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jULY 6, 2016
pt of the day
“Real courage is when
you know you're licked before you begin,
but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
“FEARLESS is getting back up
and fighting for what you want over and over again....
even though every time you've tried before you've lost.”
“Courage is not having the strength to go on;
it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
July 7, 2016
pt of the day
COURAGE IS FEELING THE FEAR & DOING IT ANYWAY....
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
all the best to all 18 TEAM Fit Body Athletes in BC’s this wkend
watch for updates as I can and Brandon on our facebook pages
mine: https://www.facebook.com/dawn.alison3
Brandon’s: https://www.facebook.com/GaoshangXiongshou?fref=ts
it’s a 2 day show
saturday: mens bbing, womens bbing, womens physique & couples
sunday: classic, bikini & mens physique
the below is who is in which class from our team
BEST OF LUCK TO ALL
SO PROUD OF ALL OF YOU
ROCK IT
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WOMENS PHYS
CRYSTAL
COLBY
RHEA
MENS PHSYIQUE
KEN
MARC
BRANDON
COUPLES
COLBY & SCOTT
DAWN & BRANDON
CLASSIC PHSIQUE
BRANDON
WOMENS BODYBUILDING
KELLY
BIKINI
ZOE
TARA
CAMILLE
FITNESS
ANGELA
MENS BODYBUILDING
BILL
JERRY
SEAN
VLAD
July 11, 2016
pt of the day
“It's not about perfect.
It's about effort.
And when you bring that effort every single day,
that's where transformation happens.
That's how change occurs.”
Freedom is not the absence of commitments,
but the ability to choose -
and commit myself to ....
“The brick walls are there for a reason.
The brick walls are not there to keep us out.
The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.
Because the brick walls are there to stop the people
who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
JULY 12, 2016
PT OF THE DAY
Don't Quit
When Things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and debts are high,
And you want to Smile but 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 everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won if he'd stuck it out,
Don't give up though the pace seems slow,
You might succeed with another blow.
Often the struggler has given up,
When he might captured the victor's cup.
And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown,
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar,
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit,
It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit.
PIC: TEAM Fit Body's TARA HERNANDEZ at the BC CHAMPS in BIKINI
TEAM Fit Body RESULTS
BC CHAMPIONSHIP 2016
Angela Kang FITNESS CHAMPION
Colby Whelpton PHYSIQUE CHAMPION
& COUPLES CHAMP with Scott Ambler
Rhea Proulx 5th place PHYSIQUE
Dawn & Brandon 2nd place COUPLES
Bill Ferguson 3rd Men's Masters BB
Vlad Raducu 2nd Welterweight BB
Jerry White 3rd Welterweight BB
Kelly Chohan 2nd Masters Bodybuilding
and 2nd Heavyweight Women's BB
Zoe Walter 3rd BIKINI
Brandon Best CLASSIC PHYSIQUE TALL 2nd
Brandon Best Masters PHYSIQUE 2nd
Brandon Best PHYSIQUE TALL 3rd
Competitors: Crystal Edge, Sean Reid,
Ken Leggatt, Marc Audette,
Tara Hernandez, Camille Hindley
SO PROUD OF YOU ALL
www.FitBodyBC.com
July 13, 2016
pt of the day
“Achievement doesn't come from what we do,
but from who we are.
Our worldly power results from our personal power.
Our career is an extension of our personality.
Personal power emanates from someone who takes life seriously.
The universe takes us as seriously as we take it.
There is no greater seriousness
than the full appreciation of the power and importance of love.
Miracles flow from the recognition that love is the purpose of our career.”
“Your power to choose can never be taken from you.
It can be neglected and it can be ignored.
But if used, it can make all the difference.”
“..giving power to negative thoughts or fears
was bringing ideas to life in physical world,
idea in mind
became emotion in heart,
emotion turned into words spoken,written, acted out and brought into reality,
because thoughts affected physical world.”
“We are always
- always
- in choice.”
PERSONAL POWER IS IN YOUR HANDS.....
YOU CHOOSE !
July 14, 2016
pt of the day
The Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,
even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble,
it's a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
PIC: TEAM Fit Body’s COUPLES TEAMS of:
Dawn Alison & Brandon Best and Colby Whelpton & Scott Ambler
JULY 15, 2016
PT OF THE DAY
Opportunities are on every hand;
what we need is,
not a new chance,
but clearness of vision
to discern the chance which at this very hour is ours,
if we recognize it.
July 16, 2016
pt of the day
Without self-discipline,
success is impossible,
period.....
allowing only ordinary ability
and opportunity,
we may explain success mainly by one word
and that word is WORK!
WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!
Not transient and fitful effort,
but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work
into which the whole heart is put !!!!!!
July 17, 2016
pt of the day
“You are essentially who you create yourself to be
and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.”
“The true measure of success is
how many times you can bounce back from failure.”
“The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.”
“Dare to dream!
If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true,
your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place.
There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve,
except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination.
What you believe to be possible will always come to pass
to the extent that you deem it possible.
It really is as simple as that.”
July 18, 2016
pt of the day
“Stay strong, stay positive,
and never give up.”
“Excuses will not take you far,
they will take you out.
The success of your many excuses doesn’t mean you will run away from the work.
It means the work will run away from you!”
“Stay strong,
stay positive,
and never give up.”
July 19, 2016
pt of the day
Respect your efforts,
respect yourself.
Self-respect leads to self-discipline.
When you have both firmly under your belt,
that's real power.
We all have dreams.
But in order to make dreams come into reality,
it takes an awful lot of determination,
dedication, self-discipline,
and effort
We fly out for Canadian BODYBUILDING Nationals this morning
TEAM Fit Body has 4 competing
LAURA SUTTON
in Grand Master Bodybuilding and Middlewts.
Luis RAMIREZ
in Masters and Middlewts
BRANDON BEST
in Classic Physique
And Couples
Dawn ALISON
In Grand Masters
and Heavyweights
and Couples
Be home late Sunday night
Watch Brandon and my Facebook for updates
BEST OF LUCK TO EVERYONE
TEAM Fit Body RESULTS
Canadian Bodybuilding Nationals 2016
Dawn Alison
Canadian National Couples Champion
2nd in Grandmasters
3rd in Heavyweight
Laura Sutton
2nd in Middleweights
4th in Grandmasters
Luis Ramirez
2nd in Masters Lightweight
Brandon Best
Canadian National Couples Champion
July 25, 2016
pt of the day
“You may encounter many defeats,
but you must not be defeated.
In fact,
it may be necessary to encounter the defeats,
so you can know who you are,
what you can rise from,
how you can still come out of it.”
“The brick walls are there for a reason.
The brick walls are not there to keep us out.
The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.
Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough.
They’re there to stop the other people.”
jULY 26, 2016
pt of the day
“Never say that you can't do something,
or that something seems impossible,
or that something can't be done,
no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be;
human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by:
our own minds.
We are each the masters of our own reality;
when we become self-aware to this:
absolutely anything in the world is possible.
Master yourself,
and become king of the world around you.
Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear,
or ANY mental virii prevent you from accomplishing your dreams.
Never be a victim of life;
be it's conqueror.”
Canadian National COUPLES / MIXED PAIRS CHAMPIONS
Dawn Alison & Brandon Best
IG: @dawn_alison & @g_brandon_best
July 27, 2016
pt of the day
At any moment,
you have a choice,
that either leads you closer to your GOAL
or further away from it.
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.
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?
Master your choices,
or become the slave of their consequences.
july 28, 2016
pt of the day
Do not fear failure.
Fear mediocrity.
If you resolve to NEVER quit then there is no failure,
only setbacks.
It's never too late to become what you could have been...
Mediocrity scares the shit out of me.
Average.
Ordinary.
Standard.
Usual.
Normal.
Typical.
Common.
Customary.
Regular.
Everyday.
The idea that I was conceived, built, grown
and launched into this world to be nothing more than “Run-of-the-mill” is simply unacceptable.
Some may see this as a silly, contrived fear.
How can someone find fear in being average?
Average is safe.
That’s why we all strive to achieve the same things in life…
…safety, security and sanctuary free from scrutiny.
No one second guesses the standard process.
No one questions the usual path.
Because people who break free from mediocrity aren’t normal…
…they’re radicals, rebels, and rabble-rousers.
They wipe their ass with typical.
Typical is the murderer of thought…
the defiler of the idea…
the jailer of genius.
Typical is the synapse you’ve already burned into that genius brain of yours…
…that genius brain of mine, and it leads right to the lizard brain.
The lizard brain wants us all to be the same.
A flock of geese.
A herd of cattle.
Middle management.
The lizard brain tells us to avoid trouble…
“Don’t rock the boat…” and we listen.
So we put in the time,
we pay your dues
and we pray that someday everything works out.
That the cubicle will become an office…
That the hourly wage will become a salary…
That the job will become a career…
That our sensibility will become success…
…hopefully.
Mediocrity is a choice.
We don’t choose to die.
Even if we did, it was going to happen eventually anyway.
Why fear something you can’t avoid?
Not that I want to die, I certainly don’t,
but fear of death just doesn’t seem to make sense.
Death isn’t a choice.
But fear courses through my veins at the possibility of living a typical life.
Debilitating, gut-wrenching, sweat-inducing fear.
Fear of expectations not achieved.
Fear of childhood dreams cast aside for the security of a life not questioned, not critiqued…
Fear of never really being alive.
Never taking a risk.
Never putting myself on display, naked and alone, vulnerable to inquisition.
Never feeling the pain of defeat… of failure.
Fear of average.
Fear of being picked 5th for dodge ball.
Fear of being no different from you.
I don’t mean better than you,
I mean different.
How can I add value to your life if our regular lives are exactly the same.
Am I supposed to help you become more typical?
More mediocre?
More regular?
I fear mediocrity and not death because one is my choice and one is inevitable.
When I death becomes me and I’m given the opportunity to look back on my life it will be my choices that yield regret.
See… I want to dent the world in whatever way I can.
Not because I have some unique gift others are incapable of providing…
…but rather I have the willingness to do so.
Creation Destroys Mediocrity
Ahhhh…
Creation.
My friend.
The bright light in our would be dark, mediocre lives.
Creation is my prayer, my meditation, my savior from leading a mediocre life.
And honestly there is no method to my creation madness.
Maybe one day it’s fabricating a new word to describe something I don’t understand.
The next it might be making my wife laugh so hard she has to pee.
Today’s it’s writing.
My point is this…
Mediocrity is a derivative of our surrender to the lizard brain.
The lizard brain says don’t create, don’t stick out, don’t be different.
There is no safety or security in being different.
Stand out and you will be scrutinized,
you will be criticized,
you will experience failure
and you will feel pain.
Listen to the lizard brain and you will be safe,
you will be secure and you will be mediocre.
But you will never experience what if feels like to be completely awesome,
even if only for a moment…
…and you will certainly never be the person you were conceived,
built, grown and launched into this world to become.
Mediocrity scares the shit out of me.
But as fate would have it, the choice to overcome that fear is mine.
I choose to create.
I hope you will too…
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”
~ Confucius
July 29, 2016
pt of the day
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain,
but for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield
but to my own strength.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved
but hope for the patience to win my freedom.
Grant me that I may not be a coward,
feeling your mercy in my success alone;
But let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Canadian Nationals REPORT up on MUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT CANADA
http://www.musculardevelopment.com/t...l#.V5tLrvkrLct
Women's Bodybuilding
While not as widely participated in as Physique, Women's Bodybuilding did still bring together some high caliber athletes. In the Masters 45+ Class, long time competitor Dawn Alison placed 2nd to Newfoundland's Heather Manuel. From BC, Dawn has been an active member of the Fitness community for many years, her 'FitbodyBC' Team of athletes always represent well at competitions from regionals to nationals. She also placed 3rd in Open Heavyweight and 1st with partner Brandon Best in the couples division! A number of competitors from the 45+ group did double duty in Open as well, including class winners Faye Wlad and Robin Eve. Three strong contenders in Masters Heavyweight, Alberta's Pearl Binder won the class and the Overall Pro Card, good muscle size, shredded and vascular! Impressive non-masters competitors in the open division were Heather King in Light-Heavyweight and Overall Champion Nicki Chartrand in Heavyweight.
PICTURE BELOW: Dawn Alison - Women's Bodybuilding - Masters 45+ - 2nd/Open Heavyweight 3rd./ COUPLES BODYBUILDING 1st. with Brandon Best
July 30, 2016
pt of the day
“The two things that truly belong to ourselves are
our thoughts and actions.”
“Take notice of what thoughts you choose to fill your mind with each day.
Our thoughts draw to us whatever is dominating our mind,
so always keep what you are thinking about in check.”
“Mastery of impulse is all about self-discipline and choice.
The mind is a powerful tool
with which we have the ability to be in control of ourselves.”
July 31, 2016
pt of the day
“Like success,
failure is many things to many people.
With positive mental attitude,
failure is a learning experience,
a rung on the ladder,
and a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order to prepare to try again.”
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die,
life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
Aug 1, 2016
pt of the day
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song.
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.
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
Aug 2nd, 2016
pt of the day
Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties
and many lessons;
great achievements are not possible without them.
The easiest way to set goals is to answer the following questions:
What is it I want to achieve?
When do I want to achieve it?
Where am I today
and what action do I need to take to achieve my goal?
Great things are not done by impulse,
but by a series of small things brought together.
The roots of true achievement lie in
the will to become the best that you can become.
Aug 3, 2016
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 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.
August 4, 2016
pt of the day
“It's the action,
not the fruit of the action, that's important.
You have to do the right thing.
It may not be in your power,
may not be in your time,
that there'll be any fruit.
But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing.
You may never know what results come from your action.
But if you do nothing,
there will be no result.
”“Today is a new day.
Don't let your history interfere with your destiny!
Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances
and start taking action towards the life you want.
You have the power and the time to shape your life.
Break free from the poisonous victim mentality
and embrace the truth of your greatness.
You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!”
Aug 5, 2016
pt of the day
When we long for life without difficulties,
remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds
and diamonds are made under pressure.
Being challenged in life is inevitable,
being defeated is optional.
Aug 6, 2016
pt of the day
He that loses his conscience
has nothing left that is worth keeping.
“Karma comes after everyone eventually.
You can't get away with screwing people over,
I don't care who you are.
What goes around comes around.
That's how it works.
Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.”
Aug 7, 2016
pt of the day
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them;
that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
Aug 8, 2016
pt of the day
“Never confuse a single defeat
with a final defeat.”
“Courage is not having the strength to go on;
it is going on when you don't have the strength.”
“FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....
even though every time you've tried before you've lost.”
“Character consists of what you do on the third, fourth AND TENTH tries.”
“If you're going through hell, keep going”
“Never give in
never, never, never, never,
in nothing great or small,
large or petty,
never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Never yield to force;
never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
“Never, never, never give up.”
Aug 9, 2016
pt of the day
Here’s to the weak ones.
The outcasts.
The broken.
The peacemakers.
The ragamuffin royalty who will inherit a new world.
The ones who see God through open eyes and open hearts.
They don’t long for power.
And they have no respect for status.
You can insult them, spread lies about them,
disbelieve, vilify or persecute them.
About the only thing you can’t do is dishearten them.
Because God is changing them, they change things.
They comfort.
They show mercy.
They heal.
They mourn with those who mourn.
They love.
They are filled to overflowing with goodness.
And while some may see them as the weak ones,
I say they are blessed.
Aug 10, 2016
pt of the day’
“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.”
“To conquer frustration,
one must remain intensely focused on the outcome,
not the obstacles.”
“Pain is temporary.
It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year,
but eventually it will subside
and something else will take its place.
If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
That surrender,
even the smallest act of giving up,
stays with me.
So when I feel like quitting,
I ask myself,
which would I rather live with?”
Aug 11, 2016
pt of the day
“Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus.
Our bodies are our gardens
to the which our wills are gardeners.”
“Failure only happens when
you lose your willpower to continue trying...
If we let the obstacles get the best of us
then it was our choice to fail, not fate.”
“Mastery of impulse is all about self-discipline and choice.
The mind is a powerful tool
with which we have the ability to be in control of ourselves.”
Aug 12, 2016
pt of the day
“If we don't change,
we don't grow.
If we don't grow,
we aren't really living.”
“When we resist change, it’s called suffering.
But when we can completely let go
and not struggle against it,
when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation
and relax into it’s dynamic quality,
that’s called enlightenment”
“Consciousness is only possible through change;
change is only possible through movement.”
“All is flux,
nothing stays still”
Aug 12, 2016
pt of the day
“It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about.
What's hard, is figuring out what you're willing to give up
in order to do the things you really care about.”
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
“Every moment is a moment of decision,
and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.”
Aug 14, 2016
pt of the day
Believe in yourself.
Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough.
“You can only kill disappointment with a new try.”
I tried and failed.
I tried again and again and succeeded.
“Don't be discouraged if people don't see your vision, your harvest.
All they see from their perspective is that you're watering a whole lot of dirt.
They don't SEE what seeds you've been planting with blood, sweat, tears and lack of sleep.
Make sure you don't abandon or neglect it because "they" don't see it.
You have to KNOW and believe for yourself.
They don't see the roots and what's budding under the dirt.
But it's okay, because it's NOT meant for them to see it.
While you wait, MASTER it.
You continue to do YOUR work and have unwavering faith!
Remember why you started planting in the first place.
Your harvest WILL come!”
Aug 15, 2016
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.”
Aug 16, 2016
pt of the day
Picture is me when I placed 2nd at the BC’s in 1999 as a Middleweight Bodybuilder.
I’ve have been competing in Bodybuilding since 1992.
But I started training to compete in Bodybuilding in 1985......
A Serious Commitment is a long-term obligation you must continually work toward and ideally see through to completion.
It isn’t something you try out and then easily abandon.
It is something you establish, embody, and embrace for the long haul.
“Those who stay will be champions.”