5/9/08
Well folks….I havent blogged in a bit, but I’ve got some things on my mind. Just saw a good friend and fellow competitor who I competed with last year in the silver and black, come back from placing 3rd in the open tall class (ahead of me lol) to winning the entire show and getting his pro card…and this was his first show of the season…his warm up show this year, before he really gets serious in june and july.
He’s been training hardcore for a good 8 years or so, has built himself an amazing body, and just came in too soft last year…this year, he came in as the hardest guy on stage and went home the winner…he’ll only be harder in june and july…and I doubt there will be many who have a shot at beating him.
I’m proud as hell and very inspired, and amazed by his physique…but…what I really am right now is focused…that is the physique that I have to beat….I have to look better than that…because that is what showed up and won…if I want to show up and win, I have to beat that. Sure, its possible that nobody very impressive shows up….but its also possible that Jeff Rodriguez shows up….the point is I’m being honest with myself.
I have some things to fix…calves and traps….gotta get bigger…time to change weak points in my physique to body parts that flow well and have good proportions….I’m 6′1, I’ve got a narrow frame, and I’ve got some ecto ness in me…Thick but narrow lats isnt acceptable….sure I’ve got back detail and thickness but I have to be wide as a barn door if I want to look big…lats and shoulders can’t be wide enough…especially with my silghtly wide waist….my right side is a bit smaller in my triceps, anterior deltoid and medial deltoid, that’s gotta come up…last year, I came in very hard and in good condition…but I could have had more detail in my quads, hams and glutes…gotta get leaner….and lastly….and most improtantly…I need more friggin beef…that’s the main thing….judges don’t grant points for potential…I even got compliments on being the hardest guy on stage….a judge even asked me to email him my diet for use with clients he’s prepping…I got complements on being very disciplined and having a professional posing routine…BUT I placed 4th out of 4 in the open class…yeah I was told if my comparison posing and my color had been better it might have been different…but in the end…I didn’t have enough muscle…period….I dieted too hard too fast, I played catch up, I was loose in the beginning and paid for it in the end…I WILL NOT lose muscle in my diet next year, that alone will put me up 10lbs….I will CONTINUE to gain muscle for the next 8 months I have of offseason…I will be bigger, leaner and a better poser by far compared to 07′…I will bring a pro caliber physique to the 09 competition stage.
When Alberto won this year people didnt realize he was the same person who placed 3rd the year before…he looked that much better…in 09′ I don’t plan on people believing that I’m the same person who placed dead last in the open tall class in 07…and when I show them my drivers license I expect them to hold it up at an angle to the stage lights to make sure it has the holographic print on it, checking because they think its a fake.
