Anxiety-Ridden Days
I’ve been doing well with my training, getting the cardio done, strength training diligently and eating pretty clean. It seems, lately, that I have no desire to eat anymore. It’s a struggle to get down three small meals a day much less five or six. I’m moving out of my NYC apartment and will be living in Boston for six weeks this summer. I will be close by to my figure competition prep team, which is very exciting to me. The competition I want to do is six weeks away and I’m nowhere near where I thought I would be by now. I’m loving my upper body, shoulders, especially. But not too happy with the glutes. As my upper bod leans out considerably and my lower bod lags behind, I’m looking more and more like a pear than ever. I’ve trimmed another inch off my waist, 28 inches. I don’t know if it’s physically possible to get it smaller than 27. But my real concerns are the hips and butt. I’m going to switch to a circuit routine for one of my leg training sessions, add a sprinting and stairs session once a week as soon as I reach Boston (there are no high school stadiums here in the city) and then add some pylometric activities on one of my upper body training days. We’ll have to see how tweaking the training helps. If not, then I’ll have to look at my diet. You are only supposed to change one thing at a time and lord knows, I don’t want to do any additional cardio (lol).
June 26, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Hello there! You look great BTW. I have been doing lunges for my legs, hips and butt (I am Puerto Rican so I feel your pain) and they are doing wonders. ALso, the diet plays a huge role as well. I just started doing DEEP lunges, where you go down as much as you can and my ass has been on fire a couple of days after those. Might want to try those for a change. I hope This was a bit of help to you. Keep it up!
July 6, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Thanks, I’ve been doing lunges of all types. They started bothering my knees, though, so I had to ease up a bit.
July 17, 2007 at 8:55 am
If you want to work on those glute, do step ups immediately after doing squats or lounges.
You got to keep the diet consistant a minimum of 5 small meals a day to help your body speed up your metabolism. remember a protein shakes counts as on of your meals.