Oletimer’s BodyBlog

I was just wondering why with so much emphasis is paced on "drug free, all natural bodybuilding" at the show everyone is dripping brown with unnatural tan in a bottle and it’s received as perfectly "natural"????

I’ve been experimenting with the stuff and you do get amazingly darker in a short time(hours), but it’s messy. It comes off on clothes and any fabric you come in contact with, runs and streaks if you get wet, washes down the drain if you bathe; well you get the idea. I think if you’re gonna be natural then be natural. But since no one cares what I think, this is my pseudo-natural plan for my upcoming show.

I’ll be doing the tanning bed tour as often as I can for the next two weeks, then a week on the beach in FL, then tanning bed again 2-3 days before the show. Maybe I can eliminate the "paint job" altogether. Just apply a little "all natural" PAM for sheen..lol
Oh by the way, the pics that I have posted are both natural suntan and then a couple layers of Pro Tan..Told you I was experimenting…lol

I justed post some new pics. As you can see I’m wearing the "speedo swim wear trunks". Does anyone think this is inappropriate for a contest? I think they look fine and I am more comfortable, especially at age 62, wearing these than the fashionable "slingshot" bikini string type that is worn today. What say, BB.com community?

The past 4 days I’ve been experimenting with Pro Tan. One coat a day and then take progress pics on the fourth day was the plan. Last nite at the football game I was in t-shirt and shorts. Second half began with a sky opening downpour. With no rain jacket or shelter, weather said 10% chance, I watched my watersoluble tan running down my arms and legs and dripping on the bleachers. Now I know how the "wicked witch of the west" felt when Dorothy threw the bucket of water on her…lol…"I’m melting"….

Since I am now 5 weeks out from my Indy contest, I decided to do a rehearsal week. I didn’t want to wait until the week before the show to find out what it’s all about. I had read and heard about "carb depletion" then "carb upping’ to help fill out for the show. Along with this came gallons of water.

It’s now been 5 days of depletion (less than 15G./day) and I really can’t tell much change. I’m a little hungry, but I just eat protein a little more often to solve that (180-200G/day). The first day of the heavy drinking (water) made me feel like a water balloon, but the next day my body started getting rid of it. I dropped a couple pounds, but my energy level has been pretty much the same even with an increase of 30 to 45 minutes of cardio 5 days a week, up from 2-3 days previously.
My wife asked me, "When are you going to be grouchy?" I replied, "When ever you want me to dear."..lol..No problem there either. I retained my old lovable, even keel, personality all week. Actually, I’m ready for the show right now! I’m experimenting with Pro Tan in different layers to see what that is like as well. I only had 1 layer applied in my last set of pics.
I’ll post some 5 week out pics this weekend to see if there is any noticeable difference since I posted the 12 week pics.

Have you read the latest of media scare tactic? Flip flops, you know, those foamy things that we wear on our feet in the summer, are potential deadly harbors of germs. Well big "DUH! Of course they are and so is going barefoot, sandals, touching public facilities with bare hands, handling currency, and a myriad of other things we could think of.  It wouldn’t surprise me if they had a big recall on flip flops!  TV lawyers will be saying, "Has anyone you’ve known been sick, or died, and worn flip flops? Then you’re probably entitled to a large settlement."… of which we the lawyers, will take most of  ..

What’s all this got to do with anything? NADT it’s just stupid stuff like that that PMO!

Have a nice day…Now that expression PMO too, but I’ll save it for some other time..lol

In six weeks I will walk out onto a stage in Indy for my first contest. At age 62 and less than 3 years of training, I have no expectations of winning, even my 60+ division. I have never participated in a sporting contest and had any expectations of winning. Mine is always to test myself against the course and the field. If I have prepared properly and exert total effort then I can only do the best that I can do. I have no control over judges opinion, or the quality of the other participants.

I could win a trophy and feel like I lost, or finish last and feel like a total winner. I don’t expect too many who read this to understand completely, but if the measure of a winner is only the one who tops the field and hoists the trophy overhead, then the world is entirely filled with losers, save an elite group. Not being in the elite group does not relegate the rest of us to worthlessness, but rather to a strong band of participants who relish the challenge and the victory one gets from the competition itself.

Usually a victory easily won is a victory easily taken for granted or quickly forgotten. The ones seasoned with blood, sweat, and tears are the most satisfying and richly remembered.