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Joshua Hibbert is an award winning athlete coming up in the competitive world ofBodybuilding. Straight out of Edmonton, AB, he is one of Tuffhouses original repsfor the TuffSports line. Josh has overcome a number of obstacles and challengesto achieve professional status at the Sport of Bodybuilding. In between his vigourousworkouts and travel. He is a full time Welder & handyman. Tuffhouse had theopportunity to sit down with Josh and discuss everything from what it takes totrain as a bodybuilder to his favorite comic book characters. Here’s what welearned from this real life Superman….Name,age & profession/sport?Josh: Joshua Hibbert, age 35 professional natural bodybuilder.Where are you from?Josh:I was born and raised in Edmonton.How long have you been Bodybuilding?Josh: This November will be my third anniversary.Who’s your biggest role model:Josh: I don’t have just one. I’ve always grown up watching wrestling, Arnie movies &Stallone. The old icons of action movies. Because I compete naturally, and those guysdidn’t, it’s different. I still look up to them and some of their work ethics. It’s just a littledifferent.What inspired you to become a bodybuilder?Josh: A good friend of mine that I met and started training with just convinced me to trydoing some dieting, I was very large I was about 305 pounds I was a pretty big guy. Itried it, just cutting some things out, minor things while we were working out together. Inoticed a lot of changes. I noticed I was able to keep up with my strength, I lookedbetter, I felt better. Naturally after about 6 months of that (he had been competing offand on for about 25 years at the time) he said, you should try doing a show. I said, Idon’t know about that. As far as actually dieting and having to stick tosomething. About another month or so I said huh? Whatever! We’ll give it a try what’sthe worst that could happen!? If about halfway through if I don’t want to do it I’ll juststop. So I did it , it was hard, it was a big change having to know what I was doing andto follow such a stringent program. But I did it, it was quite an experience. I enjoyed it. Itkind of gave me that bug where I wanted to do it again. My first time there was a lot ofslip ups & meals that weren’t supposed to be there. The second time I was like well I didit this good and changed. 305 pounds down to 220, so 85 pounds in a year. I felt great,it was the best I had looked as grown man. So I was like what happens if I do this againand really stick to it. So then I tried it for my second time around. Things were a lotdifferent and by then. I was just hooked on doing it and just enjoyed it.What sort of diet plan or regimen do you stick to while training?Josh: It’s all given to me by my coach, so it changes as to where I am with my show &where I am with my progress. There’s more food in the beginning, then things changeand taper off. Not lots, but there’s minor adjustments to everything. My diet will changewith my trainings. I’ll go from just eating the same things all the time to eating more foodon certain days. It is less food on other days to coincide with what’s going on at thegym. All that changes and it just changes based on how my body is responding. Thistime around we didn’t do a diet, he just said I’m all caught up and I don’t need to. I’m in
