3. LVB - Please tell us a little about the competitions in which you placed the highest.
CD - There have been so many that I have been privileged to rank high in. I always feel that this was only due to the encouragement of my coach, training partners and of course fans. Bodybuilding being such a personal sport makes not being chosen in the top a heart wrenching experience, especially after all the hard training, dieting and posing practice.
4. LVB - Share with us your typical weekly training schedule and routines.
CD - I usually train three days on and one day off. Day one is normally chest and back, day two is biceps and triceps, day three is shoulders and legs. Abs and calves are alternated during the training days.
5. LVB - What first got you interested in bodybuilding?
CD - Believe it or not I first became interested in bodybuilding at the age of 9. My brother wasn't allowed to go out without having me tagged along. He was training with a friend who at that time was a former Mr. Canada. I used to sit and watch for the entire time amazed that people could look so powerful. So as a child I started training with friends who had access to their fathers weight set.
6. LVB - How long have you been bodybuilding?
CD - I started when I was 9 and continued till I was 13. My mother stopped me then believing it was not an activity that a young developing girl should be involved in. I never gave up the weights and left home at 16 just so that I could join a real gym and get to some serious training.
7. LVB - How has our sport changed your life?
CD - How has bodybuilding changed my life is really a hard questions to answer because as far as I am concerned I have been doing it all my life and don't know how life would be without bodybuilding in it. As far as I can say it has giving me to opportunity to meet great people, discover other sports that are accentuated by the sport. It has given me self confidence and the freedom to be proud of my body and my accomplishments through my body.
8. LVB - Where are you living and training now?
CD - I currently live in British Columbia, Canada. I moved here 10 years ago from Toronto. And enjoy the quiet country life. Our new club is about a 15 minute drive into town. Its a wonderfully stocked private gym with a fantastic atmosphere.
9. LVB - Tell us about your gym, is it a small local place or a chain......do you have a trainer?
CD - The club I am at now is a local gym but by no means small. The owner has taken the time to make it into a competitive club. It has three floors, tones of free weights and of course machines. A great cardio selection and my favorite piece of equipment the heavy bag. I hate doing traditional cardio and love the heavy bag. When its warm enough I will go and do a long run on the mountain bike or hike the many mountain trails we have here.
10. LVB - How do people outside of the gym react when they see you?
CD - Well when I was in Toronto I used to get a lot of different reactions. Some positive and some very cutting. I have learned to take the negative comments and push them aside. But here in the small town everyone knows me due to the fact I managed the towns only club for years until I started my own art business. So for the most part I get great reactions and the occasional hug from someone that has not seen me for a while.
11. LVB - Are there many bodybuilders living in your area?
CD - British Columbia is home to many fine bodybuilders and powerlifters, in my area its another story though. There are not so many as I would like to have around. But when I judge contests we tend to all catch up on what is going on and who is new in the area .
11a. LVB - Do you supplement your income with work outside of bodybuilding?
CD - Yes, beside bodybuilding, I have the wonderful opportunity to be on FemaleMuscle' talk live line, and I have my own art business. I do intarsia otherwise more simply put,inlayed wood art. Which I love designing and working with the wood. It gets your mind in a totally different area than your accustomed to.
12. LVB - What do your friends and family think of your serious dedication to the sport?
CD - Most of my friends are involved in sports in one form or another so they are great motivational companions for me. My family is another matter. My father is all for me doing bodybuilding and wrestling. My mother is more traditional in her views of femininity and so is my older sister. My brother doesn't say much but knows he is the one that put my feet on this wonderful journey in the first place.
13. LVB - Tell us about your diet for the 3 or 4 weeks before a competition?
CD - Aw diet that terrible word that makes or breaks a great evening of competing. I usually start dieting about 6 weeks out. I have always like to ease into the hardest part of bodybuilding with less stress and worry. I find that during that time the food gets blander and more dry but I will not share my secrets past down to me by Canada's one and only Mack Maya. Once pound for pound the worlds strongest man and owner of Toronto's oldest gym "Mack's Gym"
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