Hi, 

Hope your week is going great. 

People have asked if we recovered from last week's Fitness Atlantic yet? 

Well, pretty much went straight to work the next day and had to travel out to PA to visit some gyms and then this week to New Jersey. 

Had some inquiries about when the results would be posted and they are up on the website and you could use this link to view them: http://www.fitnessatlantic.com/contest-results-place-2016.htm

One thing I had spoke on at the athlete meeting I hear had three people really confused or they didn't listen to everything I said and then they talked about it and changed my words. I hope this clears it up. 

On the results page you will see that winners may have received PRO Status. Over the years many people have qualified for WBFF Pro yet they never competed again. It could be they just didn't want to travel to Las Vegas or this year Toronto. Many people simply "retired" once they won the Pro status. 

The thing I said was that if they didn't want to compete as a Pro they should continue to compete as an amateur and this way they can still do any show they want. When you are Pro you can only enter Pro shows but to never step foot on a Pro stage and consider yourself a Pro isn't fully the case. Turning Pro isn't about retiring it is about hopefully moving forward and getting on a Pro stage. 

If people wanted to keep doing Fitness Atlantic the rest of their life (oh yeah!) and stick with it even if they won Pro status they could stay amateur and keep doing the local show. It all depends on your goals. 

Winning Pro status means these people qualify for WBFF Worlds Pro Division yet if they never step foot on a Pro Stage they really are still an amateur athlete and they have that choice. Once you compete in a show with prize money usually means you can't go back to enter amateur shows. 

I hope this email clears up the difference about Amateur, Pro Qualified and Pro. 

Everything seems super positive at the show this year. Seeing the photos and messages is great!

It's so much easier after a year under your belt at a new venue to get things close to perfect. I always sorta joke about the stage lights... thing is I believe lighting and production is so so important and many events don't care and say the athletes don't care so why should they. Thing is, you just cannot look at a stage with incredible lighting and a stage with almost zero lights and say it doesn't matter. It does matter at least to me. 

Now we start on 2017. Looks like we have a date. 

Talk Soon, 

Brian