Truely Madly Deeply round 2: Should I or shouldn’t I …..? This sounds familiar,...

Truely Madly Deeply round 2: Should I or shouldn’t I …..? This sounds familiar,...: Should I or shouldn’t I …..? This sounds familiar, like I’ve been here before and I have. This is how I started my last blog

Should I or shouldn’t I …..? This sounds familiar, like I’ve been here before and I have. This is how I started my last blog deciding whether or not to do a journal of my journey to the stage and I’m so glad I did. Towards the end of my previous blogs they were few and far between, however I enjoyed the writing and the reading back of my comical episodes and this is why I have decided to do another journal/blog for another journey however I’d like to document more, more of my diet, how I’m feeling, training, what is working, what isn’t and again document a few more of the comical episodes that I come across along my journey. Let’s begin with the basics for this first blog.

Since September 2011 I’ve just been enjoying training, getting to grips with eating normally and enjoying life with a new job, a new home and new surroundings. If you’re new to reading my blog have a look at this link to my last one (http://motivationalperformance.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/my-journey.html). To date I have 3 years of weight training behind me and even though you read all these three month transformations where people turn from blobs to amazing specimens of the human form for me to build quality dense muscle I need time, quality eating and strength training. Before I continue I’d like to mention an extremely important and integral person in my programme and journey, which is my trainer Dave Lewis. Dave and I still keep in touch, he still has to listen to my mad moments of I feel fat, I feel skinny, I don’t feel like I’ve gained anything but I’ve now brought him on board again full time to help transform this body for the 2013 stage where I will earn my Pro card (hopefully). I’ve never thought I was a competitive person but now I know I am, fuck I’m really competitive and this year people had better watch out because when you’re sleeping, I’m training, when you’re missing a meal or eating pizza, I’m eating clean, when you think your fat/skinny/not enough muscle I’m having my biosignature done so I know exactly where I am. If you know me you know I will support everyone of the girls competing with me on the same stage or in another division and we are ultimately a team but I still want that title.

Where I live is beautiful and I train at a true bodybuilding gym, Castle gym (http://www.thecastlegymacademy.com/) where it’s dirty, the men are big and finally a place where I don’t feel fat and I’m not surrounded by skinny girls who’s gym fashion is more of a priority over which training session they’re going to do that day and most importantly they get what off season means. My gym has everything that I need, well not completely everything but 95% isn’t bad and most importantly of all, the one thing that I treasure the most is my new FFBBBF, Nicola Joyce. Nicola Joyce is a Phisque Competitor and we came across one another last year. Nicola is a free lance fitness writer and serial blogger; here is her link (http://thefitwriter.wordpress.com/) so have a look at her website. Since moving I’m now closer to Nicola and we both train at the same gym and I’m giving her a helping hand and emotional support as she’s currently 1 week out NPA finals….

So where am I… since last year it’s taken a long time to gain weight as this year started I started out with a plague of stomach bacteria, fucked up krebs cycle and energy production, however with the help of Chris Heron at Shaping Change (http://shapingchange.co.uk/). As I struggle nutritionally, I’m a coelic, intolerance and lactose intolerance it’s been hard to gain quality weight so I have now brought on another expert and this is Ben Coomber from Body Type Nutrition (http://bodytypenutrition.co.uk/). I’ve been on his program for almost two weeks and I’ve already gained. It’s early days, Ben has set a nutritional platform and we will work from there. It’s only early days but the support from Ben has been amazing, responding to emails in a flash and being totally honest. I can stand people who beat around the bush, I like straight honest advice. So far since last year I have gained 5kg. Does this freak me out fuck yes but I feel comfortable, I’m lifting heavy and the extra calories are helping fuel good hard work outs. Another reason I’m able to except the weight gain is that I really want to improve on my physique from last year. My feedback from my win at the BNBF centrals was that I needed more back width and personally I want more capping of the shoulders, bigger quads and more definition of the abs……………… hell I’d just like some abs!! So this is why Dave, Ben and I are teaming up to get be stronger and better than last year.

Training; I’ve started a new strength training phase and I love this. I’d been doing a lot of high rep work and it’s great to keeping me lean but it wasn’t working on building muscle. Everyone is different and as time goes on I’m learning more about my body and how it responds. I’ll be seeing Dave in the next few days and I’ll book in with James at Elite Body works to get my Bio signature done. My fat % I think is around 12-14% which if it is then I’ll be happy. I’ll aim to be about 5% on stage again next year so I’d rather stay on the leaner side whilst gaining so I don’t have too much to do when I start dieting next year.

Diet; Ben has got more on more calories than I have been on in a long time, actually having me on the amount that I should be on. He works towards metabolic typing and I’ve come back as a mixed type. I think I’m more of a protein type but Ben is the expert and I’m listening to him and just doing it because if I don’t try something new then how do I know if it will work. I am lifting stronger already and it’s only been two weeks. Yes I’m looking full however I’m feeling comfortable just out of my comfort zone.

So what are my plans... they are BNBF July 2013, UKDFBA October and if I’m feeling and looking good I might squeeze in a NPA show but they all take a toll on the body and if I feel I can’t do it then I won’t.

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