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http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081214/SPORTS07/812140459 (http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081214/SPORTS07/812140459)
LaMond Pope / The Journal Gazette
Sacrifices help 30-year-old former wrestler claim national title
Scott Foster loves ice cream. Particularly chocolate.
But he had to go nearly a year without one of his favorite treats.
The sacrifice paid off when the Decatur native placed first in the bantamweight division at the 2008 NPC Nationals Bodybuilding, Fitness and Figure Championships in Atlanta on Nov. 21-22.
“It was amazing. It was honestly the best and biggest weekend of my entire life,” Foster said Wednesday. “It’s been 2 1/2 weeks now, and every time I think about it, it brings a smile to my face. It’s still sinking in.”
Foster topped a field of 18 participants. The bantamweight class is 143 1/4 pounds.
The event started with the weigh-in Thursday. The next night the competition got under way with the prejudging. Foster and the other competitors had to do certain poses the judges told them to do. Foster calls the prejudging period the “real competition.”
“That’s where it’s won,” he said.
The final night, Foster did poses to music. Others in the field thought Foster had it wrapped up, but he didn’t want to jinx himself. The awards were handed out, and Foster learned he had won.
“It was really intense,” Foster said of the competition. “When we are posing onstage and the judges are calling out the mandatory poses, you can feel the guy beside you and you can see the guy next to you out of the corner of your eye and you get a sense of how hard that guy is posing. You want to pose that much harder and squeeze as hard as you possibly can to bring out everything that you can.”
The preparation for the 30-year old, who is a teacher in Huntington, was just as intense.
“Sometimes it’s rough, but after awhile, the diet, the training, the lifting and the cardio, you get used to it and accustomed to it,” he said. “Cutting out or not doing certain things, it becomes easy to you, almost like second nature. You can’t do it. (If) I can’t eat it, or I can’t go out and do something, that’s not a big deal. When it comes to my dieting, my training, doing cardio, I have a tunnel vision. I have to do it, that is how it is.
“It’s a process, I enjoy every part of the process. Some days it’s hard, other days it’s a lot easier because I enjoy it so much.”
Foster, who wrestled for three years at Bellmont, got his start in bodybuilding in 2002 when a friend suggested he try it. A show at the 2002 Three Rivers Festival served as a learning experience.
Dieting became the toughest adjustment.
“Early on, I didn’t understand or realize how big the diet was a part of it,” Foster said. “As I progressed through it, I learned that more. The stricter the diet became the better I looked throughout my shows.”
He said he had to avoid eating “everything that tasted good.”
That included the ice cream.
“That’s what you have to do,” he said.
Through it all, he’s had the chance to travel to across the country, including South Carolina and Las Vegas, and compete. Foster’s favorite part of it all is the competition.
“As far as bodybuilding goes, a lot is you have to compete against yourself,” Foster said. “Some days you feel you’re too tired. But then you have to push yourself through it. I love every minute and every step of it all, as crazy as it sounds. I even like the cardio after awhile. In order to do it and be successful, you have to love it.”
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looks pretty impressive
good on him