On the Go 2 Becoming a Pro!

Hey everyone, hope all is well.  I finished a pretty solid off season making a lot of progress in developing a lot better hamstrings and back.  Now it’s that time of year again…CONTEST PREPARATION.  It’s my last opportunity to compete as a junior(under 21) and I am going to take full advantage of it competing three times in the month of April.  My goal is to win all three and have a fantastic birthday in May.  Being 20 weeks out I’m fired up and ready to go!

I am training 6 days a week with weights focusing on pure isolation of a muscle.  I am also doing cardio everyday.  It will be a combination of playing basketball along with skipping, biking, stairmaster etc.  Basically anything that burn excess calories.  I start my workouts with something to warm up the body/ light stretch.  At the end of my workouts I do my cardio because when you lift weights you deplete the glycogen out of the body.  Then when you perform cardio it leaves you burning fat at a lot faster rate.

My routine is the following:Monday:  Chest/Calves/Abs
Tuesday:  Back/forearms
Wednesday:  Quads/Calves/Abs
Thursday: Biceps/Triceps
Friday:  Shoulders/Traps/Abs
Saturday:  Hamstrings/Calves/ Abs
Sunday:  Off (Prepare meals for the following week) 

Right now I have 2 weeks left in my first semester at Fanshawe Collage and the I’m off for about a month.  I like how I get a taste of the challenge balancing school with training and then I can focus “living the life” for a month…eat, sleep,train (along with seeing some friends haven’t seen in a while etc.).  No matter what I’ve got to stay focused on my goals and stay organized.  I know there will be tough days and a lot of challenges ahead of me.  Thats why I’ll have to be mentally prepared. Contest prep will test me physically but you’ve got to love that part of bodybuilding or you need to find something else to do.  It’s going to be the mental and physiological battles that will test me!

To give myself a chance to win I will have to keep a strict diet eating 6 times a day spaced out every three hours.  Currently my numbers are 225 protein, 400 carbodydrates and 68 grams of fat.  Depending on how my body reacts to the cardio I have incorporated into my routine I will make adjustments from there.  This is the earliest I’ve ever got ready for a show but I want to make sure I give myself enough time to get as lean as possible but keep as much size possible too.  Today I am 200 pounds on the dot but I don’t have a certain weight I’m trying to get to I will monitor myself through pictures.I pride myself on gettting better every workout and making sure nobody is more intense than me in the gym.  If someone beats me in April they better believe they will have earn everything.  I won’t sell myself short in any aspect and give myself all the reason to succeed.I’ll be back in 5 weeks to show my progress and tell about any adjustment I’ve made.  Remember, what separates good competitors from great ones is the ability to read their bodies.