Burn The Fat Challenge 2009 Special Category Winners
Tom Venuto & The Burn The Fat Team
Everyone who completed the holiday challenge is a winner. But some people deserved special recognition. To recognize and reward some of our top contestants for special achievements and jobs well done, we created special awards for categories including most ripped, most muscular, most inspirational, and most supportive. The winners have been chosen... Here's how our special category winners were selected: Most inspirational: The contestant who has the most inspiring personal transformation, provides the most inspiration to others, overcomes the greatest obstacles and maintains the best positive attitude, while making an excellent body transformation. Most Supportive: The Contestant who provided the most support, accountability and encouragement to other contestants through the quantity and quality of comments in other people's journals. Most Ripped: The contestant who showed most improvement (fat loss), as judged visually and by measurements, culminating in the most ripped physique Most Muscular: The contestant who showed the most improvement in lean muscle size and appearance, culminating in the most muscular physique. Top Team Join forces with other "Burners" in groups of 5. Name your team. Start a team journal. Submit your team results together along with an additional team essay. Judged by same three criteria as individuals, plus a team spirit component; judged on teamwork and mutual support exhibited via forum journals, during contest).
And Here Are Our Winners: Most inspirational: Dougal MacDonald You may not know Dougal's story yet, but you will soon. We believe that Dougal is going to reach at least 5 million people worldwide sharing his story of hope, inspiration and overcoming adversity, through speaking, books and online publishing. And, if there's anything we here at the Inner Circle can do to expedite his vision, we are going to do just that. We're not going to tell Dougal's story for him, we're going to let him do it. Please read his journal and visit his offsite blog, Mind Body Superfit. If his story doesn't move you to tears, you'd better check your pulse (you may not have one!) Dougal also made a heck of a transformation during our 50-day holiday contest, despite the challenges and restrictions he has to deal with every day. (Take a look at how much muscle he put on his back!)
Most Supportive: Dianne Marshall As our judges spent hours and hours reading through the holiday challenge journals, several names kept popping up over and over again. Not just with their OWN journal posts, but in everyone else's journals! That was the spirit of our contest - SUPPORT! - and Dianne was nothing short of a pillar of support to so many other burners in this challenge. On another note, Dianne made one heck of a transformation herself. In fact, she was a top finalist. Whaddya think? That's a drop of 15.8 pounds and 5.6% body fat! Besides, anyone who can survive 45 degrees below zero weather deserves some kind of award! (cold outside, warm heart).
Most Ripped: Sarah Kensington At first we were looking mostly at the men for a most ripped category winner. However, when we looked at Sarah's photos, her body fat loss and the ultimate level of body fat she dropped down to, her body fat percentage easily distinguished her as more ripped than the most ripped guys in the challenge, relatively speaking (sorry gents). Tom recently wrote an article about what body fat level you must reach to see your abs. When you read it, it will put into perspective just how ripped 12.6% is for a female. That's what Sarah's body fat was at day 50, down from 19% on day 1. This contest was only judged on 50 days, but if you really want your mind blown, go visit Sarah's journal and see what she looked like a year ago. Will you look at that rock hard stomach! Saraaaaaaaaah is RRRRRRRRRRRRIPPED!
Most Muscular: Bryce Bean
Looking at Bryce's pictures, it should come as no surprise that he was a contender as a finalist. Bryce lost a TON of fat, but not only that, gained a few pounds of muscle. It actually looks like he gained even more muscle than the measurements reported! When body fat is stripped away and even a small amount of muscle is added, the visual impact is stunning. We predict that Bryce could do some serious damage on the bodybuilding stage if he ever chooses to go that route. That's a lot of beef! Great job!
Top Team: Team Global Giants!
Congratulations to Team Global Giants: Michelle York, Eric Dalkenberg, Dougal MacDonald, Sarah Kensington and Kim Fereda. One thing we learned from our first annual Burn The Fat Holiday TEAM challenge is that it's a challenge just to keep a team together, especially one formed on short notice. That's why ALL our finishing teams are huge winners that deserve to be congratulated. Another thing we learned is that when a team DOES stick together, the power of the "Master Mind Principle" is put into action and amazing results can be achieved. When one teammate is down, the others are up, and they support the one who's down. At other times, the roles reverse and the mutual support keeps them all going to the end, perhaps even stronger than they could had they gone at it solo. Out of all our teams who finished the challenge, the judges decided that Team Global Giants embodied team spirit and support to the maximum and thus earned the crown as TOP TEAM!
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CONGRATULATIONS Dougal, Dianne, Sarah, Bryce and Team Global Giants!
Be sure to visit Dougal, Bryce, Sarah Dianne and Team Global Giant's journal threads to congratulate them and let them know what you think! To visit Dianne's 50-day Holiday challenge journal CLICK HERE To visit Dougal's 50-day challenge Journal CLICK HERE To Visit Sarah's 50-day challenge Journal CLICK HERE
To visit Bryce's 50-day challenge Journal CLICK HERE To visit Team Global Giant's 50-day challenge Journal CLICK HERE
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