Countdown time again

Well, it must be about 11 or 12 weeks until comp (must find out for sure!!)

last Saturday I headed to Melbourne to watch the INBA all female classic which was awesome and very motivating. It was nice to be there to watch a couple of friends compete.

I met up with Lisa, my coach for some face to face chatting and a killer workout session, it took me about 4 days to recover from it, but it was a great experience, very nice to actually train with someone for a change, be pushed that little bit further and to have someone there to spot when things get too heavy.

The day itself was a great chance to meet up with some fellow bloggers and members of Lindy Olsen's forum, if anyone hasn't visited her forum, you should drop into www.lindyolsen.com it is one of the best places!! Lindy and all her crew and just wonderful. I was able to meet about 8 or so people off of the forum, we watched the prejudging show and then all went out for lunch, shopping, coffee, talking, coffee more show. I have never met some many wonderful "strangers" and felt so completely at ease!

AS for diet and training, Lisa has called in the big guns to help with my training Krista Schaus is a member of Bodyworx and she and Lisa have developed "an evil plan" to quote Lisa! Am into calorie cycling now and some heavy duty training. My new self talk is "I am HUGE" and I have to work on keeping that in my head whilst i am trying to push out the last reps of squats and try and do chin ups. My goal for the next 4 weeks is to be able to squat my bodyweight (will have to lose some weight to make it easier LOL) and to do 3 chinups minimum. so far i am about 10kg off on the squats and can just about manage 1.5chins. So watch this space.

Diet went well last week, but has fallen over the weekend due to a couple of bad decisions and lack of planning, hormones have probably had a negative effect aswell!!luckily for me Lisa is on the other end of cyberspace with encouraging words. I sent in my photos from this week, and apparently i have leaned out some since the last week (it always takes an outsider to see the changes!) so that helped.
will start posting photos here again so you can follow the progress. Please note: this is the start of the comp prep and great things are going to follow!!

until next week, eat well, live well, sleep well, love well and train hard

Wendy

13 weeks to go

Well, the count down starts again!

We have just come back from a nice relaxing holiday in Tasmania, 1 week of sleep ins and no work! I mananaged to keep my food pretty clean whilst away, always had almonds and veggie sticks on hand in case of a food emergency and stayed away from bread and sugar as much as possible. Obviously old habits die hard and i did enjoy a couple of evenings playing games and snacking on chocolate, crackers and dip! we also enjoyed a brewery tour with tasting (don't really like beer, so didn't go over board on that one) but we did find a gormet hambuger place which was awesome!

So, the end of the holiday has arrived, back at work, back to the gym and back to fresh clean eating. Unfortuantely my indulgences have left me a bit bloated around the belly, but nothing a week of veggies and meat can't sort out.

I thought the 12 week countdown would start when i came home, so i was delighted to find out last night that it is actually 13 weeks! Gives me a week to recover before i hit hard again!.

I am off to watch the All females BB comp on the weekend and will also be coming face to face with the wonderful Lisa who has taken control of my food! Actually she has given me control and helped me learn some interesting things about my body and what it can and cannot deal with! It is a good motivational tool this week as i need to be 100% on top of food so i can look my best on the weekend! We will also be training together which will be a novel experience for me as i always train alone! I will also be meeting Liz, who will be taking me through my paces the last 3 weeks of preperation whilst Lisa is overseas competing in the worlds Powerlifting comp (good luck Lisa!)

so, that was a quick update of where i stand at the moment. I will be blogging more often as this is progress time again, and i will make sure there are plenty of photos aswell.

Will let you know all about the weekend and my plans for future direction after it happens!!