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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="04bfd5a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Rusty's Page</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |    </B><B> </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rustys Page"><U><B>HOME</B></U></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>                           </B></I><I><B>Believe It or Not!!!</B></I></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="04cd2b03.jpg"> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="paintball.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Paintball"><U>Paintball</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="laws.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Paintball LAWs Launcher"><U>Paintball LAWs Launcher</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="pnuematic.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pneumatic Spud Launcher"><U>Pneumatic Spud Launcher</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="combustion.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Combustion Spud Launcher "><U>Combustion Spud Launcher </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="rockhorse.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Allys Rocking Horse "><U>Ally's Rocking Horse </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bcb.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Projects for Buffas Dance Studio Burke "><U>Projects for Buffa's Dance Studio & Burke Civic Ballet</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="nutcracker_cannon.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nutcracker SmokeRing Cannon"><U>Nutcracker Smoke-Ring Cannon</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="nutcracker_clock.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Nutcracker Owl Clock"><U>Nutcracker Owl Clock</U></A></div> <div> <B>Believe It or Not!!!</B></div> <div> <A HREF="photos.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Galleries"><U>Galleries</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="videos.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Videos"><U>Videos</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="contact.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Me"><U>Contact Me</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#C0C0C0" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <I><B>I mainly added this page, because in my current state of total doughboy-ness, many people don't believe I ever looked as "svelt" as I did, before my kids were born.  That's right I was a bodybuilder.  </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>I lifted, roughly, four times a week for no more than 40 minutes a day.  (Did I say that everything I did, was of my own doing...No drugs for me...That's cheating, besides I could've lost my job.)  I used a high intensity training routine, which is basically, warm up and then lift heavy, heavy weight for low rep counts.  My daily calorie intake was about 6000 calories a day.  I ate about a pound of chicken breast, two cans of tuna, 3 jars of yogart, a cup of rice, lots of skim milk, lots of protein powder and drank a dozen egg whites every day.  Along with drinking 2 gallons of water.  I never wavered.  I drove my wife crazy.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>When it came time to "cut up" for a competition, the only thing I would change is that I added a gallon of water to my daily intake and I started every day with aerobic training BEFORE my first meal.  (I typically used my breakfast as my biggest meal of the day, then shrunk each meal as the day went on.  Eating 6 to 8 meals a day.)</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The picture was of my last bodybuilding competition, in June of 1996, a month before my first daughter was born.  After she was born, I went on to compete in a couple of powerlifting competitions, but that ended when my shoulder went blewy.  My highest bench press (without the aide of a bench shirt) was 415 lbs.  With a bench shirt and forearm wraps, I did 425lbs.  </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>So, without further adieu:</B></I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B> <TABLE BORDER="4" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="287" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#A0A0A4" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="271"><div> <I><B>Before:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Age 1 - 1969</B></I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 372 ><NOBR><bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="2f1115e0.jpg" border=0 width="273" height="350" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B> <TABLE BORDER="4" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="565" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#A0A0A4" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="545"><div> <I><B>And to prove I was always a stud:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Age 4 - 1973</B></I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 366 ><NOBR><div> <I><B><IMG SRC="313f8680.jpg" border=0 width="248" height="360" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <I><B><IMG SRC="315f8680.jpg" border=0 width="248" height="360" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></I></div> <div> <I><B> <TABLE BORDER="4" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="527" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#A0A0A4" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="511"><div> <I><B>After:</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Age 27 - 1996</B></I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 585 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="http://www.thelloydsonline.com/posing.jpg" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="http://www.thelloydsonline.com/posing.jp"><U><I><B><IMG SRC="3209e430.jpg" border=0 width="414" height="579" ALT="Practice posing!!!" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 562 ><NOBR><div> <I><B><IMG SRC="2ed022c0.jpg" border=0 width="514" height="556" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></I></div> <div> <I><B> </B></I></div> </td> </tr></table></body>