16 Weeks Out From My Very First Bodybuilding Competition
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007Well now since I’ve decided to give competing a shot, I wanted my beginning stats to be spot on so I had to make a few changes. I mean I did measure them before, but I learned a few things since I did that, like, that my calves are bigger if I dorsiflex my toes instead of plantar flexing my toes (I think I have those two terms right). So yeah, I updated some stats. My weight had also been fluctuating, I suppose everyone’s does, and I had actually put down the higher number but after staying steady and basically averaging 2 lbs lower, I went ahead and changed that too. I want my beginning stats to be as accurate as possible so that I can accurately assess the changes my body will be going thru as I prepare for this competition. So anyway, stats should be accurate now.
K, so Sunday, Feb 18th, was exactly 16 weeks out from my very first bodybuilding competition. Hubby took my bodyfat measurement (skin fold calipers 7 points) and we took some pics, which I’m not sharing right now cause I hate them, the flash washed out what definition I have and I’m too pastey white, and yeah, like they say, the camera obviously puts pounds on you cause I think I look chunky in the pics and I honestly don’t look like that in person, and what pisses me off most is we couldn’t get my abs to show up even tho both hubby and I could see all six of my packs plain as day! This is exactly why I need professional pics done! Anyhoo, so after the pics, which we retook several of them several times because I am still trying to learn how to pose correctly, we evaluated my physique. We determined (I knew most of this before anyway) that I have no calves (no surprise there) and so I need to add mass to them, I need more hamstrings, and I need more upper back width. I’m not surprised that I lack upper back width cause I always felt I needed more even before I became pregnant and I know I definitely lost some size during and after my pregnancy. And well, looks like my lats lost some width, waaaahhhh!! To top it off, I can only rarely make it to the gym, I workout on limited equipment that we have in our basement and we don’t have any kind of pulldown or pullup equip so I’ve been limited to doing rows. So yeah, doesn’t surprise me that I need more lat width. We will be getting a pulldown cable machine very soon though, thanks to tax refund money. So I’ll have to make sure I hit my upper lats hard. I honestly don’t know that I can even expect to gain any appreciable muscle mass in only 4 months and especially since I’ll be cutting hard to get ripped (hopefully) the majority of the time but I’m gonna do my best, that’s all I can do! And with that, it’s time for me to go down in my basement and work my legs, time to hit my hamstrings! I’ll be hitting calves too altho I also don’t have any calf equipment so I guess it’ll be whatever I can think up to exercise my calves, yeah, I know they definitely won’t be up to par by the time the competition rolls around. Oh well, I do what I can with what I got.
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