Recovery

Whew, got that off my chest. Now, I need to post something that is not so intense!

Had a weigh-in today. 172.0 lbs down to 169.7 lbs. yessss.. now 20 more to go!

This week has been the first week on diet and training. My diet went well and actually wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I wasn't painfully hungry but I could tell that I was depleted when it came to training. I've been implementing a thermogenic with meal 2 (which I find my body to like a lot better than meal 1), followed by b-complex and b-12. All of which really help with feeling better.

Tangent.......As I mentioned before, M and I are trying something different. We're not trying to be champions, WE ARE CHAMPIONS. We are what we want to be. I've been trying to use this new approach towards everything pertaining to contest. I know I'm goign to be hungry and I'm going to hurt, and this time around I'm working on accepting that it's going to feel that way. I understand it's going to feel that way to get my goal then I can push it aside and move on. There's no reason to think about the hunger and think about the pain every moment of the day.. that's just going to lead to a lot of grumpiness and everyone hating you and you hating the process, so I am not going to do that. No thank you. I'd rather this be a happy process.

Back to the point of the post - I felt like I wasn't recovering well from my workouts and that it was having an additive effect. I was tired, as is usual with cutting, but mentally I felt great. My legs were starting to cramp really bad and when I walked up stairs it felt like I was about to tear a hamstring.. and that was only with one lift and one cardio a day. For some reason, in the past few months my calves start to cramp up/tighten up very quickly after just a few cardio sessions and seem to continuously get worse. I knew that if I wanted to stay on track then I had to find something to help recovery, that wasn't carb re-loading after workout. Ding ding, duh. BCAA's. So I pulled my Scivation Xtend back out and started filling up on that. It's BCAA's, glutamine, and citrulline malate. I feel soooo much better. Also, my sleep has to get better. With school and football there really isnt' time for sleep, so that whole recovery thing doesn't get a chance to happen naturally. Meh. Only 5 more weeks left of school anyways. I just have to fight through this and do what I can do then try to make up for it over the next 11 weeks until contest.

My mom and her new husband decided to make the trip out to the show! At least this time she won't have to help me with my tan, hahaha, I don't think she liked tanning my butt and gluing my suit last time.

121 days