Q & A with Dawn Alison

[fitbody]

IMPORTANT CBBF ANNOUNCEMENT on PHYSIQUE CLASSES

The CBBF is proud to announce that in 2012 we will be providing the Women’s and Men’s Physique classes at our one or many yet to be determined CBBF national events.
The following information provides potential classes, determined by numbers of athletes wishing to participate as well as the rules for women’s and men’s physique.
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Women's Physique Height Classes:
Up to and including 5’4”
Over 5’4 and up to and including 5’6”
Over 5’6”
For 2012 CBBF Physique Championships inclusion into a CBBF national event to be determined shortly!
In addition in 2012 at the CBBF national event only two classes will be provided, at this time, Up to and including 5’5” and over 5’5.
Depending on numbers we may increase to the above mentioned 3 classes.
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Men's Physique Height Classes:
As an optional choice in the new Men’s Physique division, a promoter may elect to have three height classes in the division as follows:

One Class

For contests with two classes:

Up to including 5’8”

Over 5’8”

For contests with three classes:

Under 5’7”

Over 5”7” up to and including 5’10”

Over 5’10”
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For 2012 CBBF Physique Championships inclusion into a CBBF national event
to be determined shortly!

In addition in 2012 at the CBBF national event only two classes will be provided, at this time, Up to and including 5’8” and over 5’8.
Depending on numbers we may increase to the above mentioned 3 classes.
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WOMENS PHYSIQUE

DEFINITION:
WOMEN’S PHYSIQUE DIVISION (HERIN REFERRED TO AS “WP”) HAS BEEN CREATED TO GIVE A PLATFORM FOR WOMEN WHO ENJOY WEIGHT TRAINING, COMPETING, CONTEST PREPERATION. COMPETITORS SHOULD DISPLAY A TONED, ATHLETIC PHYSIQUE SHOWCASING FEMININITY, MUSCLE TONE, BEAUTY/FLOW OF PHYSIQUE.

JUDGING CRITERIA:
WP WILL BE JUDGED ON THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA:
* SYMMETRY, SHAPE, PROPORTION, MUSCLE TONE, POISE AND BEAUTY FLOW *PHYSIQUE ASSESSMENT AND COMPARISON WILL TAKE PLACE DURING PREJUDGING
PHYSIQUE SHOULD DISPLAY ALL OF THE ABOVE CRITERIA WITHOUT COMPROMISING FEMININITY, BEAUTY/FLOW OF PHYSIQUE, ETC.
THE FOLLOWING ARE EXAMPLES OF COMMON TERMS USED IN THE BODYBUILDING INDUSTRY. THESE WORDS CAN BE HELPFUL TO ASSESS WHAT SHOULD NOT BE DESCRIPTIVE TO THE PHYSIQUES BEING JUDGED IN WP:
EX.) RIPPED, SHREDDED, PEELED, STRIATED, DRY, DICED, HARD, VASCULAR, GRAINY, MASSIVE, THICK, DENSE, ETC.

WHILE ALL TYPES OF PHYSIQUES WILL BE CONSIDERED WHEN IT COMES TO HEIGHT, WEIGHT, STRUCTURE, ETC. EXCESSIVE MUSCULARITY SHOULD BE SCORED DOWN ACCORDINGLY.
WP SHOULD BE JUDGED AS A STANDARD BETWEEN WOMEN’S FIGURE AND WOMENS BODYBUILDING.

JUDGING FORMAT:
PREJUDGING
INDIVIDUAL ONE MINUTE ROUTINE WITH 10 SECOND WARNING
QUARTER TURNS, IF WARRANTED!
MANDATORY POSING COMPARISONS/ CALLOUTS

FINALS
INDIVIDUAL POSING ROUTINE

RULES
*SUITS WORN BY WP COMPETITORS FOR PREJUDGING MUST BE A TWO PIECE. SUITS DO NOT HAVE TO BE SOLID IN COLOR. THE BOTTOM OF THE SUIT MUST BE V-SHAPED. NO THONGS ARE PERMITTED. COMPETITORS CAN COMPETE IN AN OFF THE RACK SUIT. ALL SUITS MUST BE IN GOOD TASTE.
*MANDATOTY POSES WILL BE PERFORMED WITH OPEN HAND STYLE AND INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING POSES:
FRONT DOUBLE BICEPS/OPEN HANDS (NO FLAT FOOTED FULL FRONT POSE – SOME SORT OF FRONT TWISTING POSE) BACK DOUBLE BICEPS/OPEN HANDS SIDE TRICEP WITH LEG EXTENDED SIDE CHEST WITH ARMS EXTENDED FRONT AB/THIGH
*FINALS ROUTINE WILL BE MAXIMUM 60 SECONDS IN LENGTH, PERFORMED TO MUSIC OF ATHLETES CHOICE.
MUSIC CONTAINING PROFANITY OR EXPLICIT LANGUAGE SHOULD NOT BE USED AND MAY RESULT IN ROUTINE BEING CUT SHORT.
*NO PROPS WILL BE USED.
*NO HEELS MAY BE WORN AT ANY TIME DURING THE COMPETITON/JUDGING OF WP.
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MEN’S PHYSIQUE
JUDGING CRITERIA:

Muscularity and Body Condition

Judges will be looking for fit contestants who display proper shape and symmetry combined with muscularity and overall condition. This is not a bodybuilding contest so extreme muscularity should be marked down.

Stage Presence and Personality

Contestants will be asked to walk in board shorts (shorts must be just above the knee in length and can be one inch below the belly button, no spandex and no logos are permitted on the board shorts however a manufacturer’s logo such as Nike symbol or Billabongs are acceptable.) Competitors will enter the stage without a shirt and barefoot. No lewd acts allowed for example the moon pose. Judges are looking for the contestant with the best stage presence and poise who can successfully convey his personality to the audience.

COMPETITION JUDGING
Presentation:

Competitors will walk to the center of the stage alone and perform quarter (1/4) turns with optional pose of hand on hip or hand in pocket, face the judges as directed then proceed to the side of the stage.

Comparison Round –

The competitors will be brought back out in a group and directed to do quarter turns

Judges will have the opportunity to compare competitors against each other in quarter turns.

[fitbody]

Oct 22, 2011
pt of the day

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

“Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.”

i have clients say to me all the time...
"I'M BORED WITH MY FOOD!"
i'm like " YOU GOTTA GET CREATIVE"
for instance here's something i just made last night while i was sleeping in the slow cooker.....
"CHICKEN, YAM, CARROT STEW/SOUP"
in slow cooker i put 3lbs 4 oz of frozen chicken breast
now i always get "how do i figure out how much to eat ??????"
well cuz i put in that amount theres 16 oz in 1 lb so.... thatz 52 oz.
my serving size for me for me is 5 1/2 oz per meal
so 52 divided by 5.5 = 9.5 servings
so when i cook the whole pot i get 9 bowls and i divide evenly by those 9 VOILA !

ok so in the slow cooker i have
chicken, chopped carrots, chopped yams, chopped onions,
fresh thyme and rosmary washed and the leaves ripped off stock and put in the stew
cover with water, add salt and pepper
cook on high for 10 hrs or so so all veggies soft and meat easily falls apart
then i add into food processor & blend till smooth
it turns out to be like a cream vegtable/chicken soup
it's delicious, it reminds me of my moms homemade veggie cream soup without the cream lol
then when all is blended
get out how many bowls you need
and divide evenly by all the bowls
and you are styin'
OF COURSE YOU DON'T HAVETA BLEND IT UP IF YOU DON'T WANT TO...
YOU CAN JUST ENJOY IT AS A CHUNKY STEW IF YOU PREFER
ENJOY
ps: i will be doing alot more recipes and soon doin' vids puttin on my youtube channel
for cookin healthy clean bodybuilding meals


Dawn reloading
10 months outta Nationals

[fitbody]

Oct 22, 2010
pt of the nite

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

I'M EXCITED ABOUT NEW PHYSIQUE CLASSes coming !!!

pic is of me in 1999
IFBB ATHLETES REP: Bob Cicherillo when Womens Physique 1st was being introduced
was answering questions on rxmuscle.com thread...
people were posting pix trying to figure what the look for Physique was...
i sneakily posted this pic of me and asked Bob "how about this?
" he answered "that would be fine"
i chuckled to myself...
someone posted "that's an old pic of Dawn"
someone else put "Dawn Alison???"
hahahahhaha "Yeah thatz me lol !"

Dawn reloading...
2 wks post 2011 Canadian Nationals i'm finally feeling like my normal self
rested, carbed up, happy, had some great sex this morning so feeling much better
10 months outta 2012 Canadian NATIONALS
BOOYAH LETS ****IN' DO THIS !!!!!

[JMP]

I lost my oldest brother to it Dawn and reading what you just put out there makes me wish he would have had the drive , the courage ...the chance......Your honesty has just gained you a HUGE amount of respect from me , hope to see you at one of the shows in BC ( SW classic?). Incredible story , the funny part is not matter what we lift , how many trips you have made to the gym , your real strength is in the story above .....cant convince me otherwise !

i never forget where i was
and you just never know if you give someone a glimpse of HOPE that may be all they need
BY ME STAYING CLEAN AND SHARING MY STORY THEN I "AM THE MESSAGE"
THE MESSAGE OF HOPE
THAT ANY ADDICT CAN GET CLEAN AND STAY CLEAN
my Addictions Doctor Dr.Douglas Coleman said i was one of the worst he's ever seen
i was just PURE INSANE
but i had the will to not die in addicition
i'd had enough
i went to 2 Treatment Centers got kicked out of both
1st Maple Ridge Treatment Center then was a co-ed facility i detoxed in there got kicked out in 4 wks of a 6 wk program lol
then i said **** you guys i'm gonna stay clean
i went to 3 - 4 or more meetings a day
NA, AA, COCAINE ANONYMOUS, MARIJUANA ANONYMOUS, OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS, SEXAHOLICS ANONYMOUS
i'd lost my drivers license due to drinking and driving lol
so was on the bus to meeting after meeting
i was declared by my doctor "MEDICALLY INABLE TO WORK" so was on "MEDICAL EMPLOYMENT INSURANCE"
so was at a morning meeting, then lunch meeting, then evening meeting, then sometimes i'd go to the Recovery Club for a midnite meeting
bound and determined i was
i did meetings like i did my drugs... I POUNDED IT !!!!!!
THE ONLY WAY I DO THINGS IS ALL OR NOTHING
i hadta retrain my brain
i had to find the path that many before me had
i had to open my mind
cuz i was raised not to believe in God or a higher power
i was raised an Atheist
but in 12 step programs you HAVETA HAVE A "HIGHER POWER"
so at 1st i just wrote my baby brother Bruce's (who died in 1991) name on my hand over and over again every day with 2 hearts
cuz i believed that something was watching out over me
something had to be cuz theres no way i should be alive
all the drinking and driving i did, all the car accidents, i couldn't count how many cars i've totalled, not just wrecked totalled...
all the insane predicaments i'd put myself in
the amount of chemicals i'd injested orally, snorted, smoked
crack, speed, pharmaceuticals, alcohol by the gallons, pot, amphetamines, designer drugs,
piles of coke & speed snorted, and oh the X-tasy wow like 5 - 10 a day hahaha
how the hell am i still alive
BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD THERE GO I THATZ WHY
and i've been keep around for a reason
and when i heard in those meetings...
"ONE IS TOO MANY AND A 1000 IS NEVER ENOUGH"
oh boy oh baby did i get that one
there was never 1 drink, 1 toke, 1 line, 1 hit NOOOOOOOOOOOOO NEVER
that 1... hell who the hell would know where i'd end up, another city, province, country SERIOUSLY
jail AGAIN !!!!!!!!! crap
oh man
all true
my life is crazier than any movie i guarantee you
and i lived thru it all
and sitting in those rooms those meetings i heard a message of hope
a message that any addict can get clean and stay clean if you apply the program to your life
and don't worry about anyone else you gotta be selfish you gotta be there for you
and you gotta do whatever it takes to get clean and stay clean
you haveta change everything
all your friends, your thinking everything
and you haveta been committed
and you haveta know without a shadow of a doubt YOU ARE AN ADDICT
which means you can never again have a drink, a toke a line a NOTHING
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU ARE DONE IT'S OVER
and in order to have a happy healthy life
you not only haveta abstain for using whatever it is you use...
drugs, alcohol, shopping, sex, gambling, food
you haveta apply the program to your life for the rest of your life
then and only then will you have RECOVERY
if you don't you are only a dry drunk you may not use but you have still the sickness within you poisoning you
TRUE RECOVERY IS TRUE WELLNESS... WHOLENESS
and it is here you find true happiness
LOOK NOT TO WHAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED IN THE WORLD
BUT WHAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED IN YOURSELF
and because i surrendered to the program
surrendered to the fact i'm an addict and always will be an addict
it is here that I FOUND MY TRUE POWER
and it took me a long time to get where i called my higher power GOD
but i am not religious
but do believe in theres some out there greater than myself
i believe in angels
i believe theres something thats watched out over me
all i know is this
the program of NA works
i'm a living example
thank you for my clean time
love always Dawn xox

[fitbody]

Oct 23. 2011
pt of the day

Attitude precedes service.
Your positive mental attitude is the basis for the way you act and react to people.
'You become what you think about' is the foundation of your actions and reactions.
What are your thoughts? Positive all the time? How are you guiding them?

"Begin where you are;
work where you are;
the hour which you are now wasting,
dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities."

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and made things happen."

Dawn reloading...
10 months outta 2012 Canadian NATIONALS

[fitbody]

I lost my oldest brother to it Dawn and reading what you just put out there makes me wish he would have had the drive , the courage ...the chance......Your honesty has just gained you a HUGE amount of respect from me , hope to see you at one of the shows in BC ( SW classic?). Incredible story , the funny part is not matter what we lift , how many trips you have made to the gym , your real strength is in the story above .....cant convince me otherwise !

sorry to hear about you brother
i'm sure my baby brother Bruce was drinking and driving when he had his accident
they airlifted him to Vancouver from Sechelt (Sunshine Coast of BC)
he had massive head injuries
my parents ended up taking him off life support
it was 1991
i was living in Texas at the time
when my parents called me and told me he was gone i couldnt accept it or bring myself to come back
i didnt' come back to Canada till my marriage broke up
then i had to deal with his death it was very very hard and took me years to work thru it
i said i'd never live to see 21
he died at 21
at the time he was the only one in my family i loved or cared about
when we were young we did everything together

i'm at every BC show except the FSJ ones, some i go to but it's an expensive trip up north love the show it's just getting there
come say hi to me at the Nov show i'm hard to miss lol
i got 13 competitors in so i will be making alot of noise

thank you for your kind words
see ya soon
d

some pix of my baby brother Bruce and I

[fitbody]

Oct 23, 2011
pt of the nite

Accept everything about yourself--I mean everything,
You are you and that is the beginning and the end
no apologies, no regrets.

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

TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE

Dawn reloading...
10 months outta 2012 Canadian NATIONALS

pic of me onstage i'm the 2nd one in from the left
at 2011 Canadian BBing Nationals Womens Heavywt Class
pic taken by BC Mens competitor Todd Hnatiuk... thank youTodd for sending me

[fitbody]

Oct 24, 2011
pt of the day

Bear in mind,
if you are going to amount to anything,
that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy
and the impetuosity with which you take hold,
but upon the everlasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which
you hang on after you have taken hold.

All respect comes from persisting to completion.

Dawn reloading...
10 months outta Canadian Nationals 2012


pic of me onstage i'm the 2nd one in from the left at 2011 Canadian BBing Nationals Womens Heavywt Class
pic taken by BC Mens competitor Todd Hnatiuk... thank youTodd for sending me

[fitbody]

Oct 24, 2011
pt of the nite

The dream begins, most of the time,
with a teacher who believes in you,
who tugs and pushes
and leads you to the next plateau,
sometimes with a sharp stick called truth.

AND ONE THING THAT I HAVE FOUND IS ALOTTA PEOPLE CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH
AND IF YOU DON'T WANT THE TRUTH THEN YOU BETTA STEER CLEAR OF ME lol

Dawn reloading
10 months to 2012 Canadians.....

[fitbody]

Oct 25, 2011
pt of the day



The greatest thing is, at any moment,
to be willing to give up who we are
in order to become all that we can be.

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

It's important that people should know what you stand for.
It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for.

Dawn reloading....
10 months out of Canadian Nationals 2012