Who is Vince Delmonte?
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So, just who exactly is this Vince Delmonte guy, right? Well, Vince actually has a pretty interesting story…
The High School Years
In high school, much to his dismay, Vince Delmonte earned the nickname “Skinny Vinny.” Unfortunately for Vince, the moniker stuck, and persisted all throughout college for him as well. He was 6 feet tall, and somewhere in the range of 140-150 pounds. Or as Vince himself described his physique: “I was an embarrassingly scrawny, 149 pound twerp.”
Amazingly, Vince was able to transform his body, despite horrible genetics (for bodybuilding), and years of competitive long distance running (further ruining potential for muscle growth—more on this later). He truly has one of the more astonishing transformation stories you will most likely ever read about. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves here.
University Years
Vince went to the University of Ontario where he studied Kinesiology. Ironically, all of Vince’s roommates worked out, and they ALL had six packs. Vince was the only one lacking, and this is where the aforementioned “Skinny Vinny” nickname resurfaced, as one of the roommates brought the name back to life. With friends like that, who needs enemies, right?
Regardless, despite all his best efforts, Vince never weighed more than 150 lbs soaking wet. Vince’s background was in long distance running and triathlons too, and so, fortunately, he was able to use this to overcome the embarrassment and insecurity he felt over being so skinny.
That is to say, he “used this” in that he was extremely successful in his chosen sport.
He ran and competed for the University of Ontario Cross Country team and Track team for the entire four years of his college attendance. He even represented his nation, Canada, in triathlons.
However, Vince still dreamed of his bodybuilding transformation, that he passionately desired to achieve some how, some way. He longed for the day when he could give up competitive long distance running, and start his metamorphosis.
And so, on the first of May, 2002, only a few days after receiving his Honors Kinesiology degree from the University of Ontartio—and no longer possessing eligibility—Vince happily hung up his running shoes, and never looked back.
Post College and Beyond
Vince quickly went to work as a personal trainer upon graduation. And although he was performing well in his profession, he still longed for his personal transformation, as he didn’t exactly have a Adonis-like physique despite being a personal trainer.
Fortunately for Vince, he was very lucky and found a mentor who told him to rid himself of all the lies he was consuming: basically, he told him to burn the worthless fitness magazines he was collecting and reading—and wasting money on—and to further stop wasting money on junk supplements to gain weight.
After following the advice of his new-found mentor, Vince’s life started to change. He trained his tail off, harder than he ever had, but this time smarter.
You see, knowledge was the key.
And believe it or not, he actually put on some weight! Even better, he actually grew and developed some real musculature. All told, after 6 months of dedicated training, Vince put on 40 lbs of muscle!
(Take a look at the dramatic transformation in the pictures below)
For those of us who have, or had, been working out sedulously with only minimal results—or after seeing some good results in the beginning, and then plateauing (I know I’ve been there)—that statement hits you like a ton of bricks.
It is true though, however. It just goes to show what a difference knowledge of the right ways to train makes.
Like any other sport, hobby, endeavor, or pursuit in life, there are right, or optimal, ways of doing things to get the best results, and then there is banging your head against the wall over and over again, doing the same (wrong, or sub par) methods over and over again, out of sheer ignorance, basically.
This was just the start of one of Vince’s many transformations though, as he refined and developed his methods and techniques, and learned and tested everything he could in the muscle-building, fitness, and nutrition fields.
Today, Vince Delmonte is an impressive 210 lbs of rock solid muscle, and only 10% body fat (which Vince actually gets even lower for competitions), and he has dedicated his life to helping others achieve similar goals.
Also, lastly, I feel it is worth mentioning that Vince achieved all these goals without using any steroids or other illegal drugs. His was, and is, an all-natural method to achieving these results (in some ways, I find this the most impressive fact of all).
Credentials
(I don’t get too hung up on this stuff personally, but I just think it’s worth mentioning that Vince isn’t one of those fitness guys who gives tons of advice, but isn’t someone who would ever have a picture of him taken without his shirt on, let alone compete in the fitness world. Vince seems to walk the walk too, not just talk the talk.)
- In 2005 Vince ventured into the fitness modeling world, and actually won the Canadian Fitness Model Championships.
- In June of 2008, Vince competed once again and placed 3rd at the World Fitness Model Championships.
- Vince is also a World Bodybuilding & Fitness Federation (WBFF) Professional Fitness Model.
- Regular contributor to Men’s Fitness Magazine, as well as being on the Advisory Team for Maximum Fitness Magazine, as well as being a regular contributor to dozens of online and offline magazines.
- Vince is the author of No-Nonsense Muscle Building Guide: Skinny Guy Secrets to Insane Muscle Gain. It has sold more than 80,000 copies in more than 120 different countries, and is actually the #1 rated bodybuilding program on the Internet (per Clickbank). To take a look at it, Click Here to check out Vince Delmonte’s No-Nonsense Muscle Building Guide here.
- He’s also the author of the best-selling ab and fat loss program, Your Six Pack Quest. If you want to check it out, go ahead and Click Here to take a look at Vince Delmonte’s Your Six Pack Quest here.
