Joel Giacobbe, Marie Spano and Aspen Schmidt
July 13, 2008
- • Tips on how to use beta-alanine by Abbie Smith
- • Maintaining healthy exercise with age
- • Functional foods
- • 17 year old Figure Competitor
Joel Giacobbe, M.Ed. became an educator, strength coach and bodybuilder after earning his Master’s from Auburn University. He is a past winner of the 1985 Southern States Bodybuilding Championships Light Weight Open Division and in 2006 won the Southern States Bodybuilding Championships Light Weight Over 40 Division 21 years later at 42 years old. He has publications in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Strength Power Update and ASAHPERD (Alabama State Journal, and Building the Body Quarterly). He has been in FLEX magazine, Building the Body Quarterly and Teenlink South Florida Teachers Edition. Visit www.joelgiacobbe.com.
Marie Spano, M.S., RD, FISSN holds a B.S. in Exercise and Sport Science from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and an M.S. in Foods and Nutrition from the University of Georgia. She is also the current VP of the International Society of Sports Nutrition and is frequent lecturer on the role of functional foods in sports performance. She has written several articles for trade publications and popular press magazines, chapters for sports nutrition textbooks, counseled hundreds of individuals on weight loss and sports nutrition and serves as the sports nutritionist for Pro Beach Volleyball player Al Hannemann’s Volleyball Vacations. Learn more here.
Aspen Schmidt made history in July 2008 in CO by becoming at age 16 the youngest NPC Fitness State Champion ever. She is also preparing to compete next weekend in Pittsburgh at the NPC Teen National Fitness Championships. At the age of nine she found her talent for gymnastics, and at age 15 when her school started a team she was one of 10 girls in CO to make the all-conference team in the Floor Exercise, which is very similar to a fitness routine. Her mother began training with Jenny Lewis at the beginning of 2008, which lead her to the Carla Sanchez Performance Ready Team, for whom Aspen competed when she won the historical State Championship.
