I'm not really trying to "win" the show. I just want to be the best I can be on stage. For practical purposes, I've only been training for 18 months. I did a lot of competitive powerlifting in my younger days but went over 10 years of living sedentary letting my body fat get in the 33-35% range even though I wasn't even big. I had the "skinny fat" bod pretty bad. I still had a pot belly last October but I've cut out a lot of empty calories and lost 25-30 lbs. I'd just like to enter just to compete against myself. I think there will be a division for men over 40 yrs old.