i ate too much. incredible tho.
And i got 7.5 hours of sleep. Worth for the sleep alone. I havent slept that much ever.
was great to scratch an itch but just eating whatever really is not for me anymore! Tracking foods today at least for my sanity.
Gonna eat my own breakfast and my own foods. I like them better at the end of the day. I cant do it anymore like when i was 260.
Dont get me wrong I love food! But when I want to eat want my oats, my taters, my chicken, my cream of rice oh and my bagels.
maybe something super super tiny but im tracking it just to sit with family.
I drank a good bit of water as well and i still woke up middle of night with the most insane quad cramp ever!
My physique looked pretty crazy this morning still processing carbs. Besides abs a little washed because i still pounded water around 1am cramping and right now just had another 3 water bottles all my shoulders and back are pumped! Its like infinite pump.
Getting pumped when youre cold naked and depleted isnt easy either! I had a little pump routine ready to go and at home maybe 2 rounds of it i was pretty pumped.
Trying to pump stage time I had to do like 4/5 rounds of it, and then youre pumped and they glaze you a little before stage time and then youre freezing again lol. So had to go repump haha.
Very pleased with yesterday either way!
so when posing, they started calling out poses i didnt know!
not only that they didnt call lat spread at all!
after all said and done I spent a good 45min to an hour looking up where the promoter posted the poses to be judged
and I didnt see anything personally. so woulda missed it no matter what.
at least in prep brain mode. no biggie still got 3 2nds, and have a goal of winning it next time.
i was actually surprised at how much more conditioned i was then maybe like 95% of the guys that were with in my vicinity.
ive never done one of these, and dont know anyone irl that does what I do, so like while cutting etc like its hard to tell am i ahead behind everyone like you have no way of knowing if that makes sense.
one guy that talked to me was shocked it was my first show, he was like bro youre really lean for your first show lol.
there was one dude, that really wasnt close to stage ready, and was being kinda obnoxious while we were waiting to be called.
imo he was 18% bodyfat at best, and was talking about pounding 12 donuts this am to carb up.
i mean whatever anyone wants to do but idk it was rubbing me the wrong way at the time.
he probably wasnt that bad i was just hungry and prep brainin lol. i added him on insta anyway hes real young dude so its whatever.
seems nice honestly browsing his profile just a little unguided i guess.
so anyway thats my idiocy for the year lol.
got reverse out plan from coach locked and loaded. tracking my food today but gonna be a little lenient and back to work tomorrow. im still full from yesterday and i dont really like that feeling lol.
itches scratched and ready to move on!
oh and post food treat was a pb and j. greatest sandwhich EVER lol.
when my wife handed me the ziplock i literally could not open it hands were shaking.
it was wierd, because for pumping up and carbing up / peaking i had some treats based on coaches meal plan,
despite being and tasting great, having some candy 10 15 min before walking up, it didnt really feel
like i was being treated if that makes sense. it was just part of the plan and work.
so it wasnt super gratifying in a way it was just like okay time for some rice crispies, a reeces some candy whatever and start pumping up. they were a tool with a purpose.
that pb and j tho, fkcing sent me lol. took me a good 2 minutes to open the ziplock, completely ridiculous ,it was like i had parkinsons.
and i am not kidding, that pb and j, was literally my lifeline through prep. i literally thought it about it for hours and hours and hours. so makes sense i guess lol.
after like the first minute i literally had to compose myself and take a deep breath like bro get it together lol.
youre a 40 year old man and cant control yourself over a peanut butter sandwhich lol.
anyways 10 10 experience. getting ready for the next one! and were bringing gold next time.
