I hope it's been a great day celebrated with the one you love, the things you love doing or doing the things you love with the one you love. As I mentioned before, I love Valentine's Month because it's dedicated to CHOCOLATE and WINE, oh yeah there is that LOVE element to it but you should treat that special someone like it's Valentine's Day everyday. You've heard it before. However, I can't partake in the Chocolate or Wine so I will just pass on the LOVE. I am giving away FREE 2 week training sessions with me and my Coach to 10 lucky individuals. I'm ready to take it up a notch and need some PICs (partners in crime). Just post a picture of your love, whatever that may be, on my athletic page on Facebook. The drawing is this Friday February 17th.
Don't forget the goody basket worth over $200. Simply "Like" my athletic fan page and join my blog. Each one is an entry. Also, refer a friend and have them tell me, that's an extra entry. No limit on referrals. Contest ends at end of the month. This goody basket is ridiculous and I want to win it!
My day started at 4:30am!! Cockadoodledoo! Coach Doug called a meeting for 5:15am, meaning be there no later than 5:10am. I had no intentions of working out this early. I was hoping to sleep in at least until 6 or 6:30am as I have not been sleeping well lately. This is probably due to my insane caffeine addition. I have been slurping down coffee like water and forgetting to order decaf. It turns out my Godiva coffee doesn't come in decaf anyways. This mornings meeting was just a powwow and then a nice shoulder/ab workout. Usually I like to eat breakfast before but due to the early hour that wasn't possible. You may think I'm crazy (probably a good assumption) but I slept in my workout gear so I'd be ready to roll first thing. Coach seemed serious when he called the meeting and I was not going to be late. Usually when I do a 5:30am workout, I convince myself a nap will be in the near future as soon as I rack the weights but I'm so energized, that never happens. However, by mid day I hit a wall and usually underperform on my cardio or general work the rest of day. Not sure why anyone would workout that early if nothing dictated the need. Sleep is so crucial to every aspect of my training that I must keep that in perspective. Soooooooo leave it to me to decide to quit caffeine all in one day. Yesterday seemed like a great day to go cold turkey. Does this sound like a good idea to give up my last vice on a Monday etc?? Well I guess I could come up with every excuse why it wouldn't be a good day to give up caffeine. After an awesome leg and booty workout, I decided to finish the day kickboxing. Probably not the best idea to spend an hour whaling on a bag and jumping rope while my brain was exploding in my head. I then decided to devise a better plan moving forward. Did I have caffeine today? YEPPERS! Although with the 3 large Americanos I consumed, I had 2 half caffeine and 1 decaf. Are you proud? I'm just glad the head is still attached today.
An early workout left me time to catch up on work this morning and not to mention time to clean the kitchen. It's how I spend 90% of my day or so I feel. I managed to grab a quick jog in today and an hour of posing practice. Coach Doug seems to think my diet process is coming along nicely. My body fat tested at 8.8% yesterday. He seemed to be really excited about the progress however I was beating myself up it wasn't at 8%. I don't actually know where I should be just under 9 weeks out from competition so therefore I trust he is the expert. Coach's theory is slow and steady wins the race. I guess it makes sense I can't look competition mode for 8 weeks. Now posing is a whole new game for me but I've learned how to take my mind to another place and embrace the ability to bring my A game. There's plenty of room for improvement but Coach was very complimentary of my posing style and body transformation. I won't let it go to my head though because I know there are plenty of weeks left that will arrive promptly and plenty of things that need to grow, be tweaked, touched up and mastered before my debut! So
While most everyone was out eating a fancy, rich and tasty meal with a loved one or watching some sappy love story placing themselves on screen, I once more spent the night cooking all my meals for the next two days. A very romantic evening I must say. I spared myself the boredom of tilapia again and treated myself to chicken (only the 3rd time I ingested bird today). I do hope everyone had a little extra steak, wine and dessert for me.
11:02pm means bedtime. Let's see where my day takes me tomorrow. For now SLEEEEPPPPP!!
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