Too Smooth…
NO I’m not talking about a move I just made on the dance floor, or the kind if you’re single and are trying to pick up the ladies…I’m talking about NOT lean enough for the show. I did it, I knew it, but that was it, that was the way I was going in to this show.
Early this year I lost over three months of training to a hernia and also lost all the size I had worked so hard to put on since last October. I had really made some great gains during that bulking phase until the hernia.
Once I was able to train again I started working, and I do mean WORKING…. pounding the weights, eating clean food, taking my vitamins & minerals, protein powders, supplements, etc to put back on all the size I had lost during the time I couldn’t train. As the days grew closer to showtime & I was getting leaner, I could see I wasn’t going to be lean enough. But did I want to start sacrificing muscle to get leaner? I knew that If I hit it hard enough to fully lean out for the show I’d be giving up some of the hard earned muscle I had worked to put back on. There just wasn’t enough time.
Well to make a long story short, I came in bigger than last year, with even better symetry, but I just wasn’t lean enough. This was the first time ever I had not made the final call out. It was a hard thing to swallow, but I made the decision and now had to live with it.
Being the supreme optimist that I am, I just took that finish and said " It will NEVER happen again." Yesterday was day #1 for the spring show in Vancouver. The same show I won in 2008. So now it’s time to get busy, get back to building, and when cut time comes, I’ll get started and go all the way…. I WILL be super lean at the next show and every other show from here on out.
I can’t thank all my supporters out there enough. I’ve gotten tons of encouragement from everyone on this site, as well as all my clients and friends at he gym and work. 2010 will be a new year that I am so looking forward to. Again thanks to everyone, and in the upcoming months I hope to show you great progress.
Thank you everyone….
October 22, 2009 at 5:21 am
I hear you my friend.I didn’t do the Oct 10th show I planned on doing for the same reason .I was not lean enough. It was a hard pill to swollow. I’ve never had to bow out of a show so I was really bummed. That’s ok .Like yourself I’m setting my sights on Spring 2010. Kick butt corkie!!
October 22, 2009 at 2:13 pm
I can appreciate the delima you were in–just the call I had to make a month ago. You opted for the show experience and I’m sure that you learned a lot. I’m sorry that I haven’t been checking in on you more often. We were on our cruise your contest weekend, and I just spaced it out. I still think your pics show some great stuff.