Miss and Mr. Fitness Championship Organization for Motivated Competitors

Event Preparation

Organizing a Miss - and / or Mr. - Fitness Switzerland Championship is a very demanding job and requires months of hard work.

Right from the start, it is crucial to assemble a championship team consisting of members who have the following qualities, talents and abilities:

• Enthusiasm:
  All of you need to be enthusiastic and believe passionately in what you are doing.
  Switch off your egos - a championship is about athletes competing against each other, not about your own importance as one of the organizers.
• Organizing:
  Someone has to book the stage in time, what about the chairs, a well-known fitness personality as MC (find, get on board!) and dozens more things have to happen.
  On time, every time. For every single item on the time plan.
• Money:
  Someone has to be able to work out and control the finances.
  After all, you don't want to be bankrupted as a result of your enthusiasm, do you?
• Knowledge:
  Always ensure that your judges:
  • Are technically qualified in both aerobics and bodybuilding as Miss and Mr. Fitness Championships use both disciplines.
  • Know the competition rules backwards and are independent - no athlete family members!.
  • Have proper facilities on championship day.
    There's nothing worse for a competitor doing their best on stage and seeing judges searching for pencils, water, etc.
    How can a judge give a fair mark for the athletes if they aren't focussed on the competitor's stage routine?
• Competitors
  All that organizing won't help if you don't have enough athletes.
  Because no athletes = No championship. You need competitors!
  Make it attractive for the athletes:
  • A good stage surface!
    It's awful to have to slip and slide during your aerobic performance on the perspiration of the previous competitor or the browning oil of the bodybuilding athletes who had their line-up just before you came on-stage.
  • Clean the stage after every single performance routine! At all times! Without fail!
  • Decent - separate! - changing facilities. Too many championships don't attend to this matter properly.
• Respect for the competitors.
  I've been in championships that were a pleasure to compete in - «Good Guys» - and others that were a disaster from beginning to end - «Nightmare Championships».
  I never competed at «Nightmare Championships» a second time.
  The «Good Guys» got me to compete at all their events as it was a pleasure to compete.

My Task

As a member of the organizing team, I specialize in:

• Ensuring that the competition is fair - rules and judging - for all competitors.
• Preparation and training of athletes for their championship participation.
• Getting media publicity - TV, Radio, Press and Magazines - for the event.

I leave the business side of the championship to the other specialists on the team.

• Training the Judges Panel -
  • Miss Fitness is a unique bodybuilding discipline and requires a performance « Kür ».
  • The competition rules and scoring requirements are different to all other bodybuilding disciplines.
  • There are many qualified bodybuilding judges in Switzerland but qualified aerobics judges are few and far between.
  • Which means you have to teach bodybuilding judges how to judge aerobics and aerobic fitness routines.
• Choreography and arrangement of the Championship Fitness Show: We featured the Miss Fitness competitors as the Bond Girls in the 2003 Swiss Championship.
• Training the Athletes: Individual personal training for Miss Fitness Championship competitors
• Miss and Mr. Fitness seminars to cover the rules, competitive requirements (move difficulty), scoring, etc..

More information about the athlete training program I use is available at Miss and Mr. Fitness Seminars. The program starts months before the event and takes participating athletes through to Championship Day.

• Miss Fitness Switzerland
• Seminar Registration
• Miss Fitness Training
• SNBF Presse Mitteilung
• Rangliste