What a weekend…
I’m writing this blog post while sitting in Toronto airport and waiting for my connecting flight back home to Newfoundland. I just spent the last few days hanging out at the 2011 Arnold Classic Bodybuilding & Fitness Expo with the 21-Day Fast Mass Building Transformation Challenge winners. As you may recall, back in January we held a “before and after” muscle building transformation contest and the grand prize was an all expenses paid trip and VIP tickets to the Arnold Classic Sports Festival Weekend.
It was an incredible weekend and all the guys who attended the event with us had an absolutely awesome time. This is by far the biggest sporting event in the world with Athletes from across the globe competing. If you’ve never been to the Arnold Classic before it’s defiantly a “Must DO” thing. I know all of our transformation winners who went with us were stoked about experiencing this event for themselves first hand.
I’ve posted up over 100 pictures from the event on my FaceBook Page at: http://www.facebook.com/total.fitness.bodybuilding that you can check out for yourself. I’ve also got a cool little video clip of our Transformation Winners posted below…
We treated our 21-Day Fast Mass Building Transformation Winners to a first class weekend…
–>> We went to the VIP meet and greet with the pros on Thursday night and finished up with a few drinks at the hotel bar.
–>> On Friday we went to the Expo for the day and later that afternoon we treated our guests to BBQ Buffalo dinner, then went to watch the Ms. International Bodybuilding, Figure, Fitness and Bikini finals.
–>> Saturday we went to the Expo again. Then hit up the best steak house in town for the most mouth watering steak and lobster dinner, then watched the Arnold Classic Bodybuilding & Strongman finals. And we finished off the night at the Arnold after party with the pros at one of the hottest night clubs in town and we all had “one too many drinks” LOL.
–>> Sunday we took in the Arnold VIP training and nutrition seminar with Arnold Schwarzenegger himself. Then headed over to snatch some last minute deals at the Expo, and we finished off the day with a delicious Italian pasta dinner.
Needless to say it was an action packed weekend!
Click Here to see the full photo album.
19 Comments
braden
holy moly lee those 2 ladies might give you a run for your money !
Hamed
Those 2 women r huge becareful Coach Lee lol
Akshat Khanna
This looks awesome to me ……..I really wana go over there someday … I have ques for you Lee … Would you please tell me the guys having huge biceps ( i think over 20 for sure) took steroids t make them that huge ????????
ace
Lee, why didnt you show off YOUR “guns”??? Columbus is only a 3 hour drive from me and Ive never been to the expo…hmmmm, 6 chicks and 3 dudes eh??? ( 1st pic at top) who was claiming to have the “prize package” ??? ha ha ha…take care Lee!
leehayward
I wouldn’t stand a chance… They’d kick my ass LOL 😉
leehayward
I don’t know these guys personally, so I have no idea what they do or do not take… But you can pretty much rest assured that most of the really huge guys take more than just their “Flintstone Vitamins” to get that big… 😉
leehayward
Man if I lived 3 hours away I’d go to the Arnold every year. You should definitely check it out next year. As for myself I’m not in top shape right now, I just tore my left bicep back in January so I’m in active recovery mode… Not show off mode LOL
Barr
Going to the Arnold would be a good far out GOAL to shoot for ! Is this an annual event in Columbus ? Doesn’t look like the ice storm hurt attendance. Thanks for sharing the show with your followers
leehayward
Yes, Arnold has held this event every single year since 1989 in Columbus Ohio. Right now it’s the biggest sporting event in the entire world.
Zubda Tanweer
Lee, Man the ladies have guns bigger than urs, And Chest is surely bigger LOL.
leehayward
Yep! They were freaky huge, that’s why I had to get a picture 😉
Brad
Man, I see way tooo many big people in the pictures. Making me jealous hahaha.
Dan
nice show! maybe next time ill be there !!!
Dan
Hey lee was that dinosaur arnold there?
Akshat Khanna
leehayward,
Thanks for the reply LEE ur the best 🙂
aimo
Oh, YES!
A lot of people, whom I know by face and name, but I was not there, this time…
Thanks for your nice collection of photos, Lee and your friends, my friends, too.
How much should I train for the next competition, to be there? I think, that it would take a lot of toil, but would not be impossible. To place in the group of the three best would be enough? One year to train and send photos every 3 weeks was all, that you said to be needed? A really nice goal to be focused at!
This 21 Day Mass Building Training is a magnificent tool to do it!
Best Regards to you all, my dear friends!
P.S. Arnold, whom I met once in Helsinki, was there, but only as a shadow of himself, when he was in his prime. I will always remember him as a very polite person with an admirelable attitude, although he had the best body of all times.
Ami
Ryno
Nice pictures ! they guys and gals are really buff !
leehayward
Of course, he’s at every Arnold Classic event. But you can’t get close to him. He is always surrounded by body guards at all times.
leehayward
We haven’t really planned out all the details for the transformation challenge for next years event. But if you are starting the program now just make sure to take progress pictures every few weeks and hold up a newspaper or something to verify the dates and you’ll be able to use those pictures to enter the transformation challenge.
Now you don’t have to hold a paper in every pic, you can take some random pics of yourself flexing, etc. but take at least 1 pic with every set of progress pictures holding a paper.