2009 FAME Masters Pro World Championships
Scott "Old Navy" HultsOn June 13, 2009, I achieved one of my two goals for my 5th Pro Show and 28th contest overall. For the 2009 FAME Masters Pro World Championships in Montreal, Canada, I wanted to step onto the stage about 10 pounds heavier, with the conditioning I had at the same event last year. I came in at 148 pounds, exactly 10 pounds more than last year, and I was just as conditioned. My second goal was to mo...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsSaturday, April 18, 2009 Weight: 156.0 pounds It's show time. Two months to go until the FAME Pro Masters World Championships in Montreal, Canada. I'm in my Game Day contest prep mode. I'm ready to lock and load and take dead aim at the prize. With eight weeks to go, I'm about eight pounds from my stage weight. I will spend the next two months lifting hard, increasing my cardio...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsFriday, March 20, 2009 Weight: 157.0 pounds 12 weeks to go until the 2009 FAME Master Pro World Championships on June 13. After week one of my contest diet, I'm down two pounds. I had a good week of heavy lifting, cardio and contest diet. The three low-carb days and one high-carb day plan is tracking well. I plan to come in for my contest at around 148 pounds, 10 pounds more than the same con...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsFriday, March 13, 2009 Weight: 159.0 pounds It's 13 weeks until the 2009 FAME Master Pro World Championships on June 13. On Monday, I officially start my contest prep diet in preparation for my 28th contest and fourth Pro Show. My goal for the next 13 weeks is to focus on continuing to lift heavy, increase my cardio, and maintain a strict contest diet. My diet will begin with a series of lo...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsSaturday, March 7, 2009 Weight: 160 pounds I am continuing on my slow pre-contest diet. I actually put on two pounds after a re-feed day yesterday. Earlier in the week, while I was on three low-carb days, I dropped to 158. I'm looking OK mostly, except for the small pouch around my mid-section that's a little troubling. I still have 15 weeks until the contest and only need to drop no mor...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsWeight: 159 pounds On Monday, March 2, 2009, I officially began my contest prep for my 28th contest and 5th Pro Show, the 2009 FAME Master Pro World Championships in Montreal, Canada, on June 13. After my last show in June 2008, I took the rest of 2008 and the first half of 2009 off from competing in order to add some needed size. I was 138 pounds on stage at my last show and have been sitting at ...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsIt's New Year's Eve and I am enjoying having my two daughters and my two grandchildren home for the holidays. My oldest grandchild, Gianna, is 10 months old and my grandson, Jayden, is three months old. My personal training work at the Birmingham, Alabama YMCA is going great. I average 28 hours of training each week. Among my clients are one female bodybuilder and three male bodybuilder...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsYou’re scheduled for a tough match tomorrow and it might be a very hot day. What drink do you put in your tennis bag? A fluorescent-colored sports drinks? Electrolyte beverage? A high-caffeine soft drink? Sugar water? Glucose polymer? Fruit juice? Or just plain water? What about a few glasses of beer after the match to rehydrate or, at least, relieve the many aches and pains? High intensity exerci...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsWhen the average person thinks of bodybuilding, the dangers of anabolic steroids, muscle-bound giants (Arnold, The Hulk, and others), and the “no pain, no gain” philosophy always seem to come to mind. But anyone who wants to look trimmer and feel stronger can become a bodybuilder. Bodybuilding is for women, too. In fact, a record number of health-conscious women are avid bodybuilders. Weight and s...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsCreatine monohydrate is the supplement on the minds of all athletes, bodybuilders, and even those with a chronic muscle illness of one kind or another. Never has so much been said by so many in the mainstream media about a nutritional supplement than it has about creatine monohydrate. Wrongly associated with banned steroid muscle builders, creatine monohydrate has been the victim of much unwarrant...
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Getting My Kicks on “Route 66"
Scott "Old Navy" Hults"Get Your Kicks on Route 66," often rendered simply as "Route 66," is a popular song, a rhythm and blues standard, composed in 1946 by Ameri...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsFriday, June 13, 2008 I got up at 4 a.m. and left my home in Birmingham, Alabama at 5 a.m. for my 6 a.m. flight to Atlanta and on to Toronto, where I arrived at...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsHere is another transcript of a feature on me in the local CBS news program in my town. Bodybuilding Senior by John Marc Green Aired: April 13, 2008 CBS 42 N...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsI was recently featured as the lead segment in a CBS News Sunday Morning program. Here is the transcript. Fighting the Passage of Time with Fitness: An Exerc...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsI was recently interviewed by The New York Times. Here is my Times story: 60-Plus, Ripped, and Natural Competitors By Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Tim...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsOn February 1st, I started my third career. My first career was as a member of the U.S. Navy, where I served as an enlisted sailor and as an officer for a total...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsIn a word, yes. Age does affect your training. That's the short answer. But how it affects your training is really up to the individual. If you are 20-some...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsMy journey into fitness began in the US Navy. When I turned 50, during a Navy physical exam, I discovered I had several symptoms of diabetes, the disease that t...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsTo me, age is a statistic, not a burden. I am a world-class master professional bodybuilder. I train “natural”—that is, I do not use any illegal muscle enhancer...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsI began training for my first bodybuilding competition in May of 2004. I was 61 years old and had retired the previous year as a Captain in the US Navy. As a na...
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Scott "Old Navy" HultsMy name is Scott “Old Navy” Hults. I am a retired US Navy Captain. I am also a natural pro athlete in a sport that, for the most part, is not natural. I am a pr...
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