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Everybody is trying to find the magic pill, magic supplement and the magic workout to lose fat and unwanted weight. Before you find the best solution that works for you I believe you need to assess your fitness goals and find out what you want to accomplish. Do you want to get lean? Do you want to get great abs or do you just want to just be overall healthy?  After figuring out what your fitness goals are then you need to find the best program to help you get there. If your goal is to lose fat fast and most people in society seem to have that goal you need to be on a low calorie diet consisting of high protein, low carbs and low fats.

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You then need to be on an anaerobic routine at least 3 times working out every body-part at least once a week. You also want to incorporate an aerobic workout at least 3 times a week.  If you combine lifting weights and cardio collectively together for your workout routine you give yourself the greatest opportunity to burn an infinite amount of calories and to speed up your metabolism throughout the day. If your goal is to lose fat fast then you always want to make sure that your body is a fast churning fat burning metabolic body meaning that your metabolism is always running at a high level. You can accomplish this by being consistent when you are working out and trying not to take any breaks from your training workout.  Follow every set and every rep and every exercise to the end and never let up.

Remember you can’t get in great shape overnight but if you follow a sensible diet and training program then you can get the best body you’ve always wanted. Some people unfortunately have to work-out harder than others because of great genetics or a faster metabolism but anybody can get in shape if they do the right things. There is no magic pill to getting lean but there is a magic solution and the solution that you pick has to be the right program to help you get lean.

This may sound like a cliché and maybe you’ve heard this before that your diet is 80 percent of the battle in getting lean but it is very true. Your diet is crucial and integral in your success in losing unwanted body-fat. If you aren’t eating the right foods it is very difficult to lose weight regardless of how hard you are training in the gym unless you have superior genetics which not everybody has. Your diet and training program should always be connected together and it goes hand and hand in your fat loss success. What is your magic solution?  The magic solution is the fat loss program and system you select that will help you accomplish your fat loss goals.  Once you find it and implement it then you should see yourself inching closer to your goal every day.

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For more information on finding the best fat loss program feel free to contact me at obifitness@verizon.net and I will direct you to the right fat loss system for your respective body type.

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Check out this incredible fat loss transformation of Devin Johnson. He went from 198lbs to 168lbs in 8 weeks of online training. He followed my online fat loss diet and training system and lost 30lbs in the process.

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               Muscle Pharm sponsored athlete  and top fitness model Obi Obadike gracing the #1 fitness magazine in Africa for the January of 2012- Ultimate Fitness Magazine cover with the gorgeous Basheerah Ahmad! I graced my first cover with her about 3 years ago and here we go again 3 years later.  Pick up Africa’s #1 fitness magazine all over West Africa.  I wrote the cover story on Basheerah for this issue. Check out my fitness expert column in this issue as well. Its a great cover story on a very talented fitenss personality and a good person.

          I want to thank legendary photographer Ralph Dehaan in shooting this incredible image as he was the photographer that shot my first cover with Basheerah! And I want to thank Basheerah for agreeing to shoot with me for the cover.  Fitness is fitness whether it in the U.S, Africa, Asia, UK, etc. Fitness is color-blind:)

         I’ve graced the last 3 back to back to back quarterly covers for the same magazine this year! Dont know if that is some record internationally for a fitness model.  I cant confirm that but I will take it….LOL! Pretty cool to receive this opportunity! Ive been on the stands in Africa for about 9 straight months now:) What an honor honestly!

     The last 2 years in this industry has been absolutely amazing for me as a cover model as I’ve been blessed. I’ve  averaged a fitness magazine cover a month for the last 24 months now. To purchase this magazine if you don’t live in West Africa please go to http://www.ultimatefitnessmag.com/

Top Fitness Model Obi Obadike featured on cover with Basheerah Ahmad on #1 fitness magazine in Africa for Ultimate Fitness Magazine

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        To be successful in whatever you do you have to be obsessed with it.  I will use the fitness industry and my own experience in it as a good analogy of being obsessed with something and how it will ultimately lead to successs. I remember when I came in the fitness industry in mid-2008 and I wanted to make a difference and make a mark in the fitness industry. I didn’t know how I would but I was going to figure it out some way or another. When speaking to decision makers when I first came in the game I was turned down by a quite a few magazines and some of the responses from them were the following: “He doesn’t have that all-American look”, “We can put him in the magazine but I can’t put a black guy on my cover”. “Black covers typically don’t sell very well and we haven’t tried it in a long time.”

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         “We may have to wait a considerable amount of time since we already put a black person recently on the cover.” All of these emails I saved and I’ve never deleted it because it gave me an incredible chip on my shoulder that I still have today. I thought to myself wow this is going to be very tough to succeed in this industry with those type of responses particularly because there wasn’t really a prominent black male fitness model in the industry. I figured that was my goal was to see if I could break those color barriers that were still out there in the industry and hopefully be that prominent person of color as a male in the fitness game. I knew that if I ever was going to do this that I had to be obsessed with this fitness industry and I really cut out a lot of personal things in my life. And so what did I do? I cut out parties, women, family and basically a real social life for a couple of years because I really was obsessed with succeeding in this fitness industry and I knew that it was absolutely necessary for me to do those things.

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         I knew that no cover, endorsement contract, feature was going to be dropped on my lap and I was going to have to hustle, beg, climb, scratch and do things outside the box to obtain that type of success. I figured if I could really focus and block everything out from the outside and put my money, time, energy and passion in this fitness industry that I knew I could break that color barrier wide open and be considered one of the best in the world at this. I remember vividly having many sleepless nights trying to figure out what I can do outside the box to succeed in this indsutry.

        Sometimes when you are obsessed with something and all your time, money, energy is put in this you can lose a lot during that process whether it be relationships, family, friends, etc. and I can say honestly I’ve lost a little of all this collectively in the process. But  when you are obsessed with succeeding you have to do those types of things if you really want to succeed in life particularly if the odds against you to succeed are slim to none.

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        When some of the major U.S magazines turned me down when I first came in the game and the reasons had nothing do with physique or looks I said well I am going to be obsessed with putting all my energy in proving those magazines wrong. I remember vividly one of the emails from one of the fitness photographers who were an ethnic photographer that told me I am sorry man for some reason the magazine rarely puts blacks in the magazine or on the cover.  He said to maybe when this decision maker retires maybe there will be more opportunities for ethnic models in future for this magazine. This was his email back to me from my first fitness model submission email.  I told him point blank in an email in 2008, “Just watch within the next 2 years I am going to be a household name in this fitness industry in the near future and that magazine is going to be very sorry they turned me down.”

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The most difficult cover ever I've ever landed in my entire life for Maximum Fitness magazine which at the time was one of the biggest major fitness magazine in the U.S. I don't know if I could honestly go through now what I had to do go through at that time adminstratively to get on this cover- Top Fitness Model Obi Obadike-Photo Credit: Liana Saadi - Obsession Leads To Success!

  Some of those magazines eventually did turn around and gave me that opportunity but it took a lot of hustling, climbing, scratching, begging and more importantly an undeniable obsession in putting all my time in the fitness industry with the hopes of hopefully having some  prominent success. The moral of this article is to really succeed in anything in life at the highest level of your profession you have to have an obsession and sometimes in that obsession you have to sacrifice a lot of things in your life that are enjoyable to get to that ultimate goal. I can honestly say if I wasn’t obsessed with this fitness industry I never would have made it nor had any success. What led to my obsession was proving everybody that turned me down that they made a big mistake and that an African-American  fitness model can succeed at the absolute highest level in the fitness industry.

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        If you use examples of some of the best athletes in the world such as Jerry Rice and Michael Jordan who were the best in their respective sports they were obsessed with their craft. Jerry was obsessed with football and that obsession led to him being the greatest receiver ever in the NFL. Michael Jordan was obsessed with basketball and that obsession led to him being the greatest basketball player ever. 

 To succeed at the highest level in your profession you have to be absolutely obsessed with it and I can guarantee you that obsession will eventually lead to great success. After 3 years of landing covers and writing fitness articles I was blessed to land my own tv show called, ”Whole Body Boot Camp” and it will launch very soon on the Health and Wellness Channel. The press release to this tv deal is http://www.lifelovelongevity.com/?p=171 If I wasn’t obsessed with succeeding in this industry and putting all my money, time and energy in this I can honestly say I never would have landed this tv show.

First fitness model to land back to back to back fitness covers for an international fitness magazine for Ultimate Fitness Magazine in Africa. Top Fitness Model: Obi Obadike- Photo Credit: Jason Ellis- Obsession Leads To Success!

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             There are a lot of amazing fitness personalities and fitness models in the industry that have done amazing things that deserve their just due. First of all I don’t gain anything by writing this article or giving exceptional mention to this individual. And I don’t believe in kissing anybody’s butt for the sake of doing it. Most people who know me know I just call it like it see it and give credit where credit is due.

          In the fitness industry there are a lot of people that are competitive and have aspirations of being one of the top fitness models in the world or possibly being the top person in the industry. The top fitness model in the world male or female is Greg Plitt. In fact I don’t even think its close I mean there’s Greg Plitt and then there is everybody else in the fitness industry.  He is in his own league of his own and I don’t think he can be compared to anybody. What he has done in 5 years just purely as cover fitness model period and nothing else is absolutely astronomical and unreal. I don’t think there is one fitness model past or present that has done over 100 fitness magazine covers in a 5 year period. That has to be some record there in itself.

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          It’s not the covers and it’s not the endorsement contracts it is everything I just mentioned but more importantly it is how many people he has influenced globally. His membership site is the most successful membership site in the fitness industry and it has influenced thousands of people all over the world to attain their fitness goals. Out of all the current models he has been sponsored longer than anybody with over 5 years being associated with the same supplement company in Met-rx.

          I think whenever there is new guy with a great face and a great body everybody wants to say he is the next Greg Plitt. How many times have we’ve heard that? Well there is never going to be another Greg Plitt ever and the reason why is because his work ethic is second to none and he seems not to be slowing anytime soon. The man has averaged a cover month in some part of the world for 5 years which is a record in the industry. There are some fitness models that have had a great year or two and have landed 7 covers in a year or even 10 covers in one year but that don’t make you the number one person in the industry just because of one year and it is not just about covers as so many fitness models seem to think.

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           It is about creating a body of work consistently that stands over time and people can be inspired and motivated by it. It is about being more than just a model it is about being an entrepreneur and being able to turn those covers and exposure into some type of reasonable capital.  I wrote an article called Quantification of a top fitness model and some fitness models took offense to that because I said that being a top fitness personality is more than just having some abs, some covers and good smile.

            I always like to use famous athletes as an analogy when I speak because I love sports and I am a sports historian. I remember the great Jerry West said it best that during the early 90’s.  He said, “Michael Jordan  has become a victim of his own success” and that is the reason why he stays so isolated from people and stays inside his house all the time because people always want something from him and he is paranoid. Now I am not saying that Greg is Michael Jordan but within the fitness industry he is.  I think Greg is a victim of his own success and he has had so much success in the industry that people hate on him particularly because people want to take his spot and they want to have his success. Unfortunately he is one of the very few people that figured out the fitness game perfected it and has taken it to another level where few will ever be able to get to.

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            I remember former NFL Pro receiver Sterling Sharpe was interviewed back in the 90’s and I’ll never forget this interview and he said when he came into the NFL everybody said he is the next Jerry Rice.  Jerry being a very proud person heard this from many NFL analysts that Sterling is probably the best receiver in the game. Jerry was pissed off that this new guy that just came in the league that everybody was crowning him as the best receiver possibly and he hasn’t done anything yet comparatively to Rice. Sterling said that fueled Jerry Rice to continue to work even harder at practice when he heard this and I believe that year he had his best year statistically ever as a receiver.  There were a lot of unbelievable receivers that have come in the NFL that had the potential and talent to be as great as Jerry Rice but they didn’t have his work ethic and that is why he is the best ever. Even till today nobody has ever come close to his receiver numbers and I use this analogy with Greg Plitt.

           There are a lot of great marketable top fitness models but I don’t believe that anybody will touch his numbers as a cover model. I think when people starting crowning other people as the number one guy it fuels Greg and it makes him continue to crush the industry with his face all over the covers of magazines all over the world. You look in the stands right now as we speak and this guy is not slowing down at all on covers. With all the success he has had he still isn’t satisfied and I think that is why he will be the best in the fitness industry until he retires. Michael Jordan was the best player in the NBA until he decided he didn’t want to do it anymore and same thing goes with Greg.

         This is a tip to all aspiring fitness models and the top ones too:  “Being able to be perceived as a fitness personality or fitness icon is more than just having great abs or being the most ripped or even winning a competition. It is about having the ability, platform and network to influence thousands to millions of people consistently and this comes from having some type of intellect and education that allows you to brand yourself in way where people will follow what you say and what you do. You cannot put a price tag on that type of power and influence and very few possess that in this industry.” This is what embodies Greg Plitt and why he is the number one fitness icon and fitness personality in the world today. It is not even a debate honestly!

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            There are so many amazing female fitness models in this industry that are doing amazing things and inspiring women all over the world.  There are so many things that typify what a top fitness model in the world is. I am here to celebrate the top 6 female fitness models in the world that are movers and shakers in the industry globally. They inspiration so many women all over the world in what they do. To be on this list you have to have attained a minimum of ten fitness covers in your career and performed at an exceptional superstar level of body of work globally for at least a minimum of 2 years. This list has nothing to do with my favorite picks but these are the women that most people believe are the top six current female fitness models in the world and have been very consistent over the past 2 years and more.

            This list has nothing to do with fitness competition history it is about what they’ve done in the industry as a global fitness personality because of their name and with nobody’s help. It is not just about how many covers each person has landed although it does play a factor it is about the following things: covers,  endorsement contracts, global internet exposure, social network exposure and social numbers, paid international appearances, global influence meaning how many people they’ve reached and educated through fitness articles via magazines and the internet, etc.

         All of these incredible women are not just global fitness models they are global fitness personalities and they are the best of the best in the world. You see these incredible women gracing multiple covers every year all over the world and they motivate so many women to get off the couch and work out.  All of these women are honestly triple threat fitness personalities which mean they can speak very well, write very well and model very well and their resume clearly proves that.

  This list is in no particular order who is better because they all are great and all are the best in the world in the fitness industry.  Anyway with no further due let’s talk about who the top six female fitness models in the world and why they are:

Alicia Marie- You can’t talk about the fitness industry without mentioning Alicia Marie. She has landed over 30 fitness covers over the past 7 years in her career and she has been on the cover of Oxygen ten times which is unbelievable and astronomical period for any person but to be an African-American woman to have landed on the cover of Oxygen fitness magazine that many times is absolutely ground-breaking particularly in an industry where it is very difficult for ethnic fitness models to succeed. Her Oxygen covers are some of the bestselling covers ever and she has also been on the cover of Fitness RX fitness magazine more than any female fitness model in the fitness industry as well as Oxygen magazine. The amount of domestic fitness covers that she has landed as an African-American female fitness model is so remarkable and she honestly has made it possible for people of color to believe that they too can land on a fitness cover and have success in the fitness industry.

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She is sponsored by BSN and she is one of the biggest global fitness icons and living legends in the fitness industry. She has been one of the published female fitness models in the world over the past 7 years.  She has written many fitness articles for Oxygen and many other fitness magazines all over the world for so many years and is also an author.  I’ve had people call me the Jackie Robinson of the fitness industry because they believe I’ve opened doors for other male black fitness models and I am here to correct everybody and say that is absolutely false. Alicia Marie is honestly the Jackie Robinson of the fitness industry and she has opened doors for many black fitness models in the fitness industry including myself because of the success she has attained in the fitness industry and the color barriers she has broken as an African-American fitness model. She has been voted on many different fitness sites the number one fitness model in the world in previous years. Her resume is a lot longer than this but this is just a small summarization of what she has accomplished in the fitness industry globally. If you call Alicia Marie the number one fitness model in the world not many people would argue that claim.  To view more information about this amazing fitness personality please go to www.aliciamarie.com

Jennifer Nicole Lee- Whether you like her or you don’t like her you have to respect her for what she has done in the fitness industry globally. You can’t not talk about the fitness industry without mentioning JNL as she is one of the biggest fitness icons ever in the fitness industry and still continues to land multiple fitness covers every year globally. She proved herself as one of the best fitness spokes models ever by selling over 7 million units for the Ab Circle Pro as its spokes model. That infomercial has been featured in over 130 countries globally on TV in fact I even saw it when I was in Australia last year on TV when I made an appearance there and I was honestly amazed by that.

Her 70 pound weight loss story has been featured on many national talk shows such as Oprah, Inside Edition, CBS Early Morning Show and many others TV shows. She has landed over 30 fitness covers since 2005 and is always landing multiple fitness covers a year globally. If being most the successful female fitness model is based solely on how much money you’ve made in the fitness industry then she clearly wins that vote. She is living fitness icon and nobody can ever take away that accolade or achievement away from her. She is a sponsored athlete by BSN and she has other endorsement contracts with other companies. She is her own business and her own company! She epitomizes how you should conduct yourself as a business when being a fitness model but she is not a fitness model as she is a fitness global personality. To view more information about this amazing fitness personality please go to www.jennifernicolelee.com

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Jamie Eason- Well anytime you mention the top female fitness models in the world Jamie Eason’s name is never left on that list. She has the biggest social networking numbers on face-book with over 85,000 face-book friends which is more than most professional mainstream athletes face-book athlete fan pages and you can tell how popular she is by the comments and likes she receives on face-book. She has been the face and spokes model of bodybuilding.com for over 5 years which really heightened her name and popularity within the fitness industry globally. It has been reported that she has been on over 50 fitness covers over the past 7 years in the fitness industry and has been one of the most published female fitness models globally over the past 7 years. She is arguably the most beloved global female fitness personality in the industry. She is also endorsed by many different companies and she is constantly flown internationally for paid appearances because of her name.

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She also epitomizes how to conduct yourself as a business while being a fitness model and a fitness personality. She is a columnist for Oxygen and writes for bodybuilding.com which receives over 8 million unique visitors per month. Her fitness articles are read by millions and millions of women all over the world. You can see how popular she is when you attend expos and you see those long lines of people waiting to take a picture with or get her autograph. She is a living fitness icon/ legend in the industry and it seems like she is not slowing down anytime soon. If you say she is the number one female fitness model in the world not many people would ever argue or dispute with that claim. She has been an inspiration to many women all over the world who want to gain motivation to stay in shape. To view more information about this amazing fitness personality please go to www.jamieeason.com

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Ava Cowan- How big and popular is Ava Cowan? Well most women that are trying to gain motivation to get in shape have some poster of Ava Cowan in their room for motivation. She is the epitome of the perfect figure body in the fitness industry. She has landed more than twenty fitness covers since 2005 and she has one of the most published female fitness models in the world over the past 6 years. She is one of the most recognizable female fitness personalities/models globally within the fitness industry. She is a sponsored athlete by Gaspari Nutrition and she has many written fitness articles over the past 6 years educating women and men to stay in shape.

 She is without a doubt a living global fitness icon in the fitness industry and has many women following her all over the world with her fitness articles, fitness images, fitness covers and her constant internet presence on the social networking scene. Her popularity is very evident with a Facebook fan page of over 67,000 Facebook friends which is absolutely remarkable but it shows how many people follow her and how big her fan-base is globally. When mentioning the top female fitness models in the world her name is always on that list and her resume over the past 6 years clearly proves that and it doesn’t seem she like she is slowing down anytime soon. To view more information about this amazing fitness personality please go to www.avacowan.com

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Natalia Muntean- She is one of the most marketable female fitness models in the industry and one of the very few female fitness models that can cross over and shoot fashion and it is clearly evident by her portfolio as she did fashion modeling for many years before she ever entered in the fitness industry in 2008. In 2010 she landed more then 11 fitness covers in one year which was more then any female fitnes model that year and was arguably the most published female fitness model in 2010. She is a fitness expert columnist for more than seven different magazines globally which I believe is more than any female fitness model in the industry as a writer/columnist. Over the past 2 years she has landed more than 17 covers which is absolutely incredible.

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If you take her first 2 and half years in the fitness industry the success she has attained within that timeframe is as comparable to any female fitness model that has ever stepped foot in this fitness industry within their first 2 and half year time-frame. In fact I don’t believe there is any female fitness model that has attained that many covers in their very first 2 years in the fitness industry. Her articles are published in so many different countries that they are actually translated into different languages which is mindboggling.

 She is everywhere globally within the fitness magazines globally in terms of features, articles and covers. She made history in 2011 by signing one of the biggest supplement contracts ever for a fitness model with Muscle-Pharm and arguably the biggest for a female fitness model. Her landing that type of contract proves that she is one of the top six female fitness models in the world and she also holds other endorsement contracts with other companies.  She is one of the very few female fitness models that is flown out constantly for paid international appearances because of her name. Nobody made Natalia Muntean she is self-made and did it by herself and she belongs on the top six female fitness models/personalities in the world and on any list. To view more informtion about this amazing fitness personality please go to www.nataliamuntean.com

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Kim Dolan Leto- What can you say about Kim Dolan Leto she is the comeback queen who had great success in the fitness industry for many years as a cover model but she took time off because she had a child and decided to make a comeback in the fitness industry recently. Well that comeback has turned into being the MVP of the fitness industry this year where she has landed more than 11 fitness covers in 2011. Basically she has averaged a fitness cover a month which is remarkable for a woman particularly because there are more male fitness magazines then female fitness magazines. She has made it possible for women to believe that they too can have success in the fitness industry at over 40 years. She embraces her age at 42 years old and is proud of it.  She is just as sexy as ever in fact many people say she looks better now then what she did 10 years ago which is unbelievable. What is amazing is she is having this incredible success while juggling a successful business with her husband and being a fulltime mom to her daughter as well as being a loving wife to her husband.

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Although she has graced so many covers all over the world and in previous years she is also an incredible writer for oxygen magazine as she has a Yummy Mommy Fitness Oxygen magazine blog dedicated to mothers trying to stay fit and healthy. She is not just somebody that graces covers of magazines as she has a lot of substance and intelligence and you can see that from her articles. She is incredibly educated with a Master’s Degree in business which makes her one of the most educated fitness personalities in the industry which I believe is what really sets her apart from the rest.

Her images get sold so fast because of her look and incredible marketability to sell a magazine and that is why she was on more than 11 fitness covers this year. She is a living fitness icon and is still one of the top 6 current female fitness models in the world.  With her being arguably the most published female fitness model this year clearly proves she deserves to be on top 6 list. She is an inspiration to so many women of all ages because of the success she has had in the fitness industry but more importantly the positive message she puts out on a daily basis. To view more information about this amazing fitness personality please go to www.kimdolanleto.com

These incredible women should be celebrated for their accolades and what they do every day to inspire women all over the world to live healthy lives. These women are the best of the best in the world and it was an honor to write about these incredible beautiful women.

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We live in a society where when you get older people want to push you aside for somebody younger because they believe that younger is better particularly when you are speaking about any industry where your looks and how fit you are very important. And this seems to happen more to women then to men and it is called ageism. It happens a lot in Hollywood where you see an actress who has always been a lead actress and then once she gets to 40 she is pushed down to being a supporting actress as opposed to a lead actor. That actress who has always been the lead now is getting pushed aside for the younger actress for that lead role she used to always hold.

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The opportunities for being the lead and carrying a movie seems to minimize when the woman gets older which is so sad and this ageism discrimination has been going on for so many years. This also happens in the high fashion modeling industry where a woman that is older seems to get pushed over for the younger model even when that older model still looks great and youthful.  I have a good friend who has been a high fashion model for over 20 years and she is over 40 and she looks like she is still in her early 30’s.

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She is still a working high fashion model but because of her chronological age she doesn’t reveal it when she goes to modeling auditions because she doesn’t want to be discriminated even though she still looks very young. Pretty sad that she has to conceal her age because if people find out her age they may give the modeling job to the younger model. She consistently competes against younger models all the time for jobs and does a very good job in beating them out for those jobs but she is very adamant about telling her agent not to reveal her age to the casting director for fear of discrimination against age.

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Age discrimination in the modeling and entertainment industry affects women way more than men so they have to work harder to look as youthful and sexy as they can. The fitness industry is a very unique industry where I think it is getting better that you can be older and still have reasonable success in the industry. I have some women who ask me all the time I am 39 or I am 40; can I still succeed in the industry even though I am older and I say yes the reason is because the most current successful female fitness models are 35 years and older. Jamie Eason, Ava Cowan, Jennifer Nicole Lee and Alicia Marie are some of the most current  successful fitness models. They are the ones that are continuously gracing covers all over the world over the past 5 years and more and they don’t seem to be stopping anytime soon.

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The best example of a female fitness model that is defying the laws of aging and really exemplifies that age is just a number is Kim Dolan Leto who is 42 years old. In 2011 she has had the best year out of any female cover model as she has graced over 11 fitness covers this year all over the world. She is very proud and public of her age and it seems to not hurt her at all when she mentions it in magazines and in interviews. She celebrates her age as opposed to concealing it which is incredibly admirable.  If you look at her pictures you can tell she is not the average 40 year old most people would say she looks like she is 28 to 32 years old. She has a better body now then she did 10 years old and she looks better now than she did 10 years ago. I do believe that 40 is the new 30 if you take good care of yourself and Kim is proving that.

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With all the current information on diet, training and skin care for aging you really can slow the aging process. That’s why I believe that anybody that is over 40 during this generation will look younger than the 40 year old in the previous generation because of all the education we have now on slowing the aging process and looking younger. Any woman that is in the modeling industry or is a personal trainer should look at Kim Dolan Leto’s covers and gain motivation and inspiration that they can still be very successful in what they do and be over 40.

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In 2011 she proved that she was the best female fitness model in the world at 42 years old and it’s not because she did more covers then any female this year; It’s not because her covers did very well in sales; It’s not because she was published more than any model this year; It’s not because her images got sold faster than most models; It’s because she is able to do all of this collectively while running her own successful full-time business and juggling being a mother and a loving wife to her husband. She has to juggle all of that on top of trying to schedule fitness shoots with different photographers for magazine submission.

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 She does the fitness modeling thing part-time and like I said in 2011 at 42 years old she was the most published female fitness model in the world by far. Age is really just a number and if you take good care of yourself you can still stay the same age physically speaking. Hopefully within time the discrimination that women receive when they get older will get better because it still exists unfortunately particularly in the entertainment and modeling industry but I think when you see role model examples like Kim Dolan Leto and my good friend who still is doing very well in the high fashion modeling industry at over 40 that it gives hope that it is getting better and that you can still have a career as a model over 40. So I end this article by saying don’t let anybody tell you that you are too old to model or that you too old to be a personal trainer or that you are too old period. Age is really in the mind and how you feel.

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I just found this cover story that I wrote on Greg Plitt for Inside Fitness magazine for the March issue of 2009 and it was my first cover story I ever wrote. You can read part 1 cover story at Gregplitt1 and you can read part 2 at GregplittPart2 and you can read part 3 at GregPlittPart3

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Check out top fitness model and MusclePharm sponsored athlete Obi Obadike’s article in Australian Natural Bodz on Building Muscle with minimal fat gain for the Aug/Sept issue of 2011. You can read the entire pdf article at AustralianNaturalBodzArticleAugSept2011Issue

For more fat loss/fitness articles or fitness information you can go to www.accelerateyourfatloss.com or www.naturalbodz.com

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Check out WBFF World Champion Obi Obadike’s Ultra-Fit Fitness Expert Column article where he talks about top fat burning tips and what exercises you can do at homeif you can’t go to a gym. You can read the entire pdf article at UltraFitArticle080811  For more fitness and fat loss information please go to http://www.accelerateyourfatloss.com

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Check out WBFF World Champion and Muscle-Pharm Sponsored athlete Obi Obadike’s ExtraFit Fitness Expert Column Article for the July issue of 2011. You can read the entire pdf at ObisFitnessExpertColumn

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Check out WBFF World Champion and Muscle-Pharm sponsored athlete Obi Obadike’s FitnessX.com article on overtraining for the June issue of 2011. You can read the entire at this pdf link at OverTrainingArticleFitnesX.comArticle

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Check out WBFF World Champion Obi Obadike’s article on “The Quantification of a top fitness model” that was featured in the May issue of 2011 for FitnessX.com. You can read the entire pdf article at QuantificationOfATopFitnessModel and to read the article clearly increase the resolution on the adobe reader to 125.

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Check out WBFF World Champion and Muscle-Pharm sponsored athlete Obi Obadike’s Fitness expert column in ExtraFit Magazine.  He talks about how you can get abs and how you can improve your calves and abs. You can read the entire pdf column at JuneExtraFitColumn. To view more fitness articles please go to www.extrafitmag.com

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Everybody’s path to success is different and at some point in time in your life you will have pay dues to obtain success and in the fitness industry some people have to pay more dues than others. When I first started in the fitness industry and nobody know who I was; I would pay photographers as much as $1500 to do shoots with them so I can get great images for my portfolio and for editors to take notice to me in the fitness industry. There was no Trade For Prints for me my first year I had to come out the pocket and I would pay at least over $5000 in photo-shoots just to get myself out there as a fitness model my first year.

 When I got these great photos I started submitting them specifically to many fitness magazines in the U.S. The first magazine that my images were submitted to the editor said in an email to a photographer’s assistant that submitted the photos. “Sorry we can put him in the magazine we don’t put black guys on our covers.” I couldn’t believe it in 2008 that an editor of a major fitness magazine could say this. The images got submitted to more magazines and some of the stuff I heard was the following: “Black covers don’t sell and the last time we tried it didn’t do well”, “You look great but we put a black guy on our cover recently and we are going to have wait some considerable time to give you a chance on a cover since we had a black model already” “You look great but don’t take it personally we rarely put black fitness models on our covers who knows maybe things might change in the near future”.

 When I was hearing these things from some of the biggest decision makers in the fitness industry I was thinking to myself I have no chance of succeeding in this fitness industry. How can I succeed in this industry having to deal with this discriminatory B.S? There were times when I wanted to quit and was very close in doing this because I didn’t think it was possible for an African-American male fitness model to succeed in an industry where so many decision makers were not for giving black male fitness models opportunities and chances on a fitness magazine covers.

 I thought to myself I am really going to have to think outside the box in regards to making this industry work for me or don’t have a prayer at all. I was intelligent enough to know that this wasn’t right and nobody should have to deal with this type of discriminatory stuff but that is the fitness industry and you have to figure out and make it work for your respective ethnic look unfortunately. So I thought of trying to venture off on opportunities magazine opportunities internationally which was the best thing for me at that particular time because most international countries in my opinion are just not caught up on the whole race thing like the U.S magazines are.

 I thought maybe I can really build a big name internationally and maybe those U.S mags that turned me down could be more open-minded after I built up my name in other countries and give me a chance. So I travelled overseas on my own dime for about a year for exposure purposes just to build up my name, value, worth and credibility. I spent a lot of money doing that I have to be honest but it was an investment in my fitness career and one of those dues I had to pay if I was going to succeed.  I believe that this outside the box theory really worked for me and it’s not for everyone but for me I had to go outside the box or I would never have succeeded in this industry. In many ways I felt that I was forced to go international to make a name there because I wasn’t given a chance by many mags in the U.S. when I first started out. My first 18 months in the industry I never really made any money. I spent more money during that time period then but all that paid dues stuff, sleepless nights, countless self-marketing posts lead to the following incredible things in my career: over 27 fitness magazine magazine covers over the past 3 years, arguably the most published male fitness model internationally since 2009 and in 2010 landing the biggest supplement contract for any fitness model in the fitness industry as well as so many incredible things.

  Some of the dues I paid:

• Paid photographers $1500 for shoots for about a year to prove myself
• Flew out internationally out of my own pocket to different countries just for exposure purposes to create a name for myself.
• Had to deal with discriminatory responses from many decision makers trying to get into a fitness magazine or on a cover.

 For the record I’ve built up my name, value, worth and credibility in the industry where I don’t have to pay for photographers for photo-shoots anymore and I am not flying myself out to different countries anymore. It is the opposite they are now flying me out now for appearances but I had to pay some serious financial dues to get to that point. The moral of these paying dues in the industry article is not to brag about what I’ve done in the industry but to encourage you if you want something bad enough you have to go chase it and nothing will be dropped in your lap. And you may have to pay some dues to get there.

 By sharing with you some of the stuff I went through very few people would have ever expected that anybody could come out of those circumstances and be very successful. Most people would have given up and rightfully so but if I can attain the success I have presently in this industry with the discriminatory stuff I dealt with then you have no excuse to not be successful in this industry. If you want it bad enough and are willing to go the extra mile it will happen for you. We all got to pay dues in this industry I can definitely tell you I paid mine.

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ObisFitnessExpertColumnCheck out WBFF World Champion’s fitness expert column for the May 2011 issue of Extra-Fit magazine. He  talks about high interval training for fat loss and over-training. You can read the entire pdf fitness expert column at ObisFitnessExpertColumn.

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Check out top fitness model Kim Dolan Let’s Extra-Fit interview for the May issue of 2011. For more articles you can go to www.extrafitmag.com  you can read the entire pdf article at KimDolanExtraFitMagazineInterview

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Check out WBFF World Champion Obi Obadike and Muscle-Pharm sponsored athlete’s article on what the WBFF can do for you.

Everybody wants to compete in an organization that goes above and beyond for the athlete? If you are competing in an organization you need to ask yourself what is that organization doing for you? What is the difference between the WBFF and the other fitness organizations out there is simply this? The WBFF is constantly promoting their athletes every single day via the social networking sites. Another thing is they are going above and beyond to create opportunities for their athletes like supplement contracts, covers, features and internet exposure. If you count and add all the covers, supplements contracts, features and global internet exposure over the past 3 years that the WBFF has done for its athletes there is no fitness organization in this industry that compares in terms of what they’ve done for their competitors.

 Are their organizations that have more athletes? Yes there are but are there fitness organizations that do more for their athletes? Absolutely not! The athletes that you constantly see in the magazines internationally and domestically and the people that are talked about on the internet constantly are in the WBFF. Do you think you have a great physique or are that are you ripped? Well step up on the WBFF stage and compare yourself against the best of the best.

 Do you want to get on a cover? Well compete in the WBFF! Do you want to be featured in a magazine? Well compete in the WBFF! Do you want to land a supplement contract? Well compete with the WBFF! Do you want global exposure? Well compete with the WBFF. Do you want compete against the best fitness model physiques in the world? Well compete with the WBFF! Do you want to enhance and increase your personal-training business? Well then compete with the WBFF. It is the fastest fitness organization in the world and it is only getting bigger and better.

 The athletes and competitors are getting better every year making each World Championship event bigger than the year before. So when you are deciding what fitness organization you want to compete in ask yourself this question what is the organization going to do for you and your career.  Is the organization all about making a buck or are they actively creating opportunities for athletes? If they are that is the organization you want to compete in and I can guarantee you that organization will most likely end up being the WBFF. So if it is then register at www.wbffshows.com and I hope to see you on a WBFF stage.

 2010 WBFF Pro Male Fitness World Champion and Muscle-Pharm Sponsored Athlete- Obi Obadike

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WBFF World Champion and Muscle-Pharm Sponsored athlete Obi Obadike writes interview in Extra-Fit magazine on MusclePharm Sponsored athlete on top fitness model Natalia Muntean. Read the interview on one of the top female fitness models in the world.  You can read the entire pdf interview at Natalia

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