After eight years of working, toning, diet and amateur competitions, bodybuilder, Victor Oliver is set to embark on his career with his first ever professional competition in Nashville, TN this June.
Oliver is one of a new breed of bodybuilders, dedicated to natural bodybuilding without any steroid use of any kind. “I belong to two different bodybuilding organizations that ensure all the body builders remain drug free – the Unites States Bodybuilding Federation and National Gym Association,” said Oliver. “We are drug tested, take polygraphs and provide urinalysis so that they can keep the drugs out of our sport.”
Looking at Oliver’s physique, it is hard to understand why anyone would need steroids to achieve success. The bodybuilder has been working on natural techniques since 2001 when he decided to give up boxing and running and take up the more personal sport of bodybuilding.
“It is not easy to make the transition from eating regularly to the regimen required to be successful at natural bodybuilding,” said Oliver. The toned man stated that when he first started adjusting his diet from junk food to all natural, watching his protein, carbohydrate, and fat intake, eschewing salt and other sodium-based spices, he had severe cravings, but has trained himself to ignore those in favor of what is required by his sport.
“I still go into a grocery store and walk past the chocolate, touch the packages and then have to pull myself away,” said the smiling bodybuilder.
Whatever sacrifice he has had to make these past eight years seem to be paying off for the 43-year-old man. Oliver qualified this past year to compete in his first ever professional competition. When asked how he had managed to do so, Oliver told TBN that he had to win two pro qualifier competitions. “You don’t just have to win your weight class, you have to win the whole competition,” said Oliver.
He explained that the competitions are fierce. “We get out bodies judged in a preliminary round and then get a minute on stage to perform our own routines. Then if we win our weight class, we are put into competition with all the other bodybuilders from each class to be judged. Only when we win that final round have we qualified.”
Because being a professional is so expensive, some of Oliver’s supporters have decided to throw a fundraiser on April 25. “The travel and hotel, costumes, choreography and training, including the special diet is so expensive, someone new to the sport such as me needs help,” said Oliver.
For that reason his sponsors such as the Tiki Bar, Maximum Gym where he is a personal trainer, Catamarans, Giovanni’s Dock of the Bay, Cici’s Pizza, Golden Chicken, Applebee’s and more are sponsoring a fundraiser for Oliver at Jake & Al’s Chop house.
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