Pics From Musclemania Canada Show & Musclemag PhotoShoot

[MattT]

Ok im back from Toronto, have been for about a week now, just been relaxing, eating some junk food and not training for another week. This years Musclemania Canada Show did not go as planned for me personally. I was put into the heavy weight class, which makes no sense to me at all, but the promoter said so , so I had to do it. When I weighed in, in the morning I was classified as a middle weight. Then when I get back to the night show, I see myself listed as a heavy weight?? So I ask the promoter, why im competing has a heavy weight. And his answer was, cause there's only 2 heavy weight competitors and u look just a big as them, and it will make the show run better if there is 3 heavy weight competitors? That made no sense to me, but I had no choice and had to compete against guys that out weighed me by 10lbs of muscle? The evening before the night show I weighed myself, and I was 176.5lbs. The guys who I competed against weighed around 185lbs.. So in the end I got 3rd place in the heavy weight division. You can view the pics below and tell me what you think, I think I was easily 2nd place. My symmetry I think is the best out of the line up, my condition was off though.

Now why was my condition abit off? Well I had a awesome 4 hours gym photo shoot with Musclemag http://www.emusclemag.com During that shoot I had to drink water, cause I was lifting weights and if I didn't drink water I would have cramped badly.. Even after the shoot I cramped fairly badly because my body needed more water to hydrate my muscle from being trained, but I had to restrict my water intake, because I was not even suppose to be drinking water the day before the show, but I had to in order to do this photo shoot. In my mind it was worth not placing as well, to be able to do a photo shoot with Musclemag. Its always been a dream and goal of mine to make it to either Flex or Musclemag.

In the end I had a great time at the show, other then placing a disappointing 3rd. That was out of my hands as soon as I was placed in the heavy weight division. And because of this I choose to no longer compete in any Musclemania shows. Its time for me to move on and start competing at a provincial level and then at the Canada's which is the CBBF or Canadian Bodybuilding Federation. I had a good run with Musclemania, got alot of exposure i.e.: TSN / ESPN and other international TV Networks. Now its time for me to relax, take a year and half off from competing. And come back bigger, stronger and better for 2007.

I would also just like to thank all the people here on bodybuilding.com for there support and positive feed back, and for the negative feed back, cause that just fuels me to train even harder. If you want to keep up to date on my training etc.. you can always visit my web site or my myspace page @ http://www.myspace.com/nolimitz23

Thanks
MattT

[MattT]

Some pics my girlfriend took of me at the Musclemag photo shoot... And some candid pics of me at a park in T-dot with my gf.. That Squirrel took me out!

[housemaster]

Originally Posted by MattT

Some pics my girlfriend took of me at the Musclemag photo shoot... And some candid pics of me at a park in T-dot with my gf.. That Squirrel took me out!

hmmm..who took the last picture of you and your girl? the squirrel?..just kiddin..too bad they placed you with the heavies..yes, i could easily see you at 2nd place..as you said, time to move on to bigger and better things..but why 1.2 years?

[quest-x]

That's outrageous. I can't believe they did that. How could you agree to go up as a heavy weight??

Looked pretty good, but I'm pretty sure water wasn't all that contributed to your softness. You could have done with a few more weeks of dieting. Honestly, even the worst of water retention won't hurt the most ripped competitor that much.

You held your own against those two guys well though. A few more weeks of dieting and you would have had them.

[MattT]

Originally Posted by housemaster

hmmm..who took the last picture of you and your girl? the squirrel?..just kiddin..too bad they placed you with the heavies..yes, i could easily see you at 2nd place..as you said, time to move on to bigger and better things..but why 1.2 years?

lol, no i put my digital cam on this stone wall, and just set the timer to take the pic Why a year and half off, because i need to focus on my real estate career and business that i have started in Flipping homes.. My company is called "Above & Beyond Reality Flips Inc." I have one major investor on board.

[housemaster]

Originally Posted by MattT

lol, no i put my digital cam on this stone wall, and just set the timer to take the pic Why a year and half off, because i need to focus on my real estate career and business that i have started in Flipping homes.. My company is called "Above & Beyond Reality Flips Inc." I have one major investor on board.

excellent..

[MattT]

Originally Posted by quest-x

That's outrageous. I can't believe they did that. How could you agree to go up as a heavy weight??

Looked pretty good, but I'm pretty sure water wasn't all that contributed to your softness. You could have done with a few more weeks of dieting. Honestly, even the worst of water retention won't hurt the most ripped competitor that much.

You held your own against those two guys well though. A few more weeks of dieting and you would have had them.

Yeh i have to agree with u on that, i could have used another week of hard cardio, but i hold water like a mofo, and the fact that i was drinking water the day before the show was a no no.. And made me look smooth.

[MattT]

Originally Posted by quest-x

That's outrageous. I can't believe they did that. How could you agree to go up as a heavy weight??

Looked pretty good, but I'm pretty sure water wasn't all that contributed to your softness. You could have done with a few more weeks of dieting. Honestly, even the worst of water retention won't hurt the most ripped competitor that much.

You held your own against those two guys well though. A few more weeks of dieting and you would have had them.

Yeh Musclemania is more about putting on a show, rather then focusing on and sticking to correct weight classes. I would also like to see the credentials of the judges... Im not dissin Musclemania, they were good to me, but some things about Musclemania make me go hmmmm...

[housemaster]

Originally Posted by MattT

Yeh Musclemania is more about putting on a show, rather then focusing on and sticking to correct weight classes. I would also like to see the credentials of the judges... Im not dissin Musclemania, they were good to me, but some things about Musclemania make me go hmmmm...

it was foul what they did to you. they placed you in the heavies because YOU LOOKED like a heavyweight? even though you weight indicated you should be in another weight class?..seems like someone in your class was some judges or promoters favorite. but you're still a winner in my book

[MattT]

Originally Posted by housemaster

it was foul what they did to you. they placed you in the heavies because YOU LOOKED like a heavyweight? even though you weight indicated you should be in another weight class?..seems like someone in your class was some judges or promoters favorite. but you're still a winner in my book

Yeh now that im home and i have had time to process everything, what was done, was not right. There's nothing i can do about it now, im just looking forward to taking time off from training, might get into some more of the fitness modeling aspect of things, as i get alot of offers to do that in the mean time until i compete again... Here's a pic that shows more of the fitness model side of me rather then just bodybuilding..

[wide lats]

Originally Posted by MattT

Yeh Musclemania is more about putting on a show, rather then focusing on and sticking to correct weight classes. I would also like to see the credentials of the judges... Im not dissin Musclemania, they were good to me, but some things about Musclemania make me go hmmmm...

Musclemania has made me and almost every other UK guy in a gym who sees MM stuff online or in mages go LOL or Mmmm

Mostly money, no way is it natural like they claim and its not geared toward bbers who compete. Fuk knows what they do with the testing money you hand them. Still you have had a good run there try IFBB they are a decent fed even if they are full of stupid rules and you got to put weider on a pedestal every time you mention his name its where the exposure is. Natty organisations are not great, go untested its healthy for the spirit! Good show and a shame about the heavyweight class there. You had no chance really - My opinions.

Hope you stay on bb.com with other shows your a good competitor and post some good pictures.

wide lats - bigger than you think

[MattT]

Originally Posted by wide lats

Musclemania has made me and almost every other UK guy in a gym who sees MM stuff online or in mages go LOL or Mmmm

Mostly money, no way is it natural like they claim and its not geared toward bbers who compete. Fuk knows what they do with the testing money you hand them. Still you have had a good run there try IFBB they are a decent fed even if they are full of stupid rules and you got to put weider on a pedestal every time you mention his name its where the exposure is. Natty organisations are not great, go untested its healthy for the spirit! Good show and a shame about the heavyweight class there. You had no chance really - My opinions.

Hope you stay on bb.com with other shows your a good competitor and post some good pictures.

wide lats - bigger than you think

Thanks bro, but disagree with you on that i had no chance. If i would have come in better condition i would have won the heavy wight class.. I still think i should have came in 2nd.., but oh well, the guy that came in 2nd had a better hair cut then i did

[gettnthere]

im not lookin to be an ass but i really dont get why some guys as fit and in shape as yourself go for chubby..or fat girls.....just doenst make sense to me...ive seen it a couple times...w/e anyways lookin great man, your upper body's great work on the legs a little

[SteveStone]

Originally Posted by gettnthere

im not lookin to be an ass but i really dont get why some guys as fit and in shape as yourself go for chubby..or fat girls.....just doenst make sense to me...ive seen it a couple times...w/e anyways lookin great man, your upper body's great work on the legs a little

What the hell kind of idiotic thing was that to say?

You're 14, when you grow pubic hair then you can comment about other peoples girlfriends. Until then, shut the **** up.

[PRIMAL]

Originally Posted by gettnthere

im not lookin to be an ass but i really dont get why some guys as fit and in shape as yourself go for chubby..or fat girls.....just doenst make sense to me...ive seen it a couple times...w/e anyways lookin great man, your upper body's great work on the legs a little

lol his girl aint that fat...she looks normal to me

matt ur 1 year off has shown on ur physique, i seen older pics of you before and you looked a lot better

[yzrider400f]

Originally Posted by PRIMAL

lol his girl aint that fat...she looks normal to me

matt ur 1 year off has shown on ur physique, i seen older pics of you before and you looked a lot better

great looking rack too

[PRIMAL]

Originally Posted by yzrider400f

great looking rack too

yeah i thought that too, just didnt want to offend matt lol

[NPC_Jim]

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The guys who I competed against weighed around 185lbs.. So in the end I got 3rd place in the heavy weight division. You can view the pics below and tell me what you think, I think I was easily 2nd place. My symmetry I think is the best out of the line up, my condition was off though.
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You were robbed. At fisrt I though you were the guy on right in pix, looking at big guy in center. Then I find you were the big guy damn. Robbed. At least the photo shoot is some thing the other guys didn't get.

[MattT]

Originally Posted by gettnthere

im not lookin to be an ass but i really dont get why some guys as fit and in shape as yourself go for chubby..or fat girls.....just doenst make sense to me...ive seen it a couple times...w/e anyways lookin great man, your upper body's great work on the legs a little

lol she an't fat and she just has really big tits, does have a big booty which i like Anyways me and her is just a casual thing And yeh my legs still need work..

[MattT]

Originally Posted by PRIMAL

lol his girl aint that fat...she looks normal to me

matt ur 1 year off has shown on ur physique, i seen older pics of you before and you looked a lot better

lol my physique is much better this year then last, it was good enough to make it to musclemag? My condition for the show was just not as good as last year.. My back, arms, chest, delts, legs, and claves all have grown from last years measurments.. Plus im about 6.5lbs heavier then last year and my waist measures the same at 27.5''. So 7lbs of sold muscle gain in a years is good enough for me..

[MattT]

Originally Posted by NPC_Jim

<<
The guys who I competed against weighed around 185lbs.. So in the end I got 3rd place in the heavy weight division. You can view the pics below and tell me what you think, I think I was easily 2nd place. My symmetry I think is the best out of the line up, my condition was off though.
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You were robbed. At fisrt I though you were the guy on right in pix, looking at big guy in center. Then I find you were the big guy damn. Robbed. At least the photo shoot is some thing the other guys didn't get.

Thanks bro, i feel the other black guy did deserve to win. He was already a musclemania pro 7 years ago, and has been competing for 10+ years and is in his mid 30's.. As compared to me i have only been competing for 2 years now. So i have a long ways to go and alot of room to grow.. As for the guy who took 2nd.. Well IMO my physique kills his and im giving up 10lbs of muscle to him..

[TheSheepdog]

Matt, Matt, Matt....I always love seeing your posts, excellent physique always look good, but one thing i realize is that this time around your pre-contest pics that you posted look better then your contest pics, did you try anything last minute that might have made changes to your physique and do you think that you could've won the middleweights...regardless i still think you looked damn good.

never mind just read the second paragraph...yea i would've sacrificed my contest physique too for a musclemag photoshoot

[MattT]

Originally Posted by armymuscle01

Matt, Matt, Matt....I always love seeing your posts, excellent physique always look good, but one thing i realize is that this time around your pre-contest pics that you posted look better then your contest pics, did you try anything last minute that might have made changes to your physique and do you think that you could've won the middleweights...regardless i still think you looked damn good.

never mind just read the second paragraph...yea i would've sacrificed my contest physique too for a musclemag photoshoot

Thanks bro. Yeh i think i would have won the middle weight class, i looked much bigger then those guys, and they were very happy i was not competing against them

And yes the thing i did last min was drink water day before the show for.. That smoothed me out for the day of the contest. As you said it was worth it for a spread in Musclemag..

[Inklined]

congrats Matt on the musclemag spread...what issues is it suppouse to come out in?? So musclemania isn't the place for you huh?? I'm still considering it....
weighin my options a little trying to figure things out you know....

[illuzions]

great pics...congrats on the magazine pics....you are motivation to keep training hard!

[MattT]

Originally Posted by Inklined

congrats Matt on the musclemag spread...what issues is it suppouse to come out in?? So musclemania isn't the place for you huh?? I'm still considering it....
weighin my options a little trying to figure things out you know....

I have no clue when that will get into musclemag, I'll email the editor back and ask him.. See what he's going to do with the pics and let you know. Alot of the stuff you see in the mag is 6month to a year old, if not older.. And yeh its time for me to move on from musclemania, after being screwed on my weight class placement. Im not going back.. I had a good time at the show, and I have nothing against Lou or Musclemania. I just feel its time to move on, when you turn pro in musclemania you still don't get cash prizes? what's up with that? And if u do get anything its maybe $1000-$2000 at max? I'm not concerned about the money, or making money off of bbing. Its just that if I kill myself in the gym for 3 months and all I get is a trophy and a t-shirt. That to me just does not seem right? I mean look at these spelling B contests these 5th graders are getting bigger paycheck then Musclemania pro's? lol that's just makes me laugh..

[MattT]

Originally Posted by illuzions

great pics...congrats on the magazine pics....you are motivation to keep training hard!

Thanks bro, if u have any question just shoot me an email.
Peace
MattT

[gettnthere]

Originally Posted by SteveStone

What the hell kind of idiotic thing was that to say?

You're 14, when you grow pubic hair then you can comment about other peoples girlfriends. Until then, shut the **** up.

Hahah ok mr. skinny 36yr old who sits at home yelling at 14 yr olds n still gets no ass

[zrage]

Originally Posted by gettnthere

im not lookin to be an ass but i really dont get why some guys as fit and in shape as yourself go for chubby..or fat girls.....just doenst make sense to me...ive seen it a couple times...w/e anyways lookin great man, your upper body's great work on the legs a little

ROTFL, kids....... its all i have to say.

[MattT]

Originally Posted by gettnthere

Hahah ok mr. skinny 36yr old who sits at home yelling at 14 yr olds n still gets no ass

The question should be, our you gettin any ass