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jenscats5
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Sassy69 said:Hey girl - it sounds like he gave you the basic evaluation you are going to get from anyone seeing you for the first time. He's giving you the guideline for the typical competitor w/ your height. If you are not already lean, you are just goign to have to go thru that whole body transformation. I've done this before & I still had to go thru the same thing. As a result of 3 months of dieting and doign a show, technicallly, only NOW can I say I'm in a good place to START prepping for a figure show. Because you don't have a good handle and a documented experience with how your body reacts to diets, training, cardio, holding water, etc. you have to do all that. If the guy has successfully gotten competitors to national / pro winning level, he must know something. He can't promise anything because there are so many variables and ultimately it depends on you and the whole process. But he can give guidance that can be tweaked & adjusted along the way. If you only see him physically 1x / month, you can do things like - have him show you the poses, then you can take pix on a weekly basis & send them to him so he can see your progress in the positions that the judges will be observing you - because the only important thing you need to do is (well, yes you need to be able to walk in the big shoes) look perfect in the poses they ask you to do. You can look like crap back stage, but those poses are how the judges look at you for critique. (Like matty says "... its all about the quarter turn to the right, beeyotch")
As far as the "thick skin" -- yep that's what you have when you arent' competition lean. You can continue to keep your skin moisturized at all times to help keep it supple (also helps when u get to protan time) but you just need to keep the bodyfat loss goign to thin out your skin. Then at contest time you can pull some of the subcutaneous water out w/ the water depletion, natural diuretics like taraxatone, etc. and also with the carb up - which will help pull out any water it can find in yoru body and use it to hold the carbs and fill out your muscles some more.
BTW -- not all the girls at my show were juiced. Plenty of natty girls. But like I continue to say - you either do a show or you dont'. It is particuarly hard when its your first time and the rigor of the diet & training is a shock cuz its new and also the stress of waiting to see the results. But you have to keep in mind that you don't live & die by this show. Don't let your success or progress in going after this show define who you are goign forward, cuz there are always levels of improvement going on. Esp for your first show, you want the experience and you want to be the best you can be for THAT show (because you are on a limited time table doing a whole new experiment). A good trainer will give you tweaks to the diet & training along the way. He should be fairly candid about what you need to reshape for the show, but also realize that there is a reasonable level of leanness that you need to sort of just play the game. Dont' get hung up on the weight numbers he says because in figure weight is irrelevant - the classes are based on height. But what matters is your tightness, proportion and general symmetry on stage. And just remember that you are there to have fun with it. I've done 2 shows very seriously and they were just a lot of work and frustration. The show you guys came to, I took for what it was worth and never had so much fun in my life. You should grow from teh experience and learn so you can use that knowledge to improve your life post show.
*steps off soap box*
I think this guy is probably worth the money -- competition is not somethign you can easily set a budget for and expect to get off cheap. Because it is a full-on life-learning experience that affects your daily life, emotions, etc. really down to the core. If you have a guy who has experience you can draw from, is easy to talk to and will give you useful advice, go for it. I think you will also discover there is VERY LITTLE to be modest about durign this process so it is even more critical to comfortable w/ this guy. At teh end of it, the worst you do is learn what you DONT want to do
Damn lady -- I
you!! Wise, wise words.....THANK YOU!!
Sassy69
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Plus at the end of it all, you will have some totally awesome stories to freak people out with .. like eating boiled chicken w/ flax oil on it or nuking some 90% cooked ground buffalo meat in a microwave at the local gas station while the local Hispanic kids distract the owner by fighting over the IceeFreeze machine and yelling high-pitched Spanish verbal assaults on each other.
And, when its all over, you can tell these stories with your EF friends over a Capt & Diet while waiting for the waiter to find you a mudderfugging white potato.
And, when its all over, you can tell these stories with your EF friends over a Capt & Diet while waiting for the waiter to find you a mudderfugging white potato.
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jenscats5
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Sassy69 said:
I see him Tues. nite at 9:30 pm.....
Sassy69 said:Plus at the end of it all, you will have some totally awesome stories to freak people out with .. like eating boiled chicken w/ flax oil on it or nuking some 90% cooked ground buffalo meat in a microwave at the local gas station while the local Hispanic kids distract the owner by fighting over the IceeFreeze machine and yelling high-pitched Spanish verbal assaults on each other.
And, when its all over, you can tell these stories with your EF friends over a Capt & Diet while waiting for the waiter to find you a mudderfugging white potato.
yup you'll definiately have stories to tell.... funny as hell 1s too. Like running around in the rain looking for salty nuts, or getting off stage and are shaking so bad that a trainer comes up to you and tells you huney you need to eat this icing... from a damn tube, and you actually do it, or freakin out in a restaurant for a glass of water. So Jens... hmmm just STFU and do it!!!
(since you like the whip so much, i'ma just it more on you)
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jenscats5
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Sassy69 said:Plus at the end of it all, you will have some totally awesome stories to freak people out with .. like eating boiled chicken w/ flax oil on it or nuking some 90% cooked ground buffalo meat in a microwave at the local gas station while the local Hispanic kids distract the owner by fighting over the IceeFreeze machine and yelling high-pitched Spanish verbal assaults on each other.
And, when its all over, you can tell these stories with your EF friends over a Capt & Diet while waiting for the waiter to find you a mudderfugging white potato.
OH!! I thought of you when I went to Trader Joe's the other day & got a package of buffalo....I chuckled to myself....
And I'm planning on carrying potatoes with me everywhere..... *wink*
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jenscats5
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Miss24k said:
So Jens... hmmm just STFU and do it!!!
I plan on stocking up on salty pistachios too -- based on yours & Sass's stories, I have all sorts of mental notes....
Oh and yes ma'am.....
