Hi,
Okay let's talk about FOOD.
The longer and more balanced meal prep into an event will keep you eating higher calories and more often without playing catch up.
Prep depends on how much you need to lose to be stage ready.
Many people get into Contest Mode with 16, 12, or 8 week preps.
So just a head's up April 14th 2018 is on the calendar for Mohegan Sun.
Mark it down and after the holidays plan to go into clean eating mode.
Now that you are on notice of the date what about WORKOUTS?
If you are thinking about a bulking phase with heavy workouts of squats and deadlifts please
don't allow yourself to get put on too much fat.
If you plan on entering a show again fat is fat and muscle is
muscle.
Fat doesn't turn into muscle.
I was told a long long time ago that gaining ten pounds of muscle in a year is maybe the
most you can do and even so not over and over - year after year.
Yet people go and put on over 20-30 pounds after an
event.
Give or take five pounds for just water weight.
Now you could disagree with bulking and gaining as much weight as possible. I'm just saying
from experience I haven't seen many people who train naturally gain over 30 pounds and drop
the weight into the
next show look like they gained 10 pounds of pure muscle.
The people I have seen come in better and better eat cleaner year round and stay close to
contest weight.
Talk Soon,
Brian
PS, If you enter the Fitness Atlantic before 12 Weeks Out I'll ship you a Exercise & Nutrition Journal
physical planner book.
