Making_A_Change’s BodyBlog

This ‘peak week’ is something else. Today, I felt ‘normal’. I made it to the end of work. I am finding that I am hungry alot sooner after eating. I don’t know if it is my metabolism or does it have something to do with eating ‘all real food’ and no supplements. Or is that the same thing. This morning’s workout went well. I did make it to the end. Tonight, I am going to do another circuit for abs and legs. We’ll see how it goes. And I have posing practice, of course. I was watching the Olympia footage and there were some elements that I wanted to include in my posing–nothing drastic. Just a lil’ somethin’ somethin’ to make me more memorable. I am about 40 minutes from my next meal which will be relatively carb free. Are there that many carbs in a red pepper? I am going to have about 5 egg whites (2 yolks) and some peppers for flavor.

My weight is down to 132. I could not believe it. I hadn’t weighed myself in almost a week, because I need batteries. You know how you need to buy batteries and you keep forgetting, so you take the batteries out of other things? Well, I took the batteries out of my scale. I haven’t manipulated my water, yet and my weight dropped 3-4 pounds. I may me competing in the high 120’s. That is my high school  weight.

I have been reading alot about contest rebound and I am determined not to let it happen to me. I want to put on about 5-6 pounds of muscle over the next 7 months. And I want to sit at around 140-143 during the ‘off season’. With the goal of not having to lose more than 10-12 pounds for a  18 week prep. While I am new at this, the extra time is good.

My other post-competition goals are:

• to keep my diet close to my contest diet for four weeks
• add just 100 calories per day to my meals
• continue doing 30 minutes of cardio after my morning workouts
• evening cardio gradually reduced

Those are my initial goals. I really don’t know how my body is going to react, but I definitely feel like I need to plan. I am not putting on 30 pounds, just to have to start over–this was too hard for that!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at 6:55 pm and is filed under Training. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.