Karen has no idea Im about to ask for her hand in marriage.

For our 5 year anniversary of boyfriend and girlfriend status, I surprised Karen with two tickets to Firenze, Italia. That’s Florence Italy.

my beauiful girl on the streets on beautiful Firenze Italia

It is here where  I made one of the best decisions of my life, on this day,
February 14th 2009.

Will you be my forever Valentine?

I asked my girl if she would spend the rest of her life with me. Luckily she agreed to join as one and begin our life together as husband and wife.

She said yes!

my best friend.
the love of my life.
my soul mate.
the ying to my yang.
my business partner,
let’s go baby, me and you. for life.

our gondola ride of love as Husband and Wife 2 B!

Thank you baby for all you do and for putting up with my craziness.

I love you, now and forever.

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Anyway,  Im building a time line that will take you through mylife.  It will be my “bio” with monumental stages of my life illustrated with pics and video. So, I have been digging through old journals,  training notebooks,  videos and photos gathering the most relevant info.

This video was from a cell phone obviously, and this is how it played on my computer. So…that’s how you’re getting it.

My time at Equinox in TribeCa NYC.
March 2008-June 2011

 Monumental for me. I became a full time trainer for the first time, and met a bunch of cool ass people.

There are way more reasons why this was so monumental and I will be discussing more through out this blog but this clip just shows how awesome our PT staff was.  This wasn’t a rare occasion  either, there was ALWAYS something going on back in the “lounge”, drama not excluded.

enjoy.
Team Tribe baby, thank you for the opportunity.

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Who remembers  this guy? or kid?

I’m I-talian.

I’m from New Jersey.

I have been considered a guido.

I’m ok with with it.

I love haters, and I just wanna dance.

Watch my corny I love haters dance here! Like WHOA.

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I am a mama’s boy. Proud of it.

My mom gave me tough love, well she beat the sh*t out of me when I was growing up and well into my 20′s and Im sure she would even do it now if I showed disrespect and needed to be taught a lesson.

That’s how we do. and I’m thankful for it.

One thing she also made very clear to me was

Follow your dreams and just DANCE!

Here’s to you ma! Love ya!

Haters keep hatin- you’re making me famous, literally.

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Cover story-WNBF Power Team bring natural bodybuilding to NJ!

Kick off the 2012 season with a WNBF pro card! Overall winners get a WNBF pro card!

Sounds crazy to say that. To say that in the 3rd person that is. I use the term power couple because when Charlie Carolla and Mr Cheh Low promoted this show in 2007 they used Karen and I for the poster. Thought it fit and was pretty awesome!

This is the poster for this year’s INBF Northeast America Bodybuilding and Figure Championships. It is a mock up of the what used to be Natural Bodybuilding & Fitness magazine.

A huge THANK YOU to T. Walsh over at atomimages.com for bringing my vision to reality.

click WNBF Power Couple
for the poster from the 2007 INBF Northeast America.

The photo was take right after Karen won the 2006 Best Body short division title and I earned the title Mr Fitness in the 2006 INBF Naturalmania. My thoughts- Karen looks amazing (as always) and how luck am I to be married to her? Me- not so much. not my best shot, the fake smile is the start of it.

Want a 2011 INBF Northeast America poster for yourself, or your gym? that would be UH-MAZ-ING! email me Anthony@anthonymonetti.com and I will send one over to ya!

Thank so much  for your support!

Anthony and Karen!

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This past weekend, I had an amazing time at Nancy Andrew’s yearly WNBF Pro Series Camp.  It’s my 4th year attending and every year it gets better and better with more knowledge and experiences shared amongst the growing number of attendees.

As usual, a highlight of the weekend was listening to The Diet Doc;  Joe Klemczewski. Ever hear this man speak? He captivates you, gives you so much knowledge and insight AND explains it so it makes sense. I did some filming during one of his presentations and the topic of genetics came up. He briefly went over how genetics will be a factor in how much muscle you will be able to build and how this does not mean you have an easy road ahead of you, if you are genetically gifted.

he used this 22 year old genetic FREAK Mohsin Kahn as an example.

Afterward, I had a chance (gratefully) to catch up with the man and I asked him:

How important is having  great genetics when looking to compete as a bodybuilder?

here’s what he said:

“Competitors often think they can train or eat their way to look just like a certain bodybuilder or idol and the industry likes to hide the fact that how you look ultimately – even after decades of training – is determined by your genetics.”

“Just like my Doberman is never going to weigh more than 80 lbs but a Bull Mastiff is going to be 180 lbs – without lifting weights, so people start out with a certain frame size, body type, and our training and hard work takes us up to that max…..for our body. That doesn’t mean you should give up; you don’t know what your max is until you’ve reached it. My legs were my best body part at my first show and at my last. My back was my worst body part at my first show and my last – even though I prioritized my back for 20 years and took long stretches off from even training legs. I can ride a bike and get quad growth – it’s genetic. You should see my kids’ legs!”

“So, don’t let that discourage you; let it be a reminder that you have to be honest about assessing your strengths and weaknesses and find ways to train harder and smarter to make your weak areas as great as they can and always play your ace. If you’re not going to beat someone on size, beat them with conditioning. Beat them with posing and stage presence. Beat them because you’re an intelligent bodybuilder. If you are blessed with great size and you’re a mesomorphic monster – be careful that you still do the other things or you will get beat by those who do.”

Thanks for the opportunity Dr. Joe! I’m sure we will have some more questions for ya!

 Have a question you would like me to ask The Diet Doc?

send ‘em over!

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How can we inspire others? How can we motivate them to be inspired?  A topic that is always discussed and examined at bodhi.

what if you could watch someone transform their life, first hand?

 

When we met Rachel, she inspired us.

The courage she had walking through those doors asking for help will always remind me of how powerful we truly are as humans.

As I mentioned this wasn’t her first time “trying” to lose weight and get healthy. She lost over 75 lbs once before only to gain it all back  heavier than when she started. Damn. And she walks in not knowing who we were, what we were all about but thinking they “might” be able to help me. I am passionate about motivating people to be inspired. (look for a blog about this, soon) And there is a difference. But continuing on the topic;  Rachel already walked in inspired, and ready to go through whatever, WHATEVER it took physically, mentally, and emotionally. We all shared tears at our first meeting. It was powerful.

I instantly thought, Rachel can show everyone who might be in a similar situation that -

it is POSSIBLE.   it will SUCK AT TIMES.    it’s ALL WORTH IT.

 

This clip was taken from our first filming  on November 3, 2011 after Rachel agreed to let us document her journey.  When I asked Rachel what her thoughts were on sharing her story to the world, she left undecided. A few days later she called and said “Let’s do it”!

We have been filming since, and I have been consitently posting one blog  a week dedicated to Rachel’s story. Some things to watch for:

Workouts, weekly weigh ins, and many discussions relating to real life situations that caused Rachel to end up here in the first place and that many of you out there are going through everyday.

Hit subscribe. be inspired. share the power.

Thank you Rachel, for this opportunity.

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To answer the questions of how I developed my physique.

I have been training instinctively now for ten years.  By instincts I mean, I go into the week not knowing which day will get dedicated to which muscle or muscle groups.  Something I was not used to in the early years. When I say early I refer to ages 18-24 .  I had structure with Nick. His obsessiveness with keeping track of our workouts became an important part of my learning how this whole body building process works.

I began to document. the workouts. my progress. what worked. what didn’t. We tried every style of training we could learn about.  I will talk about more of them in detail in time but for now something we always seemed to incorporate was a

“negative”  or time under tension week

A heavy-er week ensuring reps were kept  in the 6-8  range with a 5 second count on the eccentric muscle contraction or “negative” part of a selection of exercises

Here are some recent clips of my chest workout.  Don’t mind my weights. they are not of importance…

what you should be looking at:

slow and controlled tempo.
symmetry left to right
once form is hindered I stop
muscular failure

Even something for the haters

who love to see me fall or fail I should say. If you click here you can watch me fail, fall, and stumble on my words.fun stuff.

Thank you for the opportunity.
get AMPED. anthonymonetti.com

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muscle failure.

watch your step.

mouth sometimes doesn’t work as quickly as mind processes thoughts.

Thanks for watching.
get AMPED. anthonymonetti.com

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I have always wanted to promote a bodybuilding and fitness event. Now I am. And I have a friend helping me, many actually but my World Champ wife is doing most of the work.  So, let’s thank her for making this happen. This mid April event has been the first WNBF Pr-Q  of the year for 12 years now. Eddie “The Rock” Hernandez started us off and then President Cheh Low co promoted with Charlie Carollo. Those of you who don’t know Eddie the rock he was a top dog in the WNBF going back 10-12 years and when I saw him last he still looks rocky-ish. Those of you who don’t know Charlie, he is the WNBF’s unsung hero from Brooklyn.

Some things to know:

when.  Saturday April 14, 2012
where. Somerville High School
222 Davenport St.
Somerville, NJ

check in. 9am
prejudge. 11a
awards. 5p

Services offered to competitors

Tanning &  Custom Suit
Fabulous Fitwear
Terry Benedetto
1.860.874.7763
FabulousFitwear.com

Stage Makeup
A.J. Bella Makeup Design
Amber Kozlosky
1.908.635.6474
amber@ajbella.com

Ok so, attached is the application and the banned substance list.  download them. print them. sign them. send them. with your check of course to the address on application.

Click here for the 2012 INBF North East America entry packet

Thank you.

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