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WoNderWoMan25
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wow - have fun!! give us an update next week.
Roonytunes 2006
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Roonytunes
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I'm back....and had a totally enjoyable time this weekend. I can't cover everything, so if you have any questions, feel free to just ask here or PM.
It was a smaller and more intimate camp this year with 65-70 girls (they had 155 girls at the last one). It was held right in Cathy's studio. We had two all day sessions on Sat (9am to 5pm) and Sun (8am to 4pm). I learned SO much and they were really great at giving a ton of information.
Cathy and her staff were really patient and sweet - best of all, I really liked that they weren't plugging anything...no products, no supplements, no federations etc. It was awesome being around so many other women with the same mindset. Some had competed, some hadn't....Dawn Butterfield who has competed in over 100 competitions and has enough trophies for a U-Haul was there. Alicia Marie, this month's Oxygen covergirl and winner of figure at BodyRock, was also there as were a lot of other girls who compete and placed in the top 3 at a lot of competitions this past year. So it was great being able to have access to these resources. Three suit designers were there all day on both days to speak to us, measure us, give us ideas and take orders. Mike Katz, a judge from NPC, spoke to us from his point of the view of the industry.
The camp was totally about figure and fitness competitions only and not bodybuilding. Cathy's emphasis is about posing, smiling, looking confident and OWNING that stage when you're on it. She readily admitted that her girls are not always the tightest or leanest, but they place high because of presentation. We covered posing for a lot of federations - NPC, Fitness America, Miss Fitness, IFBA, WNSO etc. and had sessions on both days. We had sessions on makeup/hair/tanning, nutrition (maintenance, 12 week comp diet, post competition trauma eating), strength training (the emphasis here was more on plyos, strength moves using body weight and not so much about pure lifting), saw a lot of different girls perform their fitness routines which was very cool and then Cathy also spent time with us evaluating us one-on-one.
And we went out on Sat night in Boston and we were the IT girls. We became fitness models for the night. I got to talk on Boston radio station, Mix 98.5, live for a few seconds and we had free drinks all night.
We had girls on the stripper pole showing off their upper body strength and a few of the fitness girls even did their jumps, handstands and one armed pushups on the pool tables. I think it's a great experience if you're ever interested or just started competing in figure or fitness. You get a lot of the info you need and have the opportunity to ask questions to a lot of folks in the industry over two days. It was a good environment - the girls attending were all about sharing their experiences and it wasn't catty or competitive. They also didn't act like they were your new best friends and there was no fake lovey-doveyness either. There were a lot of other girly girls there, so I fit right in and felt at home. I'll post some photos later when I get them uploaded into Photobucket.
J
jenscats5
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Sounds like a FUN & educational weekend!! Cathy is sooooo wonderful and soooo very helpful....
Roonytunes
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I have to catch up on your log to see how your weekend celebration went. But I hope you had a TOTAL blast*Bunny* said:^^ ROONY!!! That SOUNDS AWESOME... I Love it! You go girl ... How did your eval go? You make me wanna go
girly girl ... I thought about you this weekend ... I went out to dinn dinn at the Sig Room, & wanted nothing but to get home & put on my comfy clothes
Why do I find it hard to believe you are a comfy clothes girl when I saw you in Sevens,Joes, BCBG and you were totally stylin' all weekend long in Detroit? And of course, it only helps that you have the perfect body for it all 
My personal eval went well enough. I got points for being lean and for symmetry - small waist with some muscle definition in the upper body with nice sized hips. I was told that my lower body problems were a matter of correct conditioning. Outdoor sprint routines twice a week were recommended to me to take care of that as well as more plyo work like squat jumps, lunges, continuous step-ups etc. I could use putting on more quality muscle all over. But I'm not too far out for competing in Miss Fitness, Fitness America, WNSO type federations if I am ready to go through the 12-week comp prep. Suit colors that were recommended to me were in the red or teal family. I talked to Sylvia from Tremblay designs and picked out two fabric swatches (http://www.tremblaydesigns.com/) if I do decide to take that route.
I have to wait till this summer is over for now. I have a lot of weekend distractions and one more weekend trip before I can settle down into routine life.
