I am now 2 days out and I've been in depletion mode. The excitement builds! Spending so many weeks, months even, prepping for one day, one event, on moment in time is pretty epic. It is a very surreal feeling! Though, there are so many opportunities and so many things I can nitpick about my physique this year; honestly, I am very happy with what I am bringing to the stage. I will continue focusing on my legs, first and foremost, then add thickness to everything else.
Today and
tomorrow, I will be performing full upper body depletion exercises. I will perform 1-2 exercises per muscle group
at 3-4 sets of 12-15 reps of moderate load without reaching failure. The goal is to burn glycogen and prep my body
for carb uptake on contest day prior to stepping on stage so I can appear as full
and thin-skinned as possible. This week’s
carb intake has been dropped down to below 100g to maximize depletion. I’ve been on about 2000-2100 calories for the
past few weeks now and have finally felt like I hit a wall yesterday—I haven’t
felt so fatigued during this year’s prep before. I knew the feeling and it was like how I felt
when I was prepping last year for my first show the incorrect way on very low
calories. Thus, I will begin my reverse
diet by slowly working backwards from a cut diet, adding small increments of
calories back in week by week until I realize my maintenance calories. Maintenance is a moving target, and since I’ve
been cutting, my metabolism could have slowed since when I was on a bulk
previously. New goal for bulking is
putting on as much lean muscle mass at a 12% bf max through 2014.
Tonight, I will
need to rid all the hair follicles on my body and exfoliate. Then tomorrow, I will exfoliate again prior
to my first spray tan coat. It’s
on!
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