Dairy of competition prepping
#9weeksout
Gee wiz this week it all come true – the freaking out stage that is!!!!
Right from the beginning my coach assured me that this is more a mental battle than physical. And as I love the all training side of it I knew this would be true. This week it all hit, I think it’s the single digit figure – 9 Weeks out to comp.
I looked in the mirror and noticed some changes, but I have always struggled with my lower abdominal area, I’ve never had a flat stomach my entire life and this week it was my problem! My big problem!!! I thought I’d never get this flat and be stage ready. I looked at other peoples photos of them 9 weeks out (as much as my coach told me not to, and they look so more advanced than I do!) Will I get there? Will I have a good chance to compete? I feel small in size – shoulder size, I feel I am carrying too much body fat! Yep I’ve fully freaked out. A quick text to my coach outlining my concerns – only to get a reply that I need “Stop stressing out”!!! Yep I needed that slap – slap back into my positive prepping!
So this week I cooked all my meals for the week. I diarized my training schedule along with times I will eat and what I will eat! I’m going to give this my all – it’s what I’ve always wanted to do, and to achieve this will be one of my ultimate accomplishments!
This week ahead I will start taking L-carnitine before my early 30 min cardio session to hopefully help me burn fat. I then have a meal straight after this session – ½ omelette (full of egg whites) with sweet potato and spinach with flaxseed oil as a dressing. My second meal will be 2.5hr later so it will be half an hour before my training session with my coach, ensuring I have a high protein meal. Other half of omelette and broccoli. I will then do a weight session with my coach and straight after the session I will have a protein shake. Refuelling the muscles and ensuring they start repairing. My next meals for the day will be 2.5 – 3 hours apart and another protein shake with berries after dinner to help with antioxidants and again good repairing over night for my muscles.
Each day will be similar, but my weight sessions will be body part specific so I can work to failure on each part of the body. The weight sessions are normally 40 mins. I am working on 4 -5 exercises with 4 x 10-12 reps each exercise, and the weights are challenging, making the last sets to failure. I then have a protein shake directly after. I always allow at least 4 hours between cardio session and weight session, again allowing the body to recover from first workout.
My main concern is over training, this is a problem I’ve always battled. I have to make sure I rest well. Being a personal trainer I am always in my gym and it is so tempting to want to smash out a few more weights here and there, but this is not going to get me anywhere, and I need to remind myself all the time. (Yep more mental battles).
So let’s see what this week brings – I have increased my water to 4+ litres a day (toilet stop every half hour), I will drink more green tea when I can and I will increase my weights in each training session to make this muscles rip and grow more.
I say to myself on a regular basis “trust the process”…..fingers crossed x
