My husband and I - National's 2013 Edition!!!

[ange_d]

So...what a weekend, geez. These girls made me pose my ass off!
So happy of the outcome, we learned a LOT this weekend.
Firstly we learned I need a long time to dry out. I cut my water around 4 on Friday and was still peeing at the night show.
I only carbed up moderately before prejudging and looked a little flat. After a major carb up before finals I looked tighter and fuller (could have been the water going away too though).
The most important thing we learned is that posing wide and hard is very important for me especially for my legs!

Now I am going to have to burn off the junk from the weekend and start depleting again starting next week. I am a little scared of a rebound but I think I might be ok. Weight is 134 this morning, my stage weight was probably 125 (no scale with us this weekend but I ws 127 thursday morning). I'm definitely holding a film of water but it seems under control. We'll see what I look like tomorrow but I was never really dehydrated so I am thinking it won't take long to drop this water.

The show was so fun and that was by far the hardest I have ever worked onstage! At the Atlantic Classic they make us hold our poses a LONG time, rediculous long, trust me. If there was ever a good warm up show, this was it. My guess is Nationals will be a breeze compared to this one.

All in all I am a very happy girl. The improvements in my lower body are very obvious (thank you squat rack!) and my great off season shows. Happy, happy.
I saw the pic below after prejudging and almost cried. A few short years ago I could only dream of that photo being me! After that, didn't matter what I placed, I had already won! Thank you to Muscle Insider for the great pic's!

Last but not least thanks to my amazing husband, Steve. I told you this show was for you! We did it!

[countrychic]

CONGRATS Ang!!! You must be super excited! You look gorgous

[ironwill]

Looks like a pro up there to me...Good luck, i hate saying that, as i do not think you will need it at all..
It is great to see you getting better and better..
I believe you will have pro under your name after next show....
I will bet on it...

[ange_d]

Looks like a pro up there to me...Good luck, i hate saying that, as i do not think you will need it at all..
It is great to see you getting better and better..
I believe you will have pro under your name after next show....
I will bet on it...

Wow! Thanks so much!
Winning a National show is a tough thing in my sport. So much subjectivity and you never know who will show up.
I am really happy with my improvements over the years and finally truely love my physique. Whatever will be will be.
My real goal is to trophy in both the Masters and Open classes, would be a dream come true. That way I would be qualified for NA's and the Arnold Amateur!

Thanks for all the support over the years, much appreciated.

[ange_d]

Rebound, gone...yay!
131 this morning, dry abs.
My energy levels are still high from carb/junk up weekend so may be able to squeeze in a couple more good leg days this week.
My knee has some sort of pull, probably ligaments, like an overuse type strain. Has been there a week and a half or so but no pain, just stiff. Resting it doesn't seem to help so going to just train through it and hope it holds on for the next week and a half.

I have a little posing to correct so will work on that this week too.

Still riding an emotional high from the weekend

[steve_d]

Looks like a pro up there to me...Good luck, i hate saying that, as i do not think you will need it at all..
It is great to see you getting better and better..
I believe you will have pro under your name after next show....
I will bet on it...

You know I agree with you 100% on the looking like a pro! And this is starting to be said alot to her. I really think she has all it takes to stand up on a pro stage. The changes that have been made slowly over time are astounding to say the least. We met in 2006 and she'd already been training for almost a decade. Add another near decade of working one's ass off and boom! Figure is not easy, trust me. The amount of time she spends posing, tweaking poses with each and every show - watching pro's walk and stand on youtube... Training, cardio, its not a walk in the park, and really only 0.0001% of the population can reach the highest level based on genetics alone in a short time.

So we'll hope for the best in Winnipeg! It's going to be a blast seeing Ange up there with the best in the country bringing the best package she's brought to date!

[steve_d]

Last but not least thanks to my amazing husband, Steve. I told you this show was for you! We did it!

You did it! But at times I felt like my voice was going with all the screaming I did during the second class call outs. Wow... what a difference 5 minutes can make. Looked like a different person when going from 'relaxed' to 'intense while trying to look relaxed'

[69challenger]

Looks like a pro up there to me...Good luck, i hate saying that, as i do not think you will need it at all..
It is great to see you getting better and better..
I believe you will have pro under your name after next show....
I will bet on it...

TOTALLY agree!!! I'd LOVE to see you get the card!

[ange_d]

Trying to hold onto weight now, shrinking fast!
126 am weight this morning, 1 week left.
I think I'll eat a little carbs this morning to see what happens.
I've cut back on cardio a little just to be sure I am not wasting away, lol.
Mood is good, training is still fairly intense. I just find I am tired all the time, even when sleeping 9 or 10 hours thru the night. I think we might be fighting yet another bug (we have been sick every couple of weeks this winter - kiddy germs!)

Steve assures me that I need to be:
Tight and Tiny to pose big and mighty
Love it!

Time to start trying to pack all my stuff into 2 carry on's. We have a connecting flight in TO and don't want to make it to Winnipeg with no luggage!!!

[maxpower]

Congrats on the Atlantics Ange! Best of luck in Winnipeg...you look amazing!