE MADE OF

[fitbody]

Oct 10,2014
pt of the day


Life's a forge!
Yes, and hammer and anvil, too!
You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded,
and you'll scarce know what's happening to you.
But stand boldly to it!
Metal's worthless till it's shaped and tempered!

[fitbody]

Oct 11, 2014
pt of the day


VISUALIZATION:
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief.
And once that belief becomes a deep conviction,
things begin to happen.
Champions aren't made in the gyms.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside them
a desire, a dream, a vision

[fitbody]

Oct 12, 2014
pt of the day

It is not the critic that counts;
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles
or the doer of deeds could have them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly;
who errs and comes short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming;
but he who does actually strive to do the deed;
who knows the great devotion;
who spends himself in a worthy cause,
who at the best,
knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst,
if he fails while daring greatly,
knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls,
who know neither victory nor defeat.

[fitbody]

Oct 13, 2014
pt of the day

happy thanksgiving

I cannot always control what goes on outside.
But I can always control what goes on inside.
I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors.
Your attitude--your perspective, your outlook,
how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people
determines your priorities, your actions, your values.
Your attitude determines how you interact with other people
and how you interact with yourself.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Thanksgiving Wkend Posing Practice Crew

[fitbody]

Oct 14, 2014
pt of the day

Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships
and decide not to surrender,
that is strength.

PIC: Brandon Best TEAM collaboration of Fit Body & Iron Fit

[fitbody]

Oct 15, 2014
pt of the day

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Stubbornly persist,
and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness
go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.

[fitbody]

Oct 16, 2014
pt of the day

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife,
Some pure ideal of a noble life
That once seemed possible? Did we not hear
The flutter of its wings, and feel it near,
And just within our reach? It was. And yet
We lost it in this daily jar and fret,
And now live idle in a vague regret;
But still our place is kept, and it will wait,
Ready for us to fill it, soon or late.
No star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we might have been.

[fitbody]

ATTENTION MEMBERS: BCABBA AGM (Annual General Meeting)
will be held on November 9th at 10am.
It will be held in the Hyack Meeting Room at the Inn at the Quay
900 Quayside Drive, New Westminster (same room used for the Nov 7th check-in procedure).
proxies are available on our website: www.bcabba.org

[fitbody]

Oct 17, 2014
pt of the day

food for thought: FOCUS ON YOURSELF & RUN YOUR OWN RACE.....
don't worry about what others are doing,
don't look around,
just focus on what you need to do,
it's not about where others are, or what they are doing,
it's about you and your goals....
a great analogy of this is the FAMOUS RACE "the Miracle Mile"
one of the greatest moments in sport....

Bannister vs. Landy
On August 7, 1954 during the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver, B.C.,
England’s Roger Bannister and Australian John Landy met for the first time in the one mile run at the newly constructed Empire Stadium.

Both men had broken the four minute barrier previously that year.
Bannister was the first to break the mark with a time of 3:59.4 on May 6th in Oxford, England.
Subsequently, on June 21st in Turku, Finland, John Landy became the new record holder with an official time of 3:58.

The world watched eagerly as both men approached the starting blocks.
As 35,000 enthusiastic fans looked on, no one knew what would take place on that historic day.

Promoted as “The Mile of the Century”, it would later be known as the “Miracle Mile”.

With only 90 yards to go in one of the world’s most memorable races,
John Landy glanced over his left shoulder to check his opponent’s position.
At that instant Bannister streaked by him to victory in a Commonwealth record time of 3:58.8.
Landy’s second place finish in 3:59.6 marked the first time the four minute mile had been broken by two men in the same race.

Such exhilarating events are common in sports but few are captured so dramatically.
A moment that took only a fraction of a second was frozen in time forever.

this picture was taken at the Empire Stadium at the PNE Grounds in Vancouver
and is appropriately named "The Moment,"

you can watch the video of this amazing race here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP_NzZP_LK0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP_NzZP_LK0

[fitbody]

Oct 18, 2014
pt of the day

Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts.
They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts.
Habits are also weakened or broken,
and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
Such as are your habitual thoughts,
such also will be the character of your mind;
for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
YOU ARE THE RESIDUAL RESULT OF ALL YOUR PAST THOUGHTS & ACTIONS....
take responsibility for yourself,
your body, your happiness, your health, your life....
CHANGE STARTS IN THE INSTANT CHANGING OF YOUR THOUGHTS,
WHAT YOU FOCUS ON EXPANDS,
WHAT YOU THINK CREATES YOUR REALITY,
YOUR THOUGHTS SHAPE YOUR WORLD,
YOUR THOUGHTS SHAPE YOU....
you don't like your body or your life,
it starts in your mind, it starts NOW...
you can procrastinate your life away,
DO IT NOW !

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Jamie Leggatt
down 28 lbs in her prep so far for the Nov show,
keep on rockin' it Jamie

[fitbody]

Oct 19, 2014
pt of the day

Every choice carries a consequence.
For better or worse,
each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor.
There are not exceptions.
If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment,
why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?
I MAKE ME,
I AM A RESULT OF ALL MY CHOICES,
MY PAST THOUGHTS & ACTIONS !

[fitbody]

Oct 21, 2014
pt of the day

Four steps to achievement:
plan purposefully,
prepare prayerfully,
proceed positively,
pursue persistently.

We are not imprisoned by circumstances,
setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats,
we are freed by our choices.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body at Posing sunday.....


RISE & SHINE THE ULTIMATE MOTIVATIONAL CLIP
one of my favorite motivational videos WATCH THIS & BE MOVED....

SHOW ME WHAT YOU ARE MADE OF !!!!!!!!!!!!

suck it up PRINCESS, DON'T ACCEPT MEDIOCRITY
be the best you can be & FIND YOUR GREATNESS...
now GET UP & JUST DO IT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbkZrOU1Zag


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbkZrOU1Zag

[fitbody]

Oct 22, 2014
pt of the day

Be daring, be different, be impractical,
be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose
and imaginative vision
against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace,
the slaves of the ordinary.

DARE TO BE DIFFERENT

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's BIKINI CHAMP Marina Wojtczak

[fitbody]

Oct 23, 2014
pt of the day

There is NO COURAGE WITHOUT FEAR....
Courage is FEELING the FEAR and doing it anyways....

PIC: some of TEAM Fit Body's Nov Show Crew

[fitbody]

Oct 24, 2014
pt of the day

Every moment YOU make CHOICES...
these choices either take you: CLOSE TO
or FURTHER FROM YOUR GOAL....

Master your choices,
or become the slave of their consequences.

You can always do what you want to do.
This is true with every act.
You may say that you had to do something,
or that you were forced to,
but actually,
whatever you do, you do by choice.

Only you have the power to choose for yourself.
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make,
both consciously and unconsciously.
If you can control the process of choosing,
you can take control of all aspects of your life.
You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

PIC: some of TEAM Fit Body's Nov Show Crew

[fitbody]

Oct 25, 2014
pt of the day

the Fit Body theory - what I teach:
"THE ONLY COMPETITION YOU HAVE IS YOU VS YOU"
“Successful people aren't born that way.
They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do.
The successful people don't always like these things themselves;
they just get on and do them.”

When it comes to Physique competition
or even a better term for it PHYSIQUE ART...
it is a never-ending, on-going process for the rest of your life,
it's not a competition date...
but a human body being built on a moment-to-moment basis
by the choices you make of what you eat and what you do....

[fitbody]

Oct 26, 2014
pt of the day

THIS MAKES ME THINK OF HOW I FEEL WITH CLIENTS DOING SHOWS SOMETIMES....
"Come to the edge," He said.
They said, "We are afraid."
"Come to the edge," He said.
They came. He pushed them...and they flew."
a great Analogy of this is when...
my son Storm was 5 yrs old one Spring Break we went to the Hill Health Ranch in 108 mile Ranch.
They have a great snow tubing run there.
The 1st time down the hill Storm and I went in the same tube
and a worker came running and yelled "Only 1 person in a tube at once"
So I stood at the top of the hill with the tether rope of Storms tube in my hands,
him in the tube yelling " No NO I don't want to"
My boyfriend at the time was there with me,
and in a blink of an eye I used my foot to push his tube over the edge and down he went SCREAMING, as I watched,
my boyfriend say to me "You Bitch!" ...
when Storm got down to the bottom I don't think the tube even stopped moving,
he jumped out of it, grabbed the tether and RAN to the tow rope to bring him back up the hill,
and all day for hours and hours he repeated this process. HE LOVED IT !
The moral of this story is we are our own worst enemy.
We alot of the time let fear immobilize us.
And I know this feeling only to well.
For many many years I had terrible stage fright,
not that I dont' have any now.
But because I face that fear over and over and walked throught it,
when you get to the other side words cannot describe the self-worth and sense of accomplishment it brings.
Don't let fear stop you from experiencing LIFE TO IT'S FULLEST ! JUST DO IT....

COURAGE IS NOT THE ABSENCE OF FEAR, BUT THE MASTERY OF FEAR

PIC: my son Storm mastering the tubing fear and LOVING IT

[fitbody]

Oct 27, 2014
pt of the day

If you do what you’ve always done,
you’ll get what you’ve always got.

If you’re going to be thinking anything,
you might as well think big.

Pearls don’t lie on the seashore.
If you want one, you must dive for it.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do.
Fail at it.
Try again.
Do better the second time.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.
This is your moment.
Own it.

Life is inherently risky.
There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs,
and that is the risk of doing nothing.

JUST DO IT !
PIC: some of TEAM Fit Body's Nov show Crew at Posing Yesterday
SO PROUD OF YOU ALL,
can hardly wait to see you ROCK IT UP THERE !

GREAT VIDEO:
Stop Whining, Start Grinding - Motivational Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxrSr2vV68g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxrSr2vV68g

[fitbody]

Oct 28, 2014
pt of the day

Amongst the qualities a HERO should have,

I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance,

patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

Beauty is not in the face;
beauty is a light in the heart.

[fitbody]

Oct 29, 2014
pt of the day

THIS IS GREAT:
“One of the most common causes of failure is
the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”

“It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail.
It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.”

“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because
they don’t know when to quit.
Most men succeed because they are determined to.”

BOOOOOOOOOOOYAAAAAAAAHHHHH
now go out there and CREATE YOU A SUCCESSFUL DAY !

[fitbody]

Oct 20, 2014
pt of the day

Sports do not build character.
They reveal it.

Champions aren't made in the gyms.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside them
a desire, a dream, a vision.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
but the size of the fight in the dog!

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

[fitbody]

Oct 31, 2014
pt of the day

Happy Halloween
and
HEAD UP THE CLOCK ARE CHANGING SATURDAY NIGHT
fall back - day lights saving time

It takes a little courage,
and a little self-control.
And some grim determination,
If you want to reach the goal.
It takes a deal of striving,
and a firm and stern-set chin.
No matter what the battle,
If you really want to win.
There's no easy path to glory,
There's no road to fame.
Life, however we may view it,
Is no simple parlor game;
But it's prizes call for fighting,
For endurance and for grit;
For a rugged disposition and don't know when to quit

[fitbody]

CLOCKS CHANGE TONIGHT
so move you clocks back - FALL BACK 1 Hour

Nov 1, 2014
pt of the day

Determination means persistence,
striving hard to achieve any goal or ambition.
Determination is known to make even the inaccessible peaks, easily accessible.
Great achievers are those who possess great levels of determination and never give up,
even in the face of adversities.
Tenacity is the hallmark of a champion.
Determined individuals can only realise their aims in life.

In the words of Colin Powell,
"A dream does not become reality through magic;
it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

There is no shortcut to success.
Constant efforts and perseverance,
clubbed with rock-solid determination,
can only catapult any person to success or fame, even.
Determined individuals always make it big in life and realize their dreams and goals.
Determination for any achievement is generated within the individual,
either by efforts or it comes by itself.
The difference between dreams and accomplishments is one's desire and determination.
So, show determination towards achieving your life's goal.

PIC: is ME Dawn Alison)
2008 shot by the Amazing PhotoGod Paul Patrick Hammill

[fitbody]

CLOCKS CHANGED LAST NIGHT - daylights saving time
they went back and hour

Nov 2nd, 2014
pt of the day

The ultimate measure of a man is
not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Sisters: Nika & Daisy (real name Mahdis I nick named her Daisy)
both doing bikini at the Nov Show....
LOOKIN' SMOKIN'

[fitbody]

Nov 3, 2014
pt of the day

“If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.”
“If you only ever give 90% in training
then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Brandon Best
(in collaboration with Ifbb Pro Carlos Rabiei's TEAM Iron Fit)
shot taken by THE ONE THE ONLY Photog Vicky Lee

[fitbody]

Nov 4, 2014
pt of the day

The STRENGTH of the TEAM is each INDIVIDUAL MEMBER.
The STRENGTH of the MEMBER is the TEAM.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by
helping others to succeed.
This is the Fit Body Theory !

PIC: is Fit Body TEAM MATES Heidi Dianne & Xoana Nunes,
who eptiomize the value of helping one another in the spirit of the TEAM.

[fitbody]

Nov 5, 2014
pt of the day


Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
which tempt you to believe that your critics are right.
FEEL THE FEAR & DO IT ANYWAY
just do it !

[Want2lift]

More pics of Nika and Daisy please!!! Yep, that would motivate me!

[fitbody]

Nov 6, 2014
pt of the day

BEST OF LUCK TO ALL THE Fit Bodies TAKING THE STAGE this Saturday
enjoy this time, have fun, you worked hard, you all look fantastic
now go out there and shine like the stars you are

“Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”

“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything
and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.”

[fitbody]

Nov 7, 2014
pt of the day

“The road of life twists and turns
and no two directions are ever the same.
Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”

“Success is not a place at which one arrives
but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.”

SEIZE THE DAY,
ENJOY THE JOURNEY,
LIVE IN THE MOMENT
& remember the goal is NOT THE END,
but rather THE BEGINNING of A NEW CHAPTER.....

[fitbody]

TEAM Fit Body’s SWFC 2014 Results – 39 clients & posing clients
1 OVERALL, 9 FIRSTS, 5 SECONDS, 4 THIRDS, 2 FIFTHS
(plus another 1st at another show same day, different federation)

Christine Wallace – Womens Physique Tall Champ & Overall Champ
Veronika Kicktchenko – Womens Physique Tall 2nd Place Champ
Melissa Tofsrud – Womens Physique Short Champ
Heidi Krochter – Womens Physique Short 2nd Place Champ
Amy Shaw (Posing Client) Womens Physique Masters Champ
Alisa Stern – Grand Masters Figure 3rd Place Champ
Katherine Rajczak – Womens Figure Tall Champion
Tania Kwan – Figure A Champion
Stacy Rafferty – Figure C Champion
Yasan Ranjbar-Aghdam (Posing Client) 2nd Place Mens Physique A
Hamed Roshenas – 3rd Place MPD C (was in largest class of show 27 competitors)
Mohammendali Arabnaji (Posing Client) MPD D 2nd Place
Brandon Best MPD E 1st Place Champion
Marc Audette MPD E 3rd Place Champ
Ondrej Leipert (Posing Client) MPD F 1st Place Champ
Amy Christian Bikini A 1st Place Champion
Kristine Joson (Posing Client) Bikini A 5th Place Champ
Lauren Fuller Bikini D 2nd Place Champ
Nika Nahasati Bikini H 5th Place Champ
Hadieh Kaeni (Posing Client) 3rd Place Champ

Competitors
Pedram Enghiad – Mens Light Wt Bodybuilder
Jamie Leggatt –Figure Masters short
Elizabeth Anderson – Figure Masters tall
Jenni Bird – Figure A
Xoana Numes – Figure A
Stephanie Lawson – Figure C
Amy Lang – Figure D
Yonel Prasad – MP A
Myrna Lew – Masters Bikini Short
Belinda Furlan – Masters Bikini Tall
Jessica Lamarche – Bikini B
Cat Wheatley (Posing Client) Bikini C
Sage Bigler Bikini C
Tiagra Desrochers Bikini D
Rhea Proulx Bikini D
Daisy Nahasati – Bikini F
Samantha Thom Bikini F
Layla Truong (Posing Client) Bikini G
Kim Grewal Bikini I
In a show going on on the other side of Vancouver but the same day Nicole Morgan sweeps the NPAA show and become a Figure Pro Nicole Morgan! CONGRATS NICOLE xo

[fitbody]

SWFC 2014 OFFICIAL FULL RESULTS
GrandMaster Men BB
1. Heinz Nussbaumer
2. Gary Vollhoffer
3. Raymond Walkerdine
4. Lee Nayor
5. Lance Raaen
6. Dale Gosal
7. Tim Burroughs
8. Edgar Gonzales
Master Men BB
1. Troy Knight
2. Warren Smith
3. Alex Alexiou
4. Marko Joannou
Junior Men BB
1. Vadim Kisleynko
2. Colton Britzius
3. Cam McIlroy
4. Aidan Brow
5. Jacob Finamore
6. Garett Seminuk
LW
1. Hanley Ishak
2. Kevin Harding
3. Marc Magbitang
4. Brad Piacek
5. Jordan Kern
6. Cam McIlroy
7. Pedram Enghiad
8. Lance Raaen
MW
1. Juan Jimenez
2. Jaishankar Iyer
3. Nicholas Maslove
4. Max Obeidat
5. Micky Meh
6. Daniel Kinne
7. Dale Gosal
8. Russell Patenaude
9. Eric Wilson
LHW
1. Hardip Lalli
2. Scott Ambler
3. Toval Sahl
4. Brandon Stonehouse
5. Monty Bains
6. Stefan Lyren
7. Scott Vass
8. Troy Knight
9. Lucas Reid
10. Jerome Laljee
11. Warren Smith
12. David Santoro
13. Garett Seminuk
HW
1. Matt Kopan
2. Ben Tanner
3. Wiseman Mnguni
4. Brandon Pennington
5. Adam Fedoriuk
6. Andy Alexiou
7. Pinder Kaloti
8. Chris Mcleod
9. Dustin Downer
10. Warren Grant
OVERALL BB: MATT KOPAN
BEST POSER: Juan Jimenez
FBB-JUNIOR
1. Paula Caton
FBB -OPEN
1. Sarah Field
2. Paula Caton
WP Masters
1. Amy Shaw
2. Cindy Legare
3. Dawn Collins
WP-SHORT
1. Melissa Tofsrud
2. Heidi Krochter
3. Karen Mahar
4. Michelle Brown
5. Sandra Blair
WP-TALL
1. Christine Wallace
2. Veronika Kichtchenko
OVERALL PHYSIQUE: CHRISTINE WALLACE
BEST POSER: MICHELLE BROWN
MP-Masters
1. Michael Kaye
2. Fraser Aitcheson
3. Gord Di Castri
4. Dave Kidd
5. Garfield Wilson
6. Tal Thompson
7. Trevor Littlefield
MP-A
1. Vito Abaroa
2. Yasan Ranjbar-Aghdam
3. Kristoffer Alviar
4. Juma Danladi
5. Ryan Hooseman
6. Pouyan Kazemi
7. Nick Petz
8. Miguel Marquez
9. Hamish Walker
10. Behzad Radbooei
11. Frederick Salita
12. Novette Chua
13. Alred Paul Jaromanay
14. Jag Parmar
15. Terry Burgess
16. Dominic Impelido
16. Yonel Prasad
Disqualified: Michael Lim
MP-B
1. Stephen Deryaw
2. Brandon Craig
3. Erik Yu
4. Taylor Eyolfson
5. Michael Kurylo
6. Brandyn Callard
7. Eric Klein
8. Tyler Barrett
9. Jason Laverman
10. Salvatore Balletta
11. Logan Van Damme
12. Adam Fancy
13. Jordan Barth
14. David Turnbull
15. Ryan Miske
16. Mark Huynh
16. Mohammad Alrowisan
16. Hanchao Xu
MP-C
1. Vahid Rad
2. Rocco Hoeller
3. Hamed Roshenas
4. Mike Leslie
5. Barsam Hamzehali
6. Jordan Mitchell
7. Mike de Dood
8. Clayton Fontaine
9. Gurpreet Sidhu
10. John Chandler
11. Kenny Mugisha
12. Gurv Bassi
13. Darren Ogden
14. Denon Maximchuk
15. Colin Eggen
16. Emeka Obi Umaki
16. Matthe Robson
16. Brandon Laverman
16. Jason Keller
16. Brett Matthews
16. Joshua Bryant
16. Luke Grossman
16. Allan Neifer
16. Nicolas Lui
16. Norbert Frej
16. Trevor Harrichhasusen
DISQUALIFIED:
Joshua Haymes-Dyson
Joey Bugyinka
MP-D
1. Jordan Gladman
2. Mohammadali Arabnaji
3. Skyler Johnston
4. Jay Frasca
5. Kyle Huyghue
6. Blake Tabian
7. Gabriel Dos Santos
8. James Ettinger
9. John Kveton
10. John Morin
11. Jesse Stapleton
12. Alistair Holness
MP-E
1. Brandon Best
2. Mathieu Gigault
3. Marc Audette
4. Jared Kuzik
5. Derek Coles
6. Adrian Eden
7. Evan Delmonico
8. Christian Stickney
9. Jeremy Harvey
MP-F
1. Ondrej Leipert
2. Brett Godin
3. Corey Yurick
4. Nick Gudmundson
5. Brad Martin
6. Mike Delgaty
7. Nduka Ifesemen
8. Matt Harrichhausen
MEN’S PHYSIQUE OVERALL:
Vahid Rad
GR.Master Figure-Short
1. Kathy Gelmon
2. Mistral Davidson
3. Alisa Stern
4. Mercedes Mikal
GR.Master Figure-TALL
1. Terry Aleksic
2. Sheri Bourrie
3. Angie Moore
DISQUALIFIED: Michele Hadley
Master Figure-SHORT
1. Christina Shellard
2. Andrea Doerksen
3. Krista Conway
4. Tara Furtado
5. Sandra Rodriguez
6. Jamie Leggatt
Master Figure-TALL
1. Katherine Rajczak
2. Jennifer Lussier
3. Lesley Billings
4. Tracey Fallis
5. Tara Gabel
6. Danielle Braund
7. Elizabeth Anderson
FIGURE A
1. Tania Kwan
2. Jennifer Watts
3. Natasha Gossen
4. Zaida Pirani
5. Kimberley Smith
6. Jenni Bird
7. Tara Card
8. Xoana Nunes
FIGURE B
1. Susanna Hall
2. Heather Venhuizen
3. Mandy Urner
4. Kate Joyal
5. Andrea Morin
6. Cara Cochlin
7. Melissa Jacobson
8. Robyn Vantreight
9. Anya Sopow
10. Chelsea Konechny
11. Iona Barnes
FIGURE C
1. Stacy Rafferty
2. Dawn Ponte
3. Lana Larouche
4. Kaylee Mascia
5. Chelsea Terpsma
6. Natalie Barratt
7. Lisa Jensen
8. Stephanie Lawson
9. Jordan Scott
10. Sheila Minten
FIGURE D
1. Shawna Whitfield
2. Nicole Prentice
3. Teralee Trommeshauser
4. Sarah DesRoches
5. Tanya Smith
6. Amy Lang
7. Samantha Dubbeldam
8. Rosanne Moerkoert
9. Nicole Gyurkovits
10. Katherine McConnell
FIGURE OVERALL: Susanna Hall
Master Bikini-SHORT
1. Chaelee Mae
2. Sheri Amendt
3. Carolyn Riha
4. Linda Woo
5. Yelena Yermolenko
6. Leah Webber
7. Megan Cole
8. Grace Markus
9. Myrna Breese - Lew
10. Rina Kapusta
11. Jennifer Knight
12. Amy Wasilieff
Master Bikini-TALL
1. Jolene Sharpe
2. Candy Scheifele
3. Melissa Phillips
4. Joti Samra
5. Dana Marcano
6. Eva Zilic
7. Belinda-Ann Furlan
8. Jannette Jackson
9. Jaime Chorney
10. Rhonda Loewen Hutchinson
11. Julie Beaudry
BIKINI A
1. Amy Christian
2. Stephanie Svensson
3. Audrina Mansour
4. Agnes Liang
5. Kristine Joson
6. Amy De Jesus
7. Katrina de Mesa
8. Taylor Salvador
9. Melissa Byrka
10. Jesse Daly
11. Samantha Soares
BIKINI B
1. Vanessa Yuen
2. Stephanie Siu
3. Jessica Callegaro
4. Angela Rainforth
5. Sasha Tiemer
6. Elicia Hadley
7. Ashley Abbott
8. Carmen Hill
9. Sylvea Minci
10. Anna Broadway
11. Bethany Clark
12. Chantal Vicente
13. Danielle Luebert
14. Kendra Mckague
15. Arianne Liu
16. Olivia Quinn
16. Jessica Lamarche
16. Jasmine De Torres
16. Lisa Watson
BIKINI C
1. Stephanie Yakimchuk
2. Shawna Ram
3. Alexcia Kerr
4. Richelle Seward
5. Christina Turcios
6. Catherine Wheatley
7. Ivana Dimitrov
8. Melissa Bendall
9. Nicole Hall
10. Diane Crimeni
11. Elisha Schmidt
12. Kulvinder Tumber
13. Lindsay Rae
14. Rachael Bilyea
15. Carolyn Frederick
16. Chaley Ross
16. Melanie DeChamplain
16. Kara Delaney
16. Bailey Fong
16. Sage Bigler
16. Aja Carmichael
16. Jodi Buse
BIKINI D
1. Karly Ramadeen
2. Lauren Fuller
3. Tiffany Breck
4. Michelle Jaworski
5. Noz Kazemi
6. Justine Sahota
7. Rachelle Kutin
8. Lindzie Hernandez
9. Billy-Jean Nye
10. Anita Ivanic
11. Tiana Russo
12. Kezzi Loewen
13. Angeline Vaughan
14. Tara Berntzen
15. Sarah Lingham
16. Rhea Proulx
16. Rebecca Robertson
16. Liz Metcalf
16. Filomena Agosti
16. Tiagra Desrochers
16. Samantha Grobler
16. Kandace Carr
16. Megan Dumas
16. Veronica Lobodzinski
16. Rina Mattson
BIKINI E
1. Amy Baker
2. Jenna D'Angio
3. Ashley Davidson
4. Brittany Jonat
5. Kayla McColl
6. Ferial Ahwazi
7. Sharka Vochvest
8. Haylie Parminter
9. Tynea Cottreau
10. Samaya de Laat
11. Kerbie O'Neil
12. Amanda Marcellus
13. Rewas Waisy
BIKINI F
1. Adriana Gentile
2. Tanita Sandana
3. Brianna Pound
4. Dominique Lang
5. Lindsay Gill
6. Sarah Lang
7. Chrystal Pearl
8. Diana Morley
9. Grabrielle Kalinich
10. Kendra Cartier
11. Samantha Thom
12. Holly Potozny
13. Nicole Benes
14. Milissa Morton
15. Jenny Stenquist
16. Mahdis Nahasati
16. Veronica Enair
16. Sarah Zandi
16. Morgan Schunter
16. Terri-Ann Sowan
16. Minna Mundadi
BIKINI G
1. Brandie Mabee
2. Ashley Mckenzie
3. Tina Henderson
4. Sydney Langston
5. Brittany Hassan
6. Sam Takacs
7. Kristina O'Clery
8. Erin Cooper
9. Shelby Goddard
10. Layla Truong
11. Kendall Brand
12. Dee Moonen
BIKINI H
1. Mikayla Custance
2. Felicia Younker
3. Shauna Jense
4. Melissa Isaacs
5. Nika Nahasati
6. Karen Goforth
7. Ashley Page
8. Brianna Manno
9. Nicole Medos
10. Jacky Wellington
11. Jayleigh Kolababa
BIKINI I
1. Christy Chung
2. Kelsi Leaming
3. Hadieh Kaeni
4. Alison Quinlan
5. Hayley Khan
6. Chelan Wilkins
7. Kim Grewal
8. Emily Thordarson
9. Brianna Neely
10. Emily Martinuik
BIKINI OVERALL:
Amy Baker

[fitbody]

Nov 11, 2014
pt of the day

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired,
and success achieved.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the real thing.

[fitbody]

Nov 12, 2014
pt of the day

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool,
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental
To reach out to another is to risk involvement,
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss
To love is to risk not being loved in return,
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk to failure.
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow,
But he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live.
Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.

[fitbody]

Nov 13, 2014
pt of the day

my favorite POEM: "The Man In The Glass"
(by Peter Dale Wimbrow Sr.)

When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you KING for a day
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.

For it isn’t your father, or mother, or wife
Whose judgment upon you must pass
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one staring back from the glass.

He’s the fellow to please – never mind all the rest
For he’s with you, clear to the end
And you’ve passed your most difficult, dangerous test
If the man in the glass is your friend.

You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years
And get pats on the back as you pass
But your final reward will be heartache and tears
If you’ve cheated the man in the glass.



PHOTOS: TEAM Fit Body's Christine Wallace & Pedram Enghiad

big congrats to them for their ACHIEVEMENTS this last saturday

'

[fitbody]

Nov 14, 2014
pt of the day

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.
It must be born in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled,
but it is a calamity to not dream.
It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars,
but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
Not failure but low aim is sin!

[fitbody]

Nov 15, 2014
pt of the day

I define self-control, in the beginning of life,
as the choice of achieving what I really want
by doing things I really don't want to do.
Once this becomes a habit,
discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want
by doing the very things I now want to do!
I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy
but only after we have worked hard to practice it.

[fitbody]

Nov 16, 2014
pt of the day

YOU CREATE YOU,
EVERYTHING YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE RIGHT NOW,
YOUR BODY, THE RELATIONSHIPS, YOUR SITUATION...
you have brought into your own reality
from the choices you choose
that all start with your thoughts....
"In every single thing you do,
you are choosing a direction.
Your life is a product of choices."

[fitbody]

Nov 17, 2014
pt of the day

I am thankful for the friends who stand by me through the ups and downs of life.
My truest friends are those who know everything about me,
but love me just the same.
May I always be a loyal friend.
I will strive to be true in word and faithful in deed.
My friends are precious treasures with a priceless value.

PIC: some of TEAM Fit Body FRIENDS
great times great people great memories

[fitbody]

Nov 18, 2014
pt of the day

Commit yourself to a dream . . .
Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure.
Why?
Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle
he defeated the fear of trying.

[fitbody]

Nov 19, 2014
pt of the day


Strength does not come from winning.
Your struggles develop your strengths.
When you go through hardships
and decide not to surrender,
that is strength.

PIC: is Me ( Dawn Alison)
photocredit: Paul Patrick Hammill

[fitbody]

Nov 11, 2014
pt of the day

It takes a lot of courage to
release the familiar and seemingly secure,
to embrace the new.

The galleries are full of critics.
They play no ball, they fight no fights.
They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing.
Down in the arena are the doers.
They make mistakes because they try many things.
The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure.
He is the one who never tries anything.
His is the brake on the wheel of progress.
And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes,
because his biggest mistake is the very fact that
he tries nothing,
does nothing,
except criticize those who do things....

Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.

[fitbody]

Nov 21, 2014
pt of the day

Your life will be no better than the plans you make
and the action you take.
You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
THINK,
PLAN,
GET THE SUPPORT YOU NEED,
THEN TAKE ACTION
& JUST DO IT....

YOU CREATE YOU,
take responsibility for your body,
your, health, your happiness,
YOUR LIFE,
its all up to you
and the choices you make from moment to moment,
those choices either take you closer to
or further from your goal

PIC: is ME Dawn Alison) 2013 Canadian Nationals

[fitbody]

Nov 22, 2014
pt of the day

I believe everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go.
Things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they are right.
Sometimes things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe

PIC: what TEAM Fit Body is all about: FITNESS, FRIENDS & FUN

[fitbody]

Nov 23, 2014
pt of the day

Every dream needs a mind that moves with
faith, courage, consistent actions and patience.
If you want to drive your passion to the territory of greatness,
you must separate yourself from people that don’t respect the power of passion.
Some people would tell you that it’s impossible
for you to become successful in your line of passion.
But don’t be distracted by them
because it is only you that need to believe in your dream in order for it to manifest.
You absolutely don’t need the world to cosign your passion for you.
The people that understand the power of following your true passion in life
would never tell you that your dream is impossible to attain.
Rather,
they would show you some strategic ways to take your passion to greater heights.
There is no better feeling than shinning the light of manifestation
on your true passion in life.

[fitbody]

Nov 24, 2014
pt of the day

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.


What people don't understand, THEY FEAR and hate what they can't conquer...
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Its amazing to me that when people start changing their lives
to make themselves healthier and happier,
by exercising and eating healthy
the opposition they most often get by friends and family...
and it's like a lesson in transference
cuz it's they themselves are the ones being unhealthy
and they project that on ones who are eating clean,
so odd.
Then they think when someone is lean they are unhealthy
but when someone if fat they healthy.
weird.
Ok well maybe we are equal then
they think we are weird
and we they are weird
TRUCE....
SO NOW PLEASE LIVE AND LET LIVE

[fitbody]

Nov 27, 2014
pt of the day

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives.
It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
"Individual commitment to a group effort
that is what makes a team work.
"Alone we can do so little,
together we can do so much."

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's COACHES & PARTNERS
Brandon Best & Dawn Alison

[fitbody]

Nov 28, 2014
pt of the day

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream,
so shall you become.
Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be;
your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.”

“Capture your dreams and your life becomes full.
You can, because you think you can.”

“If you can imagine it,
You can achieve it.
If you can dream it,
you can become it.”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Rhea Proulx

[fitbody]

Nov 28, 2014
pt of the day

“I don’t want to live in the kind of world where we don’t look out for each other.
Not just the people that are close to us,
but anybody who needs a helping hand.
I cant change the way anybody else thinks,
or what they choose to do,
but I can do my bit.”

PIC: Dave Wheeler BC's Pioneer WHEELCHAIR BODYBUILDER
with TEAM Fit Body's Brandon Best & Dawn Alison BCABBA President.
BCABBA will be having a WHEELCHAIR BODYBUILDING CLASS at the 2015 BC Championships
this summer
THAT WILL BE OPEN TO ANYONE CANADAWIDE,
we will be having classes for Men & Women,
stay tuned at www.bcabba.org
and anyone needing any info please contact Dawn at fitbody@telus.net

[fitbody]

Nov 30, 2014
pt of the day

wishes are just that wishes...
you can want all you want,
but in order to achieve you must act, you must do !

Problems or successes,
they all are the results of our own actions.
Karma.
The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness.
One's own karma,
one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Lauralee March - Cheng
who is the epitome of putting thoughts into practice by taking action...
SHE'S A DOER
(Photocredit: Vicky Lee)

[fitbody]

Dec 1, 2014
pt of the day

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act,
but also dream;
not only plan,
but also believe.”

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's BIKINI CHAMPION Amy Christian

[fitbody]

Dec 2, 2014
pt of the day

A good coach will make his players see what they can be
rather than what they are.
The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.
What makes a good coach?
Complete dedication.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's Tania Kwan
photocredit: Vicky Lee
www.fitbodybc.com

[fitbody]

Dec 3rd, 2014
pt of the day

"Success doesn't come to you... you go to it. "
"Champions are willing to do the things they dislike
to create something they do like.
Don't let the things that matter most
be at the mercy of the things that matter least."

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's St Matt Law
prepping for March Muscle Classic show 2015

[fitbody]

The most important thing I am is a MOM.
My son Storm Sull is my greatest accomplishment & my greatest gift.

[fitbody]

Dec 4, 2014
pt of the day

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
To change who you are,
change who you think you are.
The whole point of being alive
is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

[fitbody]

Dec 5, 2014
Pt of the Day


In life, it is all about choices we make.
And how the direction of our lives comes down to the choices we choose."

It takes strength to be firm, it takes courage to be gentle.
It takes strength to conquer, it takes courage to surrender.
It takes strength to be certain, it takes courage to have doubt.
It takes strength to fit in, it takes courage to stand out.

It takes strength to feel a friend's pain, it takes courage to feel your own pain.
It takes strength to endure abuse, it takes courage to stop it.
It takes strength to stand alone, it takes courage to lean on another.
It takes strength to love, it takes courage to be loved.

It takes strength to survive, it takes courage to live.

PIC: TEAM Fit Body's BEAUTIFUL Amy Rebner
Photocredit: Vicky Lee of Satire Images

[fitbody]

Dec 6, 2014
pt of the day


“One of the most common causes of failure is
the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”

“It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail.
It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.”

“So long as there is breath in me,
that long I will persist.
For now I know one of the greatest principles on success;
if I persist long enough I will win.”

PIC: Dawn Alison 2010 Canadian National Championships.
23 years competing in Bodybuilding,
2015 will be my 10th time competing at Canadian National Championships

[fitbody]

Dec 7, 2014
pt of the day

"In every single thing you do,
you are choosing a direction.
Your life is a product of choices."
"There are two primary choices in life:
to accept conditions as they exist,
or accept the responsibility for changing them."
YOUR LIFE,
YOUR BODY,
YOUR CHOICE,
HOW DO YOU WANNA PLAY IT?

[fitbody]

Dec 8th, 2014
pt of the day

As we grow up,
we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let us down,
probably will.
You'll have your heart broken
and you'll break others' hearts.
You'll fight with your best friend
or maybe even fall in love with them,
and you'll cry because time is flying by.
So take too many pictures,
laugh too much,
forgive freely,
and love like you've never been hurt.
Life comes with no guarantees,
no time outs,
no second chances.
you just have to live life to the fullest,
tell someone what they mean to you
and tell someone off,
speak out,
dance in the pouring rain,
hold someone's hand,
comfort a friend,
fall asleep watching the sun come up,
stay up late,
be a flirt,
and smile until your face hurts.
Don't be afraid to take chances
or fall in love and most of all,
live in the moment
because every second you spend angry or upset
is a second of happiness you can never get back.

PIC: IFBB PRO Bodybuilder Sharon Bruneau

[fitbody]

Dec 9, 2014
pt of the day

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
"If your life is free of failures,
youre not taking enough risks."
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
SUCCESS IS NOT JUDGED BY A POSITION A PERSON HOLDS IN LIFE,
BUT THE OBSTACLES THEY HAVE OVERCOME !

[fitbody]

Dec 10, 2014
pt of the day

“We’ve got to remember that we get whatever we focus on in life.
If we keep focusing on what we don’t want,
we’ll have more of it.
The first step to creating any change is
deciding what you do want
so that you have something to move toward.”

THINK IT
SEE IT
BELIEVE IT
JUST DO IT
BE IT