Adjustments & such…
I am once again allowed weight on leg day~ I am to use 60-75% of my 1-rep max, and I am to get 12-15 reps on every set. My calories and macros have been adjusted and reduced, just a tiny bit, and I haven’t noticed any ill effects from less carbs, less calories or less fats. My last carb-up was Saturday evening~felt great.
I will post an "example" of an entire days worth of meals on my current contest prep menu in the Nutrition Section of my blog. NOTE: My daily nutrition is not the same day in and day out, so the example is not a ridgid schedule or anything.
Today (Sunday) I am beginning training a very good friend of mine, and co-worker (she is also a personal trainer/group ex leader at our gym~as well as a last year Nutrition Student, and our gyms nutrition consultant)~her name is Siobhan (pronounced Show~von), she is a few years older than me, and she just had a beautiful, gigantic baby boy, her one and only, named Quinton. He is 8 months old and she is now deciding to do her very first figure show! She has never competed before, and in fact has never herself lifted to gain mass. Her specialties are marathon training (she is training w/ me to do our 1/2 marathon), Nutrition, and Special Pop (older folks). She is a natural ecto/meso, but carrying a bit of fat from baby around the hips, tummy and thighs. Although her hams and quads are already awesome from running for so many years. I am encouraging her to set up a BodySpace to keep motivated~but even if she doesn’t, she has allowed me to post her progress pics/stats within my blog, perhaps I’ll add another page entitled "Kicking Siobhan’s Ass" 
My first show of the year is on March 31st, and she is setting her sights on the July Colorado State Bodybuilding/Fitness/Figure Chamionships. We will be working out together 2-3 times a week, but I have written her strength training programs, and being a trainer she can easily follow instruction. She is ’shadowing’ my nutrition plan from my wonderful trainer Chuck Rudolph~ she is not following it as strictly as I, we have configured the numbers and macros to her needs, and she is still allowing herself a cheat meal/dessert once per week, until she is 12 weeks out from the July show. Being a nutrition student, she is very good about sticking to a dietary plan, so there is no issue with her about compliancy with the diet. I think it will be great to have a close friend with me at the March show, and then we will both compete (in different classes) in the July Colo State show together, I’m really excited about it!
Peace.~J.
