Can Bodybuilders Shape Up America?
Sunday morning was the kickoff event for the Shape Up America Campaign. Helping people set goals and get in touch with their potential is something I love doing, so it was an honor to be involved, meet the attendees and provide encouragement.
Can bodybuilders help inspire America to shape up? Head of the campaign, Michael Torchia, thinks so, and I agree. Â While pro bodybuilding is not a mainstream past-time, I believe it has potential to carry a message of discipline, goal-setting and strength.
If a bodybuilder can inspire someone to pick up a weight for the first time and start on some weight training, that's most likely going to be a positive thing.
Ronnie Coleman and Gunter Schlierkamp were also at the event, and I had the pleasure of talking briefly with them, to hear what they had to say about giving back, and also about their own possible comebacks. See the videos below.
I also met with Bill Germanakos, winner of "The Biggest Loser," Season 4, who managed to go from 334 lbs to 170 lbs, losing a total of 164 lbs during the course of the season.
Bill visualized and overcame tremendous obstacles, and is now committed to paying it forward and educating others who battle with obesity. The video of my conversation with Bill is below as well, check it out.
Again, it's great to be back and see all the activity on the forum, too. I'm back in the gym tomorrow and more workouts are ahead – April is just around the corner and the shirt's coming off. Time to finish what we started and get to that lean, mean 220 lbs. Nuff standin' around – IT'S GO TIME.
Video# 1Gunter Schlierkamp
VIDEO# 2 Ronnie Coleman
Video# 3 NBC The Biggest Loser Winner
Loading ...
Children's Heart Foundation
I hope Ronnie can make it back, the big guy is missed… Hope he can leave those injuries and imbalance behind. Good stuff
My man Gunther from Germany is in a pretty cool shape!i love how he speaks the “th”
sree-sousand
“Pay it forward,” as said by Bill in the last video, I’ve also stated it in a previous post before…that’s what it’s all about right there. Ronnie mentioned finding a mentor & gaining all the knowledge he could to help w/ everything he did in route to becoming an 8 time Mr. Olympia. It is so very important to help others and at the same time not be intimidated to learn something new by simply asking in order to gain the knowledge & experience to help one another. Thumbs up Kevin on what your doing & be assured that I plan on doing the same. Peace and God Bless.
Damn, Colmans belly looks huge.
|Its always interesting to hear from people like Gunther & Ronnie!
sree-sousand – lol -love it!
wow first time ive been able to comment in days, oh well!
Man i love Ronnie, he’s the best! one of my favourite bodybuilder of all time!
Kevin, youve become peoples mentors, on here!
by the way
whos kevins cam carrier?
Some very good interviews there Kev. Could have done without that over enthusiastic woman on the microphone though lol.
Very impressed with Bill’s story, very inspiring. Ronnie looks huge!
Günther looks good. (Kevin looks better of course lol)
Interesting videos. But i don´t think Ronnie will come back…
Great videos Kevin and awesome to see you and the others to be so involved in getting America healthy.
Great challenge and love what you’re doing with the Shape Up America campaign.
Can bodybuilders Shape Up America!
My answer is YES!
Nice of you that participate and help the campaign.
Support from Serbia!
Awesome work Kevin.
Great to hear from Gunter too. He was awesome back in the days and by the looks of it, he hasn’t cancelled his gym membership just yet.
Gosh..time to get real man. You look like a little teenager compared to Ronnie and even Gunther. Look the way Gunther smacks your shoulder, man. Its seems like he thinks is made of icecream. Gentle touch, not a guy to guy hit.
But i guess you look very ok when the shirt comes off. But thats the problem, how often does the shirt come off?
nice to see how bb are taking the initiative
@Norgaygian
Please man show some respect!
Is not clear enough for you that Kev does not want to be mass monster anymore. He aims for a healthy physique with HEALTH as a priority, gunther looks big but not healthy. Kev made that point clear, specially to you MILLION times dude.
At least he can take his shirt off, i bet with your 93% BF levels need caterpillar machinery tu pull it over.
lol…… simply lol…….
Yeah, Norweigian. Seems like it doesn’t matter what Kevin puts up, you have something negative to say. Mellow out, dude. Find something else to do.
I need to say this….
OOOOWNNNNEDDD !!!
I find Kev holds up size very well in comparison to Gunther. Bare in mind he’s cutting, so the facial features tend to really lean out and give the impression of a smaller build. I’m pretty sure some of you will be very impressed when Kev shows us what his version of a Spartan physique is.. It’ll set a new standard for sure hehe…On a sidenote, I do find Gunther’s 285 claim high, but then again it could be. We got two IFFB pros standing next to eachother and then the normal proportions/dimensions go out the door ehhe… Inspiring vids and good to have Gunther and hopefully Ronnie back soon. I hope Ron can get his rear lights out – game over lat spread back… The injuries, which he never discusses or acknowledged back in th e day, have prevented that pose from happening again. It’s a lil premier we got here, as he acknowledges having surgery.. He’s been very secretive on his injuries… We got a lil scoop here eheh… Good stuff, Kev…Hope Ron can get back on the stage in his former glory…Even 100% isn’t needed, but a 95% version of the Ronster is pretty damn impressive…
Good to see that there is involvement with health issues and there are some bodybuilders to support, but…
As far as I can tell, the only healthy looking man there is Kevin. Gunter looks like disaster (his shoulder width is smaller than it used to be, his arms are amateurish, yet he is heavily on drugs), Coleman is very fat and his stomach is out of way…
Whole campaign is great, but I just can’t see how they (Gunter and Ronnie) will be idols to new kids. We all know that it can’t be accomplished naturally, USA society doesn’t “tolerate” losers (yet, steroids are element key for “wining”…)…
I think that from whole campaign someone will earn good amount of money. Nothing more, nothing less…
Gunther does not look healthy?Man i think he looks very healthy and his shape is just right.Not too big and not to small.
And finally he cut himself a haircut.
I agree Kev was the healthiest looking guy there.
Unlike our impartial “friend” Norweeny, Kev has been a ripped mass-monster. He has been there done that and got the t-shirt. Who else here can claim the same!?
He has also stepped away from the highest leevl of the sport with his health, which he is now looking to maximise.
Respect is due
@pablomoran – Sorry but I need to say this….
OOOOWNNNNEDDD !!!
LOL
It’s so great to see bodybuilders getting involved with Shape Up America! I’ve participated before, and it’s a great way to help people stay motivated and aware of how important exercise is.
Love the vids of Gunter and Ronnie! They’re both looking HUGE! And what an inspiration Bill is! It’s great to hear his philosophy about paying it forward.
@gdog1985 – What i ment is that to sustain Gunther´s look you have to be on something. Of course the image he sells relates you to health but it is just a disguice.
He couldn´t be that big if he still wasn´t on steroids.
I am waiting for someone to say that Gunter has genetics.
how is his 285lb claim high? kevin looks shorter than him right? and kevin is cutting down to 220 so that means right now he is above 220. why is it hard to believe gunter is 285? he is bigger than kevin you can see that. why doesnt gunter look good? by the looks in the video he looks like he isnt all juiced up but when he said his weight at 285 i thought he looked pretty good considering he isnt getting cut down and training for a show. kevin is not training for a show but he is training for his own personal goal of being ripped at around 220.
norweigian- is there going to be one video where you dont comment something stupid? you said you were going to stop commenting because its not hardcore anyone. you have yet to not post on one video since then and it has been you being a jerk everytime. your not even making a point anymore with your comments.
I don´t know if it is HARD to believe. Of course it could totally be real.
But he said he wanted to be in the movie and commercial business, so i guess to achieve his personal goal he has to be below 8% BF for sure, and no, he doesn´t look all juiced up but neither he looks like a spartan, it is wise to say that he looks like he eats spartans for dinner, but anyway it might be, i´d dare to say he has more bone than Kev.
@pablomoran –
he was in the movie beerfest and he looked pretty damn huge there. his whole speech u just heard was how there are all those people in hollywood and none of them have the big body like he does and thats what sets him apart.