Competitive Body Builder

When I decided to try figure competitions, I knew I would mostly be competing against myself. I didn’t really care about winning anything, my goal was to push my body and see where I could take it.

I had other trainers tell me that I had the body of a body builder, that I would be successful in that pursuit. None of that really mattered to me, I just wanted to take my athletic abilities to the edge and see what I could do.

“It’s You Versus You”

When I started competitions, I was 29% body fat. Yep. Did you get that? I was 29% bodyfat. That is a strange fact since I was teaching and working out; I was even a personal trainer for crying out loud!

Something was wrong, very wrong. I didn’t know how to eat!

Garbage in — garbage out. If you don’t like what you’ve gotten out of your body, you must simply change what goes in it. Word.

Nutrition accounts for 75% of the progress you are making.

You can’t really over-train, you can only under-eat.

I took my body, back in competition days, from 29% bodyfat all the way down to 10%. How? I ate clean and I didn’t CHEAT! I gave myself a goal, it was that simple.

I didn’t want anything I did, especially cheating on my eating plan or workouts, to hold me back from getting on that stage and presenting my best athletic body. If I wasn’t going to place, it was not going to be because of anything I did. Period.

If the judges didn’t like my body, so be it. I told myself that my job was to show up at the contest with my best body, with my best effort. I would have won already because I did everything  I could to get to my goal….and I did that.

I brought my A game.