ANTHONY MARMON
For years
he's been one of the country's best amateur bodybuilders. Learn more
about him as he makes his push for professional status.
If
you visit AnthonyMarmon.com and click on the title “contests”
right below the main title, you'll see 26 contests listed. Of all the
competitions he's ever entered, the one that gave him the most
satisfaction was the Sacramento, California 2005 NPC, in which
he won the overall title. This culminated years of hard work and
dedication, and the crowd of contestants vying for the title was not
small.
He had begun
lifting a little before July 1987, spurred on by a relative. He
quickly found that working out, setting goals, and achieving them
gave him enormous satisfaction. He's still at this, spurred on by
one of the greats of bodybuilding, Charles Glass, down in Venice,
California. You might look at Anthony right now and fail to see
where he could improve, but there are always fine points to improve,
define and sharpen, and perceiving these is one of Glass' great
abilities. Every so often, Anthony goes down to Southern California
for a Glass inspection to be sure he continues to improve where he
needs to.
Ask Anthony
who has inspired his bodybuilding career thte most, and he names two0
people: Charles Glass and Bev Francis. Glass he heled with guidance
on innumerable fine points, and Francis has simply encouraged him
greatly.
It is true
that anyone starting bodybuilding can improve their strength and
appearance through training. But the greats achieve their greatness
in several important ways beyond just having excellent genetics for
the sport. First, a person has to have raw genetic talent. Luckily,
Anthony was born with this. But like all fine bodybuilders, Anthony
encountered others on the road to greatness.
Diet
Ask
Anthony to comment on diet, and he will tell you, “You are what you
eat.” After many years of dieting, it has come to be second nature
to him, as it does to most accomplished bodybuilders. But that
doesn't mean that it isn't constantly reviewed and changed according
to his competition goals.
He
goes through two main phases: 1) Adding weight in the form of muscle;
and 2) Carving down and losing fat so his muscles are as defined as
possible.
Here, for
instance, is his off-season diet:
Anthony
often trains early in the morning, at four or five a.m. then . . . .
6
a.m. An hour later, he eats breakfast, which consists of 8 ounces
of chicken breast plus one cup of cooked brown rice.
9
a.m. 3 hours after breakfast, he eats 8 ounces of tilipia, a cup of
cooked jasmine rice. He also takes his supplements.
12
noon 3 hours later, he has his third meal of the day, which
consists of 8 ounces of red meat (lamb, buffalo or beef) and 8 ounces
of red or white potatoes.
3
p.m. 3 hours later, for his fourth meal of the day, he eats 8
ounces of 92% lean ground turkey and 1 cup of spinach.
6
p.m. 3 hours later he eats 3 ounces of tilipia and 2 cups of cooked
spinach.
If
you are not “cut” but follow this diet scrupulously, within
several days you will begin to see small differences in your body.
They may be small, but over several months they will add up and
improve your bodybuilding appearance very clearly.
Notice
that the diet carefully avoids sugar, salt and fat. One of the
disappointments Anthony has now and then is coming across someone who
wants to be a bodybuilder and who has the genetics to be great in the
sport, is to discover that the person just cannot give up Big Macs
and other foods that destroy a bodybuilder's ability to transform
into competition shape. Diet is merciless. Either one has the
discipline to eat a strict bodybuilding diet or one doesn't.
Only
later will you begin to cut the quantity of carbs you eat. This diet
also assumes that you do some form of cardio exercise almost daily.
Anthony's
Present Goals and Activities
Anthony
presently trains at Simi Tufuga's Gym in Emeryville, California,
where he also trains several private clients. His situation changes
from time to time, but at the moment of this writing he has room,
perhaps, for one more client. His goal at this point is to earn the
status of “professional” in an important competition coming up,
either the 2017 or 2018 Mr. Olympia. His physique concerns right now
focus on what most people might see as minor improvements in his back
and arms. But to Anthony these “minor improvements” may spell
the difference between reaching the goal of becoming a professional
or not. Despite having been in literally dozens of competition and
having won many during his 28 years of training and competition, the
goal of gaining the title of “professional” still lies ahead. He
is fortunate in having a family that lives with his goal and that
wants him to succeed, and 2017 or 2018 may be when he finally does.
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