Burn The Fat Challenge Contest Calendar
(Full Schedule 2024)

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2024 Burn the Fat Challenge Summer Body Transformation Contest

Start Date (Entry window): May 18 - 24, 2024

Duration: 12 weeks

Description: The Burn the Fat Summer Challenge is a 12-week before and after body transformation contest sponsored by Tom Venuto and Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle. It is held here at the Burn the Fat Inner Circle website, in a password-protected forum. Launched in 2009, this is one of the longest running body transformation challenges online.

Cost: This challenge is free to enter for all readers / followers of the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle book / program. You can register free on this site when the official contest start date arrives (bookmark this page and subscribe to the email announcement list below).

How It Works: To start, you take before photos and upload them to your progress journal thread in the Burn the Fat Inner Circle challenge forums online. In addition, you will measure and log in your starting weight and body composition.

During the 12-week event, participants will follow the Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle program (customizing as needed), which includes a resistance training, cardio training, mental training, and nutrition program.

Each week, you will make a progress update in your online journal. At the end of the 12-weeks, you take after photos and upload them to the challenge forum. You also write an end-of-challenge essay, and then upload your completed contest entry for the judges to review.

Categories: Men's weight loss / fat loss, women's weight loss / fat loss, men's muscle / physique, women's muscle / physique. Special awards: Most Ripped Man, Most Ripped Woman, Best Health Transformation (Male), Best Health Transformation (Female), Best Transformation After 50 (Male), Best Transformation After 50 (Female).

Prizes: Prizes will be announced on the contest information and registration page which will be published on the inner circle home page the week before the contest launches.

How/When To Enter: If you're not already on our newsletter list, scroll down on this page and subscribe. You will receive an email the day the challenge registration opens. Also, you can simply bookmark this webpage and return on May 18th when the challenge starts.

Fall 2024 Burn the Fat Million Step Challenge And Mount Everest Challenge

Start Date (Entry Window): August 29 - September 2, 2024

Duration: 100 Days

Description: 10,000 steps a day is the official benchmark for being an "ACTIVE" person. When you hit that number, you reap amazing health benefits. 10,000 steps per day X 100 Days = 1 million steps.

10,000 a day is a challenge for most people because it's above the average (5,000/day). It requires intentional exercise almost every day. If you're already active, you can set your goal higher. If you're totally sedentary, you can set your goal lower, simply set a goal to improve.

How It Works: Track your steps with any fitness tracker (FitBit, etc), or a smartphone with a tracking app. Update your steps daily in the online tracker sheet to see yourself on the leaderboard.

Prizes: Prizes will be awarded to winners and finishers in the random drawing, including FitBit fitness trackers and shoes from Zappos.

Full details will be posted the week before the start date and a link will be added here on this page directing you to the official contest web page. Check back then and look for our announcement emails. (Get on our Inner Circle email list below.)

New Year's 2025 Burn the Fat Challenge Body Transformation Contest

Start Date (Entry window): January 1 - January 7, 2025

Duration: 12 weeks

Description: The Burn the Fat New Year's Challenge is a 12-week before and after (photo) body transformation contest sponsored by Tom Venuto and Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle (BFFM). It is held here at the Burn the Fat Inner Circle website, in a password-protected forum. Launched in 2009, this is one of the longest running body transformation challenges online.

Cost: This challenge is free to enter for all readers / followers of the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle (BFFM) book / program. If you are following a different program, you are not eligible to enter.

How It Works: To start, you take before photos and upload them to your progress journal thread in the Burn the Fat Inner Circle challenge forums online. In addition, you will measure and log in your starting weight and body composition.

During the 12-week event, participants will follow the Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle (BFFM) program (customizing as needed), which includes a resistance training, cardio training, mental training, and nutrition program.

Each week, you will make one progress update in your online journal. At the end of the 12-weeks, you take after photos and upload them to the challenge forum. You also write an end-of-challenge essay, and then upload your completed contest entry for the judges to review.

Categories: Men's weight loss / fat loss, women's weight loss / fat loss, men's muscle / physique, women's muscle / physique. Special awards: Most Ripped Man, Most Ripped Woman, Best Health Transformation (Male), Best Health Transformation (Female), Best Transformation After 50 (Male), Best Transformation After 50 (Female).

Prizes: Prizes will be announced on the contest information and registration page which will be published on the inner circle home page the week before the contest launches.

How/When To Enter: If you're not already on our newsletter list, scroll down on this page and subscribe. You will receive an email the day the challenge registration opens. Also, you can simply bookmark this webpage and return on January 1st when the challenge starts.

Spring 2025 Million Step Challenge And Mount Everest Challenge

Start Date (Entry Window): Dates TBA

Duration:100 Days

Description: 10,000 steps a day is the official benchmark for when you are called an "ACTIVE" person. When you hit that number, you reap all kinds of health benefits including lower risk of heart disease and diabetes. 10,000 steps per day X 100 Days = 1 million steps..

10,000 a day is a challenge for most people because it's above the average. It requires some intentional exercise almost every day. If you're already active, set your goal higher.

How It Works: Track your steps with any fitness tracker (FitBit, etc), or a smartphone with a tracking app. Update your steps daily in the online tracker sheet to see yourself on the leaderboard and where you stand next to all the other participants.

Prizes: Prizes will be awarded to winners and finishers in the random drawing, including FitBit fitness trackers and shoes from Zappos.

Full details will be posted at least a week before the start date and a link will be added here on this page directing you to the official contest web page. Check back then and look for our announcement emails. (Get on our Inner Circle email list below.)

How To Enter A Challenge

When contest is about to begin, announcements are posted on the Challenge page of this website (Burn the Fat Inner Circle) and the entry links for current challenges are added to this page as well (bookmark this page).

If you are on our email newsletter list, you will also receive an invitation to enter (free) by email the moment the doors to each challenge are open. If you are in our Burn the Fat Facebook group, you will also see an announcement and get an invitation there. (Join our Facebook group community here).

Be sure to subscribe below if you are not on the announcement list yet.

The Burn the Fat Challenge contests are open to anyone age 18 or over who follows the Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle program or is a member of the Burn the Fat Inner Circle.

Before every challenge, we always invite everyone to join us in the members only area here at the Burn the Fat Inner Circle. However, entry into the contest is free - all you have to do is register (fill out a form to choose a username and password) when the challenge opens.

If you're an Inner Circle member, you are automatically registered for all challenges and you can simply log in with your user name and password. Then start any challenge when it opens by going to the challenge forum.

Please note, entry into the contest gives you access only to the challenge forum, not to the members-only area of the Inner Circle website. For info on joining Burn the Fat Inner Circle member's zone, CLICK HERE).

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