6:30am weigh-in 197.4 after “shit happens” 196.8
It looks like I am going to be a light heavy weight, I would much rather be a big light heavy weight, then a smaller heavy weight.
My best friend (the mirror) couldn’t be any happier and my wife is even happier.
I’m hard, ripped, dry and ready for a pump, I could not ask for anything more.
Again today, I will eat every 3 hours starting at 7:30am, 6oz chicken, 10oz potatoes and sipping coffee.
I’ll eat clean just in case I win my class. I want to stay in condition for the overall pose down, which happens during the evening show
You can pretty much tell if you have a chance to win your class during the prejudging, by how they move you around and compare others to you.
Put it this way, if you are at or near the end of the line-up and they move you to the middle, that’s a good thing, the other way around, is bad thing
And in honor of my son Anthony I will bring a peanut butter and nutella sandwich on matzo for a victory snack.
I have already won, because this is the best condition I have ever competed in.
Happy Halloween
Time to compete
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
1 day out from competition – Final carb-up day
6:30am weigh-in 198.2
My mirror (best friend) says… dry, ripped and filling out :-)
I started eating yesterday at 7:30am, 6oz of boiled chicken, 10oz of boiled skinless potatoes, my morning cup of black coffee made with distilled water, taking my second cup on the rode
Every 3 hours, 6oz of chicken, 10oz of potatoes, sipping my crystal light flavored distilled water as needed, trying not to over do it.
2800 calories yesterday doubling the calories without the carbohydrates, but now with the carbohydrates, my muscles are filling up with water becoming harder
I knew by 4pm I was starting to become slightly dehydrated and needed more water. While flexing my intercostals they started to cramp, but it went away with a little stretch and didn’t last but a second.
The carbohydrates in my body are looking for water, but not too much, the cramp did not last long (slight dehydration). Try listening to your body and know why things happen. I just needed to drink a little more water.
Carbohydrates hold water in your muscles, along with potassium (potatoes having the most potassium) any water sitting in my skin will be pulled into the muscles from the carbohydrates, because I’m limiting the water intake or I’ll sweat it out with no return. I’m not taking in any sodium and sodium holds water under your skin, this is how we “saran wrap” the skin
Today will be a repeat of yesterday’s food and water intake, another day and I should be right where I need to be for Saturday.
Will get the last spray tan and hit some compulsory poses for my buddy Mark (the guy with salons) there are 8 compulsory poses (judging poses).
Tonight I’m going to apply Pro-Tan on as well, 3 coats should do the trick. You can never be dark enough for the stage.
Let the games begin…
Time for a protein drink
My mirror (best friend) says… dry, ripped and filling out :-)
I started eating yesterday at 7:30am, 6oz of boiled chicken, 10oz of boiled skinless potatoes, my morning cup of black coffee made with distilled water, taking my second cup on the rode
Every 3 hours, 6oz of chicken, 10oz of potatoes, sipping my crystal light flavored distilled water as needed, trying not to over do it.
2800 calories yesterday doubling the calories without the carbohydrates, but now with the carbohydrates, my muscles are filling up with water becoming harder
I knew by 4pm I was starting to become slightly dehydrated and needed more water. While flexing my intercostals they started to cramp, but it went away with a little stretch and didn’t last but a second.
The carbohydrates in my body are looking for water, but not too much, the cramp did not last long (slight dehydration). Try listening to your body and know why things happen. I just needed to drink a little more water.
Carbohydrates hold water in your muscles, along with potassium (potatoes having the most potassium) any water sitting in my skin will be pulled into the muscles from the carbohydrates, because I’m limiting the water intake or I’ll sweat it out with no return. I’m not taking in any sodium and sodium holds water under your skin, this is how we “saran wrap” the skin
Today will be a repeat of yesterday’s food and water intake, another day and I should be right where I need to be for Saturday.
Will get the last spray tan and hit some compulsory poses for my buddy Mark (the guy with salons) there are 8 compulsory poses (judging poses).
Tonight I’m going to apply Pro-Tan on as well, 3 coats should do the trick. You can never be dark enough for the stage.
Let the games begin…
Time for a protein drink
Thursday, October 29, 2009
2 days out from competition – carb-up day #1
6:30am weigh-in 197.8
Down just over a pound again from yesterday… looks like I’m going to be a heavy weight this time around (over 198) unless I lose more weight during the carbing up, which is possible, by not likely
At this point I don’t care what weight I’m at, I just want to keep the look I have now for the stage
I am extremely pleased with my BF (the mirror) this morning, besides being ripped, I’m dry too, and this is the look I need to keep for the stage.
Now I’m going to carb up, so I become Bigger and Harder!
Last night I finished making the remaining 3 packs of chicken (9 pounds) and boiled 5 pounds of Russet potatoes. Russet’s always seemed to me to be the driest of all spuds.
So basically I’m going to eat ever couple of hours 7oz of boiled chicken and a couple of potatoes (300 grams). I’ll drink my distilled water as needed, trying just to sip.
But today I will do what my body asks for in terms of how much water to drink, however tomorrow is a different story. Tomorrow depending on how I look in the morning, I may want to be keep myself slightly thirsty throughout the day into Saturday
Got sprayed tanned again last night and I’m starting to get really dark, one more time should do the trick on Friday and I have Pro-Tan just in case and I’m not afraid to use it ;-)
All I’m looking to do is fill out a little in terms of hardness which the carbohydrate will do for me. This will give me the muscle contractions I need to flex really hard.
Something I will be doing all day long these next couple of days. Just keep flexing and watching the muscle fill out and staying dry and ripped.
I don’t want to go too crazy eating too many carbohydrates and drinking too much water, but I also want to eat and drink enough so I fill out and more importantly take on a nice pump back stage before going out.
It should be an effortless pump; I shouldn’t have to work on trying to get a pump. If everything works as I planned it to, then I should easily get a long lasting SICK pump!
Time for a protein drink
Down just over a pound again from yesterday… looks like I’m going to be a heavy weight this time around (over 198) unless I lose more weight during the carbing up, which is possible, by not likely
At this point I don’t care what weight I’m at, I just want to keep the look I have now for the stage
I am extremely pleased with my BF (the mirror) this morning, besides being ripped, I’m dry too, and this is the look I need to keep for the stage.
Now I’m going to carb up, so I become Bigger and Harder!
Last night I finished making the remaining 3 packs of chicken (9 pounds) and boiled 5 pounds of Russet potatoes. Russet’s always seemed to me to be the driest of all spuds.
So basically I’m going to eat ever couple of hours 7oz of boiled chicken and a couple of potatoes (300 grams). I’ll drink my distilled water as needed, trying just to sip.
But today I will do what my body asks for in terms of how much water to drink, however tomorrow is a different story. Tomorrow depending on how I look in the morning, I may want to be keep myself slightly thirsty throughout the day into Saturday
Got sprayed tanned again last night and I’m starting to get really dark, one more time should do the trick on Friday and I have Pro-Tan just in case and I’m not afraid to use it ;-)
All I’m looking to do is fill out a little in terms of hardness which the carbohydrate will do for me. This will give me the muscle contractions I need to flex really hard.
Something I will be doing all day long these next couple of days. Just keep flexing and watching the muscle fill out and staying dry and ripped.
I don’t want to go too crazy eating too many carbohydrates and drinking too much water, but I also want to eat and drink enough so I fill out and more importantly take on a nice pump back stage before going out.
It should be an effortless pump; I shouldn’t have to work on trying to get a pump. If everything works as I planned it to, then I should easily get a long lasting SICK pump!
Time for a protein drink
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
3 days out from competition – 0 carb day #9
6:30am weigh-in 199
Down one pound after training the whole body last night, I figured this much.
I couldn’t be any happier with my best friend, (the mirror) my legs are in the best shape they have ever been. Though today I am very flat, after a couple of days of carbs that will all change
Tonight I’m off to my buddy Mark's place to get spray tanned, I need to make sure I hit under my arms. I was hitting poses last night and when I hit the front double bicep shot you could see under my arms where the spray didn't get me.
For only one level 3 spray, it really made me dark and that little darkness, really looks nice when your skin is thin, brings out even more lines
Today I am using distilled water to drink and no fat free coffee creamer this morning in my coffee, today will be the lowest sodium intake so far, were these last couple of days it was around 50 milligrams … by switching to distilled water and cutting out that coffee creamer, total sodium intake will be about zero.
The only thing left, which I will make sure during my carbing up, is making my coffee with distilled water, and then I will be at zero sodium.
When I do carb up, I’ll most likely use potatoes, because they are rich in potassium (which hold water in your muscles) and even though they are naturally a sodium free food, I will boiled them and peel the skin... more on this later
Time for a protein drink
Down one pound after training the whole body last night, I figured this much.
I couldn’t be any happier with my best friend, (the mirror) my legs are in the best shape they have ever been. Though today I am very flat, after a couple of days of carbs that will all change
Tonight I’m off to my buddy Mark's place to get spray tanned, I need to make sure I hit under my arms. I was hitting poses last night and when I hit the front double bicep shot you could see under my arms where the spray didn't get me.
For only one level 3 spray, it really made me dark and that little darkness, really looks nice when your skin is thin, brings out even more lines
Today I am using distilled water to drink and no fat free coffee creamer this morning in my coffee, today will be the lowest sodium intake so far, were these last couple of days it was around 50 milligrams … by switching to distilled water and cutting out that coffee creamer, total sodium intake will be about zero.
The only thing left, which I will make sure during my carbing up, is making my coffee with distilled water, and then I will be at zero sodium.
When I do carb up, I’ll most likely use potatoes, because they are rich in potassium (which hold water in your muscles) and even though they are naturally a sodium free food, I will boiled them and peel the skin... more on this later
Time for a protein drink
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
4 days out from competition – 0 carb day #8
6:30am weigh-in 200
Chicken and water all day yesterday and I have to say, it was pretty easy. Chicken went down with out a struggle and I looked forward to every meal
My best friend hasn’t look this good ever… I can say I’m in the best shape of my life!
I went to my buddy’s place last night, (Mark the guy with the tanning salons) to get spray tanned. He wants to me to go back on Wednesday and Friday and that should do the trick.
http://www.glowtanningcenter.com/ thank you for hooking me up Mark!
I did buy some Pro-Tan (the shit that stains you) just in case come Friday I’m not dark enough, you can never be dark enough for the stage
Mark did see me at the Jay Cutler classic back in May and he knew right off the bat, I was 100% better then back then
Bigger, Harder and more cut. I could tell be the way he was looking at me and asking me to hit certain poses, he knows I am going to do really well this coming Saturday at the New England’s
Tonight I’m going to hit the whole body at the gym. Just like the other day.
My training partner, who has some type of bug or something is feeling 90% better and has planned to workout with me tonight.
This will be cool, because as I’m doing one exercise he can be on the other, as we go back and forth. That way we won’t lose one machine when we are on the other.
Can’t wait to train tonight and squeeze even more water out on my muscles!
Time for a protein drink
Chicken and water all day yesterday and I have to say, it was pretty easy. Chicken went down with out a struggle and I looked forward to every meal
My best friend hasn’t look this good ever… I can say I’m in the best shape of my life!
I went to my buddy’s place last night, (Mark the guy with the tanning salons) to get spray tanned. He wants to me to go back on Wednesday and Friday and that should do the trick.
http://www.glowtanningcenter.com/ thank you for hooking me up Mark!
I did buy some Pro-Tan (the shit that stains you) just in case come Friday I’m not dark enough, you can never be dark enough for the stage
Mark did see me at the Jay Cutler classic back in May and he knew right off the bat, I was 100% better then back then
Bigger, Harder and more cut. I could tell be the way he was looking at me and asking me to hit certain poses, he knows I am going to do really well this coming Saturday at the New England’s
Tonight I’m going to hit the whole body at the gym. Just like the other day.
My training partner, who has some type of bug or something is feeling 90% better and has planned to workout with me tonight.
This will be cool, because as I’m doing one exercise he can be on the other, as we go back and forth. That way we won’t lose one machine when we are on the other.
Can’t wait to train tonight and squeeze even more water out on my muscles!
Time for a protein drink
Monday, October 26, 2009
5 days out from competition – 0 carb day #7
6:30am weigh-in 200.8
Well I can’t completely call yesterday a zero carb day. I did have that Carbo Pump yesterday morning at 9am and by 10am I was already starting to get hard, starting to be able to really flex everything so intensely. Something you lose when completely depleted (carbs are used for contraction) and I had no change in definition, zero sodium did the trick.
Legs stayed deeply separated all day as I continuing eating 7oz of boiled chicken breast every two hours and drinking my Crystal light and they even started to get harder as the day went on
So last night I decide to try something… the last thing I tried to eat before I want to bed was one box of Matzol, which has an 1100 calories to the box and it’s a dry complex carb, no salt. But I was only able 8 of them down, which are 800 calories and 16oz of water, I could have drank more, but chose not too
I wanted to see what would happen to me in the AM… I’m so lean right now and hardly have any water in or on my muscles
If you remember last weekend I eat 10 pounds of potatoes and I was able to flatting back out in one day of zero carbs.
I wonder how I would have looked last weekend if I was zero sodium when I was eating all those potatoes…
This is why I wanted to see what these 800 calories of dried unsalted complex carbs would do to me
My best friend the mirror says… perfect! I found my formula; I put 2 pounds of water back into my muscles, I’m nice and filled out, hard and separated, I can’t ask for more
Now if I can bring this look to the stage, (I don’t see why not) I will be a force to be reckoned with
The best thing is I still have 5 more days to become even better, if that’s even possible… but of course it has to be… never settling…
Back to boiled chicken and water for the next 3 days
Time to find my buddy and work on my tan~! http://www.glowtanningcenter.com/
Time for a protein drink
Well I can’t completely call yesterday a zero carb day. I did have that Carbo Pump yesterday morning at 9am and by 10am I was already starting to get hard, starting to be able to really flex everything so intensely. Something you lose when completely depleted (carbs are used for contraction) and I had no change in definition, zero sodium did the trick.
Legs stayed deeply separated all day as I continuing eating 7oz of boiled chicken breast every two hours and drinking my Crystal light and they even started to get harder as the day went on
So last night I decide to try something… the last thing I tried to eat before I want to bed was one box of Matzol, which has an 1100 calories to the box and it’s a dry complex carb, no salt. But I was only able 8 of them down, which are 800 calories and 16oz of water, I could have drank more, but chose not too
I wanted to see what would happen to me in the AM… I’m so lean right now and hardly have any water in or on my muscles
If you remember last weekend I eat 10 pounds of potatoes and I was able to flatting back out in one day of zero carbs.
I wonder how I would have looked last weekend if I was zero sodium when I was eating all those potatoes…
This is why I wanted to see what these 800 calories of dried unsalted complex carbs would do to me
My best friend the mirror says… perfect! I found my formula; I put 2 pounds of water back into my muscles, I’m nice and filled out, hard and separated, I can’t ask for more
Now if I can bring this look to the stage, (I don’t see why not) I will be a force to be reckoned with
The best thing is I still have 5 more days to become even better, if that’s even possible… but of course it has to be… never settling…
Back to boiled chicken and water for the next 3 days
Time to find my buddy and work on my tan~! http://www.glowtanningcenter.com/
Time for a protein drink
Sunday, October 25, 2009
6 days out from competition – 0 carb day #6
6:30am weigh-in 198.8
I lost 2.5 pounds of sodium held water in one day of going zero sodium. This is water held under your skin, not in your muscles
Man, I’m not going to lie or play it off. The first day of just eating boiled chicken every 2 hours (3 pounds) and drinking just water really sucked to say the least. I ended up drinking 1.06 gallons of water, thank god for crystal light
My best friend (the mirror) is looking unbelievable right now. Just when you thought you had deep cuts, well after this past day of zero sodium, WOW they are deep now.
I keep saying how my legs never looked this good, so separated with deep cuts. Well, I’m going to say it again today; they have never been so separated as they are this morning. And I still have 5 days left, I am very happy.
I think this morning I’m going to drink a Carbo Force. I would normal drink one before every work to help give me energy for an intense workout
The Carbo Force is a 400 calories drink with 100 grams of carbohydrates that are not simple sugar carbs. This drink gives me an amazing pump in the gym and I prefer never to workout without drinking one first.
I’m looking to see how much it fills me out and how fast. Seeing I’ve just about gotten rid of all the sodium held water under my skin.
Now the Carbo Force does have 110 milligrams of sodium, but it’s so low and what I’ll get from the drink, will out weigh the little sodium it has.
I want to see if I may be able to use this drink as part of my carbing up carbohydrate. If that one drink fills me out enough, then I would think about staying pretty much 0 carbs right up to the show and maybe having 2 pounds of potatoes the night before and having a Carbo Pump an hour before going on the stage.
All I’m looking to do is fill the muscle up with a little water to become big and hard. (Carbohydrate held water in the muscles) with out spilling over and smoothing out, by over doing it
First I need to see how much of a reaction I get from this drink today… I’m so ripped and dry right now, this will not hurt me, and if anything it will help me make it through these next 5 days with out emaciating myself, the extra calories will help that
Time for a protein drink
I lost 2.5 pounds of sodium held water in one day of going zero sodium. This is water held under your skin, not in your muscles
Man, I’m not going to lie or play it off. The first day of just eating boiled chicken every 2 hours (3 pounds) and drinking just water really sucked to say the least. I ended up drinking 1.06 gallons of water, thank god for crystal light
My best friend (the mirror) is looking unbelievable right now. Just when you thought you had deep cuts, well after this past day of zero sodium, WOW they are deep now.
I keep saying how my legs never looked this good, so separated with deep cuts. Well, I’m going to say it again today; they have never been so separated as they are this morning. And I still have 5 days left, I am very happy.
I think this morning I’m going to drink a Carbo Force. I would normal drink one before every work to help give me energy for an intense workout
The Carbo Force is a 400 calories drink with 100 grams of carbohydrates that are not simple sugar carbs. This drink gives me an amazing pump in the gym and I prefer never to workout without drinking one first.
I’m looking to see how much it fills me out and how fast. Seeing I’ve just about gotten rid of all the sodium held water under my skin.
Now the Carbo Force does have 110 milligrams of sodium, but it’s so low and what I’ll get from the drink, will out weigh the little sodium it has.
I want to see if I may be able to use this drink as part of my carbing up carbohydrate. If that one drink fills me out enough, then I would think about staying pretty much 0 carbs right up to the show and maybe having 2 pounds of potatoes the night before and having a Carbo Pump an hour before going on the stage.
All I’m looking to do is fill the muscle up with a little water to become big and hard. (Carbohydrate held water in the muscles) with out spilling over and smoothing out, by over doing it
First I need to see how much of a reaction I get from this drink today… I’m so ripped and dry right now, this will not hurt me, and if anything it will help me make it through these next 5 days with out emaciating myself, the extra calories will help that
Time for a protein drink
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