Brittany Webb

Starting Weight: Jan. 2016 – 275.6lbs

Ending Weight: March 2016 – 246.2lbs

Total Weight Lost – 29.4lbs

Brittany Webb is our 2016 woman’s biggest loser. She began training at Flex in Sept of 2015 under the guidance of IFBB Pro, Mercedes Bazemore.  Brittany says she has been overweight her whole life and it “was time for a change”.  She lost a few pounds and gained overall fitness but then came the Biggest Loser announcement. Something clicked and she got serious about her training and her diet – Mercedes noted the change in attitude and the race was on!

Brittany followed a basic low carb and high protein diet. No processed food, low sodium – and of course her favorite chips and bread were off limits.  She admits to a lack of knowledge about nutrition but now appreciates the “Eat to Live, not Live to Eat” philosophy.  Hiring a personal trainer was important for her accountability and knowledge.

10 Weeks and 29.4 lbs later, Brittany is a new and smaller version of herself. Her winning combination of 3 strength training workouts per week and 30 minutes of walking per day gave her the victory. However, she is not done yet. She and Mercedes have cooked up another 10 week challenge for Brittany. We are confident that this gal can achieve anything she sets out to do!

2016 Flex Gym Biggest Loser “Winner” Male

Chris Taylor

Starting Weight: Jan. 2016 – 185.2lbs

Ending Weight: March 2016 – 161.4lbs

Total Weight Lost – 23.8lbs

Can you say “TWO PEAT”?? Congratulations (again) to Chris Taylor – winner of the 2016 Men’s Biggest Loser Contest.

Despite being in the lightest men’s category, Chris dropped 23.8lbs over the 10 week period for a very respectable 12.85%.

He was inspired this year by a different book and diet plan “Eat to Live” by Joel Fuhram. For this diet, dairy and animal products are off limits for 6 weeks. Vegetables, beans and fresh fruit are emphasized. Meat is reintroduced after a 6 week period.

Chris was a championship wrestler in high school and college so is well versed in dieting! After the 2015 contest, he gradually gained back 10 of the pounds he had lost. This year he not only lost those 10 lbs, but an additional 13.8 lbs also disappeared.

His disciplined strength workouts, cardio sessions and diet plans have given him super results. Hats off to our TWO PEAT winner!

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-Weigh-Ins: May 6th, 6pm-8pm & May 7th, 7:30am-9:00Am

-Rules Meeting 9:30am lifting begins 10am

-Entry Fee: $45.00 ($55.00 after April 30th) cross over division additional $20.00, Team fee $45.00 per team (minimum 3 lifters, maximum 10 lifters per team)

-Not Allowed: bench shirts, gloves, elbow sleeves, deadlift suits, knee wraps, lifting straps

-Allowed: wrist wraps, belts and knee sleeves

-Entry forms available at Flex Gym any questions please call Rachel Podruchny or Zach Smith at 757-631-2445

Team Flex won the Team Trophy – defeating Brute Strength by 2 points!! Very close contest with our guys and gals coming through for us. THANKS!!
Al and I want to thank all of the sponsors, judges, tabulators, announcers, set up and clean up crews and spectators. We started doing these meets in 2004. We could not plan and run these meets without your help. It is appreciated.
Special thanks to Bill and Rita Francis who furnish the Biggest Lift of the Day Awards and Discount Supplements Direct (Hilltop location) who supplies the Best Lifter Awards.

13 new meet records.
11 new Flex Gym records

Looking forward to the next meet in spring of 2015.

Deadlift Results Male/Female

Bench Press Results Male/Female

This picture kind of says it all!!  Saturday was a perfect day for 80 lifters to showcase their talents.  Teams from Flex, Powerhouse Gym and Booker T. Washington High School plus many “independents” participated in the biggest meet flex has ever put on.

14 meet records were broken in the bench meet and 12 records fell in the deadlift meet.

Fred Littlejohn put on a show with his 735# deadlift, Kenny benched 400# at a body weight of 181#, Wanda, Lesa, Nicole, Muriel and Laura showed that power lifting is not for men only!!  New teen lifter Siappy Mann represented the younger crowd with some great lifts.  The list goes on and on as Flex records, meet records and personal bests were crushed.  Al and I are so proud of all of our lifters and thank you for keeping the Team trophy at home in Flex where it belongs.

We couldn’t have done it without our generous sponsors, judges, weight loaders, spotters and expeditors.  Special tanks to Rachael for stepping up and running the tabulations. Great job in new territory for her.  Bill Francis as the announcer kept us all in line with a little help from Jeff Turner, our long time head judge.

If you weren’t here as a particpant or a spectator, you missed quite a show this year. Stay tuned for the date of next year’s meet in spring of 2013.  We would love to see you as a lifter or a supporter.

Thanks – you guys are the best!!

Deadlift Results

Bench Press Results

Click here to see the 2012 Biggest Loser Results