PART 2
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16. Avoid artificial sweetener hype. If you are like the rest of us, you see food products everywhere in flashy boxes that read “Sugar Free” and think…awesome, I can eat this and stay lean. Not so fast my friend!
Many of these foods have tons of calories and are LOADED with artificial ingredients. Most people don’t realize this because artificial sweeteners generally have zero calories, but artificial sweeteners can and will make you fat. How is this possible?
First, these fake sweeteners increase your appetite by sending false signals to the brain that sweet food is on the way. Your brain subsequently becomes confused when sweet food never arrives and so it never gives the signal that you are satisfied.
Plus they give you a constant sugar craving that never goes away…it only gets worse! If you have ever drank sugar free crystal light you know exactly what I mean!...
We are here with Craig Capurso…Congrats on the big win! 
What made you decide to compete in the Men’s Physique Division?
Thanks! I decided to compete to in order to get my face in front of the NPC crowd and sponsors. I've competed in other organizations in similar categories and have had success but the road usually just stops. With the NPC I saw this as an opportunity to grow as an athlete in ONE organization earn an IFBB pro card and have a career at doing something I love.
Can you tell us a little about the Competition you just competed in?
The Bev Francis Atlantic States held in NYC usually draws a good crowd from the past shows I've attended. This night was no different, there were 19 competitors in my class and some pretty stiff competition.
If you don't know what the 21 technique is let 
me explain it really quick. When doing any exercise you generally are operating in 2 separate ranges of motion. First range of motion is start point to midpoint and the second is midpoint to finish. Normally you perform an exercise using complete range of motion which would be start point to finish.
With 21's you instead perform 7 reps of an exercise in the first range of motion(start point to midpoint) , followed immediately by 7 more repetitions in the second range of motion (midpoint to finish), and immediately precede that by doing 7 more repetitions using full range of motion (Start-point to finish). This allows you to pre-exhaust the muscle you are training separately in each of the 2 ranges of motion before performing the exercise in its full range of motion...
If you are an athlete, or like to believe you were at one point,
think about the times in your life when you’ve felt the best. Now think about what you were doing physically and compare that to what you’re currently doing. If you’re like most people, chances are you felt like you were at the top of your game when you were doing some speed and agility work in conjunction with your strength training. I’m not talking about the grueling 5:00 AM conditioning sessions with the football team in high school. I’m talking about some well thought-out speed and agility work that had you moving fast and feeling explosive.
It’s an incredible feeling to feel light on your feet and able to move with a little spring in your step. It’s very different than the feeling of being strong or having great endurance. Those feel good too, but feeling athletic only comes from performing athletic movements on a consistent basis, and this feeling disappears quickly when it’s not used. Take one look at the way most bodybuilders or powerlifters move when they try to do something athletic. It’s not pretty. They get used to doing one thing, and their bodies forget how to move athletically.
I was at a fitness convention recently and had
the opportunity to meet and chat with nearly a hundred various competitive athletes. In these quick discussions, I got to hear a lot of these talent’s pitches. Unfortunately; after the first they, they all simply began to blend together as they were all nearly identical.
Evidentially, everyone I talked to had the exact same “life-long dream” and is “relentlessly dedication” and will “work very hard” to make the client happy.
It truly begs the question; if a client asks you why they should hire you and what makes you different from other applications and your answer is that you work hard and are passionate – is that to say that all of your competitors would say that they are lazy and unmotivated? I don’t think so.
So; what truly does make you unique compared to others? What is your differentiator? What makes a worthwhile differentiator are two things.
You may have heard that brows work like frames 
for the face, accentuating the eyes and helping to provide balance to facial features. So when I see a man who has brows which are so bushy that they overpower his features, I feel compelled to pull out some scissors and a tweezer and get to work. Of course the worst is the dreaded unibrow which can inspire fear in any attractive female...
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