Study Start Date:  Pending

BASELINE PROFILE

Name: 

Dustin Winnekens

Age: 

30

Occupation: 

Fitness Coordinator at a Bariatric Surgery Center

Residence: 

Wisconsin, USA

Height: 6'

Weight: 290 lbs.

Neck: 19"

Shoulders: 63"

Chest: 52"

Bicep: 20"

Waist: 42"

Thigh: 26.5"

Calf:  19"

Dustin has been weight training for the past 15 years.   He is currently involved in high intensity workouts to build power, strength and increase muscle mass. 
 

Strength Training Goals:

Dustin's  goals include the following:
1. increase bench press;
2. increase deadlift; and,
3. increase muscular endurance and decrease bodyfat.
 

Athletic Achievements

Madison Strongman Competition 2001-12th place
Minnesota Strongman Competition 2001-5th place in weight class
Sheboygan Strongman Competition 2001-3rd place overall
Madison Strongman Competition 2002-5th place
Due to injury he was out of competition until 2006.
 

Nutrition:

Dustin includes eggs, chicken, protein shakes, rice, tortitas, tuna and salmon in his diet.
 

Supplementation:

Dustin supplements his diet with the following:  100% Whey Protein,  6-8 servings daily, Creatine-Optimum Nutrition-5g daily, Glutamine-Optimum Nutrition-5g daily, Amino Acids 2200-Optimum Nutrition-6g daily
 

Hobbies and Special Interests:

"Bodybuilding, powerlifting, strongman competitions (watching, reading about, researching how to excel at them, and participating) Reading about phenomology and biomedical ethics (I have a BA in philosophy), psychology. Most importantly playing and spending time with my wife, son and family pets."
 

Reason for Participating in the Study: 

"I enjoy research and studying about different techniques utilized to naturally increase an individuals athletic performance. I feel it would be interesting to observe how my body responds to the supplements, and note if it works. Participating in this study will benefit myself and my practice, because I will know first hand how a supplement study is performed."
 

Weightlifting/Event Training: 

Health and Fitness  Background by Dustin Winnekens:

My love for weightlifting began at a young age in Eaton, Wisconsin. Growing up surrounded by farms I would go and play games with the neighborhood kids. Unlike today’s children we did not have video games; instead we would see who was the strongest and the fastest. Flipping tractor tires, carrying stones and bails of hay became my introduction into strength athletics.

When I was ten years old my parents gave me my first weight set and subscription to Muscle and Fitness magazine. Noticing my love and enthusiasm for weightlifting my parents signed me up with a strength coach in Denmark, Wisconsin. He taught me proper form when doing exercises and how to push myself. In his gym I was introduced to clean and jerk, snatch, squat, bench and deadlifting. The Olympic lifts were not for me, but I really enjoyed the three powerlifting lifts.

In the Navy I began to lift more for the aesthetic look. I would buy books and magazines and follow every program in them. I had amazing results. I graduated high school weighing 170lbs and only three years later went home at 240lbs. To the amazement of family and friends, which many had no clue that this big guy was me.
After the Navy I continued with my training while I went to college for Philosophy. I took a few Sports Physiology and Nutrition classes, but quickly found that a lot of the information being taught in class was already changed. I found no value in the classes and often found myself bringing in research papers on the various subjects and proving the professors wrong. This lack of knowledge by," Sports Physiologist and Experts in the field of sports” propelled me towards learning all I could about various lifting programs, sports nutrition and strength sports.

While in college I worked at a local high end fitness equipment dealer in Green Bay, Wisconsin. I was surrounded by fitness and many of the employees competed in various sports. We had received a flier for a strongman competition being held in Madison, Wisconsin. I entered it and fell in love with the competitiveness and strength required to perform the lifts. I did not fair that well in my first competition, but I still entered in two more competitions that summer. To my amazement I had done better at each competition.

The following year I entered the same competition in Madison, Wisconsin and bettered my previous place by five places. Then while training for the Minnesota State Strongman Championship my knees started to give me problems and I had to drop out. While rehabbing my knees I ended up injuring some tendons in my arm. Being injured forced me to look at my training and the approach. I was still lifting the same repetition range of a bodybuilder but extremely heavy weights.

That was when I moved to Sherwood, Wisconsin and started going to a Chiropractor and Massage Therapist weekly. My injuries were result vertebral misalignments and trapped nerves. With my injuries healed I started to look at Louie Simmons and the Westside Barbell training method for help. What I found was that with the high repetitions being performed I was loosing my proper posture which caused me to experience pain and injury.
With all that behind me I look forward to lifting big and training injury free for a LONG TIME!

Dustin Winnekens.

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