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Greg Doucette Interview with CBB
CBB Handle: gregdoucette
Age: 35
Height: 5 feet 7"
Occupation: teacher / trainer
Hometown: Yarmouth NS
Currently Residing: Halifax
Have you always been an active person - did you play sports in your youth?
I have always been extremely active. I played all sports growing up but i never liked team sports as much as individual sports because I wanted to see how hard i could push myself. I was highly dedicated to cycling running swimming and triathlons growing up.
What made you get into bodybuilding/powerlifting competitions?
I started powerlifiting after winning local bench press contests that I entered just for fun and did my first bodybuilding show after a friend showed me a video of a bodybuilding competition and I figured I could beat the winner so I should enter.
How has the sport impacted your life?
The sport has not impacted my life because it is my life. Its what makes me want to get up in the morning each day. Ive managed to get a great sponsor in "MUTANT" and a few magazine covers as well and inside magazine exposure. Its also helped me become more credible as a personal training and nutrition consultant.
Who do you look up to in the industry and who has helped you along the way?
I first looked up to Rick Doucette (another CBB member) who was a bodybuilder in Yarmouth and still competes to this day.
Favourite foods for dieting? For cheating?
Dieting: Mutant Pro protein shakes with strawberries, Protein Pancakes, Spinach salad
Non diet: Ice Cream, hot hamburg fries and peas
Are there any sports supplements that you cannot live without?
Mutant Pro bars ( I eat at least 5 boxes a month)
Mutant Rage (Its basically like taking 5 supplements in one and gives me the intensity I need in the gym to lift crazy ass weights)
Mutant Pro protein powder ( i have 3 scoops at least 2 times a day both pre-contest or off season
Are you sponsored by a company? If so, who?
My sponsor Is "Mutant" check out iammutant.com
You compete in both powerlifting and bodybuilding events. How has one sport influenced the other? Did you first get into powerlifting then bodybuilding or did bodybuilding inspire you to lift really heavy weight?
When I first lifted weights I just wanted to be really strong and by age 13 I was benching more then all the high school kids. I entered an won local bench press contests but had not yet discovered that powerlifting was a sport. I then entered bodybuilding while continuing to get stronger in the bench press. At age 22 I finally discovered the sport of powerlifting and began squating lower and deadlifting. At my first powerlifting meet I broke the national bench press record yet got last place in the sqaut and deadlift. 13 years later my deadlift is approaching the world record because I kept at it year after year. I do not have great genetics for either powerlifting or bodybuilding what I do have is consistent dedication for 25 years.
Having been an active member on various bodybuilding and fitness forums for many years, what do you find positive about interacting with other members on them and what do you find negative?
The positive is that you can learn from other people and motivate each other to improve. The negative is that many people online are just out there to put other people down in order to feel better about there own lack of dedication
What is a typical day for you when prepping for a show?
Its really no different then when not prepping for a show aside from the extra cardio. I get up drink a shake eat a pancake and go to work. Eat my Tupperware meals at work come home eat again and then head out to the gym for about 2- 2.5 hours first doing a cardio warm up followed by lifting weights and then another hour or more of cardio before coming home to eat again and go to bed.
What do you find the most difficult about this sport?
There are only 2 things that make bodybuilding and powerlifting difficult, the final few weeks before a contest when energy levels are low, and staying motivated when injured. Other then that its easy because when you love something so much you'd rather do that then anything else. Honestly my days off from the gym are always my least favorite days.
When will we next see you on stage?
In 2012 I will be doing the NS provincials and Atlantics as a light heavyweight and then attempting to get my pro card at the 2012 nationals in order to compete as a 202 pro.
Can you provide us a workout routine for a week? Same for what she/he eats for any given day.
Training Program
Day 1 Quads and Hamstrings (squat focus)
Day 2 Chest shoulders triceps (bench press focus)
Day 3 Back (deadlift focus)
Day 4 Biceps, calf’s abs
Day 5 Off
Day 6 Repeat
Nutrition Program Powerlifting/Off season bodybuilding
Meal 1
3 scoops of Mutant pro protein power with strawberries and bananas
Meal 2
3 Protein Pancakes with Sorbee maple syrup
Meal 3
2 large chicken wraps with fat free cheese slices, tomatoes, chicken, and lettuce
Meal 4 (Pre-workout)
Mutant RAGE
Huge Banana Sandwich and mutant pro bar
During Workout Glutamine Maxx blue raspberry and Mutant Pro Bar
Post-workout
3 scoops of Mutant pro protein power
with strawberries and bananas
Meal 5
Chicken Breast, 2 cups peas and 2 potatoes, fat free cheese slices and fat free sour cream
Meal 6
Mutant pro bar and chicken or egg whites.
Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W54O1...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTqTu3HghAk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAeYd186IYU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt5NK...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Fut4eoItg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n7X6...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMwZTqjMkcY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WojLZjGY8hw
For current contest history, please view the Greg Doucette Profile
