Looks like Peter Putnam is getting some TV time. He is on MTV's Made this weekend.
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http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/oct/30/local-bodybuilder-muscles-onto-mtv/Knoxville bodybuilder Peter Putnam is poised to transform an out-of-shape teenager on the next episode of MTV's makeover series "Made."
In the episode (airing 4 p.m. Saturday), Putnam will be a mentor to a West Tennessee teenager who wants to change his body image. The episode was shot last summer and spans an eight-week period.
Putnam had two months to get the teen into shape for a bodybuilding contest in Venice, Calif., at the Muscle Beach on the Venice Boardwalk. The teen learns how to train and eat like a bodybuilder in order to get into the best shape possible for the competition.
Such a task was difficult for Putnam, too. Of the teen, he says, "he had a love/hate relationship with bodybuilding."
The result was a 20-pound weight loss for the overweight teen, a goal that satisfied Putnam. But whipping the teen into a muscle-bound brute was not realistic, he says.
"He often looked at me like I was attacking him," Putnam says. "He didn't understand that my motive was to get the very best out of him possible."
