Contest Preparation SECRETS: How Long Does It Take to Prepare for a Contest
Six Time National Bodybuilding Champion
Success Coach
Twelve weeks seems to be the standard amount of time that many bodybuilders invest while preparing for a bodybuilding contest. But where did they come up with 12 weeks as the right amount of time? Isn’t that just a number that has been passed down from bodybuilder to bodybuilder over the years? Shouldn’t the length of time you spend getting ready for a show be determined by the level of muscularity and definition you are striving to achieve and/or the shape you are in when you start?I understand that everyone has different goals when in comes to competitive bodybuilding. I totally appreciate the fact that different people simply want different things and not everyone wishes to become a professional someday. Instead, many people simply want to see how far they can push themselves and transform their bodies. Doing well in a local or regional contest—but staying within the context of what they define as a “normal” life—is their primary objective.
Let me ask you a question. If a person who prepares for 12 weeks goes head-to-head on stage with a person who prepares for 15 weeks, who do you think will probably win—if they both had the same level of experience, genetic ability, determination, and execution? If all factors were equal, the one who prepared longer would win, right? Well, that’s exactly why I start preparing a lot earlier than 12 weeks. I want to become the very best I can be and I’m willing to do the work and make the sacrifices necessary to become my very best.
Regardless of your short, medium, or long-range bodybuilding goals, you’d be surprised just how much more you can achieve with your training performance and physique’s development simply by raising the standards of what you expect out of yourself in small, incremental stages. You can start those incremental steps a lot sooner than 12 weeks and still keep your life balanced. You simply have to make getting more out of yourself in the time you spend in the gym, setting up your day, and structuring your eating plan more of a priority.
I don’t diet in a calorie-deprived state for seven months as I prepare for a bodybuilding contest. It doesn’t take that long to get in ultra-shredded condition if you work hard enough. I use a longer period of time to build momentum and try to create the longest period of time I can with 100 percent execution.
I start my preparation by doing things such as eating my meals on time, drinking a certain amount of water for the day, taking all of my supplements on time, building up my concentration and focus while weight training, and structuring a consistent Max-OT Cardio training program. As time goes by, I will take all of these daily disciplines to higher and higher levels.
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New Haven VT
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Skip La Cour’s ULTIMATE Bodybuilding Contest Preparation Audio Seminar Course Outline
Session One
Establishing an EMPOWERING Mindset Before You Even Start Your Contest Preparation Journey
(2 hours and 3 minutes)
Do you have the mindset of a bodybuilding contest CHAMPION? Or, the mindset of someone who will do “okay”? My first task on my way toward helping you become your very best—before I do anything else—is to make certain that you have the mindset of a CHAMPION. Your success—or failure—will weigh heavily on your mindset!
Your rules, beliefs, values, and standards will dictate you well you execute during your bodybuilding contest preparation journey. The challenge that the vast majority of bodybuilding competitors face is that they never even take inventory of them; never think how and why they were established; never track back to where they got them in the first place (and how credible that source was); and never evaluate them to see if they are indeed true.
Your “rules” are you opinions of what you think is possible and impossible; important and unimportant; true and untrue when it comes to your contest preparation. Your beliefs are significantly stronger than your rules. Those will be difficult to change unless they are really broken down and explained.
What you believe to be true—is indeed true. At least for YOU it is. I make certain that you have the most empowering rules and beliefs when it comes to contest preparation—or you will be doomed from the start! I VALIDATE the rules and beliefs that will help you become the very best you can be on contest day—and DEMOLISH the ones that will limit what you can accomplish.
The competitor who has the highest standards throughout his contest preparation journey will get the closest to being his VERY BEST on contest day. I make sure that your standards on what you demand of yourself are high enough to get you where you really want to go.
We all need to make CHOICES in our lives. The choices you make on your contest preparation journey and how you prioritize what is important to you are called your “values.” You will determine your values—but I instruct on the values you will need to become your very best when the contest day arrives.
I then take you through a series of interactive EXERCISES that will set the most empowering rules, beliefs, values, and standards in “concrete” so you will be off to an awesome start.
This is the foundation to greatness. Your mental foundation has to be rock-solid. And, I challenge the way you currently think to make certain your foundation is rock-solid.
The MENTAL RECONSTRUCTION that takes during this session is a tremendously important first step. Without a solid foundation, all of the very best strategies in the world that I present to you will NOT even accepted in the first place—let alone execute! Be ready to come to this session with an OPEN MIND.
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“Thanks for this ULTIMATE Contest Preparation Seminar, Skip! The value of this information is above and beyond the investment. You have done an awesome job of explaining every detail of contest preparation in an easy-to-understand manner. I now have the certainty and confidence I need to WIN. Now that my mind is perfectly clear about what it takes to be the best, all I have to do is EXECUTE!”
TJ Carver
Centerville, UT
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Session Two
An All-Encompassing Overview of Your Entire Contest Preparation Journey
(2 hours and 22 minutes)
When you “Begin with the end if mind” with anything you want to accomplish, you will be more like to execute EVERYTHING you must do to become your very best on contest day. You will maximize your POWER during every single set; repetition; weight training workout; cardiovascular training session; meal; minute; hour; day; week; and month of your contest preparation journey. You will be physically, mentally, emotionally, and psychologically prepared for ANYTHING that will challenge you along your journey (And, you WILL be challenged).
I outline—in great detail—the physical (weight training; cardiovascular training; dieting; etc.), mental (striving for more; staying focused; locking onto your contest day vision; etc.), emotional (dealing with the ups and downs along the way; the disconnection with people that you may face; remembering why you are putting yourself through this challenge; etc), and psychological (overcoming self-doubt; overcoming self-sabotage; keeping things in the right perspective; staying in control and living in your reality; etc) CHALLENGES that you will face along your journey.
I tell you EXACTLY what is ahead of you. Then you, through a series of exercises, make DECISIONS as to exactly how you will handle them—long before they ever arise. You will DECIDE on what you will and will NOT do when those challenges arise during this session! Of course, I give you directives on the BEST way to handle those challenges.
With my guidance, you begin to establish “Daily Disciplines” or standards and tasks that you will strive to EXECUTE every single day—no matter what challenges you face—to become the very best competitor you can be. These disciplines include things like your meals; meal times; how much water you drink; training performance; posing practice; goal-setting; self-assessment; picture-taking, how many times you review what I’ve taught you on the mp3 audio files; and much more.
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Session Three
Training and Eating Like a Champion During EVERY Single Phase of Your Contest Preparation
(2 hours and 40 minutes)
During this session, I get very specific about the training and nutritional strategies that will make you your very best when your show arrives.
I outline in great detail exactly what you must do every step along the way when it comes to your habits in the gym and with the way you eat. From off-season strategies; 20 weeks out; 12 weeks out; the final critical week; the day of the show; all the way up until the minute you step on stage.
During this session, I explain HOW you will train and eat at certain periods of time; HOW MUCH you will train and eat at certain periods of time; WHEN you will train and eat a certain way and at certain periods of time; and WHY you will train and eat a certain way at certain periods of time. I provide you with many different examples, charts, and graphs that you will use to create your own plan.
This is the session when all the planning gets done. You benefit greatly during your journey because all of the time and effort you put in during this session. You only need to put in the physical effort and keep your head on straight from that point on.
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Session Four
The Final Week of Contest Preparation; Presenting Yourself Like a Champion On Stage
(2 hours and 23 minutes)
Many competitive bodybuilders mistakenly believe that the “final week” of contest preparation is when you “make it or break it.” That’s a “belief” that I totally DEMOLISH by the time we get to this session. In fact, I instill in you the belief that you are “bullet proof” because of all of the intelligent, efficient, effective, and hard work you’ve invested into your preparation.
The final week, however, is indeed important—especially when it comes to you being certain and confident about what you are going to be doing.
During this session, I devote a significant amount of time explaining in great detail the final critical week of contest preparation. I explain everything you need to do in the gym and everything that will enter your body (food; amount of food; types of food; water; minerals; supplements; etc). Of course, I explain exactly how, why, and when you will do all of this.
I also explain exactly what you must do to present yourself like a champion on stage. I break down the mindset and attitude that you must have to put the “finishing touches” on the physique that you’ve worked so long and hard to create.
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Bonus Session
Student’s Questions and Answers
(2 hours)
You will learn from the many great questions that the other students in this course have asked Skip La Cour about contest preparation.
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Anthony Mango
Sugar Land, TX
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