Building A Better Body

My prep for the 2015 NZIFBB Auckland Champs has started! I am 1 week down out of 20, which is exciting and yet terrifying at the same time. I am competing in the fitness division because its not simply enough for me to train and diet, I had to throw in a bit of dancing and acrobatics at the same time!

WEEK 1

Life as a whole.

Leading into this prep my life was tumultuous to say the least. I got back from a holiday in Bali with my family the week before the prep started so at least I went into it feeling nice and relaxed. However, several personal and work problems kind of threw the relaxed vibe out the window. In truth I was excited to start prepping just because it meant no more instability, just same old day in day out. Does that make me weird?

Training.
Training is a big deal for me at this point.  Not only am I trying to train my weak points, namely shoulders and legs twice a week but I'm also trying to find time to train my routine 3x per week which is HELL ON EARTH. Nothing makes you realise how unfit you are like trying to dance at a hellish 150 bpm for two minutes. Also there are several elements of the routine which are still proving problematic, such as, all of them.

See what I mean about problematic? Split leaps are still 38 degrees off!!

Diet.
I LOVE my diet. I'm always full. Full credit to my Coach, Jordan Earl, for putting this together. Its easy to prepare, relatively cheap and I'm literally never hungry. The 6-7 meals a day are a bit new to deal with but luckily I adjust quickly and I feel great. I know as the weeks grind on I wont feel as great, and the cravings for cookies with start to cloud my brain but for the minute, I feel great.

My Beautiful diet

So thats a wrap on Week 1, I'm off to buy pumpkin  :D

Gratuitous selfie time!