Below are all the details about how 20 weeks works so you come out the other side of winter 2012 feeling fabulous and ready to take on the world.

Step 1: Pick two categories

Whether you want to slim down, touch your toes, run a marathon or get over a back injury there’s a category below to cater for it. Start by picking two categories to match your goals.

 

 

1	Horley’s	Best Overall Body Shape Change
2	Elite Fitness	Best Change in Abdominals
3	The Hardy’s (Palmerston North)	Best Change in Upper Body
4	Nu Skin	Best Change in Lower Body
5	The Jean Scott	Competitor’s Physique (bodybuilding/sculpting)
6	The Classic Hits Richard Dryden Breakfast Show	Best Increase in Strength
7	The Em Power Cookies	Best Change in Cardiovascular Fitness
8	The Circus World	Best Change in Flexibility
9	XLR8	Best Improvements to Balance – standing on one leg for example or kneeling on a swissball.
10	The Mike Catton	Best Lifestyle Changes – useful if you intend on altering lots of your lifestyle choices for the better, or a few in a major way!
11	The nWow!	Entrants Choice – for goals not otherwise covered like, overcoming an injury,  giving up smoking, having more energy, being less stressful etc.
12	The Mike Catton	Maintenance - only available to entrants who have already done a 20 week competition before this category rewards entrants for maintaining the previous great results that they have achieved.

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Extra Awards! You don’t need to register for the following Awards. Anyone who is eligible will be automatically entered into them in addition to the two categories they have chosen.

The Opals Award	For entrants over 65yrs
The Tutuman Award	For those under 16 years of age
The Pure Health and Wellbeing New Mums Award	For entrants who have had a baby in the last 18 months
The Diamond Mine Overall Entrant Award	All entrants are eligible.
Couples Award	For married or de-facto entrant couples
Fit Family Award	For families

The Awards night by the way is Wednesday September 26th – 5.15pm – 7.30pm at Chateau on the Park in Christchurch and all entrants have a ticket to it included in the price of their entry fee.

Then what

If you enter,  you’ll have 20 weeks to do as well as you can in your two categories (you can change your chosen categories for 3 weeks after the official start date).

A REPs registered personal trainer will measure your starting status (they will need to measure your heart lung fitness for example if you have chosen to enter the Cardio-vascular category)and your improvements along the way and deliver us a report on how well you did.

For the 20 weeks, you’ll receive essential weekly guidelines from your PT and from us.

Then, at the end, we’ll celebrate everyone’s successes at the Diamonds Award night in Christchurch.

So what does it cost

$99 if you sign up before midnight on April 1st 2012 or $129 if you don’t.  There’s a bunch of discounts available too $20 off for each competition you have already done before, $15 off each entry for groups of 20 or more from the same workplace, 1/2 price for those under 16 or on a sickness benefit. For more details head here.

Included in your entry fee is a ticket to the Awards night, a chance to share in more than $10,000 of prizes, weekly tips and challenges and discounts on sponsor products and services inclusive of PT sessions.  Most importantly however you get a winning recipe on how to get to your goals fast and stay where you want to be easily.

There’s no supplements, gym memberships, weird fitness gizmo’s, pre-packed meals or infomercial crap to buy.

This what previous entrants said 20 Weeks was worth?

“priceless!” SH,”could never put a price on and certainly couldn’t afford it” KS, “Millions! If I had it....” AJ, “$5,000″ EB, Priceless! DM, “Anything ” MD, “making the biggest health discovery of my life is priceless” PB, “$5,000″ DC, “There is no price, i would have paid as much as I could afford” RM, “Impossible to quantify” AJ, “priceless” RN, “$3,000″ WP

 

Essential Basics

The following info is essential if you wish to enter this competition as it also constitutes our terms and conditions. By entering the competition you are agreeing that you have read and understand it all

Why is it 20 Weeks and not 12 weeks like other challenges?

Statistics tell us that most people will quit a new health or fitness regime by or in week 12. Any program that is sincere in making long term change for its participants, we believe, must actively go beyond the 12 week point. 20 Weeks, as you’ll find out, will incorporate everything that would normally throw you off track and more and our aim is to bring you back on again and again and to having you cross the finish line a winner.

So apart from the entry fee what other expenses are there?

While you don’t need to buy supplements, gym memberships, weird fitness gizmo’s or pre-packed meals you do pay to see your own Personal Trainer, at least once a month, either one to one or in a group. This cost is independent of our entry fee is paid directly to the PT of your choice.

If you are a new entrant, without your own PT, we will try to arrange a free consultation with one or more for you.

A one hour PT session could cost you between $5 and $100 a session, depending who you choose and whether it is one to one or in a group.  I’d say the average group session would be about $15 and a one to one $55, but there’s a real range out there and for all good reasons.

People who have seen personal trainers in previous competitions have told us that they actually saved between $40 and $100 a week because of the healthier lifestyle they adopted by having their trainer.

Seeing a personal trainer once a week for 20 weeks could in fact SAVE you $2,700 over a year, add 7 years to your real age and save you another $10,000 in medical expenses

Two good places to look for a PT are on our PT Trainers We Recommend Page or on this site http://reps.org.nz/

Why do I need a personal trainer?

The stats show you are at least three times as likely to achieve your goals with a Personal Trainer than without.

That’s because you are an individual with different needs to everyone else. It’s impossible to prescribe one type of exercise programme to everyone and expect it to be effective. Your PT will adjust the weekly advice we send to entrants, to suit YOU, in fact a PT can adjust everything to suit your situation, effectively catering for sore backs, crook necks, bad knees, busy schedules and variable finances.

You need to see a personal trainer once a month for at least one hour, either one to one or in a group. Any REPs registered trainer will do providing they don’t mind being part of the challenge and they have the time to help you out with it. (REPs is the national registration body and there are hundred’s of REPs trainers in NZ.)

Can I register and organise a PT and the categories I enter into later?

Yes. Simply advise us if you’d like us to help you find a PT and/or advise us once you have found one that suits you. Once you have told us who your trainer is and they have registered you will be able to start receiving the weekly newsletters. We cannot start sending these until you have a PT and receiving them is a condition to your entry.

If you have not picked two categories when entering simply advise us within 21 days of the official start date.

What sort of results have others had?

click on these cool graphs to enlarge

Be sure to check out the winner’s stories at some stage too.

Category Details

The following, while worth scanning through yourself, is primarily to assist your personal trainer with doing doing the before and after measurements and tests.  The links correspond to the categories so just head to the categories you are interested in or go straight to the small print i.e the remainder of our terms and conditions.

A) 1-5 and 10

B) 6, 7 8,9 and 11

C) 12

A) Categories 1-5 and 10: Overall Body Shape Change, Abdominals, Upper Body,  Lower Body and Competitors Physique.

Pre-requisites to be eligible to win in any of these categories requires compliance with the following.

A1) Measurements:

A REPs personal trainer needs to do an initial set of relevant measurements in the first 21 days of the official start date and a final set in the 7 days immediately prior to the official end date or within 24hrs thereafter. All PTs will receive more specific instructions as it relates to doing these provided they have registered with Catch Fitness.

A2) Photos:

Photos need to be taken in the first 21 days of the official start date and a final set in the 7 days immediately prior to the official end date or within 24hrs thereafter.

While anyone take these photos PTs tend to be very good at it since they appreciate what the judges will be looking for and ensure accuracy.  Photos must include evidence of the date they are taken by for example, via the holding that day’s newspaper in the photos or by having the personal trainer sign and date the back of all photos/photocopies of photos etc. All photos must include a full front, full rear and side shot. PTs will receive more specific tips as it relates to doing these provided they have registered with Catch Fitness and can pass this information on to entrants if required.

A3) Final Reports:

Within 10 days of the finish date, Catch Fitness judges need to have received two hard copy reports and one digital report from the PT detailing before and after results and photos.

A4) Category 5: – additional requirements

All of the above pre-requisites must be met.  “Competitors Physique” this refers to an entrant’s potential to compete in a professional body building or body sculpting competition such as the NZFBB or NABBA. To be eligible for this award an entrant would not have competed at this level before.

A5) Category 10:  – additional requirements

A letter from the entrant:-

1) Describing the changes, physical and/or otherwise that took place over the 20 week competition.

2) How the personal trainer, family and/or friends have helped the entrant achieve these.

3) Two letters from friends, partners, PT and/or relatives describing the entrant’s journey from their perspective.

B) Categories 6, 7,  8, 9, 11

PTs need to do an initial set of  tests in the first 21 days of the official start date and a final set in the 7 days immediately prior to the official end date or within 24hrs thereafter.  PTs will receive additional testing information once they have registered with us.

Within 10 days of the finish date, Catch Fitness judges need to have received two hard copy reports and one digital report from the PT detailing before and after results.

Category 11 is for entrants who have a specific goal which is not otherwise covered by the categories such as rehabilitating from an injury or giving up smoking or anything else.

C) Category 12 is for entrants who have previously competed and have set a goal to maintain the changes that they had already achieved.  The final report needs to contain the entrant’s final results in the competition/s that they had previously be in as well as an initial set of tests done in the first 21 days of the official start date of this competition and a final set in the 7 days immediately prior to the official end date or within 24hrs thereafter. PTs will receive additional testing information once they have registered with us if they are a new PT to the competition.

Within 10 days of the finish date, Catch Fitness judges need to have received two hard copy reports and one digital report from the PT detailing before and after results and photos as relevant.

Category 12 entrants do not need to see a PT once a month unless they have also entered into another category.  If category 12 entrants are seeing a PT once a month they will also receive the weekly newsletter. If this is the only category that an entrant is entering into the entry fee is only $25. Click here to go back to category listing.

The Small Print

The final part to our terms and conditions.

1.  What happens to what gets sent to us: All material supplied to Catch Fitness for the purpose of judging is the property of Catch Fitness and may be used for promotional purposes or similar, by ourselves and/or our sponsors, unless otherwise agreed. We are however very aware of how people feel about images of themselves and the use of their name and accordingly we go to great lengths to make sure our material keeps everyone happy. Check out the winner pages of our website to see how we have used previous material and if you are at all concerned please drop us an email.

2. Testing: To ensure accuracy and validity any and testing must be done by a REPs registered Personal Trainer and/or verified by them,  within the time frames specified.

4. Reports at end: Catch Fitness needs to receive TWO hard copies of an entrants results and ONE electronic (email) copy within 10 days of the competition end date. This includes photos if photos are applicable to that category. Hard copies of photos can however be in black and white and be photocopies of the originals provided images are clear.

5. End of the comp stuff: No prizes are transferable for cash and the judge’s decisions are final and no negotiation will be entered into.

6. Refunds: There are no refunds available on the entry fee after the early bird cut off date. Please however advise us if you need to pull out and the reasons as you may be eligible for a partial credit.

7. Late entries: Accepted up and until 21 days after the start date. No entries are accepted thereafter.

8. Training with your PT: Entrants must train with their REPs personal trainer at least once every four weeks to be eligible for an award.

9. PTs must register with Catch Fitness (free) within 21 days of the start date. You are unable to receive any weekly material until your PT has registered and will be ineligible for any giveaways during such time.  If you do not have a PT that has registered with us within 21 days you are disqualified from the competition.

10. Your Winners Weekly: Your PT is responsible for forwarding you your Winner’s Weekly by Tuesday 5pm each week for 20 weeks.  Failure for them to do this can result in you and them being disqualified. Please advise us immediately if you do not receive yours.

11.  More report stuff: Your PT must submit 3 reports to Catch Fitness with your results in accordance with the category pre-requisites in Step 4. Failure to do so  means you will be ineligible for any awards.

12. We do not guarantee the service or advice of any PTs. We do however only allow REPs trainers to be part of our competition and accordingly we feel confident recommending them.

13. Any and all conflicts and or issues relating to your PT must be discussed with them. We do not enter into any discussions about the services delivered by individual PTs.

14. You can change PTs at any stage, but ALL trainers must still register with us in order for you to qualify for an award, so be sure to have your new PT register with us.

15. There is no charge for PTs to register and in fact we give them all sorts of cool stuff for getting involved and which will help them to help you and the rest of their clients.

16. Once a PTs registers we will forward them their terms and conditions as it relates to them training you as part of this competition. Essentially this states, that they have read, agreed and understood all of this page on this website

17. Feed it back: In order to be eligible for an award entrants must complete the online feedback forms (maximum of two).

18. Awards night: Entrants must confirm their attendance and/or friends for the Awards night on September 26th by August 26th, 2012.   Attendance is free for all entrants who book before August 26th and $15 per guest. After this date Awards night tickets are $25 per person.

19. We can change things: Catch Fitness reserves the right to alter the start and finish dates of the 20 Week Body & Lifestyle Competition as well as the date and venue of the awards night, the value of the prize pool as well as the sponsors to any category.

20. Is all of this okay? Makes sense etc? By completing the registration form entrant’s confirm they have read, understood and agreed to all the information provided on this page.

Confused? If there’s anything confusing in there please do give me a call Broni on 0800 000 929 or send me an email info@catchfitness.co.nz.

Want to talk to a particular entrant? I’m happy to try and arrange it. Most people are very happy to share their story.  Drop me a line and I’ll see what I can do.

Okay YOU can now register here