MASSive

New Diet and program yesterday... MORE FOOD!!!

uurrgghhh

last chance to put on some mass before I get to cut I guess...Is it bad to eat while on the treadmill?

Interesting comment. How much cardio do they have you doing? I went cardio free this last season and while I'm sure it wasn't a terribly good idea from a fitness perspective it did seem to make putting on weight a little easier.

thoughts?

I have ALOT of food... and 1 hour a day cardio...
the theory is, I need the food to build the muscle, but the cardio to burn fat before it gets stored... Im not too sure how much differnce there is between the trainig I have to do for fitness and what someone would have to do for bodybuilding.. but my goals this year are to CLEARLY make improvements as far as physique goes over the other competitors... so... right now I'm doing weights 5X a week, cardio daily and gymanstics 1X a week and LOTS of stretching.

Did I mention I hate you. How long have you been working up to that level of work capacity? I'm fairly sure that kind of volume would crush me in fairly short order.

In my twenties I might have been able to keep up but certainly not grow. You must be eating constantly.

How many years have you been training fitness?

LOL...
I've been training for fitness for 1.5 years (aprox) my first (and second) show was last year. Since I am significanly older than most of the other competitors, and neither a dancer, cheerleader or gymnast, I kinda feel like I have ALOT of ground to make up to even be in the game! lol (Im 38)

and yeah.. Im pretty much eating all the time.. wake up at 5am... get in a meal, go to work, another snack before hitting the gym, then workout, then eat, usually play a little computer, then nap or shower or chores, then eat, then back to work, and eat while driving, then come home for some tv and cardio and another meal before bed!

starting in 2 weeks I add fitness routine practice 1X a week (1 hour) and yoga to the training program...

Wow, you're doing great and not gaining too much body fat!!! Are you still doing gymnastics in your off season too?

Thanks Maria!...
actually I never did gymnastics in my life! lol.. I started taking an adult gymnastics class about 5 months ago... I've learned ALOT!!! this year added to my routine will be a perfect one handed cartwheel, a front handspring, that craxy front to butt flip and a pretty lousy handstand! lol... and whatever other tricks I can learn in the next 10 weeks! (10 weeks is all the time I'll give myself to learning new tricks,, then it just becomes a matter of perfecting the routine after that!)

I could use some of Your Moves Maria!! lol...

Hey those skills are still good!! If you lived closer I could teach you! I was a gymnastics coach for quite a while before I got into bodybuilding and then personal training. I also worked with another fitness competitor and taught her a standing back tuck. The coach she use to have had no knowledge of technique when it came to learning skills so I had to fix a lot of her stuff. She was learning a full twist! Keep working on the flexibility because that will really help!!

OK... MASS update!... I think I am where I should be!!
GOOD NEWS- I got a new diet with LESS FOOD!!!! horrah!!!
I hit 130 pounds today!, now lets see that dang needle start going the OTHER way!

132 pounds! 4 more weeks of growing!... then it's SKINNY TIME!!!