muscle_princess’s BodyBlog

Just when I think I am getting close to finally getting on stage for my first bodybuilding show……  it seems I still have much more work to do.  I met with a nutritionist recently that works with competitors to help prep them for stage.  Well, seems I’m not as far along as I thought.   I apparently have a bit more work to do in developing my shoulders and my small calves are pretty much an embarrasement to the rest of my body!  LOL  My diet needs to change entirely and I have to change up my training to spark some growth in my lagging areas.  I can go ahead and compete in April, he says… but I won’t look the way I want to look.  He wants me to take more time.  If left to my own devices… I would have went on my merry way and worked toward my April show…. and most  likely wouldn’t have come in looking my best.  So moral of the story is… don’t ever trust your own opinions of how you look…. enlist the advice of others…  Don’t let criticism crush you… but let it fuel your fire to strive for better.  I thought my shoulders were fine.  BUT, I know less than he does and now instead of feeling bad about it I am all pumped up to change up my shoulder training and work harder to make them even better!!  NOT so excited to do the same with calves… that’s gonna take some convincing lol!!! So I am on a quest to pick a new show date.  I will repost with which one I decide on. 

Ok, so he didn’t REALLY call me "fat ass"!!  Let me rephrase my answer to how I got started.  Started doing what?  Working out?  Or training?  I’ve been lifting for 8 years, but as my trainer puts it… I didn’t start "TRAINING" till I walked through his door.  SOOO I’ve been training since July 07.  When I went searching for a new trainer… i wasnt quite sure what I was looking for… I didn’t even know what I wanted.  I told him I wanted more muscle…. and I did.  but it never crossed my mind until he took those horrible pictures of me that I needed to LOSE WEIGHT!!  AHHHHH who WAS that girl in those pictures!!!!  Now I know what I was looking for……….. that person that could pull out my potential.  The one that could see what I’m really made of.   Some could see it… but didn’t take the time.  He did. 

After training at Fitness together for about 3 months, I had just finished a session and as I laid on the floor and stretched in all my fatness, my trainer looked at me and asked me if I was meeting the goals I had set out to meet when I started training.  My whole body got warm (ya know the really embarrased type of warm) as I thought "oh GOD NO… and it wasn’t his fault… it was MINE and we both knew it!!  Before I could choke out my answer, he then asked me if I ever thought about competing.  Now how did he know I had ALWAYS thought of it but never thought it possible…. and an even bigger question……WHAT DID HE SEE in me that day or EVER that made him ask me that question?  Because I didn’t see it.   I thought…… "I have the genetics I know……… and maybe in another life I would have the energy to try."  But it didn’t take but a couple seconds for me to become excited that someone thought I had it in me…. especially someone who knew my strengths and weaknesses.  Since that day I have fallen more and more in love with wieght training… since that day I have wanted to learn more… be more… accomplish more, and become what I had and have the potential to become.  It only takes one person to care to vastly affect and change someone’s life. 

From August 28th 2007 to approx the end of Novemember I put my heart into getting fit.  I wanted more muscle……but first I needed to get some of that weight off.  I lost 30 lbs.  BIG SHOCK… when you aren’t overweight…. all of the sudden you have energy!!!  I gained most of it back by the way over the next year and a half……….. IN MUSCLE!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOHOOOO!!  In November and December of 2007 I felt…. skinny.  Or DAINTY as my trainer called me.  UGH (  I don’t want to be dainty!!!! DAINTY??????  OH NO NO NO!!!!  NOT me!!!  LETS LIFT HEAVY!!!!  So we did :=). 

I always thought I wanted to do a bodybuilding show……….. but I simply couldn’t get to that level in the amount of time that I wanted to get on stage.  He suggested I do a figure show.  Wasn’t sure I was into it but I wanted to get on stage bad!  So I competed at the Empire States in NY in July 08.  I was thrilled to have done it…….. but something just wasn’t right.  I struggled back and forth with "should I go for bodybuilding".  Finally I worked for Hardfitness at the TEAM U in NYC in September 08.  I watched allllll the figure girls get up…. I was happy to be there.  BUT the female bodybuilders came on ……… I stopped dead in my tracks with my eyes glued to the stage with chills up and down my spine.  THATS IT!!!!  I want to do a bodybuilding show.  So that is where I am now.  Working everyday to build muscle and to create a body I can be proud of on stage. 

I am looking forward to competing in April.  I have a little less than 11 weeks to go.  I have A LOT of work to do……. lots of lifting which nooooooooone has to pull teeth to get me to do……….but more of a struggle for me…….. carrrrrdio!! uh buy.  I’m doing it.  BUT……… is there anyone out there that can tell me that cardio is a learned love??  An aquired taste????  Because if Im sweating ……. I’d rather it be from moving some heavy iron around….catch my drift??  DON’T let my trainer here this but I think the cardio is working.  UGH!!!

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