The first IFBB pro bodybuilding contest of 2012 will be coming up son, and it will be very interesting to see which rookies, pros and comeback competitors will vie to compete. The FLEX Pro is back, and Year Two promises to be one of the highlights of the 2012 IFBB Pro League season! The FLEX Pro will kick off 2012 by showcasing the IFBB’s elite – in both bodybuilding and fitness!

With the first IFBB Men’s Pro Contest coming to Santa Monica on February 18th, the competitor lists have just come out (although more names may come on the list). For those of you who don’t know where Santa Monica is, it is about 10 miles north of Los Angeles Airport, or 10 miles west of downtown Los Angeles. Or 3 miles north of Muscle Beach Venice.

Here are the competitor lists for the Flex Pro –

1. Fouad Abiad
2. Grigori Atoyan
3. Lionel Beyeke
4. Lionel Brown
5. Eduardo Correa da Silva
6. Constantinos Demetriou
7. Mark Dugdale
8. Stan Effeding
9. DeShaun Grimez
10. Rusty Jeffers
11. Ben Pakulski
12. Shawn Rhoden
13. Vladimir Sizov
14. Mehmet Yildirim

From this list, the favorites are Fouad Abiad, Ben Pakulski, Ed Correa, Lionel Beyeke and Shawn Rhoden, but anything can happen on contest day.

There will also be a IFBB Pro Fitness competition there… this is the current competitor list so far.

1. Jodi Boam
2. Myriam Capes
3. Bethany Cisternino
4. Allison Either
5. Adela Garcia
6. Oksana Grishina
7. Paula Gulman-Williams
8. Tanji Johnson
9. Michele Mayberry
10. Camala Rodriquez
11. Sheri Vucick

Adela Garcia, the current Fitness Olympia, is competing here, as well as some of the top fitness pro competitors out there.

Throw in the second-ever FLEX Bikini Model Search Los Angeles and it all adds up to one of the biggest bodybuilding weekends ever in Southern California! For more information, tickets and info, please go to the official website.