It’s Sunday and I’m really excited about the weekend coming to an end! How often do you hear someone say that? Almost never! Most of us can’t wait for the weekend to arrive. I used to anticipate the weekend, but today I feel different.
I am about to step into what I believe will be the most challenging experience I’ll endure in my lifetime. It will require 100% dedication, focus, determination and motivation on a DAILY basis. I’ve done plenty of things to challenge my body, but this will be the toughest event of them all and I couldn’t be more excited about it!!
I am a huge fan of Oxygen Magazine. I’ve been reading it for years. I admire the women/models in the magazine for their rocking bodies. My girlfriend and I have flipped through pages and pages of Oxygen together and have said that we’d love to have a body like the women in Oxygen. I’m an avid fitness freak. I consistently workout on a daily basis; whether it’s lifting weights, interval training, running or taking a yoga class here and there, working out is like brushing my teeth…I do it every day.
As I flip through the back of Oxygen, I’m even more impressed by the women who have dedicated themselves to competing in the fitness world. You can’t achieve a body like theirs without committing yourself to rigorous workouts, clean diets, sacrifices and pure determination.
Well guess what, I’ve decided to join these women and compete in a figure competition. I can honestly say, I wouldn’t have made it to this point without the final push from a very good friend who is near and dear to me. When you are surrounded by people who believe in you and support your dreams, you feel like you can do anything! I’ve been on top of the world since making this decision.
While I have a background in fitness and clean eating, I didn’t want to mess around with trying to figure this out. No pun intended ;-) I wanted to work with someone who has been there themselves and knows what it takes to prepare, train and eat for an event like this. I was referred to a couple, who are both competitors, trainers and come with a decade of experience in this field. I met with Mike and Trish last week. I think I was smiling the entire time we talked…well if I wasn’t smiling on the outside I most definitely was feeling happy inside. I loved them the minute we met. Their experience showed in their physique and the questions they asked me. They helped me decide which competition to train for and explained what my daily training is going to look like. I’ll be training with Trish 5 days a week. Mike will build a clean eating plan for me to start on Tuesday. I’m anxious to see what’s on my plan. My target competition date is in November. I have about 4 months to train for this. My first day of training begins tomorrow morning at o’dark thirty, YIKES. This is the reason why I can’t wait for the weekend to be over. I’m ready for the alarm to go off.
I’m so ecstatic that I want to share this journey with you. Every day I will be blogging about the experience, from training, to food to the emotions I endure. There will be high moments like the one I’m in now and moments where I might feel as if I can’t take it anymore. The diet is extremely restrictive so I can’t promise I’ll always be in a sunny mood but one thing is for sure…I’ll be here every day for the next 18+ weeks.
Until next time…
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