Less than a week to go!
My computer contracted a serious virus , so it has been down for a few days and I wanted to update what has been going on in prep for the show on May 23. Right now I weigh 180 at 6% and have stayed there for a few weeks now. Today I started a short carb deplete cycle and am trying to eat less than 50grams of carbs a day for three days and then on Thurs. start carbing up with small meals every 2hrs, same on Fri. Sat is the show, prejudging looks like it will be about 2pm, so that day I’ll have a bowl of oatmeal and a protein drink in the morning and munch on chicken breasts untill noon then 2hrs before prejudging maybe a short stack of pancakes and syurp or sweet potatoes and syurp so wee will see how that works.
In training for this contest, which I probably started thinking about in Jan-Feb, it was only with the intention of seeing if I could improve over last year. It has always been that way with the objective of seeing if the body can improve as we get older. I have to say that this year from where I was last year has probably been the best gains I have made since I turned 60. I know trhat I am in the best shape I think I have ever been. It certainly has not been easy because my business is all physical and I train at 5am then work 10hrs usually straight thru, so beeing able to train and recuperate enough to be able to have consistent workouts is the key and I have been able to do that for quite a while now. If you want to see the results of the show you can go to musclecontest.com. They are usually posted the next day or two.
You know it really is all about how hard we want to push ourselves to keep the effects of aging at bay. Our metabolism doesn’t have to slow down if we don’t want it to and we can gain muscle if we want to, it is all about making a commitment to ourselves that wee keep for the rest of our lives. russyoung/oldsage
