We Support Canadian Bodybuilding

So far this year, we’ve traveled to 13 competitions and watched over 1,000 people compete. While we were there, we shot over 32,000 photos and wore out two professional-grade cameras. That’s a lot of work, and the year is only half over!

We do this much work for two reasons. One reason is that we enjoy doing it – we wouldn’t do it otherwise. The other reason is that we want to support Canadian bodybuilding and the competitors who take part in it. In our opinion, traveling to these contests, taking photos, and then writing articles here is the best way to give them our support.

Obviously, this level of involvement is time-consuming as well as tiring. But we think it’s worth it. Like I said, we enjoy doing it. Furthermore, one of the things we enjoy is being at the grassroots level and discovering new talent before anyone one else does. For example, last month we wrote an article about Andrey Yashenko, the winner of the OPA’s 2008 Ontario Provincial Championships. We actually wrote about Andrey last December as well. Those were the first articles written on Andrey, and we’re willing to bet they won’t be the last. Andrey is one of Canada’s rising stars that other magazines will likely "discover" when he competes on the national scene. The truth of the matter is that SeriousAboutMuscle.com was there first.

It’s a similar story with Che Chamungwana, an all-natural bodybuilder from Ontario who’s featured on our cover this month. We first featured Che last July when we saw him compete at a local show. Since then, Che’s gone on to win provincial as well as national-level titles. That cover photo was taken when he won his class at the 2008 OPA Ontario Provincial Championships in June. The previous week he won the Overall title at the 2008 CBBF National World Qualifier that was held in Winnipeg.

It’s now August and we’re scheduled to travel to two more contests this month, one of them being the IFBB North American Championships that will feature about 400 competitors from Canada, Mexico and the United States. In the fall, we’ll likely be at as many shows as we were at in the spring, taking just as many photos, if not more.

As I said, our goal is to support the Canadian bodybuilding scene as best we can and have some fun while we’re doing it. So that’s exactly what we’re doing and we hope that you’re enjoying what we’re doing too.

...Doug Schneider, Publisher
das@seriousaboutmuscle.com

Doug Schneider is the publisher and chief photographer for SeriousAboutMuscle.com, BodyBuildingLive.com, and SeriousAboutFitness.com.