Liam

Hi righyho,
i can't really come up with a great post like some of these guys.

Just like to say you clearly worked hard and simply through inexperience made a mistake at the end, but at least next time you will know.

Have you got any pictures you can put up of the show? Although you may not have been how you wanted i'm sure you still looked bloody good.

Best of look with the next time you are at a competition.

Nine Pack

I'll check back with you at weekend bud when I return from Italy. My wife Paula is competing in the World Masters Athletics champs.

everyone's competing but me!

And enjoy eating food for once! Make your girlfriend realise how normal you can be when dieting.

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rightyho

Liam - thanks mate. That's appreciated as well.

Paul B - the very best of luck in Italy for your wife, Paula, mate. What event/s is she doing?

I worked a lot over there (in the north mind you) and loved it for its scenery and relaxed atmosphere.

I'm keeping a log of everything I'm doing and will email you it at the end of the week.

Just done chest today and can honestly say it's the first time in weeks I had one of those things called a pump.

Blasted out pec-dec, then wide grip machine flyes, dumbell flyes, incline dumbell press and flat dumbell press in record time, with about 10 working sets. Felt great, especially when the hidden veins reappeared and burst through the skin about a quarter the way in. Feel full in glycogen terms and hopefully, after the water rebound from the weekend dissipates, the scales weight will begin to drop.

Currently sat at a water retentive 91.5kg. Show day was 88.2kg but having seen the shreddedness of some of the people competing, I know there's a fair bit of room to drop some kilos.

In all honesty, I suppose I was at ripped stage and have 3 + 2 (touch wood) weeks to make the transition to whatever's below that.

Will be doing something I've never really thought about, and taking photos on a twice weekly a.m. basis to see what is coming off from where.

There will be no deviations from game plan. In fact, I'm sat here now feeling quite satiated and far from hungry despite a lesser calorific intake than my previous diet.

Again, without sounding OTT, thanks mate - one in a billion.

Now, enjoy Italy and relax as much as you can.

Keith

supercell

Good to see the fire back in your belly and 100% focus. Welcome to my world...its not a bad place.
I'm the same with the carb depletion/carb up. No matter what style of diet you follow by the last week you are depleted anyway, end of story
The trouble with most guys is they deplete an already depleted body and end up not actually filling back up due to an aversion to carbs (think they will spill) so what they do is stay in a depleted state but still dehydrate making them look flat, fat and skinny (if you get what I mean)

Anyway I am sure Paul will have your game plan straight in his head already, even before he has seen you. He has a canny habbit of always being right...Grrrr! You can gaurantee his body will be in Italy but his mind will be here thinking of us (with obviously some in Italy too for his wife).............. Exhausting if you ask me!

J

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hackskii

Man, you guys are totally inspiring.
Wow, what a cool board and a bunch of good lads.

These journals allow one to see just the in's and out's and everything in between.
This is insight that most dont have the luxery of seeing.

I have seen 3 guys from my gym compete (I didnt go to the contest), but every one was flat and looked catabolic.
Strange how common this is.
Mind you these guys are huge but in the end looked kind of weak, dont get me wrong they looked good but they could have looked so much better.
All were on low carb diets, I know one guy only ate broccoli and tuna....lol

Killer thread.

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rightyho

The fire is burning but by crikey do I feel full eating all this food. Wow - just the starch intake alone is satiating. I texted Paul to see if I could cut 75g carbs out and I got an okay but add in 20g fats and a VERY specific way of doing it, lol.

Quite scary how much he knows really....

Now, will he let me do an additional 8:30pm cardio session when the gym's quiet and I'm waiting to lock up at 9?

rightyho

Lol Hackskii - my last diet was, er, chicken and broccoli and peanut butter (loads of each mind you) and next to nothing else. I was contemplating going to tuna, broccoli and peanut butter.

Hopefully others will learn a bit from this thread. I know I have - my textbook learning just got thrown out the window in favour of real-life experience.

Is there any chance of this thread teletransporting into shows, pros.... It might get more traffic in there now it's kinda turned into a show prep journal.

I have many more detached quad and snapped tendon pics to post.

supercell

Agree Righty I will PM Tom and get it moved (hopefully)

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clarkey

Good to see you back on track mate I find it motivating as you have got the fire back in your belly....I have suffered exactly the same probs think it must happen to loads of guys who are starting out, last diet I went keto and was a zombie for 12 weeks could not work, function, think, it is a wonder my missus never left me!! its amazing the difference a few carbs make, but it does play with your mind feeling kinda normal on a diet..almost a guilt feeling of ' I should'nt feel this good'. Im starting to think like that at the moment as I have a weight class to make, nearly lost the plot today and stopped my carbs...felt awful and then I thought 'what the f*ck am i doing, its suppose to be a bodybuilding show not slimmer of the year!!' its amazing what you can learn from the top guys like Paul B, Tom and James just by reading the journals and the good thing is they are always willing to offer advice and help. Looking forward to Lemington and meeting up with the guys from the board..stay strong mate.

hackskii

OK, I moved it to shows-pros-inspiration area.
Let me know if this is where you want it.

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rightyho

As we say in some parts of England, allegedly at least: "perfick".

Ta, Hackskii.

rightyho

Clarkey, to be honest, I snuck tentatively onto this board to try to learn a few things. It's all well and good reading 1000000001 books about the subject, then finding the author has a degree background but no real experience of it. Real life experience is here and it shows - big time.

Add to that the friendliness of the posters and their willingness to help.

My background is in motorbikes, engineering, racing them, and writing about them. I can tune the backside off a disc-valve-inducted square four 2-stroke, as can many, but did we ever share our little secrets that would give the competition an advantage? Hell no.

I firmly believe that part of the reason bodybuilders DO help each other is that as well as competing against each other we also compete, in part, against ourselves. And in doing that, we are in a battle that no-one else can intervene in. We are also part of a minority group that gets judged everywhere it goes. You can be a world-class tennis player and no-one would ever know. But our sport is available for all to see 24 hours a day and, for that reason, we stick together as a social group.

I can honestly say that in my gym, which has 1000 members give or take a few, EVERYONE is approachable. Egos don't exist and help is given freely - a 22 year old Polish monster is in the cardio room right now talking to a lady in her 60s. Our most successful competitor spends half his night showing people he doesn't even know new exercises in the machine weights room.

And the 500lb benchers spot the lads struggling with a bar and 10kg each side in the free weights room.

That's called a real community within a community and something that, I hope, will continue to blossom and grow.

PS: me, the g/f and some mates will be at Leam. Need to see what the opposition looks like.

hackskii

Do you run or own a gym righty?

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rightyho

I own and run it mate.
Get quite a few from this forum in it.

It's medium-sized for a private venture - just shy of 6000 sq ft but plenty of kit.

hackskii

Ok, so there are no excuses to train as you work there.

Funny thing, most people over train, it takes very little to grow muscle but alot to recouperate.

Seems you have some internet access in your gym.
Any pics of the gym?

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