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January 21 Vol 18, No. 8 • January 2019
Duncan follows wife's example to participate in bodybuilding By Lucy Weber Inspired by his wife, Chris Duncan got into bodybuilding in 2015. "She was doing bikini competitions, and she persuaded me to do my first competition," said Duncan, a captain who's been with the Corinth Fire
The majority of body building shows are scheduled in the
summer so 20 weeks out from the first one, Duncan begins his diet for competitions. Currently, he said he eats to keep his calories up for body weight and to maintain muscle. Department for "My calorie 23 years. count now is Chris Duncan Body building high, about gave Duncan a new focus 4,000 or 5,000 calories a on working out and eating day. To get ready for comright. petitions, I'll cut it down to "I was in shape to do about 2,000 a day," he said. my job, but I wasn't train"When you get closer to ing to build muscles. I used the show , you start cutting to work out so I could eat carbs. It's a mental workwhat I wanted. I had to out." change the way I trained All year long, no matter and ate," he said. "It was the calorie count, Duncan like daylight and dark." see CHRIS pg 4 Return Address: P.O. Box 1292 Corinth, MS 38835
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Helping other women get healthy and fit is Jessica Duncan's goal weight and getting healthy by exercising. By Lucy Weber Once she started working out, Duncan wanted to Jessica Duncan wants to help other women get fit. do more than just exercise. "I decided if I was going to The Corinth resident owns a business, Inspire get fit, I needed a goal." Fitness, that she runs out of her home helping clients That goal was competition. She train to get in shape. She's operated her business started doing the bikini contests at for three years but has been a personal trainer body-building competitions in 2010. since 2005. She was inspired by her trainer who get "My main goal is to offer a clean facility for her interested in the competition. In turn, women to work out privately. Most women like Duncan inspired her husband Chris Duncan, a the private setting," she said. "I tailor each Corinth fire captain, to start his body building trainworkout to the individual. Some may want to ing in 2015. tone or another may want to put on muscle." Duncan said she does planning on competing in Duncan said she likes to meet with new any shows in 2019. Because of their hormones, getclients before starting training so she can ting in competition shape gets more difficult for find out about their lifestyle, health issues women as they get older. "It gets harder to get in or injuries or other important information to competition shape," she said. determine what best suits their needs. Potential Without competitions looming, Duncan said she clients can contact Duncan by email at inspirefitwill likely ease up on the cardio workouts that norness15@gmail.com to get started on their healthy mally would intensify as contests would approach. journey. For competitions, Duncan said she would Duncan started her own journey to fitness when she was 25. "I was overweight and got called on see DUNCAN pg 4 it," she said. That inspired her to start losing Jessica Duncan
With daughter cheering him on, Bennett keeps building muscles By Lucy Weber Not everybody has a cheering section during regular workouts, but Jake Bennett does. "My daughter goes to the gym with me. She'll stand beside me when I'm working out," said the Corinth firefighter about 2year-old daughter Eisleigh Kayce. "She'll act like she's working out. She's my little cheerleader." Bennett, 22, trains hard and eats cleanly as a body builder. As a former high school athlete and a firefighter for two years, he has always worked out.
Working under Capt. Chris Duncan at the fire station, Bennett said he witnessed Duncan's body
go pro with his body building. "I'm shooting for the stars to go for my pro card. I hope in the next five years to
buildget ing regit," he imen and said. was inspired to take Bennett said up the sport himself he's learned a lot about a year and a from Duncan half ago. Jake Bennett about how to eat Now he's havright to make sure ing fun with all the details that go into he's building muscles. "The building muscles, but more clean food you eat, Bennett said his goal is to the better. You've literally
got to fuel your body every two to three hours." Bennett eats six meals a day, and sometimes that's difficult to eat those thousands of calories each day. "That's a lot of food," he said. Each week Bennett said he sends a photo to his coach to show how he's progressing. "If I need to, he will bump the number of my carbs up or down." Since it's the off-season and his first competition isn't until July, Bennett said he eats thousands more calories daily. "I'm now see BENNETT pg 4