THOUGHTS OF A FITNESS FREAK

Thanks for the dating comments.  yes, you want someone fit but you dont want to crap on sacred ground!

We finally did some figure posing tonight.  I met Nina, a past gymnastic…..totally cool.  She has the biggest back and delts, but nice and round.  Totally different bodytype than me at 5′1" and me at 5′3" and 1/2.  I swear i got legs like a freakin gazelle somehow being a shortie.  I swear mine are about 6 inches longer than women my height in competition.  It makes building harder.  She is going to do great.,   We went over new posing rules and a more relaxed look.   Shoulders are more "relaxed" and pushed back, no longer pushing out the booty ladies.  I kind of have a hard time with my old habits though and being in 5 inch heels gave me a major calf cramp.  She did well.  One tip here..she may have some scoliosis because her left shoulder was lower than the right.  Here is the tip if you notice this on yourself like I did.  Do your posing and close your eyes, when you know your shoulder height is even, touch the tips of your fingers to your leg.  You will then know how high your hands have to be to make your shoulders even.  Obviously my left hand is higher on my leg.  You can see it in my pics sometimes, looks like I have one arm longer, but I try to hide it.   

I also have a more jacked looking body with my veins and leanessness even at 128lbs.  This worries me.  How am I supposed to drop weight to compete against these women who weight 105 when I am looking pretty lean right now, but still do not have the volume I am seeking?  It makes me nuts.  The damn numbers game! I guess I keep telling myself to just try to be most memorable on stage……winning doesnt always take you places.  Enjoy the ride, all that good stuff.  Seriously, so many great things have happened in the past couple years for me.  If you knew the timid quiet mouse I used to be, you would know this.   My sister used to introduce me as "this is my sister, th quiet one.  She doesnt talk"  then I might say hi and look at the floor or away.  I felt like a loser really.

So we did our quarter turns and I am happy to say I didnt shake and held my poses well.  New girls dont know how hard this is to get used to.  Sometimes on stage its like time is standing still and they take forever to judge!  You are thinking, "please make me turn, please make me turn!!!!" and you are screaming in your head and your back is achine and your toes are ready to blister in your shoe…but smile and look pretty……always smile.  smile smmmmmmmiiiiiiiii              ullllllllllllllllllllll…………………

So why do it?  Because we can.  Because the prom queen or the fairy tale princess lives in all us women.  Admit it.  Even with my gym feet, my broken nails, my blister/burn from my woodstove on my hand and the one on my forearm and my popping veins……Im still a girly girl inside.  I cry at stupid movies, I love wildflowers and babies and music boxes and pink and even a phone call that says I miss you and then hangs up. 

Any questions about figure, hit me up.  I dont know it all………but will help if I do!

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