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This Fitness Atlantic was again at East Haven Performing Arts and this was the largest Fitness Atlantic to date with 250 contestants. The show ran from prelims to finals as one long show. This was the year the women took over! Lindsay Messina showed up to win Bikini and after that was on every fitness magazine cover. A total of 97 female contestants so even though there were more men in the show it was the most women compared to other physique events. This was also the year we introduced male fitness model and Lou Santiago won the men’s overall.
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This Fitness Atlantic was moved to East Haven Performing Arts Center at East Haven Connecticut and in a way was a good move. The Palace Theatre had something special about it being downtown New Haven yet East Haven had much more room backstage and was more modern and updated. This was a year the female divisions really started to match the male divisions. There was a total of 63 women in Bikini and Fitness and plus 8 female bodybuilders for 71 female contestants. Hugh Ross won the overall men’s divisions.
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New England Fitness Weekend was held in October 11th in Boston Massachusetts. This event had over 100 contestants and just happened to land on the same day as a Boston Red Sox against the New York Yankees also held in Boston, which hurt attendance. It was a great show being held in Boston and afterwards many other fitness shows rented this venue. The event had 16 in women’s fitness with Dawn Butterfield winning and the overall natural bodybuilder winner was Kevin Topka while Sean Larson showed up in top form.
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In the 2003 Fitness Atlantic held at the Palace Theatre ended up with 22 female bodybuilders and 16 in Fitness and 21 in Bikini, which is unheard of… this was 59 women in the show! This year also drew some incredible talent for the natural bodybuilding with the return of Morris Mendez, the first show featuring Ulisses Jr and Hugh Ross. This show felt like an end of an era with the closing on the Palace Theatre and a new venue the following year. Out of all of the years of the Fitness Atlantic this may just be the best bodybuilding of all of the shows.
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The Fitness Atlantic in 2002 was held at the Palace Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. This year the women’s division grew to 21 female contestants! Wendi West took the overall fitness division while Grant Johnson beat out returning champ Kofi Abrampah. The two were friends and both personal trainers from the same gym in Rhode Island. The former champion from 2000 Morris Mendez returned this year only the heavyweight class but Grant Johnson took the overall. This was the first year introducing Ms Bikini, which only had two contestants.
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In this Fitness Atlantic held at the Palace Theatre the women’s fitness division continued to grow and sixteen women entered and the winner was Michelle Freeman. The Top Five women qualified for nationals on ESPN. Kofi Abrampah was the overall winner of the men’s divisions and highlights from this event aired on multiple news networks throughout New England.
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The Fitness Atlantic was once again held at the Palace Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. Dawn Butterfield returned and the fitness division had grown from five contestants to eleven contestants in fitness. In this year the natural bodybuilding event drew the best and most competitive of Connecticut bodybuilders and Morris Mendez showed up and really became a star at this show. This event aired on ESPN’s American Muscle television show.
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The first Fitness Atlantic event was held in 1999 at the Palace Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut on May 1st 1999. This event was sanctioned with Fitness America Pageant, which aired on ESPN and ESPN II and the winner Dawn Butterfield qualified to enter the National Championships. This was also the first sanctioned Musclemania event outside of California and the event was drug tested. This show had 98 contestants.
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The behind the scenes training and preparation right up until Mo’s overall win at the 2003 Musclemania Atlantic! Mo shares his secrets in this exciting new DVD release.
This documentary covers Mo’s nutrition, diet, supplements, and training. Get behind the scenes and find out what it takes to become a pro natural bodybuilder. This item alone sells for the same price as the program and you get it free with your purchase!
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He is a celebrity in his home country of Guyana. As one of the military’s highest trained captains Hugh’s specialties were paratrooping, jungle warfare, amphibious operations, close quarter combat, and skills at arms. He holds a third degree black belt in Shotokan and second degree in Tae-kwan-do martial arts.
It is hard to believe that Hugh Ross’s first bodybuilding competition was in 2002 at the Fitness Atlantic. Stepping on stage for the first time Hugh entered the Men’s Novice division he also won the Men’s Master title in the over 40 class. Hugh returned to the Atlantic stage in 2003 and entered the Men’s Open division as a Light-Heavyweight and won. In 2004 he came in shredded to win the Light-Heavy and Atlantic Overall Title and then in 2005 took home the first Atlantic Professional overall trophy. Yes, he took the title home literally with donating his prize money to the Guyana Amatuer Bodybuilding Federation!
Physical training has always been part of Hugh’s life and he strives at being the best he can. Upon moving to the America Hugh became a powerlifting champion and professional natural bodybuilder. It is no wonder that people look up to Hugh all you have to do is look at his physique, but that is nothing in comparison to when you actually get to know to him and you get to really know the type of person he is – driven, determined, and focused.
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