Sunday 16th March
This morning was exciting as I had my tan on, thought I was getting ready for a competiton and that gave me a really good feeling inside. Went to work and hit some poses with Simon in my 2 piece. Helen and Dave were in for posing this morning, its nice that there is 3 of use competing this year. Feels good! My shoulders are coming on and my back looks good, but I know the areas that I have to work on. Trained a couple of clients and got the strangest looks from some of the members, expect they think its fake tan gone wrong! People just don’t realise how ‘dark tanned’ you have to be before going under the theatre lights!
Went home and prepped food AGAIN and then back to train
LEGS
typing this they are still wobbly, especially after doing the cardio on the treadmill. I started with lunges (20 reps) and took the weight up to 23 1/4 kg either side, that was good, maybe more weight next week. With the lunges I superset with leg press, 3 plates a side and that was hard today. Back upstairs to the leg extension and I increased the weight from last week and superset the smith machine squats. Jon put the bail outs in to make sure that my squats were really deep. I was really pleased as they were all legs and not one bit of back! Calves were up next, 100 reps for 3 sets and the planks for my abs and a lovely PNF stretch for my hams. Nice workout, feel good!
So, almost one week over of being on the pre-c0ntest diet. It has been ok, obviously I am not cutting down on carbs yet. It’s hard eating so much oats and egg for breakfast and the rest of the days food is not too bad, just quite a lot of potato! I have lost 3 1/2 lb’s this week. A little too much too quick Simon says, so we are looking at slowing me down a little bit. Going to have a little more red meat in my diet this week and maybe some goats yoghurt and fruit (blueberries and strawberries) for breakfast to help get some calories in and to help with my digestion. It has been a good week and I have enjoyed my training and it’s exciting to see and know that I have a qualifier not to far away!