2008 Arnold Blog

I was driving on my way to Golds gym in Venice Beach today when I saw that I had missed a call from Cathy LeFrancois.  I had just seen Cathy over the weekend at the Iron Man where she was working at the Gaspari booth and drawing a great deal of attention with her shredded condition she was carrying two weeks out from the Arnold.

When I called Cathy she told me she would be filming part of her new DVD today and ask if I wanted to catch a workout with her.  I have trained with Cathy several times and she has always held her own ground, with pound for pound matching most guys or even stronger.  I met up with Cathy and Dave the owner of Max Muscle Venice at the store and we headed to Golds to hit shoulders. Since seeing Cathy this past Sat she looked even harder today with no fat and had veins running everywhere.  I was surprised at how full she also looked as most competitors tend to look flat the last week.

Cathy has done her homework and if she shows up in this same condition 2008 could just be her year.  Cathy started training with dumbbell side laterals where she seemed to go to failure.  I’ve seen a lot of Pro’s just coast in the last week as not to overtrain or risk injury before the show; however, thru the whole workout Cathy kept her rest time down to about 1 minute between sets and went to failure.

Cathy plans on doing several contest this year and a few months ago signed a contract with Gaspari so things look like they are improving for her.  The sport could use someone like Cathy to represent it as she is a very positive role model for others both on and off the bodybuilding stage.