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WBFF Pro Vince Del Monte
WRITTEN BY WBFF Pro Male Fitness World Champion OBI OBADIKE, B.A., B.S., M.S. & CPT ho is Vince Del Monte? Well Vince Del Monte went from a skinny long-distance runner growing up in Canada to being a bestselling muscle building author with an incredible physique to back it up. Fans around the world have coined him as “The Skinny Guy Savior.” Since May of 2006, he has helped over 80,000 scrawny bodies transform from skinny to muscular through his best selling muscle building eBook called No Nonsense Muscle Building. He has been called the poster boy for the “I can’t gain weight or get the girl” story and has become a massive inspiration for anyone with “muscle-unfriendly” genetics. Although his online fitness success has helped him achieve fitness authority status and financial freedom, he felt he needed more credibility as a fitness model. In 2011, Vince decided to compete in the WBFF and make an astounding transformation. He earned his WBFF Pro card in his second WBFF show at the Quebec event on August 30, 2010. Vince transformed his physique from 227 lbs to a ripped 195 pounds in 16 weeks, capturing his WBFF Pro card which was an incredible accomplishment since he hadn’t stepped on a stage in 3 years. In 8 weeks, Vince will be stepping on stage competing against the best of the best male fitness models in the world in the 2011 WBFF World Championships. I would like to introduce to the FitnessX.com Magazine readers to best-selling author and WBFF Pro, Vince Del Monte.
Obi: So, Vince, how does it feel to finally land your first cover with Fitness X.com Magazine? Vince: It’s another check mark for my “life-time achievement” list. Landing a cover is extremely rewarding because it offers public acknowledgment that you have worked your butt off in the gym. I won’t lie, the cover feeds your ego, but hopefully it inspires people to work harder in the gym when they see my pictures and think, “If he can do it, so can I.” Obi: Give us some information on what this FULL-BODY-LICIOUS 5-day workout videos are all about? Vince: The last time I checked (a few months ago), it had passed the 80,000 mark, and according to my knowledge, it’s the number one downloaded musclebuilding course online. I was inspired to write it in 2005 when I saw another website from a guy who was advertising his ‘skinny to muscular’ transformation story with a $97 e-course and I heard he was making over four figures a day from it and I instantly said, “That’s impossible.” I checked out his site and he was using one of those long infomercial sales pages that were 30-40 pages long and I said, “Nobody buys from these sites. This must be a scam.” I did some research and found out the guy was running a seven figure online fitness business and that got my attention! “I need to learn how to market my own “Skinny Vinny” transformation story on the Internet so I can quit my job and not have an alarm clock!” Six years later, I’m doing what I thought was impossible six years ago.
if I was trying to build muscle. I hit abs at least six times a week in the morning with my cardio and I did calves 3-4 times a week since my calves were not as developed as other body parts. I did more cardio than I prefer – six days a week from 30-60 minutes and it varied from walking, running, sprinting, and lunging. Obi: How important is education to you as we hear you have a degree in Kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario? Vince: It’s huge. No offense to other bodybuilders or physique athletes, but it’s too common to find a ripped cover model or guy in your gym who can not intelligently tell you why he’s training or eating a certain way. Very few ripped physiques can give you and in depth answer to their exercise technique or nutrition strategies. When you don’t have a science- based background, it’s easy to get misled by a lot of the fitness marketing that all sounds convincing, unless you have a science-based background. Nothing in my diet or workouts is left to chance and I could tell you a logical reason for why I do every single thing in my contest prep.
Obi: What inspires you to stay in shape and be healthy? Vince: What doesn’t inspire me to be in shape and stay healthy? Who needs inspiration to be in shape and be healthy? Isn’t this what everyone wants? I don’t know where to start here. I’ve been involved in competitive athletes since the age of 13, so I guess it’s in my blood to take care of myself. My father and brothers are all competitive athletes, so it comes naturally. It helps now that I’m Obi: What was the feeling like when you landed your WBFF Pro card?? the face of my business and brand. My business will suffer if I let myself go. Vince: I thought, “Thank you God!” Anyone who competes knows how disap- Other athletes inspire me too – guys like you Obi and other competing WBFF Pro pointing competitions can be when you swear, “I’m going to be top 3” and you Models are always in the back of my head! don’t even get top 5! I was extremely relieved and thankful the judges awarded the top 3 guys their pro cards because I thought, “If I don’t get it this time then Obi: Tell us about your Live Large TV online show. What is that exactly about? I’m down with these shows forever.” I wanted the pro card BAD! I mean bad! I train and eat like a professional fitness competitor, so to have the official title Vince: Live Large TV is my weekly online show that reveals to guys and gals how to live large inside out and outside of the gym. I believe the gym is a metaphor “professional” now makes me feel good! Thanks WBFF! for life, so if you can transform your body, you can transform your relationships, career, and lifestyle. I’m living proof of this and I’m using the show to inspire Obi: Tell us some of your diet and training tips that allowed you to get ripped people to live large in all areas of life. I’ve never wanted to be known as just and earn your pro card on the WBFF Quebec event. “a muscle guy,” so this show allows me to speak about living life to the fullest. Diet-wise: A few new things I did were to never eat the same type protein or carbs Season 2 is being filmed right now and will feature my entire contest prep for the two meals in a row. I was constantly rotating my carbs between Ezekiel cereal, WBFF Worlds and I believe I’ll be making my cameo appearance! brown rice, quinoa, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, Vitargo, and white rice. I rotated my proteins around sirloin, egg whites, whole eggs, white fish, chicken, and lean Obi: Are there any final things you would like to say Vince before we conclude ground beef. The only fats I consumed were avocado and almonds. I don’t dip this interview? below 200 grams of carbs the entire contest prep and I used to be fearful of carbs but was still able to lose 2-2.5 lbs of fat each week with carbs in four out of my Vince: Thanks for the opportunity to be on this cover. I encourage everyone to set six meals . I had two cheat days in my entire 16-week prep so it was really dialed goals with deadlines because a goal without a deadline is just a dream. That’s how I’ve achieved all the success in my life. I give myself a deadline and I anin. Remember, I had 30 lbs of fat to lose! nounce it publically and I take a “one day at a time” approach to executing my Training wise: It was a traditional bodybuilding program. Back on Monday, goal. It works every time! Keep living large! Shoulders and Triceps on Tuesday, Legs on Wednesday, Thursday off, Friday was Back again (it’s my lagging body part), Saturday with Chest and Biceps and Sun- Vince, we wish you much success in your career and we appreday off. It did not change at all. It was higher volume from 12–25 sets per body ciate you sharing a little bit about yourself with the readers. part. Variable rep ranges from 6–20 depending on the body part. And I trained as AUGUST 2011 • FitnessX.com Magazine
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