Erik Fankhouser

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name = Erik Fankhouser
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nickname = "The House"
birthdate = birth date and age|1980|05|30
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height = 5'9ft / 175.5 cm.
weight = Contest: 215lb Off season: 230lb
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Erik Fankhouser (born May 30, 1980) is a professional American bodybuilder who competes in the sport’s heavyweight class.

Fankhouser began weight training while he was a student at West Liberty State College in West Liberty, West Virginia. He originally focused on playing fullback for the school’s football team and participating in the shot put, discus, hammer and javelin events for the track team, and then turned his focus to bodybuilding. He won his first competitive bodybuilding tournament, the NPC Upper Ohio Valley, placing first in the junior division. He won the Mr. West Virginia title in the 2005 Mid Atlantic Grand Prix/West Virginia States. [ [http://www.westliberty.edu/uploadedFiles/Faculty_and_Staff/College_Relations_and_Marketing/fall_07_online.pdf “Pro Bodybuilder is in the ‘House’ Top of the Hill Magazine] ]

In his first national competition, the 2006 North American Championship, he placed fourth in the heavyweight division. In 2007, he placed 16th in the USA Bodybuilding & Figure Championships, but in his next competition he placed first in his class in the North American Championships. He was also named overall winner for the competition and earned his IFBB pro card at that event. [ [http://www.musculardevelopment.com/browse/index.php?mode=browse&id=10016 Muscular Development Magazine (Online Edition)] ] With his victory, Fankhouser made state sports history as the first West Virginia native to became professional bodybuilder. [ [http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=32573 “Man Making "Big" Strides in Career” WTRF-TV] ]

Fankhouser, who stands 5’9” and averages 215 pounds, goes by the nickname “The House.” He is sponsored in his training by the bodybuilding supplement companies Animalpak.com and Universal Nutrition. [ [http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/weik63.htm Bodybuilding.com interview] ] He has also done guest poing at several bodybuilding tournaments, and writes weight training articles for "Muscular Development Magazine." [ [http://www.westliberty.edu/uploadedFiles/Faculty_and_Staff/College_Relations_and_Marketing/fall_07_online.pdf “Pro Bodybuilder is in the ‘House’ Top of the Hill Magazine] ]

Outside of competitive bodybuilding, works as an exercise physiologist at Wheeling Hospital in Wheeling, West Virginia.

References

External links

* [http://www.erikfankhouser.net Official web site]
* [http://contests.ironmanmagazine.com/index.cfm?go2=contests_competitor&CompetitorID=11813 Ironman Magazine profile]
* [http://mdtv.musculardevelopment.com/content/category/30/144/204/ Video interview with Muscular Development Magazine]