Ultimate Fitness Challenge - Preliminary Round

Challenge Details - NxLabs® Ultimate Fitness Challenge

NxLabs® Ultimate Fitness Challenge is a physique-exhibition contest that emphasizes muscle tone over muscle size.

NxLabs® is offering participants a chance to register and track their progress in different categories against people from around the world. Three challenges are taking place in early 2009:

The NxLabs® Ultimate Fitness Challenge  is easy to enter and easy to win if you are up to the task. Enter the contest with some basic information, set some goals, submit some photos, track your progress and get your friends and family to vote for you. Random prizes and a grand prize of an Endorsement Contract with NxLabs® and a trip to the 2010 Arnolds will be awarded. The challenge has three rounds of Judging. There is 1 Preliminary round of judging, followed by a semi-final round and then the finals.

Preliminary Round 1: All mandatory poses

(based on total online votes for user profile)

  • Preliminary Round – the longest round, from January 15th, 2009 to June 15th, 2009.  People enter and get votes in this portion. The top 20 vote getters become semi-finalists. All competitor profiles will stay on the site for the course of the challenge and for an undetermined period thereafter. Visitors can continue voting for any competitor to be counted towards the People’s Choice Award.

Semi-final Round 2: All mandatory poses

(top five in each category, finalist based on online votes)

  • Semi-finals – from June 16th, 2009 to August 15th, 2009 the top 20 vote getters from the Preliminary round can post more images, and possibly videos of themselves to gain favour from the judges and their fans. This round is judged based on online votes and a final 5 are chosen.

Final Round 3: Posedown

(finalists only from all categories, winner based on NxLabs® Judging Team decision, and People’s Choice award via online votes)

  • The Finals – August 29th, 2009 - at this stage the 5 finalists submit a video of their final poses to be used as a virtual Posedown. The judges then choose a winner from the 5 finalists and that person is promoted on the site as the winner! This final round is judged by the NxLabs advisory/athlete panel to select the grand prize winner.

Mandatory Poses

Photos of these poses are required to win the competition. There is advice on how to take a good competition photo in the NxLabs blog. For full competition requirements please check out the full rules and regulations.

  • Front relaxed
  • Side relaxed
  • Abs (no thigh needed)
  • One free pose (i.e. their version of a fitness magazine cover)

Posedown

Each athlete will present a free pose set to music via video to be displayed on the website on a date to be set. The Posedown will not be less than 30 seconds and no more than 1 minute. This round is judged by the NxLabs® advisory/athlete panel to select the grand prize winner(s). This round is largely for the athletes to have a little fun and for the entertainment of the audience.

Enter now NxLabs® Ultimate Fitness Challenge Entry >>

Goal Setting

You set goals to help you focus and improve your training as well as give voters something to measure your performance against. They can be set as body goals in weight, size etc or in performance goals like lift weights and training program goals. You can also provide additional content with your stories, experiences and achievements in your personal blog entries. All available through your competition dashboard.