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Hiya girls! I've been busy-busy and haven't been around much, lately (sorry), though I have been reading the posts, just haven't had time to write.
I'm down to my pre-comp now, 12 weeks out, and I've got a couple of questions for you folks who have competed before:
1) Omigosh, how did you handle the freakin' high heels?! I went to watch a competition in July, and was looking for details. I saw that everyone in Fitness and Figure wears those high heels with the clear plastic heels, and I am SO not used to high heels, so I went and bought some today in order to practice walking and posing in them. I played around with them for maybe 10 minutes, and the balls of my feet were already aching! What to do?? Any helpful ideas on this? I bought the least extreme of all the available selections, but I'm just not used to anything higher than your basic 1 inch pump.
2) About shaving/waxing the bikini area - any recommendations there? I've tried each in the past, and didn't think either was exactly wonderful - I liked the waxing better and it lasted longer, but the problem was, they couldn't wax again until you grow it out to a certain (itchy) length. So what's the point? Plus it was expensive. On the other hand, I got red bumps from the shaving, after a while, and the stubble starts itching right away... Eventually I gave up and just let the hair grow back to it's natural pattern.
But I believe the time is coming soon to start getting ready "down there", I just don't want to screw up my timing and get red bumps before the comp. Has anyone tried any hair removers or that Aussie Nads stuff? I called to inquire into the epi-laser hair removal treatment, but it's about $500, you have to have four to five separate treatments, spaced multiple weeks apart, and aren't allowed to tan, so that won't work at all - not enough time before the show. (Maybe I'll do that over the holidays, for next year.)
Soooo...... update:
I'm going to Tucson to get fitted for my two-piece and one-piece in about 3 weeks - starting to get so excited!!! I was able to put some more mass on my shoulders and arms in the past few months, and they've rounded out nicely - yay!
All I can think is: Only 12 more weeks to go!!!!! Diet, Water, Sleep, Train, Cardio.... 12 more weeks to go! The posters are even up at the gym, now, and people at work are saying, "I saw this big poster - is that what you are getting ready for?"
And then what's really funny is, I still have people at work trying to engage me in goofy quazi-training oriented conversations, like this guy who tells me (he's being the generous dispenser of information to the poor misguided female) "You know, in fitness circles" (here, I start laughing to myself - he just started working out again a month ago, and I've been working out consistently for almost 4 years now, and training for this comp for the past year - he's gonna impart some vital fitness news to me NOW) "there is this debate over whether people do well because of their training and diet and 'all that' or if it's all just genetics." In other words, because he has not trained consistently, and just got back into the gym a month ago (and not dieting at all - we're talking big Macs for lunch, here, this after he told me one day "I can eat anything I want when I train and lose weight") he is trying to excuse his lack of progress and downplay MY progress by saying it's just genetics. NEVER MIND ALL MY HARD WORK!!!!
I'm wondering when people at work will finally catch on that I actually AM one of 'those people'. They watch me eat my meals every two hours, every day, and yet still mention to me, "You know, 'those people' who compete have to eat every two hours." I'm like, HELLO!!!! Wake up! They just can't get that I am actually different from them - I actually have willpower and dicipline, and don't try fad diet after fad diet, but actually do the work!! And they STILL, after working with me for two years, ask me "just now having lunch?" or "late lunch today" when they catch me in the kitchen heating up my 3rd or 4th meal in the afternoon, "No, this is my 3rd meal of the day. I had 'lunch' a couple hours ago." They are so funny. Ai-yi-yi!
Isn't anybody else in my reality?
Fennec
I'm down to my pre-comp now, 12 weeks out, and I've got a couple of questions for you folks who have competed before:
1) Omigosh, how did you handle the freakin' high heels?! I went to watch a competition in July, and was looking for details. I saw that everyone in Fitness and Figure wears those high heels with the clear plastic heels, and I am SO not used to high heels, so I went and bought some today in order to practice walking and posing in them. I played around with them for maybe 10 minutes, and the balls of my feet were already aching! What to do?? Any helpful ideas on this? I bought the least extreme of all the available selections, but I'm just not used to anything higher than your basic 1 inch pump.
2) About shaving/waxing the bikini area - any recommendations there? I've tried each in the past, and didn't think either was exactly wonderful - I liked the waxing better and it lasted longer, but the problem was, they couldn't wax again until you grow it out to a certain (itchy) length. So what's the point? Plus it was expensive. On the other hand, I got red bumps from the shaving, after a while, and the stubble starts itching right away... Eventually I gave up and just let the hair grow back to it's natural pattern.
But I believe the time is coming soon to start getting ready "down there", I just don't want to screw up my timing and get red bumps before the comp. Has anyone tried any hair removers or that Aussie Nads stuff? I called to inquire into the epi-laser hair removal treatment, but it's about $500, you have to have four to five separate treatments, spaced multiple weeks apart, and aren't allowed to tan, so that won't work at all - not enough time before the show. (Maybe I'll do that over the holidays, for next year.)
Soooo...... update:
I'm going to Tucson to get fitted for my two-piece and one-piece in about 3 weeks - starting to get so excited!!! I was able to put some more mass on my shoulders and arms in the past few months, and they've rounded out nicely - yay!
All I can think is: Only 12 more weeks to go!!!!! Diet, Water, Sleep, Train, Cardio.... 12 more weeks to go! The posters are even up at the gym, now, and people at work are saying, "I saw this big poster - is that what you are getting ready for?"
And then what's really funny is, I still have people at work trying to engage me in goofy quazi-training oriented conversations, like this guy who tells me (he's being the generous dispenser of information to the poor misguided female) "You know, in fitness circles" (here, I start laughing to myself - he just started working out again a month ago, and I've been working out consistently for almost 4 years now, and training for this comp for the past year - he's gonna impart some vital fitness news to me NOW) "there is this debate over whether people do well because of their training and diet and 'all that' or if it's all just genetics." In other words, because he has not trained consistently, and just got back into the gym a month ago (and not dieting at all - we're talking big Macs for lunch, here, this after he told me one day "I can eat anything I want when I train and lose weight") he is trying to excuse his lack of progress and downplay MY progress by saying it's just genetics. NEVER MIND ALL MY HARD WORK!!!!
I'm wondering when people at work will finally catch on that I actually AM one of 'those people'. They watch me eat my meals every two hours, every day, and yet still mention to me, "You know, 'those people' who compete have to eat every two hours." I'm like, HELLO!!!! Wake up! They just can't get that I am actually different from them - I actually have willpower and dicipline, and don't try fad diet after fad diet, but actually do the work!! And they STILL, after working with me for two years, ask me "just now having lunch?" or "late lunch today" when they catch me in the kitchen heating up my 3rd or 4th meal in the afternoon, "No, this is my 3rd meal of the day. I had 'lunch' a couple hours ago." They are so funny. Ai-yi-yi!
Isn't anybody else in my reality?
Fennec
