2007 Transformation Contest

EDIT: almost 10pm eastern time [where are ya Phil?]

If it’s between me, Matt and Ness at least I’ll get a runner up prize. LOL

Although I will still be maintaining my personal blog, I do look forward to being a little less detailed in my blogging over the next two weeks, as I am thoroughly exhausted.  For the final day of the contest, I am starting my weekend 2-a-days (shitty!) so these pics were shot after 40 minutes of fasted precor and 30 minutes in the sauna.  Fyi - people look at you funny when you eat chicken and sweet potato in the sauna while naked and stretching.  This behavior should be avoided if at all possible!  

FYI - my weight went from 120 to 104!  Well, I’ve put off the inevitable long enough - here goes!

Well here they be. Lost a HUGE 13lbs. LMAO. My waist somehow went from size 40 pants to size 34.

Upon looking at pics, my body is truly genetically F-d. I have this huge ass core, with big hips, giant ribs and tiny stick arms right from my dad. I don’t know if it’s even possible for me to look aesthetically pleasing.  I truly have a bizarre and ugly shaped body..the only thing I can do is try to improve what I can. I know I can’t change my bone structure…unfortunately.

But enough ranting, I’d like to thank all the competitors. You guys all made leaps and bounds, but the biggest payoff for all of us is the things we’ve learned from the other competitors.

BB.com did a great job setting this up, and I’d like to thank them also for supplying me with over $200 of free supplements that no doubt aided my progress, diet and training.

I’m definitely not the greatest blogger, nor the most disciplined individual when it comes to my diet and such, but I enjoyed the competition thoroughly. For the last 12 weeks this has been my homepage, and I’ve read each of your blog entries every day. I’ll definitely be taking some new knowledge along with me as I continue my fight with the fat.

PICS:

Note; pics are taken w/ yesterday’s paper as we’re having vehicle problems and won’t be mobile again ’til late today or monday.

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

20lbs more loss and that won’t be hanging anymore. LOL

We made it to the end!  I hate you all because you can eat now!  Since I still can’t, can you please eat some PB for me and post pics here:

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=1847311

PLEASE?!?!?!

Wow, it is finally over! I woke up around 9am and started my day off with a quick trip to the gym to weigh in, their scale is more accurate than mine at home. I weighed in at 179.5lbs. My bodyfat is approx 5 to 6% My goal was 4% so I came close.

I am posting my pics now because I have allot to do today and allot of food to eat!

I would like to thank the following people for their help and contributions to my diet and exercise.

Chuck Rudolf for his dieting and training expertise!

Dwayne with Syntrax, for the supplements they offered.

My wife Lei for pushing me and calling me names to motivate me.

Scivation for their kick ass supplements!

Rich with Bodybuilding.com for this wonderful opportunity and for all his hard work putting this together.

I also want to thank the supplement companies that helped with sponsoring the contest. And a BIG thank you to Dersuan (spelling) for making that happen.

My stats at the end of the contest:

5′ 10"

179.5lbs

5 to 6% BF

I have lost a grand total of 23lbs of fat since the start of this contest and a whopping 50+lbs since November 2006!!

Here are the pics" 1st three are the required and the others are extra.

For this Friday at least, I get to keep my off day.  I still walked one mile on my lunch break, though.  It’s good to get out of the office and clear my head, and it seems like Spring is going to stay.

Worth noting - today marks my last day of Splena. 

I really can’t wait to cut my salt - I am f-ing bloated!!

Meal 1

• tilapia  
• avocado

  
cal - 194 pro - 22 car - 4 fat - 10 fib - 3

Meal 2

• egg whites  
• eggs

cal - 234 pro - 25 car - 2 fat - 14 fib - 0

Meal 3

• chicken breast  
• celery
• olive oil 

cal - 242 pro - 38 car - 3 fat - 9 fib - 1

Meal 4

• chicken breast  
• romaine

    
cal - 183 pro - 39 car - 1 fat - 2 fib - 1

Meal 5

• DS Sustain

    
cal - 105 pro - 20 car - 4 fat - 1 fib - 2

Totals:

cal - 958 pro - 144 car - 14 fat - 36 fib - 7

Last blog entry of the contest. After 3 months of having this as my home page, it’s gonna be strange without reading about you guys.

I ran into some problems today, with one of our vehicles undergoing repairs in the garage, then today the OTHER one broke down and is also in the garage for a couple days now.

Due to this, I LUCKILY managed to get today’s newspaper from someone at school, I hope it’s not a big deal if I use this one, cause I can’t get to town to get tomorrows paper.

I hope to god I have some good batteries for my camera laying around too, or else i’m gonna have to pull some strings.

It was an emotionally tough day for me.  I’m starting to get a bit scared, and I’m tired and run down.  This has been easier than I expected until this point, but I think it will be more trying from this point forward.

Meal 1

• tilapia  
• avocado
• oat flour

cal - 314 pro - 26 car - 25 fat - 13 fib - 6

Meal 2

• chicken breast  
• sweet potato 

cal - 258 pro - 39 car - 21 fat - 2 fib - 3

Meal 3

• chicken breast  
• celery
• olive oil 

cal - 302 pro - 38 car - 3 fat - 16 fib - 1

Meal 4

• oats  
• DS Sustain    

cal - 260 pro - 25 car - 31 fat - 4 fib - 6

Meal 5

• egg whites  
• celery  

cal - 108 pro - 22 car - 5 fat - 0 fib - 1

Totals:

cal - 1242 pro - 150 car - 85 fat - 35 fib - 17

This is the last arm workout of the blog contest.  As you may or may not have noticed, some of the other contestants are changing their approaches and using depletion workouts.  I don’t have that luxury because the cut doesn’t end with this contest for me - I still have two weeks of cutting before I get on stage!  I definitely envy the others quite a bit since they get to enjoy this weekend.  So, I will not be peaking now, but I still think I can win it, even while sodium loading.  I’m trying to stay positive. 

Fyi, on weekdays when I have work, since I don’t have meals scheduled during my actual lunch break, I am walking one mile.  Additionally, now that it isn’t so damn frigid anymore, I am also walking to and from the gym, which is 15 minutes each way.

I also did 20 BW calve raises after every superset, so that is 180 reps for calves.

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Seated Hammer Curl
15sx10, 20sx8, 20sx8 *superset*

Decline Skullcrusher
45×10, 50×8, 50×8

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Rev BB Curl
45×8, 45×8, 45×8 *superset*

Lying DB Ext
15sx12, 20sx8, 20sx10

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Simultaneous Cable Parallel Curl
35 each sidex10, 40sx7, 40sx7 *superset*

Single Arm Tri PushDown
30×10+10, 35×8+8, 40×8+8

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40 Minutes Precor