( left - right )Winston Johnson and Clive Smith
WINSTON JOHNSON
Mr Jamaica 2005
Age: 29
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 192 lb
Years of training: Five and a half
Competition:
2000: Mr. St. Catherine (didn't place)
2003 Third-place Novice, Mr. Jamaica
2004 Fifth-place Novice, Mr. Jamaica
2005: Winner Novice
"Rupert (brother) was my inspiration. He's the one who encouraged me to start training."
Johnson noted that the most difficult part is the diet. "You have to eat right and maintain proper nutrition, consume enough protein and carbohydrate. Without eating properly, my training would be like a waste."
Johnson had to eliminate sweets, bun and cheese, sodas and food items that contained sugar and his main drink is water. "Weight training is like a stress relief for me. After I work out, I feel fresh and renewed. It's (weight training) food for the mind, soul and spirit. It's a healthy thing, and it's also fun."
RUPERT JOHNSON
Age: 34
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 210 lb
Supplements:
Cretin and Amino acid.
Competition:
1997 Novice Mr. Jamaica
1998 Middleweight Mr. Ja
2000 Mr. Antiles (A regional competition)
| 2001 | Mr. Antilles and light heavyweight Mr. Ja |
| 2002 | Second runner-up in Carib and Central America Body Building championships (CAC) |
| 2003 | Mr. Jamaica Heavy-weight, second runner-up CAC |
"I love the discipline and you respect your health and lifestyle on a more serious level. You put a priority on sleep, dieting, it
prevents you from drinking, smoking, bleaching (staying up all night), and makes you feel confident. Builds your self-confidence. These go far beyond bodybuilding. Bodybuilding is a lifestyle," said Johnson.
Johnson said persons have made negative responses like, "Why would anybody want to do their body like that?" However, "Negative criticisms are like a joke, it does not trouble you. A lot of things don't trouble you it builds up yourself against negative things."
Johnson maintained that bodybuilding reduces the risk of 90 per cent of diseases. "It's almost impossible for a bodybuilder to have cancer, diabetes, rheumatism. I can't remember going in hospital since I started bodybuilding. Builds up your immune system sometimes you feel like a superman."
ANDREW CHISHOLM
Age: 24
Weight: 187 (goal 250)
Height: 6'
Supplements:
Creatin, powdered
protein and amino acid.
Competition:
| 2001 | Teenage Mr. Jamaica, Novice Mr. Jamaica, Mr. Techno fit |
2003 Men of steel
Chisholm got involved in bodybuilding to lure women because.
"When I was younger, I was very skinny, I mean skin over bones." He noted that he did not fit the image of a girl's ideal man, so he started going to the gym. He said after six weeks he could see the results, so he continued and ended up loving it. "Now, it's not the girls anymore, its my health.
Those girls are now amazed at the transformation. Chisholm said he loves the challenge. "Its like art. You have to sculpt the body, which takes time, and you have to be disciplined and put your best foot forward."
CLIVE SMITH
Age: 35
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 165 lb
Years training: 5
Supplements:
Take supplements only occasionally to jump-start weight, Vitamin B complex.
Competitions:
2004 Lightweight division in National Bodybuilding Competition.
In 1998, Smith was involved in a motor vehicle accident and damaged his neck. Instead of corrective surgery, Smith opted for weight training to strengthen the muscles in his neck. It worked. "I like it. I said if it could change my situation, let's make it into a career."
Smith, who is now a personal trainer at One-on-One Fitness Studio, 24 Waterloo Road, St. Andrew, said that he was 120 pounds when he began weight training. Now he's 165 pounds and wants to get bigger. "I want to get bigger. I like what I see, what I have achieved, but I would like to be bigger like 175.
What drives Smith? "I want to look in the mirror and say 'wow'. When I can look in the mirror and say 'wow', I'll stop."
DANIEL CHISHOLM
Age: 26
Years of training: 10
Height: 5'9 1/2"
Weight: 200 lb
Supplements:
Vitamin C tablets, Amino Acid, multivitamin and protein shake
Competition:
| 2002 | Novice Mr. Jamaica |
| 2003 | Second Middleweight National Bodybuilding Competition |
| 2004 | Sixth In the Heavyweight division of the Caribbean and Central American Bodybuilding championships. |
At the age of 16, Daniel Chisholm started working on his body to achieve the look he has admired in many Flexx magazines.
" I liked what I saw in those magazines and I would like to be like those guys." Chisholm became creative and started making his own weights from cement and other materials.
