The Weekend - 3 weeks to go……..
Saturday morning threw up my eggs! Nice, reminded me of pre-contest diet before I debuted in New York. Sometime by body can’t cope with eggs and I have a slight intolerance. Still the day passed and I felt ok, little jaded, but went to train in the afternoon and had a great session, it was hard and felt quite sick by the end of it on cardio (45 mins!).
It was the usual A - programme of Shoulders, Back and Chest. I went as heavy as I could on the shoulder presses and upright row and the same on the raises and the shruggs. Brian was around and gave a spot on the close grip pulldowns which I got up to 55kg again for the 8 reps before I dropped on the last set. I opted for seated rows instead of bent over row to also hit back and rear delts.
Went in for Legs and Arms with cardio this morning. Again, this was a tough session today too. Must be lack of carbs!, I knew there was a reason… I started downstairs in the power room with squats with 10kg a side for 2 sets of 30 reps, that knackered me out, then upstairs for leg extensions and walking lunges, then heavy as I could stiff legged deadlifts and superset lying leg curls. Arms was fun, the usual pressdowns and incline supination curls (still on the 10kg’s!), single arm extensions and then preacher curl cables lying down on the bench, I really felt this today and dropped the last set to get a real squeeze, I superset db hammer curls with it. Lastly before cardio was seated calf raises with 3 plates for 3 sets of 8 reps. Job done!
So, the plan has changed in relation to cardio this week, I am doing 5 x 45 mins this week, I have just put it all into my ‘covey planner’, so I know what is happenning. I want to be tight!
Posing routine is exciting. Nerve wracking and exciting!!!