Bodybuilding B.C. mom heads to Las Vegas as lone Canadian vying for Ms. Olympia title

Lisa Giesbrecht is not your average Victoria mother of two. For one thing, she looks like if push came to shove, she could pummel most fathers of two.

For another, she’ll be winging her way to Vegas next month as the lone Canadian duking it out with the elite members of the bodybuilding fraternity.

It’s her second Ms. Olympia performance, and the personal trainer is determined to improve on her finish in 2012.

“Being a new person on the block, I wouldn’t’ say I’ll just blow everyone away,” said Giesbrecht. “But I’ll do my best.”

With two teens at home, aged 17 and 13, Giesbrecht is almost a decade into her bodybuilding career.

The muscle-bound mother says judges aren’t looking for sheer size, but an overall balanced look.

“They’re looking for size, symmetry, and the lines of the body,” said Giesbrecht, who favours focused training rather that going for all-out strength. “They’re looking for the X-shape — broad shoulders, slim waist, and flaring quadriceps.”

Leading up to a competition, her five-day-a-week training regimen increases to daily training, with an intense 90-minute workout each and every day.

Bench presses have often been the gold standard for people hanging out in the gym, but Giesbrecht isn’t buying that.

“I’m not a power lifter — you’re not trying to out-bench someone.

“If it’s 20 pounds and a focused exercise, that can be better.”

She does admit to training with 90-pound dumbbells, which sounds like considerably more strength than the average person, but she insists that a well-proportioned physique is what judges reward.

A nutrition coach and two training partners help Giesbrecht out — and as a personal trainer she helps out others looking to personal improvement.

Hrithik Roshan Body-Building Secrets

It has become almost customary to see Hrithik Roshan flaunting a chiseled physique.

In fact, most of us have taken it for granted that this Greek God of Indian cinema is blessed with muscle-gaining ability that seems impossible for most mortals.

However, our ignorance was shaken when images of Hrithik Roshan sporting a paunch and flab on this chest and around his chin were published in some leading magazines. The article is an account of Hrithik’s bodybuilding challenges and how he dealt with them. Reports in the media confirmed that due to a string of injuries that had rendered him almost incapable of hitting the gym and some personal issues, Hrithik had quit upon his strict workout schedule. Instead, the bottle and packs of cigarettes became his companion. It immediately became clear that Hrithik’s physique wasn’t a blessing of God but the results of his efforts without which he was prone to developing rather average bodily dynamics like most of us. Many people might not know that Hrithik shot for his role in “Agneepath” with a painful slip disc which he developed as a result of undertaking a dangerous stunt.

It was then that Hrithik took the help of Kris Gethin for regaining his fitness. He later confessed that he had almost assumed that he was supremely fit since this was the general impression in everybody’s mind and soon it infected his mind too. However, the injuries and the deteriorating state of his body made Hrithik realize that he wasn’t invincible. At the time when he met Kris, Hrithik had a 36+ inches waist and suffered from extreme fluctuations in blood pressure.

The Transformation Begins: Hrithik Gets Back to Training Hard with Kris Gethin Hrithik Roshan realized that for his role in Krrish 3, he needed to look at his fittest and muscular best. This is why the guidance of Kris Gethin became important since this guy has been behind some amazing transformation stories in Hollywood. Kris Gethin immediately introduced some changes in Hrithik’s outlook to exercising. This included combining nutrition with more taste and the ability to be fighting fit despite the after-effects of multiple injuries.

Hrithik realized that he had erred previously in terms of his dietary intake. Though his muscles had peaked at times, he was more dependent upon supplements. With Kris, Hrithik found the benefits of eating natural to fuel the muscles. His diet now consisted of at least 100 grams meat along with lots of complex carbs. Hrithik confirmed that it was essential for him to consume carbohydrates throughout the day since he needed the extra calories to support his muscle gains. It also became clear that for his protein intake, Hrithik became increasingly dependent on pure forms of protein like egg whites which he consumed for breakfast and dinner on days of heavy exercising.