Yea so… I actually made a vlog about this (but didn’t have
time to upload it), but I cheated on my diet. The first day was planned and the
others were NOT. I’ve never really cheated on my diet before, so I admit that I
feel like a bit of a loser for it. But I find solace in the fact that I have
13.5 weeks to get it together. I’m not
about making excuses, but it is good to know the reasons why it happened so
that I won’t do it again. Reasons why I
did it: I was extremely exhausted (had migraines from it) and sought a surge of
energy from something enjoyable; I was discouraged and intimidated by the
pictures on the internet (I told myself I wouldn’t do that and did anyway); and
my outlook changed from “let me just eat as clean as possible and see where my
body goes,” to “you have x amount of weeks to get a vascular body.” See the difference in those statements? The first one brought about a sense of ease
and leaves room for me to enjoy clean eating, while the other statement brings
about pressure and stress. I know that
my goal is to do the show in May, but it’s mainly mental for me. I do better telling myself that I will eat as
clean as possible and enjoy my life than saying “I’m dieting.” Because then my
brain will think of the not so healthy foods as scarcity items and I will want
to hoard it…in my belly. Lol.

Anyway, today was legs. I didn’t go for high numbers—I wanted
to focus on form and squeeze.

5 min warm up

FRONT SQUATS with Olympic Bar (I just started doing this): 4
sets, 65#, 85#, #115, #115

ROMANIAN DEADLIFTS with Olympic Bar: 4 sets, #115, #135,
#155, #155

Superset 1 (4 sets):

LEG PRESS: 420#,
12-15 reps, into calve raises

WEIGHTED REVERSE LUNGE INTO CURTSY LUNGE: 15# each hand, to
failure

Then I did LYING HAMSTRING CURLS: #65, #50, to failure

Superset 2 (3 sets):

STEP-UPS INTO LUNGE: To failure (omg..is all I gotta say
about those)

GLUTE KICKBACKS on machine: 145#, 12-15 reps

Abs are kind of hard to explain because I made it up, but it
was definitely challenging.

Some people say that you shouldn’t do a lot of abs during
contest prep, others say 4-5 days per week as long as it’s not weighted
exercises. I never did them often, so
this time I want to try something different and do them at least 4 times per
week. I had a hard time walking back into the locker room, but it is alllll
good. It felt good! I’m not sore now but I’m pretty sure my body will remind me
what I did when I wake up tomorrow morning!

Have a great day folks.