Great Influences.
I had my first Team Body Tech meeting yesterday. I am so excited about being about of this awesome team! My trainer is awesome. He brings such a wonderful, positive, energy to the Team. His dedication to his members is incredible. I don’t know if the guy ever sleeps!
Before the meeting, we had our assessment. My diet and training will be stepped up, and changed again. I was happy to hear him tell me he though since the last time we met, (about 1 month ago) my shoulders and squads look like they put on some size. Niiiice! I plan on doing a show perhaps in August. This will give me plenty of time to make the gains I need. I’m looking to qualify for Nationals this year. That’s the goal. Hubby and I fly out for Vegas this week, so coach gave me time off from my diet! Woo-Hoo! I said…”are you crazy?!” But, since I’m in my off season, and my weight has been steady, along with my body fat, he said I can go ahead and just enjoy myself. I think I’ll pretty much stay on the diet plan and have some cheats. That way I don’t totally come back looking like Jabba the Hut. I will also continue with my training.
So…back to the Team meeting. We started out by everyone introducing themselves. We must have had about 100 members present. That’s not even half of the team! He introduced the newbies. (Which I was one of them) and then the veterans. Out of about 20 ladies, there were only 3 bodybuilders. The great thing about this team I noticed is that even though you may be competing in different categories, bodybuilding, figure, fitness, and now bikini, everyone was so supportive of each other. We had a surprise guest speaker and poser. As introductions were still going on, Mr. Olympia, Mr. Dexter Jackson and Marcus Haley walk in. Dexter talked a bit about reaching your dreams and what he went through to get him where he is today. Then, Marcus Haley striped off his clothes and did the mandatories for us. He’s competing in the Ironman. He looked spot on! Also another person to watch out for at the Ironman is trainer JPhillips17.
After the nice surprise visit, the team was split up. The guys did their platoon training, and the ladies did the Agility training. Let me tell you, I was totally not prepared to do this! I thought we would be training with weights. Oh no! We totally did some conditioning to start off. Then the fun began. I’m not sure what football players call it when they do their training on the field, like running in place while in the wide stance squat position. We did some abs and core conditioning. And we were then broken up into teams, 3 groups of 5. We did team drills. We took the training out to the parking lot and finished off with team relay sprints. Starting from one end of the parking lot to the end, we sprinted up and back and tapped the next teammate. After finishing the rotation, we switched the relay sprints to other things like side stepping in a squat position, backwards running and sprinting forward, front squats all the way front and back. Oh man…it was a lot of fun! After the team training, we all headed out for lunch.
Today I’ll finish up my training week and train my back and do my cardio.
Mr. Olympia, Dexter Jackson, my coach Tim Gardner, and Marcus Haley.
Marcus Haley
