5 WEEKS!!! Yikes!! I feel like my competition is getting so close, yet still feels so far away!
This week I am changing up my workouts. Going to half-body splits, trying to trim some fat. Here's what the split looks like:
Monday: Upper body, teach kickboxing
Tuesday: Lower body, metabolic circuits
Wednesday: Off weights, metabolic circuits
Thursday: Upper body
Friday: Lower body, metabolic circuits
Saturday: Off weights, teach kickboxing
Sunday: Off (for now)
Diet is pretty bland, and very strict-especially now, as my carbs are getting cut a bunch. The carbs cycle through the week, 1 day is all the way up to 155 grams of carbs, and goes as low as 50 grams of carbs on the days I don't lift.
Here is what a basic meal plan looks like for me right now:
Meal 1: Oats, egg whites
Meal 2: Oats, egg whites
Meal 3: Chicken, green veggie, fish oil
Meal 4: Lean ground beef, green veggie, almonds
Meal 5: Chicken, green veggie, fish oil
Meal 6: Egg whites, and peppers and onions
not too bad, but definitely no fun food in there! Good news though-now I can add in a 1/2 grapefruit at some point during the day-so that is nice!
Posing practice is going great and is a lot of fun! My posing coach is super nice, and great to work with. I practice with her once a week. I really feel like it is going to give me a lot of confidence on stage, which was one of my main goals in doing this competition.
I am going to attempt to put the crystals on my posing suit by myself! It's very expensive to have someone put them on for you, so I thought "I could do that!" So, I have the crystals ordered and the tool that helps you put them on. I also have my design all sketched out. I will post pictures as I get it done!
No pics yet. I think you are going to have to wait until competition week! I will post before and after pics then.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Training Update-5 Weeks Today!
Easy Smoothie Recipe
Hey everyone!
Just thought I would post something quick-I got this idea off a friend's blog, and just kind of changed it up a bit.
Cooper is not a big veggie eater-let's just say, the only thing he likes is northern beans and freeze dried corn *Sigh*. Ella was (and is) always such a great veggie eater, so this is a change for me.
Here's a good way I found to get some veggies in Cooper!
2 c. fresh baby spinach
1 3/4 cups frozen fruit (I used a bag that had strawberries, mangos and pineapple)
Juice from 1-2 oranges
Water
Blend in the blender, and VOILA! It looks really gross but the taste is really yummy! He drinks it right up, and I know for sure he is getting good couple servings of veggies per smoothie! I have been giving him this for a mid-morning snack.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Figure Competition: Training Update
Well, next week starts a new phase in my training! Next week I go to two-a-day workouts! One weight session in the early morning, and one after the kids are in bed. Should be interesting, and I should start seeing some serious results.
To give you a little update, a few weeks ago me and the girl training for the body building portion of my competition, Courtney, started training together! We were not happy with the trainer we were working with, so we decided just to start training together. Well, in the three weeks we have been working together we have seen a great deal of results-it's been awesome! We also have started working with another trainer who is awesome! He's got our first phase of cutting diets dialed in, he is keeping track of body fat, and starting next week he is designing our workouts for us-awesome! Exactly what we need!
So, I am about to embark on what is going to prove to be a very tiring, strenuous, SORE, yet exciting portion of the process in preparing for a figure competition! I will be sticking with the first phase of my cutting diet for one more week, then the week after that it changes again.
My goal is to be ready for the show by March 28th-which gives me two weeks before the show to tweak things, and hopefully come in totally lean and ripped! :)
For those of you interested, here is what my diet looks like right now-everyday! Apparently, diets are the opposite of workouts. With workouts, if you are doing the same thing week after week, you are going to stall out and not see progress. Diet works the opposite-if you eat the same thing everyday, your body gets more efficient at processing it, and burns it up-like gas on a fire! So, hence the reason I have to stick with the same diet for two weeks, then he is going to switch it up.
Meal 1: oats, protein shake
Meal 2: oats, eggs
Meal 3: tuna, 1/2 banana
Meal 4: tuna, 1/2 banana
Meal 5: Chicken, green veggie
Meal 6: Chicken, green veggie
Meal 7: cottage cheese, whey protein shake
Meal 8: casein protein shake
So there's the latest! I'll keep you posted on how the two-a-day workouts progress. I am sure I am in for a SORE week this week!! yikes!
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Cooper's 15 month check!
Cooper had his 15 month well baby check today, and he is doing so well! Still 50% for both weight and height-23 lbs. 14 oz, and 31 inches long. He is above average with the amount of words he can say! The doctor said they should be saying about 5 words right now-Cooper is saying: Mama, Daddy, Ella, doggy, cheese, ball, night-night, hi, snack, lunch, eye, yeah, all done, down, no, ...that's all I can think of off the top of my head! So, he is doing really well in that area. Meeting all his milestones in all other areas too. She said he looked great! He had to get two shots today, to stay on the Dr. Sears alternative vaccination schedule. Poor little guy cried and cried, until we got out to the car! :( So, hopefully we can stay out of the doctor's office until his 18 month check in April!
