Top Fitness Model and Top Fitness Personality Obi Obadike Lands National TV Fitness Show

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Top Fitness Model Obi Obadike Making an Appearance in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Top Fitness Model Featured On Billboard For Fitness 365 Gym in Amsterdam, NetherlandsTop Fitness Model Obi Obadike gracing the billboard of Fitness 365 Gym- Photo Credit: Arsenik Photography

 

Top Fitness Model Obi Obadike gracing the billboard of Fitness 365 Gym- Photo Credit: Arsenik Photography

 

Top Fitness Model Obi Obadike Featured On Fitness 365 Banner for FItness 365 gym- The gym is in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Photo Credit: Arsenik Photography

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          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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She dropped 11 percent in body-fat over a slow steady 6 month period of time to placing 2nd place in her first competion in her figure division for her INBA event. She went from a bodyfat of 24% to 13.5%. She worked very hard and commited to the diet and training program that was given to her and the end result was a very lean body. She has proven that anybody at any age can step on a fitness stage and be successful.

Cathy’s Testimonial

I’ve personally know Obi Obadike since about 2004, when I used to teach spinning at the LA Fitness in LaVerne, I would always see him training harder than anyone else. I admired that way back then, but it wasn’t until February of 2010 that we crossed paths again and I asked for his

help and guidance to get ready for my first Figure Competition at the age of 48.  I had already been training a month with a friend of mine Jorge Alvarez, the more we trained, the more we both realized I could do this but needed the proper diet.

Obi set me out on a plan knowing I was about 6 months out from having to be stage ready. Obi was great at adjusting where I didn’t respond or like certain foods like canned tuna J. Obi had a challenge though, up until that time I wasn’t eating meat. So he gradually introduced it into my diet and monitored me week by week. Always asking for my weight on Monday mornings along with body fat updates. Here I would go to a facility that did Hydrostatic Fat Testing. I started with Obi at 147lbs  24% body fat.  I was on a steady and safe weight loss  pattern of about 1-2 lbs week.

When I plateau’d adjustments made again. It was Obi who also told me when to start double cardio and it was then that I broke through.  August 21^st 2010 was show time, and I came in at 129lbs  13.5% body fat.  I was so excited, showing veins in my abdominals and feeling ready. I placed 2^nd for my first show, and since then have undergone some major surgeries and am recovered to the point where I am contemplating my next competition. May 8^th I will be 50 years young and will be able to compete in the Grand Masters. I am soliciting Obi’s help again and should come even better since I have only allowed approximately 6 lbs to creep back on. My goal is to be on stage at 125 this time and more muscular, all the meanwhile doing this natural. The INBA is a natural body building association and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Thank you Obi for you knowledge, care and consistent support.

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Obi,

I just wanted to reach out and say thank you for your dedication to the fitness world and inspiring thousands to better themselves. I am not one of those extremely inspiring stories of a person who has gone from 300lbs down to 150lbs but nonetheless people like you have helped me take my ‘gym enthusiast’ hobby and turn it into a true lifestyle.

I am wrapping up the Bodybuilding.com & MusclePharm Live Shredded August Challenge this weekend and can’t wait to post my pics for the Bodyspace community to see. I am proud of myself and have you, and of course friends and family, to thank for the motivation and education. Your articles posted on musclepharm.com, Facebook and various internet resources have truly been a pillar in me taking my life from good to great (a step I find can be the hardest in any process).

Thank you and if you are ever in the Tampa area I would love to meet you and further pick your brain. Keep doing what you do!!

Best Regards,

Danny Sigurdson

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          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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 I will also be doing a photo-shoot exhibit and a workout demonstration exhibit at this weekend seminar at the gym. The incredible thing about this wonderful opportunity is Fitness 365 plans on investing a lot of money on promoting and marketing my appearance over the next 2 months in newspapers, local tv, national tv which will be viewed by millions of people every day.  They will be printing over 200,000 marketing catalogs that will have my bio and some cool things about me in there as well as the event info. They plan on distributing these catalogs all over the Netherlands so the marketing for this will be huge.   What’s really cool and unique about is this is the first time that Fitness 365 gym has flown out an American fitness model to their gym it typically has always been bodybuilders so I am really honored and humbled of this opportunity.  I am also right now in deep negotiations with the gym for something even bigger then this and I hope to be able to reveal that announcement within the next week or so.

MusclePharm will be providing free MusclePharm t-shirts and sample products to all attendees that attend this Fitness 365 fitness seminar. I want to thank Brian Blijd, Yoran Van Aken who are trainers at Fitness 365 for helping to faciliate this incredible international opportunity for me and I want to thank Fitness 365 as well. I am very ectastic to get this opportunity to grace the Netherlands at one of the biggest gyms there. This is going to be a wonderful international experience! The website to fitness 365 is http://www.fitness365.nl 

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            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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 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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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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How do quantify a top fitness model and what are those attributes that culminates into a top fitness model? Well there are many things that are considered in being a top fitness model. Here are some of the following: Covers, features, internet presence and social networking presence, endorsement contracts, contributions to the industry that helps others in other words the impact you make to serve and influence others in a positive way.

 I had this discussion with many friends about what makes a fitness model into a top model or into one of the premier models or even the top fitness model in the industry. I think for some strange reason people believe that if you have done more covers than the next person that you are better than the other. Well its more than just covers the reason being is because it is very easy to forget someone on a cover of a magazine because there is no identification with that person to the readers other than your name on the inside of the magazine.

 You actually have more exposure featured in the magazine with a story about you or you writing a training article that you are featured in. Or you have more exposure in a social networking environment mirroring the time on the stands of a magazine issue. With that being said being a top fitness model is more than just being on covers and just because you were on 11, 12, 15 or even 20 in a year doesn’t mean that you are the top fitness model in the industry or even one of the top fitness models. How do you honestly quantify that? These are things that I came up with after having conversations with many important top fitness professionals in the industry.

 To Be Considered One Of The Premier Top Fitness Models In The Industry

• Consistent internet and social networking presence and following.
• Service and contributions to helping others as role model through your name in the fitness industry through fitness articles, personal-training, fitness tips, helping to impact another person’s another life in a positive way.
• Endorsement supplement contracts. Example: Small contract- supplements only to 500 to 1500 a month; Medium contract- $2000 a month to $4500 a month; Large contract- $5000 a month up to 10,000 or more a month. Super large contracts- percentage from the overall gross sales of the product. Examples: specifically fitness equipment products when it comes to this.
• Being flown out to events for Personal and Public Appearances domestically and internationally as a fitness personality.
• Notoriety and presence globally in different countries

 Before social networking came alive it was just covers and features that would dictate a top fitness model but now with social networking like twitter and face-book that has to be considered in the mix now. The reason being is I’ve seen many fitness models in the industry that have never landed a cover but they are on face-book and twitter all the time and have created such a huge following that they have a bigger name in the industry globally than someone that landed 10 magazines covers or more. That is why your internet and social networking presence has to be considered in the mix when quantifying if you are a top fitness model. The impact you make in servicing others has to always be looked at because that is really how you maintain that following and fan-base by responding and helping people when you can. For crying out loud supplement companies look at your social numbers to determine if they want to sponsor you in fact those social numbers are more important than any magazine cover you’ve ever landed in my opinion. I would honestly say more because internet is powerful than print right now at the moment.

 Nobody ever likes to talk about this because money isn’t everything and it is never fun talking about how much money you make. The size of your contract dictates how marketable you are to that particular supplement company or product and the size of your contract will pretty much tell you how important you are to that company and how they view you in the hierarchy of that supplement company.

 This is for the aspiring fitness models that email me all the time you can really count on a finger or two of fitness models that can make a living off of their name. The very few ones that are able are very business savvy and were able to either create a product and sell it others for a business or they were able to land a large to super large endorsement contract that allowed them to make enough money to live comfortably. A great fitness model who is the perfect example of doing this is Micah LaCerte who created Hitch Fit which is one of the biggest personal-training companies in Kansas City. He used his exposure in the fitness industry and he created a very successful business.

  I know that every aspiring fitness model and most fitness models are all about chasing covers and it is exciting to grace a cover as I love it too but being a top fitness model is more than just gracing magazine covers as I’ve alluded to in this article. And also if you land more magazine covers more than the next person that necessarily doesn’t make you a bigger or a better model than the next model. Example: I’ve done 12 magazine covers last year or I did 11 last year which is more than the next model who did 7 or 6 or 5 that doesn’t mean that you are better than that model or even have a bigger name.  

 Sometimes when you see models on covers of magazines it isn’t necessarily what the fans want it is the decision of that editor and publisher that chooses who gets to be on that cover of that magazine. All those fitness models that have been on many covers I am here to tell you that it is everything and just look at those bulleted points I gave. If you are trying to land a big contract and you think it is just landing magazine covers only then you will never land that large contract category. All of these bulleted points you need to be able to attain to be in a position to ask for a large contract.  I know many fitness models that have landed some of the biggest magazine covers in the industry and are still looking for that endorsement contract or that big one.  The supplement companies and fitness equipment companies look at all of these things I mentioned above when sponsoring a top fitness model and when deciding to give out those big dollars to a big name fitness model.

 What is a top 10 model? It is half of these things bulleted points. What is a top five model? It is ¾’s of these bulleted points. What is a top three model? It is all of these collective bulleted points above including being in that large supplement contract category. If you don’t have a big enough name in the industry to pay the bills it is very hard to put yourself in that top three fitness model category honestly speaking. The moral of this article is for all fitness models to understand that you want to be as well rounded as you can that will make you as marketable as you can to hopefully help you land a small to medium to large contract supplement contract or just contract period.  By the way age is not a crutch in obtaining a supplement contract. There is no age limit in having a fan base and following and that is what supplemnt companies are looking for is that following.  But if you are not well rounded then it is hard to be viewed in the industry as a top premier fitness model. I hope this article sheds light on the quantification of a top fitness model.

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