Nancypro’s BodyBlog

OK, here we are it is USA week! I will be in Vegas in a few short days.  Very excited, I have done the best I can in my preparations, now it is time to sit back, relax, (ok not so much relaxing) and enjoy the ride. I still have my one piece swimsuit to stone, my suits from the Arnold have sold, so this is high on my priority list. Now I know how the designers feel frantically putting on rhinestones at the last minute.  I am sure it will all be just fine.

Incidentally I got a teaser sample preview from the USA, special thanks to figurerx.com A great article they wrote about all the classes they will be posting the information on their web site very soon but here is the article:

USA FIGURE NATIONALS PREVIEW

I am thrilled to have received such compliments and great words and to be put up there with the likes of the stellar Jessica Wright, Catherine Anderson and Jamie Reed, there will be some new faces as well that will be forces to be reckoned with, I am excited to get to meet them, as well as visit with some of the veteran athletes. It is going to be a great time.

I will try to be posting later this week with some updates from Vegas, but who knows. Show Time!!!!!!!

so I missed my morning cardio session, got up too late and had to go get my hair done which actually only took 3 hours.  YIKES!! Now I get to do it in the hot late afternoon sun, oh well. The weather this week is not being very kind to us, it is hot, hot, hot, I guess just getting me ready for Vegas cuz, it is going to be EXTRA hot there! Still have a suit and a half to put rhinestones on.  You know we all live on coffee right now, and it is no fun putting stones on a suit all amped up on coffee, so that has to wait until the late evening hours. Tick tock, almost time, feeling good, I have done what I can, my body at this point, is what it is, they either like or not. That is to be determined, just doing those last minute details some more fun than others but all necessary.  Well, I am chuck full of coffee now and off to the gym.

later…

2 weeks to go, and I am feeling ok.  Starting to fantisize about pizza.  Haven’t had any cravings at all until this week, starting to feel the hunger pains and the low body fat.  Yikes! Only two more weeks to go and I will be eating my pizza pie.  Going to bed to get some sleep, I am at the point now where I am pretty tired much of the time.  Use most of my energy for my workouts and that is about all. The weather is starting to be not so nice to us this week, and that makes it difficult. All part of the preparations. One day at a time, today was a good day… hopefully tomorrow even better.

AAAAHHHHHAUUUUUUG.  OK, thought I would repeat myself, started to fall asleep last night doing cardio, so tired.  It is the home stretch, body fat is getting low, food intake and spirits are high, but those workouts are buggers.  It is the final last little bit, starting to get those butterflies, you know the ones if you have ever competed before.  Doing so much cardio, that I am contemplating the meaning of life since my music has now gotten old.  That is always an interesting internal conversation. um why am I doing this??? OH yeah because it is FUN!!! OH, fun, not today, not feeling to fun, but it will be worth the sacrifice and discipline.  The delayed gratification, what is the fun in delayed gratification, I don’t know, but hopefully I will feel that very soon. Being on stage looking like I look in my head, that is the big goal for now.  I am sure you can relate if you have competed before. Anyway, today is a new day… LEGS…. AAAAGGGGGUG. I am ok really, my ranting in my journal just helps me process my thinking.  It is all good.  I have a great support team and other competitors who I keep in contact with going through the same thing, that all keeps me sane.  

By the way, my gorgeous burgundy suits are for sale exclusively on www.fitnessandfigurecompetitionsuits.com Sad to part with them as usual…My suits usually go very fast for some reason especially the one pieces, so I thought I would give you all a heads up. The prices are very reasonable too. So if you are over 5′7" go check them out.  I have a one piece and a two piece for sale, with goregous pink crystals and medalions on the two piece.

Well, that is about all the news for me right now, time to go…. yes, you guessed it, workout!

Happy Sunday.

OK, so has anyone ever had a cardio session from hell? You know, one hour of "God when is this shit ever going to end?" kind of thing? Yeah, that was me, and to top it off it was only my first round.  Getting a little irritable the last few days, things will smooth out, no doubt, there is always a pendullum effect, the next workout no doubt will be great.  Only 3 weeks to go till the USA, I still need to drop some body fat, my body is responding nicely to the cardio and the diet, my brain at the moment, not as nice. Anway, thanks for reading.  Hope your training is a bit easier at the moment than mine.