vmays0318’s BodyBlog

I have made a slight change in my competition schedule for this year.  Originally I had planned on competing in 2 NPC Figure competitions. However, I have decided that I want to concentrate solely on my goal for getting involved in the fitness industry, and that is becoming a fitness model.  In all honesty, Figure is not where my heart is and not something that I want to pursue in the long run.  Once you get to the national and pro level, you are required to have a very large amount of muscle, and I feel that it leans a little too close to bodybuilding.  I have a huge amount of respect for the woman who do compete in Figure, and there are many beautiful woman who compete in this category.  This is a personal decision based on what I want my body to look like, and I don’t feel like I want to take my body to the level that is needed for Figure.  I might have done okay doing a few small shows in Arkansas, but in all honesty I don’t see the point in pushing my body towards something that I don’t intend to pursue in the future.

As for this year, I am still planning on competing in the Fitness America Competition held in Atlanta in September. I will probably compete in both the Fitness Model category and the Bikini Model category.  I am also looking for another contest earlier in the summer that might be a possibility.  There is one in August in Dallas that I might try to do as well.

My training and diet will not change. If anything it will actually need to become stricter because most competitors have an "off-season" where they tend to put on a little extra weight in order to bulk up.  Fitness models are required to stay pretty close to top-notch shape year round because you never know when an opportunity might pop up.  After my last competition this year, I am planning on taking some time off to try to put on a little muscle and really work on some areas of my body that I want to improve. I am very confident that early next spring I will come into the year exactly how I want to be physically and mentally.  I plan on competing as much as I can next year in competitions all over the country.  Hopefully this will lead to some great opportunities for me.

I have two goals for 2008: The first goal is to win the "World’s Fittest Model" contest held every year at the Olympia.  This is a very elite contest and is very hard to get accepted to enter. My second goal is to featured in Oxygen Magazine, which is the best (and my favorite!) womens fitness magazine on the planet.  Yup, I’m setting the stakes high for 2008!

So for now, I will continue my training and getting ready for my next contest, whenever that will be.  I also have a couple of photo shoots lined up for the next couple of months that I am very excited about.  I plan on introducing my website hopefully sometime in June, and that is the first step in getting myself out there in the fitness world.

Thanks to everyone for your continued support and words of encouragement!

I am four weeks away from my first NPC Figure Comp.  So far I feel pretty good about it, even though I now I am coming in way too small (muscle-wise) to really roll with the big boys.  I think I will do okay since it is a small local show.  Mainly I am doing it to get a feel for the Figure event. I did a Fitness Model competition about a month ago and loved it.  Right now I’m torn between which event I really want to pursue.  In all reality, I want to make a career out of fitness modeling.  Even though NPC Figure is the pinnacle for the industry, I really don’t want to get as big as the pro’s do.  I am going to give it a shot though.  In a few weeks I am doing some professional pictures that I am very excited about. Once I have those I hope to get my website published and start marketing myself to do some fitness modeling.

Bodywise, I feel like I am making decent progress. My legs have finally got more muscle tone and leaned out some.  Still working on my hamstrings and still trying to get that 6-pack!!  I’ll try to take some pictures soon of my progress.

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