Fun Images From The San Jose Fit Expo June 13-14th, 2015

You know it's going to be a great weekend when this truck pulls in to pick you up!

You know it’s going to be a great weekend when this truck pulls in to pick you up!


The SWAT Fuel booth at the San Jose Fit Expo

The SWAT Fuel booth at the San Jose Fit Expo


It's always good to see James Ellis and David Kimmerle!

It’s always good to see James Ellis and David Kimmerle!


With the wonderful Renee Watroba

With the wonderful Renee Watroba


Flanked by Mr. Olympias!  Phil Heath and Jay Cutler

Flanked by Mr. Olympias! Phil Heath and Jay Cutler


With Sean Sarantos

With Sean Sarantos

I Will Be At The Muscle And Performance Booth At Olympia This Week!

Muscle & Performance

Come to the 50th Anniversary of Olympia! I will be at the Olympia Expo on Friday, September 19th, and Saturday, September 20th, working at the AIM Publications booth, which features magazines like Muscle & Performance, Oxygen, MuscleMag, and Black Belt. Be sure to stop by to say hello, and get some free magazines!

2014-OLYMPIA

Here we are at the AIM booth from the Arnold Sports Festival earlier this year:

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And from last year’s Olympia:

Olympia 2013

You Need To Go To Olympia

Olympia is the granddaddy of bodybuilding events, compelling people from all over the world to descend upon Sin City for a weekend of glistening, supertanned muscles, scantily clad bodies, and enough free sports supplement samples to keep everyone amped up with bloated bellies as they walk through the Expo. The Olympia Expo is quite a sensory overload, a smorgasbord of sounds, sights, smells, and tastes! You also should watch out for flying objects since items such as t-shirts are thrown into crowds during hyped-up giveaways at the larger booths. You won’t find too many events in which such action-hero genetic freaks can easily and comfortably congregate. I feel very much at home in such company, and look forward to all the Olympia events every single year.

I love working a booth at the Expo even though it prevents me from seeing most of the competitions that take place in the main arena. I gladly suffer through the sore feet that result from standing and walking all day. Fans and followers will look for the booth I am working at in order to say hello and take a picture with me, and that always means a great deal to me, especially since I know that the crowded Expo hall can be very tricky to navigate when someone is looking for a specific booth or person. Every Olympia is also a great reunion in which I can see many of my fitness and bodybuilding friends from all over the world.

If you have any interest in fitness and bodybuilding but have never been to Olympia, make an effort to travel to Las Vegas one year in late September so that you can witness this incredible event.
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Olympia Prize Money 2013

TOTAL PRIZE MONEY BREAKDOWN

Olympia is looming around the corner, with more total prize money being awarded among the eight different divisions. The big granddaddy is Mr. Olympia, which will award $650,000 to the champion. The 212, Ms. Olympia, Fitness and Figure champions will take home a respectable, albeit much smaller, purse of $60,000 for each division.

joe-weiders-mr-olympia-2013-infoNow that Bikini Olympia is approaching its fourth year, with three different women having attained the titles in previous years (Sonia Gonzales in 2010, Nicole Nagrani in 2011, and Nathalia Melo in 2012), the purse has been set at $40,000 for this year.

The two newest divisions in the NPC and IFBB will enjoy their freshman year on the Olympia stage, with correspondingly small purses for Men’s Physique and $10,000 for Women’s Physique. There is no doubt that this prize money will increase in coming years as the newer divisions continue to make their mark in the bodybuilding world.

Here is a summary of the prize money for Olympia 2013:

Mr. Olympia: $650,000

212 Showdown: $60,000

Ms. Olympia: $60,000

Fitness Olympia: $60,000

Figure Olympia: $60,000

Bikini Olympia: $40,000

Men’s Physique Showdown: $10,000

Women’s Physique Showdown: $10,000

Total: $950,000