My journey to competition shape

[Crader]

LOL Gixx!

Shoulder day was good today. I was on the same weights as the guy training with us and the two girls were a step down. So he drove the competitor in me. It pushed me to get the workouts done

It was really tough and quite a bit of the dumbell work was done on the Reebok ab balance board. We did 100 side to side shakes in the pushup position on the board in between 4 sets. We also did a set of 10 shakes straight into a push up for 6 sets.

We did all heavy weight sets. By the second set of supersets the lactic acid had built up in my shoulders and I was hurting.

I also did my cardio after I was done! No tanning though as I ran out of time.

I think I'm going to try to do cardio at home in the am for maybe 20 min. Then hit some cardio again after workout. Maybe 10-20 min.

[Right Hook]

How much longer until your competition ready? Or are you already ready and your just bein shy??

[Crader]

LOL not ready yet. I fell off the diet wagon I'm trying to figure out the best way to maintain all of this until the Olympia with out burning out!

[Crader]

Lethargy..grrrrrrr
Well I'm getting really worn down, not sure why.
So on the off chance that the vars causing it I'm adding in 25mg of DHEA in and my B12.

Matt thought it was liver glycogen depletion so he had me drink a Coke yesterday to get the high fructose corn syrup in. And while I felt a little better yesterday it was not the problem.

I also am starting Incarnate, my first dose was today. As I'm getting more run down my gym time has become harder. I'm getting massive lactic acid feeling in my sets and the burn is intense. This is happening early in to my 45 mins so I'm pushing through a good half hour of massive pain. Heres to the hope the Incarnate might help. And its good therapy for my joints.

[Crader]

Chest day:
We started out doing incline barbell flyes with dumbells for 15 reps and supersetted them with 10 incline "what Sinner calls Dragon Flyes". These were harder uphill on an incline! We had 4 sets of them.

We then did incline dumbell presses for 15 reps and then dropped the weight to do 10 leg lifts with a stop at the top and brought them down as slow as we could. Feel the AB burn!!!! 4 sets

Went on to 40lb cable flies, 15 and dropped the cable to do pop push ups on a step up platform. So we got in push up stance with a hand on either side of the platform. Did a push up and on the way up we pushed our weight offf the ground and landed on the step up board with our hands..6 reps These were hard! We did 3 sets..

Then we did this thing with the cable where we took the handles in our hands put our palms together with fingers straight out but not locking and pushed the weight straight out like a flye we did 15 of these and then back to the step up board where we had one hand on the board one on the floor and did a push up popped the other hand on the board and on the floor, did a push up on that side..We did these for 6 on each side 3 Total sets

Did 12 walk outs and then hit the press machine at 60 lbs for 10, 10, 6, 6 reps

By then I was totally toast!!

I did 20 min of cardio before the class.

[Crader]

Here are some early pics. Not where I want to be but it gives me a visual on what I need to improve

[Crader]

Survived leg day!! To tired to say to much about it. It was a typical leg day with her. Also have brought out the mountain bikes for morning cardio rides.

[Gixxer82]

Originally Posted by Crader

Here are some early pics. Not where I want to be but it gives me a visual on what I need to improve

I think I just fell in love..again.....if you were an east coast crader, where would you hang out???

Originally Posted by Crader

Survived leg day!! To tired to say to much about it. It was a typical leg day with her. Also have brought out the mountain bikes for morning cardio rides.

work it girl! lol

[Crader]

Lol like where on the East coast?

[Crader]

Originally Posted by thesinner

is this the "lethvargy"?

Why yes, I think it might be!:lol:

Chest day..
We started with incline flyes for 15 supersetted with 10 incline dragon flyes we did this with no rest for 4 sets. We then went to cable flies 35lbs for 15 supersetted with bear crawls from one end of the gym to the other and at the end we did 6 push ups. This was for 4 sets.

We went to the chest press machine for 15 reps got up went to the bench and did 6 presses with a twist at the top , got up and hit 50 mountain climbers..this was done for 4 sets.

From there we did the pec deck for 40 lbs at 15 reps got off and did 45lbs x 20 reps on the decline bench. We did 4 sets. I struggled with this one.

After that we went to the squat rack, use dthe bar to do a push up and then a pop push up where we jumped our hands over at the end of the push up. We did 6 of these and then she dropped the bar a peg lower. We did this 4 times until we were only a few inches from the ground. That was hard at the bottom.

Before class I did 15 min of cardio and at the end of class I did a bunch of broomstick twists for my obliques.

The RPM seemed to help a little I was feeling pretty good at the end.

Apparently I'm going to be kicked in the diet ass My trainer is competing in 8 weeks and she wants me to start her contest diet with her. She will be getting her diet done for her by a pro trainer and so she can't tell me what it consists of yet. But like a dummy I took the challenge. She wants to see who will lean out faster

LOL she will for sure as she is way leaner than I am. She challenged me with the its only 8 weeks of your life c'mon! Plus we are using at as guide to see how my body responds so I will come in good for the Olympia!

I will be doing salt depletion and the whole nine yards!! Wish me luck.. Nats got an egg allergy so I know eggs are out!