27 Days to Go - Booked My Hotel

I believe you are not officially competing until you have booked your hotel room. I still need to register, but I can do that on-site. In the last month there are a lot of changes. For one, I have less time to relax between two workouts, showers, getting to different gyms, and running my business.

So my morning starts off between 4:30 am and 5:30 am, even on the weekends, with a mug of warm water and 1/2 a tbsp of flax seed oil (because I could not find hemp seed oil). After I get ready for the day, I get my breakfast ready, half a yam and 8 egg whites (about 263 calories), and enjoy it with a fresh cup of coffee. I usually train about two clients in the morning and then do 30 minutes of HIT cardio at 8 am. Afterwards, I eat another meal of egg whites and yam.

 After a shower I train a few more clients, then head back to the gym around noon. For my afternoon workout, I warm up by practicing my walk and poses in my new five inch heels. After the first day I had huge blisters on my big toes. To break them in, I have been bandaging my toes then wearing them around the house while I do chores. They need to be so comfortable I can run in them. Once a week I meet with Alex Navarro to go over the walk and fine tune the poses.

I follow my stage walk with with hypertrophy training (heavy weight, low reps, high sets) on specific muscle groups for about an hour. I end with stretching; all the leg presses, lunges, and cardio have made my hips incredibly tight which makes it difficult to walk. As soon as I am done with my workout, I eat another high protein meal.

 

I go home, shower, then head to the tanning bed. For now, I tan  3 times a week, but it will drop to twice a week the last two weeks. When I get back, I usually train a couple more clients and then head home for my last meal of the day. My favorite last meal is spinach and chicken, a lot of spinach. I use the whole bag. My friends look at me like I am crazy, but one bag is less than 80 calories. If I were to eat less, I wouldn't get the nutrients or fiber I need for the day.

Throughout the day, my goal is to drink a gallon of water. To make it easier on my, I count out 7 24-oz bottles. Today I have already had 3, only 4 more to chug. It's not easy, especially because of the frequent bathroom breaks.

Right before bed I finish with 20 minutes of abs every other night. I drink 8 oz of ginger or chamomile tea and go to bed. I am physically and emotionally drained.

The good thing is that I weight less than I have in years and fit amazingly well in my old clothes. The bad news is I am losing muscle fast. It is too late for me to change my game plan, so I need to take it one day at a time, trust my coaches and the process and see my way to the end.

Today, I had a fitness shoot with Skimble, the number one free fitness app for Android,  which was really fun. I am excited for more to come. I will post pictures as soon as I get them.

I won't be posting anymore pictures of myself until after the competition, just in case some of my peers are checking this out, but I will keep you up to date on my week to week progress. I miss chocolate.

Day 31 - Never Too Late to Dream Big

This is my last weekend away. I leave SF tonight, and tomorrow at 6 am I am taking off for LA with my mom. I am packing my cooler with chicken and yams, rice and almonds, kale, tuna and rice cakes. Hopefully I can find chicken and spinach and egg whites in LA.

I stopped freaking out, I am in great hands. Glen is doing the muscle fine tuning; Alex is going over my stage walk, posing, and attire; Maria is in charge of my pre-show primping (apparently it is a process); Larissa is doing my hair and pushing me all the way to the finish line. I've heard that the first show is great practice and the second one is perfect, but I want to place in this competition.

I have never worked so hard for anything before and it feels great. I was checking out videos and pictures of Ms Fitness USA from last year and I found this great video of my stage coach. Isn't Alex amazing?!

The woman who place second last year is in her 40's and didn't start gymnastics training until she was in her 30's. She has three kids and runs a restaurant, which proves it is never too late to get fit and turn your life around. I can't wait to be on the cover of Oxygen magazine! It might take a few years, but I am patient.

This morning I hit up the Lyon Street stairs. Larissa and I did 5 rounds of sprints. We used are walk to the bottom as a cool down. Our legs were trembling so bad my the end, we had to walk all the way back.



This picture makes them look easy

If you are wondering about yesterday's workout, both of our backs are perfectly sore. I highly recommend you try out our back circuit. Next week we will take a video of pull ups to show you how to progress and regress each exercise. I have a ton of errands to run still, but I will be back on here to post pictures of my cooler and training equipment for my weekend.