Training To Earn My Masters Pro Card at 63

*Old Navy* · 06-28-2006, 03:05 AM

These are the first two entries of my new Journal that is posted in the Workout Log thread.

Training to Earn My Natural Master’s Pro Card at Age 63

By Scott "Old Navy" Hults

I am a 63 year old retired U. S. Navy Captain and a competitive body builder. In March of 2005, I entered my first competition and placed 6th in my weight class and 10th in the Men's Master's 50+ age class. Since then, I entered 11 more contests, winning 20 weight, height and age class trophies and two Best Poser trophies. My most recent contest was the 2006 FAME WNSO Body Building and Fitness World Championships held in Toronto, Canada, June 16-18, where I placed 4th in the Advanced Open Men's Lightweight class and won my age class, becoming the 2006 FAME WNSO Men's Master's 60+ World Champion.

My first Journal, "Training for My First Body Building Competition at Age 61," chronicled my 10 months of training to enter my first competition in March 2005 and five other contests I entered, the last one in July 2005.

My second Journal, "Training for My Second Year of Competition at Age 62," covered my training from December 2005 through the 2006 FAME WNSO Body Building and Fitness World Championships in June.

Monday, June 26, 2006

Today I begin my next Journal, as I start training to enter a Master's Pro Qualifier body building contest in order to compete for my Natural Master's Pro Card by the end of the year.

So the quest begins.

After winning the World Championship in Men's Master's 60+ at the FAME Worlds in Toronto on June 18, I took the next week off. It was a great week of unrestricted diet and light workouts. I ate things I had only dreamt about during my long training period: pizza, French toast, pasta with sauce, chicken fingers, Mexican food, chips and dip and chocolate and chocolate and chocolate.

My face is out of the food trough and now it's time to get serious.

Today I kicked in my training diet (I already miss chocolate) and after a few sets of dumb bell chest and biceps exercises I did a heavy HITT cardio session, which included a five-minute warm up on an elliptical machine, then five sets of 20/40 (20 seconds/40 seconds) high speed splits, followed by 25 minutes of 10 degree elevated moderate speed tread mill. I ended the workout with 25 pushups. All in all, a good start.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Dave Gallahan, Jr., my Training Partner began his contest prep this morning to win his Pro Card at the same contest I am competing in to win my Master's Pro Card. So we both have the same goal and we both have a fire in our eyes that say "lets get it on."

We pushed each other to failure on three sets each of nine exercises, including incline dumbbell presses at 45-degree angle, incline barbell presses, incline dumb bell presses at 30-degree angle, weighed pull ups, bent over rows, seated cable rows to neck, seated dumb bell presses, seated lateral raises and lateral raises with cables. These were part of the Advanced GH Workout that require a set tempo and numbered reps to failure (6 RM, 12 RM and 25 RM). We ended the session with abs work and HITT cardio. We left it all on the gym floor. Whew.

NoNameNecessary · 06-28-2006, 03:36 AM

Awesome. Good luck man, I am sure you will do great.

You look better at your age than myself and all of my friends. You truly are an inspiration, perhaps I will show my father your pictures. People should take note of your story, it shows that there really is no "too late" in this sport. If you set your mind to it, it can be done.

**bigDman** · 06-29-2006, 01:53 AM

You look better and better everytime i see you keep it up

muhammad_ali · 06-30-2006, 04:20 AM

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Originally Posted by bigDman

You look better and better everytime i see you keep it up

agreed. wow.

1092387456 · 07-02-2006, 09:51 PM

Good LUck! it looks like ur do good.

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06-28-2006, 03:36 AM	#2
NoNameNecessary Amateur Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 91 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 3	Awesome. Good luck man, I am sure you will do great. You look better at your age than myself and all of my friends. You truly are an inspiration, perhaps I will show my father your pictures. People should take note of your story, it shows that there really is no "too late" in this sport. If you set your mind to it, it can be done.

07-02-2006, 09:51 PM	#5
1092387456 New Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21 Recipes: 0 Rep Power: 0	Good LUck! it looks like ur do good.