Happy Holidays Everyone! Just a quick note to let you know that a new profile on me has been featured at the French Canadian mega-bodybuilding and fitness portal Vinkomorf Magazine(see my links on the right). Quebec has some great fans and if everything goes as planned I hope to compete at the IFBB Montreal Pro Figure in September 2007!

Thanks to all of the new VIP Members to my site since we launched a few days ago, there is a lot more to come in the next few days including some really incredible vintage gym shots taken by Brian Moss of SheMuscle.com (sample posted). You can see the upcoming features on my VIP "Updates" page.

Warm regards to you and your families and have a safe and happy New Year celebration!
xoxo,
Danielle

Hi friends I know it has been a while but I have some really great news to share! I have been featured in the latest issue of Musclemag, February 2007, in Steve Wennerstrom's Hardbodies column. Yay!! So run to the newstand if you don't subscribe and check out page 233.


I have also recently been accepted to compete at the first ever Arnold Amateur Figure competition in Columbus on Friday, March 2nd. So start making your travel plans now and remember to get there earlier than usual, because figure will be fully completed that Friday (the link to the show is on my "News" page). A lot of great competitors will be there in figure tall but I am up to the challenge and it's going to be a great preview for the 2006 competition season!!


Finally, my VIP area is up and running so sign up and check out all my great photos and video clips and say hello and make requests at my new forum message board. I have attached a little photo preview of one of my recent updates. My personal training pages are up now too at DaniFitness.com. If you have any ideas or just want to say hello hit me by e-mail as usual at Dani@DanielleRouleau.com.

It's moving week down in Tampa before the holidays so wish me luck and I hope everyone has a great week, thank you for all your support!!

xoxoxo
Dani

Ok everyone I feel it is my duty to warn you about birthday cakes purchased from large known coffee chains .... with the initials DD, ahem. Just *NOT* a good idea in general, I was sick for a few days, probably due to the eggs in the cake. Even my puppers got sick, and of course since you can't hide cake from me I found it the night before and ate some before I was supposed too hee hee!! So I got an extra day of food poisoning. But I'm feeling better now, and as usual I didn't miss a day of training I never do, and the improvements in the off season are progressing nicely.

I've also been answering a lot of interview questions for magazines so be sure to look for me in the major mags soon, of course you can track that on the news page of my web site as well. Some of the interview questions are pretty out there, like the one about three people in history who I would like to sit down and have dinner with. That's hard enough, but then it asks what I would want on the menu! Then you have to think about whether it's on season or off season, what time of day, carbing up or depleting, you know how it goes. But I am answering them all the best that I can and hopefully all my fans will see the results soon! Talk to you later!

Dani

Hi everyone, I am still on a high from my weekend birthday celebration, my fiancé took me to Flemings for dinner and Bern's for dessert. I have attached some birthday pictures, I hope that you enjoy!!

Things are really moving along with the web site now, a lot of design work was done last week and this weekend, and we'll soon be launching the a lot of new pages and the VIP members area too. I think all my fans will be pleased, and also I would like everyone to e-mail me at Dani@DanielleRouleau.com with requests or ideas of things you would like to see on my site. Yes that's you, the one reading this, even if it's like Dani can you do a pic or video clip of you doing squats or any exercise of your choice. Also send me any questions that you have regarding what you wanna see and I'll make a shout out to that great fan who does so ... I love all my dedicated fans that stay with me through this awesome journey!! :)

Along with the web site updates, training packages will be available soon and we'll also be running specials on 8x10 photos so look out for those coming up too in the next few days!! And the first photo set in the members area will be a great photo shoot I did a day after the North American Championships, I know that you will love them ... and check out my new free gallery from my latest show at http://www.daniellerouleau.com/06northamericans.htm and send comments I'll talk to you all soon!!!

Dani

Only one more day until my big bday. Yippie yay! And it's a surprise I love surprises, I know my fiancé is taking me somewhere gorgeous tonight and I am excited cuz I love getting my hair and makeup done and wearing fancy designer dresses and and jewelry to very elegant places, it's fun hee hee :). I am getting my hair and makeup done this afternoon and I will send birthday pics for everyone to see the new offseason me. I hope you all enjoy.

Yesterday I got totally blasted by my trainer/fiancé in the gym, we trained so awesome that we were both aching from the pump we had in our shoulders. It was amazing. I went and got my nails and toes done yesterday too, and then I went shopping.

I have several pics that I've been trying to transfer to the computer but there's mega construction being done at my apartment building and the computers and TVs have been a hassle lately as well as getting woke up by people hammering and sawing and banging the loudest noises ever that wake me up toooo early and I need my beauty sleep. So until I get the new photos up here are a few from the Olympia Expo (click on them for larger versions). K I will write more over the weekend,
Dani

Hey just a quick drive by to share some pics from Club Industry in Chicago last weekend, one with my pal Beth Horn!
Dani :)

Whew I'm hurting today my quads are sore to the touch from the training we did on Monday, Nejim and I did extreme growing exercises and it is great being this sore. He he the next two days I'm going to need crutches! Today we worked chest and I benched 135 that's pretty good, I'm still taking things carefully but I will go heavier in the weeks to come. I have some pics of what's happening here in Tampa, will get those up soon .... I can't wait my birthday is this weekend yay!!! The big deuce deuce. For right now here's a preview photo from my Reg Bradford shoot, hope ya enjoy!!
Dani

Hello everyone, I know it's been a while but the 2006 contest season is now over. What a way to end the year, with a 4th place victory at the North American Championships in Cleveland!! :) I took a week off after the show to spend time with my fiance and his family, and also to scout out areas for possible business ventures. It's off season now and time to relax and let my body recover a little bit. But not too much, training is still very much a top priority of course!

I've attached a couple of photos from the show in Cleveland, please write at Dani@DanielleRouleau.com and let me know what you think! I came in for the show at my lightest competition weight in a while, at 129 lbs. I'm a little heavier now hee hee, doing cardio only five times per week instead of twice per day seven days a week during contest prep. John Napliotis of WPW took some great shots of me in peak condition the day after the North Americans which I look forward to seeing, and I had a great shoot with Reg Bradford in South Jersey a few days later. Last weekend I spent three days in Las Vegas for the Olympia where I had a blast and I am about to head to the huge Club Industry Conference in Chicago for a few days as well. Whew!! But after that I'll be taking a few days off for my birthday, yay! I'll be 22 years old on October 14th.

Thankfully the off season allows for time to ramp up my online training and to add a lot to my web site, which I'll be doing along with my sponsors. We also have a lot of decisions to make for next year's season, as far as strategy, including whether or not to compete in the brand new Arnold amateur figure show. I'll definitely be in Charleston for the Junior USA's in the spring, planning to improve upon this years 3rd place finish (*two* points out of 2nd) so make your plans to come support me as soon as the date is announced!! I hope everyone will look forward to seeing some of the latest pics I did with some great photographers, come back and see!! Talk to you soon,

Dani

Hi, as promised I am back to tell you more about the California trip and to share some more photos!! Things are going well this week, although I'm in that part of my pre-contest diet when I'm feeling depleted with low energy. But not to worry it will all be worth it soon!!

Here's another photo from the Laguna Beach shoot, I hope that you like it. As always click on the pics to see a larger version. On Sunday in Orange County I had photo shoots for several magazines, so look for me in the next few months .... one of my shoots was with Steve Wennerstrom (pictured) at World Gym. Finally I have included a shot of me with my friends at the IDS booth in Columbus (Jason's Nutrition Forum) earlier this month!

Hope everyone is doing well and I'll talk to you more soon!! :)

Dani

Hi friends! I have just returned from Southern California and I want to share a few thoughts from the first day of the trip, Saturday. This area of Orange County on the beach is really beautiful and I'm having a lot of fun, the day was jam packed starting with working at Armed Forces National Figure in Anaheim. Then I had a photo shoot with Thomas Oed of Impact Foto in San Diego (pictured), he did an amazing job, the scenery on Laguna Beach was gorgeous around sunset time. Of course the water from the Pacific Ocean was A BIT colder than I am used to in Florida, so each time a wave would hit BRRR! But I got used to it and made it through with just a little finger numbness. :) Here's one of the sample photos .... and I'll post more from the shoot with different outfits over the next few days (click on the photos to see a larger version).

I'm approximately four weeks out now from the North Americans, I've stepped up the cardio and have incorporated some sprints into my regimen .... I came down four lbs in preparation for these California photo shoots, and I am staying super disciplined with my diet and cardio even while on the road!! :)

I'll tell you all about the rest of the trip in a couple of days so check back soon!

Dani

Hello Everyone!!

As the next few weeks go by, I’ll be preparing for the North American Championships in Cleveland, Ohio. Yay! This is the last show of the year for me so all my fans come and support me. If you can’t make it be sure to check out the pictures after the show. Last weekend I was fairly busy, I worked a booth at Jason Dhir’s Nutrition Forum Expo in Columbus, Ohio. It was great and I met a lot of people and had the opportunity to talk with major companies in the industry. The photos from the Expo will be posted soon in my VIP area, and you can also purchase autographed 8x10s in my newly opened E-Store.

This weekend I'll be in Southern California for photo shoots with several magazines and I am very thrilled about that! For the North Americans my trainer/fiancé and I decided to take a different approach to the dieting and how I am going to come in when it is show time. So we are looking forward to that and the changes we’ve made and are still making. Here are some shots in the gym working out, taken earlier today, I hope you like them. Enjoy!!!

Dani

Hi, welcome to my online journal! This is a really exciting time in my life and it's great to share it with you .... right now I'm preparing for the Team U / National Figure Championships in New York less than three weeks away. I'm in Ohio, with my fiance, having a little vacation .... however I'm still dieting and training just like I am at home. But hey that's my life .... I love it!! This has been a busy month, with the Junior Nationals and all the traveling, and later this week in Pittsburgh will be much fun as well, including a photo shoot with J.M. Manion.

My VIP Member's area will be ready soon, and there will be 8x10 photographs and my personal training packages in the store.

Stay tuned, I will write more soon!
Danielle