The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday August 7, 2002 - D3 Ontario `strong man' 10th at nationals By Lindsey Craig O A K V ILLE BE AV ER STAFF Ontario's strongest man, Mark Lozer, isn't the slightest bit discouraged with his 10th place per formance at the national strong man competition held this past weekend. In fact, he's "more moti vated" than ever to improve for next year. Two weeks ago, the 20-year-old Oakville resi dent earned the title of Ontario's Strongest Man, which advanced him into this past weekend's Canadian strong man championships in North Bay. "Making the top 10 was my goal, so I guess I did alright," he said, adding, "I had some bad events which was a little disappointing, but I guess I met my goal." The national stage was not new to the six-foot, 230-pound local weightlifter, who was the youngest and lightest competitor in both the provincial and national contests. Last year he came fourth in the Ontario Strong Man competition and 12th at the national level. Having used his past experiences to improve for this year's events, it seems Lozer will also use this past weekend's experience to prepare for 2003. He explained that in the Canada's Strongest Even so, putting on a mere eight pounds will Man contest, weights were equivalent to that of the still mean that Lozer is one of the lightest con World's, and significantly higher than the load he's tenders, as his opponents are often more than 300 accustomed to at the provincial level. pounds. This year's victor, returning champion For example, he said that in one event, called the Hugo Girard of Quebec, for example, weighed in at, Farmer's Walk, contestants are required to walk 320. while holding the handles of oxen cylinders. The Lozer explained, however, that there was an weight increase from the Ontario championships to ' advantage to his smaller size. the national level was from roughly 270 pounds to "In events like the truck pull, you're using your 300 pounds. The extra weight, he said, made a con body weight as leverage, so the heavier you are it siderable difference in his performance. means you can create more momentum. But on the "I learned a lot about my weaknesses. I need to other end, people like me can use their speed and work on maximizing my strength more," he said, athletic ability for speed events," he said. adding that he'd like to put on about eight pounds As for his immediate future, Lozer said that in for next summer. September he will return to his kinesiology studies To do that, Lozer said he'll slightly change his at the University of Western Ontario, where he'll training regime by concentrating more on his "gym also prepare for next summer's strong man compe strength". titions. "I'll keep training heavier and heavier," he said. For those interested in catching Lozer's per Lozer also added that he would not be compet formance at Canada's Strongest Man, tune into ing again until next summer's Ontario champi TSN later this month when the event will be tele onships, taking the year to boost his strength. vised. ``With the Ontario's and the Canadian's back to Oakville's Mark Lozer back, I'm pretty tired," he said. "So I'll just take the rest of the year off and train." Peter McCusker · O akville B ea ver Oakville body building duo are grateful for the sponsorship of Good Life Fitness (Continued from page D1) Meeting up with Derma gave him the impetus to change his focus in the last year. More than that, it also gave him a ready made training regimen, as he followed right in step with Derm a's training regimen. Thankfully, for them, Good Life Fitness at Dorval and North Service Road, has chipped in sponsorship. Their typical regimen leading up to the com petition had them "in the gym twice a day doing cardio work which can range anywhere from 30 to 50 minutes per session. "And then there's your workout with the weights, six times a week, anywhere from one hour to 90 minutes a session," said Derma. "There's a misconception that you're in there three to four hours a day ju st lifting weights. It's ju st not so, especially two months out from the contest. "The body building aspect to getting ready for a contest is usually done by,the time you're six to eights weeks out from a show. "You're not looking at building (muscle) mass, you're looking at getting into contest shape which is definition, separation between muscles and is strictly burning fat and main taining muscle mass. "You try to peak at the right time." Diet is also important. "T hat's the thing that separates the guys who are able to get to stage and the guys who just build some muscle in the gym," said Rudolph. "The training becomes more intense, the carb depletion gets more and more, and as you get closer to contest, you get more and more fatigued, you become weaker and yet the train ing stays at an intense level. "Your mood goes up and down a lot and psychologically, mentally, it's a really, really tough battle with the diet. "1 would say body building in relation to any other sport out there, when you get to an extreme level of competition you're pushing your body and quite often your mind to its far levels. "And it's probably not, in terms of health, the healthiest thing for your body, physically or mentally, but that's what separates competitive athletes from your average player, whether it's golf or whether it's tennis or whether it's body buildins. "You get to a competitive level and the harder you push yourself, the better you're going to do. "Anybody can walk out on stage and present themselves to a panel of judges, but the onus falls on the athlete, at some point, whether you're going to walk out there in the best shape you can be. "And that's where self discipline comes in. in terms o f your training and dieting. Nobody is there with you at 2 a.m. with the fridge downstairs full of Haggan Daz ice cream." The toughest part of the whole process, said Rudolph, may very well be the dieting process just before the competition. "You're on about a drop of water -- about 500 millilitre of water over two and a half days. "The idea is to get the skin almost like paper. As you're eating the body is pulling water from the skin and getting tighter and tighter. "The final stage, then, is to draw out some of the water in your body to show off a little bit more definition. "It's just a matter of cutting off the water that you've been consuming in large quantities for a number of months. "And the body reacts quite strongly to that dehydration. It draws out the water, and for those two days you begin to look even more defined. "But physically it is very tough on you. "You do the show, you go through the con test. You're working strictly on adrenaline on the day of the show. "You think the day before, how am I going to manage to get out of bed the next day and actually go on stage, you're feeling so deplet ed. "But you wake up the day of the contest and you're pumped and ready to go. You get out there and do what you got to do and best man walks away with the trophy. "I think ultimately everyone that enters the contest, regardless of how they look when they walk out there, has had to impose some kind of discipline in their life and they make a lot of sacrifices along the way. "They set a goal for themselves, and getting out on that stage, they've achieved the goal, and I think everyone walks away a winner." Aziz credits her fitness instructor at 24hr. Family Fitness Centres for great results (Continued from page D1) long, and that's the ideal way to do it, building bulk, building muscle and then 12 weeks out you go on the diet to bum the fat but maintain the mus cle. That's the trick is to have all the muscle there on the day of the show and have the optimum amount of fat on your body. "It's a total science." The diet culminates two or three days before competition. "You have to dehydrate yourself. You stop drinking water. Some people will start three days before but that's not terribly healthy. "You have got to get rid of that lit tle bit of water so all the muscles show. So you stop drinking water on the Thursday afternoon and the com petition's on Friday. So the only liquid you can have is black coffee, just a sip, to get down your dandelion root pills which are dieuretics. So you're quite thirsty by the time the competi tion comes. "And then, right after you do your competition, then you can drink. It's incredible, that night when it's over, when everyone goes out and drinks and eats. They've got it all planned, where they're going to go, what they're going to eat -- all the bad things. "You literally put on 10 pounds in a day, just because now you're drinking the water and your cells soak up the water. You're putting in all those carbs. You don't necessarily look a lot bigger but you put on the weight." Aziz will return to the M usdemania next year. "I find having that goal there, it keeps me going. I need a goal. I'm a very goal oriented person. So that'll keep me motivated all winter long to eat really well and to keep training hard and to keep looking good." She figures she can beat this year's winner, from the U.S. "I know exactly what I have to work on. Each time. I've improved. This time, everything was awesome except my hamstrings and so my train er has got some ideas and he hopes we can get those looking great." Her trainer from day one has been Sean Everingham from 24 hr. Family Fitness Centres at Winston Park and the QEW. She's so happy with the results, she now goes to the Hamilton location where he has been promoted to the head fitness instructor. Aziz' new found dedication to fit ness also motivated her to take up badminton again with a new vengeance, not that she ever gave it up completely. Actually, when she turned 35 she resumed her national career, pulling off an upset, with an unranked partner, to win the over-35 national doubles crown. Since that time, she has played the national championships whenever they were played close to home. She was motivated to play this year's nationals which were held in Ottawa. Next year, they're in Montreal and she wants to defend her doubles crown as well as add the singles crown. H i m y name is Rachel Killingbeck. I h a v e h a d m y p a p e r ro u te w ith th e O a k v ille B e a ve r fo r 8 m o n th s a n d I e n jo y d e liv e rin g th e p a p e rs v e ry ,m u c h . I'm 1 0 y e a rs o ld a n d I g o to P in e g ro v e P ub lic S c h o o l. I'm g o in g in to g ra d e 4 I lik e to p la y H o c ke y, S o c ce r a n d V o lle y b a ll. B ut th e th in g th a t a lik e d o in g b e st is s p e llin g , H e a lth y k id s d a y a t th e Y M C A a n d g o in g to th e m o vies. Rachel Killingbeck Another gold medal for Hunter George at W0D Burloak Canoe Club paddlers in the elementary program (ages 8 to 14) par ticipated in the Western Ontario Division (WOD) trials and champi onships this past Saturday (August 3). The races on Lake Wilcox in Richmond Hill were a qualifier for the Ontario Championships (top four in bantams) and the Cloverleaf Regatta (top three in both peewee and bantam). The Ontario championships will be held at Rideau Canoe Club in Ottawa on Saturday (August 10) and the Cloverleafs (featuring Ontario and Quebec) at Carleton Place on Sunday. Hunter George, a bantam kayaker. took gold in his singles race. George had won gold in the same event at the Ontario Summer Games last month. Tessa Oldershaw was the first pee wee girl to cross the finish line in her K1 race. Oldershaw teamed up with Erin Beaver and Sloane George and Hannah George to place second in the peewee K4 event. Chris Andison paddled his kayak to a second place finish in the peewee boys event. The elementary program at Burloak encourages team spirit and lots of fun while learning to sprint canoe and kayak. The program will be winding up for the summer with their summer cele bration barbecue and the Rubber Duck Race at noon on August 14. Here are the Burloak highlights for the Western Ontario Division trials. Peew ee W om en K -l: 1 Tessa O ldershaw ; 8 Sloane George K-2: 3 Sloan G eorge/Tessa O ldershaw K-4: 2 Sloane George/H annah G eorge/Erin B eaver/Tessa O ldershaw Peew ee M en K -l: 2 Chris A ndison; 5 Jordan van Veen K-2: 3 Chris Andison/Jordan van Veen K-4: 5 Dallas Bliss/B rad Johnson/C hris A ndison/Jordan van Veen C-4: 5 Chris Andison/Jordan van Veen/Brad Johnson/D allas Bliss B antam W omen K -l: 5 Tessa O ldershaw K-4: 4 Tiiu H ohm ann/A lana Bliss/Tessa O ldershaw /Sloane George C - l: 3 Alana Bliss C-2: 3 Tessa/O ldershaw /A lana Bliss Bantam Men K -1: 1 H unter George K-2: 6 Peter M ilw ay/H unter G eorge C-4: 5 H unter G eorge/K irk Johnson/Peter Mil w ay/Jam ie Beaver. Winning Carriers receive a large 3 topping pizza courtesy of: OHjb avio's # 7 P iz z a,? To join our delivery team call 905-845-9742 `Horns host semifinal Saturday, 6 p.m. Hot off their perfect 9-0 regular season, the Oakville Longhorns will now try to main tain perfection in the playoffs. The Oakvillebased, men's football powerhouse will host a Northern Football Conference (NFC) semifinal game this Saturday, 6 p.m., at Bronte Field, against Mega City Maddogs. The other semifinal will be right next door with Mississauga Wolverines host ing North Bay Bulldogs at 7 p.m. at Mississauga Valley. Both Oakville and Mississauga, who finished onetwo, respectively, received byes in last weekend's preliminary round playoffs. The favourites all won, third-place North Bay trouncing sixth place Belleville Panthers 35-16; and third place Mega City edging Markham Raiders 14-12. The 'Horns have finished in first place the last 10 years and are after their 10th straight NFC playoff championship. Last year, they beat Mississauga Wolverines 36-34 in a thrilling NFC final. The "Horns have also won the fledgling Canadian national championship the past two years. LflURfl August Events at Bronte Creek-- A u g u s t 10 & 11 - Birds o f B ronte Live birds! 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