Heya Steelweaver...

[wyst]

Hey Steelie!

How's your training for the comp going? Are you big and lean and tanned and ready? How far out from the show are you? What's it like being a woman training for a bodybuilding show in Japan, now that you're getting closer to the date? Are they scared of you at your gym, or have the they gotten used to the giant gaijin? (I'm just guessing here, but I bet you're bigger than some of the guys)

I'd love to hear more.

Wyst

 

[SteelWeaver]

Wyst, you're a sweetie! Yeah, they're scared of me! I'm stronger and work harder than most of them (and believe me, I'm not very strong - but it's a small gym). There are only 2 guys there who do any serious training, and they're pretty huge, and very nice and fun, but the other guys, besides being short, are weeny, and spend most of their time there doing one or two dumbbell curls, watching TV, and watching me out of the corners of their eyes when they think I'm not looking, LOL!!!

There's this one fat old geezer who comes there, I think, to socialise with the owner - this guy CAN NOT do a workout when I'm there - he just stares unabashedly and unwaveringly the WHOLE time I'm working out. It kills me, man, it is SO funny! And you should see him when I grunt out those final few reps on drop sets, or do heavy deads!

As for big and lean and tanned - well ... big-ish, tanned-ish, lean-ish, but getting there slowly but surely.

Ready?? I'm S**T F***ING scared!!!!!!! Bwwaaaahahahh haha. This is gonna be the most fantabulous experience of my life - I cannot WAIT for that adrenalin rush!! I'm gonna be as high as a frickin' kite! Ha ha - 20 mins for MONTHS - YEARS - of prep. You can't get much more focussed than that. I'll probably post some pics at some point when I get some time.

Training is amazingly intense, making good strength gains.

Thanks for the interest!

How are things going with you?

 

[Sassy69]

One word for pre-show nerves - RED WINE! (but not too much - not good to fall over during the pose down.)

 

[wyst]

Wyst, you're a sweetie! Yeah, they're scared of me! I'm stronger and work harder than most of them (and believe me, I'm not very strong - but it's a small gym). There are only 2 guys there who do any serious training, and they're pretty huge, and very nice and fun, but the other guys, besides being short, are weeny, and spend most of their time there doing one or two dumbbell curls, watching TV, and watching me out of the corners of their eyes when they think I'm not looking, LOL!!!

There's this one fat old geezer who comes there, I think, to socialise with the owner - this guy CAN NOT do a workout when I'm there - he just stares unabashedly and unwaveringly the WHOLE time I'm working out. It kills me, man, it is SO funny! And you should see him when I grunt out those final few reps on drop sets, or do heavy deads!

As for big and lean and tanned - well ... big-ish, tanned-ish, lean-ish, but getting there slowly but surely.

Ready?? I'm S**T F***ING scared!!!!!!! Bwwaaaahahahh haha. This is gonna be the most fantabulous experience of my life - I cannot WAIT for that adrenalin rush!! I'm gonna be as high as a frickin' kite! Ha ha - 20 mins for MONTHS - YEARS - of prep. You can't get much more focussed than that. I'll probably post some pics at some point when I get some time.

Training is amazingly intense, making good strength gains.

Thanks for the interest!

How are things going with you?

Great to hear it's going well. I'm sorry I didn't get back to this thread sooner! Been crazy here at work, and then I couldn't get into the boards at all for a couple of days.

I had a woman friend in Japan who had pretty big arms and worked as a hostess, and all the old guys just wanted to feel her biceps, lol. She got a lot of stares, too, but mostly they were pretty nice to her. Being blonde seems to cause them to overlook just about anything else, lol.

Everything is fine here. I've been eating more and more, and weighing myself less and less as I try to make some strength gains and keep changing my mindset. It's hard given that this is a serious crunch time at work, but on the other hand, I don't think I'd make it through the stress without it...

As far as your training for years for 20 min of stage time, bah!

You're training for years, and you're going to look and feel great for the rest of your life. Those 20 min on stage are just the icing on the cake, right?

xoxo, and GOOD LUCK!

Wyst