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On Monday, March 10th, the final weigh-ins were conducted at the Downtown Fitness Club's Rochester Celebrity Boot Camp.
It was a culmination of 6 weeks of herculean workouts, disciplined eating and drinking, as well as overcoming all sorts of obstacles along the way.
When all was said and done, 41 of the 120 contestants had lost at least 10 pounds from their starting weights, and five competitors lost at least 20 pounds!  For the men, Eddie Avies led the way with a 38 pound weight loss.  On the women's side, Camille Sackett lost 26 1/4.
In the team event, Sackett led her team, the Skinny Minnies to victory over the Avies led Two Guys and a Babe.  The margin of victory was pretty convincing, 13.305% to 11.111%, as Sackett teamed with Ellen Pouthier (15 lbs.), Rebecca Kowal (16 3/4 lbs.) and Anne Wilmarth (19lbs.) to defeat
Avies, John Wilson (26 lbs.) and Sylvia Lee (17 lbs.).  The top ten was rounded out by the Little Losers (7.014%), the 4 Q's (6.955%), Uh-Oh Oreos (6.069%), Hot Tamales (4.855%), O'Bagelo's (4.808%), Groovy Goddesses (4.457%), the Booty Beauties (4.167%) and Charlie's Angels (4.018%).  The
four women of the Skinny Minnies will be enjoying their "champion's day" on Saturday, April 19th.  They will be chauffered to Artistic Designs Hair Salon where they will receive new hair styles from Award-winning stylists
Brian Angold and Jodi Beutel.  After a healthy lunch at Magnolia's Deli and Cafe on Park Avenue, they will be taken to the DelMonte Spa in Pittsford for a variety of spa treatments.  Rejuvenated, they will head back over to East
Avenue for Dinner and drinks at One Restaurant and Nightclub.  In addition the Minnies will be receiving gift certificates to Waterloo Premium Outlets and $500 cash compliments of the Downtown Fitness Club!  All contestants are invited to join in the celebration at One that night, ought to be a fun evening!

In the celebrity division, the final outcome was a lot closer than the Sofia Brothers would have liked it, but when the dust settled, The Buzz "lite" team of Kimberly and Beck, along with Pat the Producer from the Breakfast Buzz on 98.9, as well as Billy the Kidd from 92.5 WBEE (all four lost at least 10 pounds), fell just 4 pounds short of catching the Car Show (Sundays on 10NBC at 11:30am) hosts.  The Sofia's will be donating their $2000 for winning to Camp Good Days and Special Times in an episode to be filmed at the Downtown Fitness Club this coming Friday at 8:30am. Tony and Steve Sofia each lost 15 1/2 pounds, but the top 'loser' in the celebrity division was Barry Beck who dropped 17 pounds!  Team 10-acious from News 10NBC; Nikki Rudd (11 lbs.), Lila Carney, Catherine Varnum and Berkeley Brean made a late
push to catch Mike Danger, Amanda Valentine and Moose from 98PXY and finish in third place.  Brean stayed true to his teammates and exercised and ate fairly well, even while on vacation in Scottsdale, Arizona for the last week
of the contest...now that's dedication!  The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Divas finished behind PXY for fifth and last place was occupied by the Raiderrettes, dance and cheer team for the Rochester Raiders Football team, who wanted it pointed out that they were fabulous before this contest
started and, despite their standing, were fabulous still!

Six weeks is not a lot of time, but it was long enough for contestants who
battled through circumstances that ranged from alcoholism to open heart surgery (not exercise related!), job loss to new houses, ravaging flu viruses to aches and pains typical of new exercise programs.  It was a microcosm of life, where it seems as soon as you make a commitment to improve your health and fitness...your circumstances change and make it
difficult to stay the course.  But, as challenging as it was, these competitors pushed through and accomplished some great goals.  Many of them are going on to a 5 week, "phase two" of the contest where body composition will be measured and winners will be the ones who are able to reduce their
bodyfat percentage the greatest.

Not only will the "average joes" be continuing on in their quest for their optimal physique, may of the "celebrities" will be continuing on as well.

Twenty-one of the contestants were already members of the Downtown Fitness Club at the outset of Rochester Celebrity Boot Camp and by the end of the contest, twenty-one more of the 99 other had enrolled in the club.   "That was the most gratifying part of this contest for me," said John Hutchings,
owner of the Downtown Fitness Club and creator of Rochester Celebrity Boot Camp, "to see so many of these people decide to continue to pursue their health and fitness goals with us; it's really humbling."

If you'd like to continue to follow their fitness odyssey, just go to
www.downtownfitnessclub.com and click on the Boot Camp logo every Monday.

 

Can the Skinny Minnies hold on to their top spot for one more week?
Two Guys and a Babe made a big push this week and narrowed the gap, making
things a little interesting as the competitors began their last 7 days of
Rochester Celebrity Boot Camp.  The four women of the Skinny Minnies;
Camille Sackett, Anne Wilmarth, Ellen Pouthier and Rebecca Kowal continued
their journey down the scale this week with a combined 7 pound weight loss,
for a five week total of 60 1/2 pounds or a 10.454% reduction in bodyweight.
The Two Guys and a Babe team made up of John Wilson, Eddie Avies and Sylvia
Lee countered with a 10 pound loss, bringing their total to 64 pounds or
8.779%.  If the Two Guys lose just 12 1/2 pounds more than the Minnies this
week, the title is theirs!  Keep in mind that this Two guys team is no
stranger to big numbers, having posted a 23 3/4 pound loss in week one.
It's coming down to the wire and it's looking like it may be a photo finish
come Monday!
The Sofia Brothers have all but wrapped up the celebrity division and will
be donating their $2000 to Camp Good Days and Special Times on an episode of
the Sofia Brothers Car Show in the near future, tune in Sundays at 11:30am
on channel 10NBC.  The only team with a statistical chance of catching Tony
and Steve are the Buzz "lites", with Kimberly & Beck along with Pat the
Engineer from 98.9's Breakfast Buzz (with WBEE's Billy the Kidd on loan),
but they are 34 pounds behind with only a week to go.
All tolled, the 120 contestants, with instruction and motivation from the
training staff at the Downtown Fitness Club, have lost over 711 pounds in
just 5 weeks!  Twenty-nine or a full 25% of the participants have lost at
least 10 pounds and the following people have lost twenty or more...Toom
Homsombath-20 3/4 pounds; Kyra Mancine-20 3/4 pounds; John Wilson-21 1/2
pounds; Camille Sackett-22 pounds and Eddie Avies still leads the way with
an incredible 32 1/2 pound weight loss!  Avies said he just made a decision
to be more active at his job with Waste Management and has cut out late
night eating.  Along with a moderate exercise program at the Downtown
Fitness Club, Eddie has gone from his initial weight of 257 down to 224 1/2
at yesterdays weigh-in.
It's all on the line next week as the teams have until 10pm on Monday, March
10th to weigh-in for the final time.  It's been an incredible journey, be
sure to follow the teams to the finish line to see who pulls out a victory
in Rochester Celebrity Boot Camp.

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Would you believe that four women who averaged just 144 pounds apiece would
be leading the weight loss competition that is Rochester Celebrity Boot Camp
after 4 weeks?  Well the Skinny Minnies are doing just that, having lost
another 9 3/4 pounds this week to put a stranglehold on the competition at
the Downtown Fitness Club's contest.  That brings their total team weight
loss to an amazing 53 1/2 pounds!
Led by Eddie Avies 27 pound loss, the Two Guys and a Babe are in second and
holding on to a glimmer of hope that they can overtake the Minnies in the
remaining two weeks to steal away the title.  But the margin is wide and
time running out.  The top five was rounded out by The Four Q's, Uh-Oh Oreos
and Tri-Bods.
Every workout matters and every calorie counts as the teams come down the
backstretch in the Celebrity Division as well.  The Sofia Brothers, Tony and
Steve continue to lead the division, but the Buzz Lites from 98.9's
Breakfast Buzz show no signs of quitting, as Pat the Engineer has signed on
to a pact, pledging to abstain from alcohol for the remainder of the
contest.  98PXY remains in third place, as Moose returned to weigh in after
two weeks of battling the flu to lead the squad with an 10 pound loss.  Not
to be outdone, Team 10-acious, led by Nikki Rudd, are mere percentage points
behind in fourth.  Rudd began two-a-days today to make a final push to the
finish line.
The "never say die" award has to go to the RPO Divas who climbed out of last
place for the first time this week!  The Divas have maintained their
rigorous workouts, despite being frustrated week after week by the results
on the scale.  Their persistence paid off this week as they leapfrogged over
the Raiderrettes dropping the cheer and dance squad from the Rochester
Raiders Football team into last place.
Next week, find out how many pounds have been lost in total by the
contestants of Rochester Celebrity Boot Camp.

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Week 3 update:

Rochester Celebrity Boot Camp participants reached the halfway point in
their 6 week quest to lose the greatest percentage of bodyweight this
Monday.
The Skinny Minnies continue to dominate the competition as they have lost
over 43 pounds between the four of them in just three weeks!  These women
are relentless in their pursuit of the title; showing up at every
information seminar, regularly attending several group exercise classes per
week and picking the trainers' brain for information at every opportunity.
It will take a herculean effort to overtake them. The team that is currently
rising up to that challenge is the celebrity team of Tony and Steve Sofia
from the Sofia Brothers Car Show (Sundays on channel 10 NBC at 11:30am).
The Sofia's have lost over 27 pounds between the two of them and are only 8
pounds behind the Skinny Minnies with three weeks left to go.  Considering
Steve was out sick last week with the flu and now seems to be hitting his
stride, it will probably go down to the wire, with both teams carefully
plotting their strategy the rest of the way with the training staff at the
Downtown Fitness Club.

Several Average Joe teams also are looming just off the radar and may make a
late run at the championship.  The Four Q's moved back into second place
with a strong showing at this week's weigh-in.  The Little Losers, a team of
three from the Little Theatre, are solidly in third place, Uh-Oh Oreo leaped
10 spots into fourth and the Groovy Goddesses made a nine position jump to
round out the top five.  All four teams have legitimate title aspirations.

The remaining celebrity teams are all starting to go in the right direction
with this week being the first that all six celebrity teams have
collectively weighed in at less than their starting weight.  The Buzz Lites
from 98.9's Breakfast Buzz with Kimberly and Beck continue to distance
themselves from the rest of their celebrity counterparts, trailing only the
Sofia Brothers, led by Barry Beck who has lost 7 3/4 pounds.  In order of
standing, here are your celebrity teams...98 PXY, Team 10-acious (News
10NBC), the Raiderrettes (dance & cheer team fro the Rochester Raiders) and
the RPO Divas (Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra).  The order remains
unchanged from last week, but there has been some movement and expect to see
a shake-up next week.

Fatigue is running high as all of these teams enter the stretch run to the
finish line.  Many of the competitors are working out harder than they have
ever done before and their bodies are tired and sore.  The teams that work
smart the rest of the way will eventually prevail, as optimal fitness
requires not only adequate intensity of effort, but the proper management of
one's diet along with the judicious use of an occasional rest day.