Happy Saturday all you gym rats out there! I'm sitting here eating a yummy chicken-cashew-veggie stir-fry for dinner, the last one I'll be able to eat for the next week, thinking I better do a blog post before I become so exhausted from peak week dieting and training that I have no energy to type. These days I have about a 6-hour window from the time I wake up to roughly lunch time that I can carry a coherent conversation and don't need to pump myself with caffeine to get through a decent workout. Come the PM hours, it's all downhill from there. I know it's totally normal and will only get worse before it gets better but I am so ready to take on peak week and be done with it. Exactly 7 days from now I will be in Newburyport, MA awaiting the results of the bikini bodybuilding division!
I'm actually looking forward to peak week this time though. I wrote-out my new diet and workout plan for the week the other day and will begin the depletion on Monday. I'm going to follow a similar plan to the one I did for the SOA only this time I'm going to carb-load a bit more on Friday to see if it makes any difference. Monday through Thursday will be depletion days, Thursday of course being the worse, but I feel like my willpower is ready to take it on. Especially since Thursday's workout will just be an AM cardio sesh so it's perfectly fine if I lack all mental and physical capacity after 6AM. I'm sure my boss will just LOVE that HA!
For the longest time my mind just wasn't really in the right place for this show due to a) it being summer and I want a friggin' margarita bad and b) hardly anyone around here is doing this show so there aren't many people to train with, pose with, and most important...complain with LOL. However, over the past few weeks I've gotten much more excited about it, especially as my physique is visibly leaning out (amazingly without much drop on the scale!) and the countdown has gone from weeks to mere days. If I continue to progress as I should over the next week I think I'll look better on stage this time than I did in either of my other two shows.
I have no idea what to expect out of this show though. It's another huge pro-qualifier but I'm guessing it won't be quite as big as the SOA was just due to the time of year. Hopefully that doesn't mean massive classes that are impossible to place in. Then again, a placing in a larger class would be so much more meaningful! In all though I just want to have fun and hopefully improve over last time.
Yesterday I had a posing class set-up with a woman I posed with last spring. It felt so good to put on my suit and get in some good practice and pointers! My suit is definitely scandalous but I think it will rock the stage in a good way :) I'm feeling so much more confident just having a little practice in me so hopefully I can get some more in at the gym this week before showtime. Today was just a nice relaxing, sunny, and pleasantly warm Saturday which began with a shoulders and core workout. Then around mid-day I went for a canoe trip with my Dad where we caught some yummy fresh bass for peak week dinners! I was pooped when I came home this afternoon so I treated myself to a pedicure merely so I could take a nap in the massaging chair for a half-hour LOL. Tomorrow is supposed to be the gem of the weekend so I plan to get up super early again, do a leg / core / cardio gym sesh and then hit the beach with some friends for the day. It's time to break-out the old stage suit for the sand so I don't have horrendous tan lines next weekend ;)
I guess that's all I have for pre-peak week updates. All I can say is bring it on! Have a Fit. Fierce. & Fun rest of your weekend, stay active, eat clean, and happy gymming to all!
I'm actually looking forward to peak week this time though. I wrote-out my new diet and workout plan for the week the other day and will begin the depletion on Monday. I'm going to follow a similar plan to the one I did for the SOA only this time I'm going to carb-load a bit more on Friday to see if it makes any difference. Monday through Thursday will be depletion days, Thursday of course being the worse, but I feel like my willpower is ready to take it on. Especially since Thursday's workout will just be an AM cardio sesh so it's perfectly fine if I lack all mental and physical capacity after 6AM. I'm sure my boss will just LOVE that HA!
For the longest time my mind just wasn't really in the right place for this show due to a) it being summer and I want a friggin' margarita bad and b) hardly anyone around here is doing this show so there aren't many people to train with, pose with, and most important...complain with LOL. However, over the past few weeks I've gotten much more excited about it, especially as my physique is visibly leaning out (amazingly without much drop on the scale!) and the countdown has gone from weeks to mere days. If I continue to progress as I should over the next week I think I'll look better on stage this time than I did in either of my other two shows.
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| 7 Days Out - Abs Have Arrived! |
Yesterday I had a posing class set-up with a woman I posed with last spring. It felt so good to put on my suit and get in some good practice and pointers! My suit is definitely scandalous but I think it will rock the stage in a good way :) I'm feeling so much more confident just having a little practice in me so hopefully I can get some more in at the gym this week before showtime. Today was just a nice relaxing, sunny, and pleasantly warm Saturday which began with a shoulders and core workout. Then around mid-day I went for a canoe trip with my Dad where we caught some yummy fresh bass for peak week dinners! I was pooped when I came home this afternoon so I treated myself to a pedicure merely so I could take a nap in the massaging chair for a half-hour LOL. Tomorrow is supposed to be the gem of the weekend so I plan to get up super early again, do a leg / core / cardio gym sesh and then hit the beach with some friends for the day. It's time to break-out the old stage suit for the sand so I don't have horrendous tan lines next weekend ;)
I guess that's all I have for pre-peak week updates. All I can say is bring it on! Have a Fit. Fierce. & Fun rest of your weekend, stay active, eat clean, and happy gymming to all!
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