Wellbeing
Rachel Grunwell Get rid of love handles in time for the big day.
AREYOU A loved-up bride wanting to get rid of your “love-handles”? If you are, a Bridal Bootcamp competition is offering a $70,000 wedding prize.
Trainer and stuntman Tyrone Bell wants brides, grooms or anyone in a bridal party to register for his Bridal Bootcamp, which starts on October 20, an extension of his Legion Training plan. Even a father of a bride-to-be can enter to win a cash boost. Better still, the programme is virtual, so anyone can access it online, from anywhere in the country.
The sign-up fee of $99 gives participants a 13-week online programme designed by Bell and includes nutrition planning, even lifecoaching. This is about physically and mentally preparing for a special day.
The founder of the Legion Training fitness programme is known as the trainer for Spartacus actor Liam McIntyre and as a stunt performer on the Hercules and Xena TV shows. He’s been an orc too, in The Lord of the Rings.
He says at the end of training week 12, the top six buff bridal party members will be picked by judges to go head-to-head in a radio competition in which ZM listeners will choose the ultimate winner.
The winner will nab a dream wedding on Valentine’s Day next year, worth $70,000, including a designer wedding dress, with ZM’s Flynny as the wedding celebrant and MC, photography, an overseas holiday and more.
So what is Bell’s method to fat-shedding and muscle making? His transformation plan is focused on 80 per cent eating right and 20 per cent exercise. Contestants submit their measurements for 12 key body points, plus their weight, and will be provided with an eating plan of six meals a day, “calculated down to the gram”, says Bell.
He reckons contestants will be surprised to learn how much nutrient-rich food they’ll get to eat. He has been called “the carb Nazi”, but he allows some carbohydrates (the low GI kind). Coffee is okay. But if you want chocolate then you’ll likely not win this gig.
Once participants have signed up, Bell plans to offer some social — that means real life — bootcamps in various locations.
Bell says the judges are looking for the ultimate “transformation”, not necessarily the biggest fat loser, adding that the person with the best before and after “look” will likely be noticed by the judges.
But then they’ll have to charm the ZM listeners for the big prize.
Bell admits folk who lose the most fat will get a lot of “sympathy votes”.
“Really, anyone could win,” he says.“It’s about the best mind and body transformation.”
Asked if he was intending to hurt participants with his training, Bell jokes, “no, they will hurt themselves.” He means they will work hard at sticking to the food and exercise plan.
The programme eases participants into things for two weeks before starting a fivetimes-a-week routine of 45-minutes’ walking and hitting the gym for 19-minutes — that’s 1140 seconds.
“You don’t have to live in a gym to get results,” he says. “But participants will work out every second of those 19 minutes they train, isolating muscles with repetition weight sets, a stopwatch counting every second.”
Participants have access to lots of support online and through the Legion Training facebook community.
“The person who doesn’t cheat is going to be the person who wins,” he reckons. To sign up go to bridalbootcamp.me Follow Rachel on Twitter @RachelGrunwell