*****OBF "2014 Winter Transformation Challenge" Official Contest Thread*****

[cyanotikat]

So last night I up my pr on dead lifts by 20lbs. I honestly think I can do more but have a level of fear blocking me from going higher. Has anyone else had this problem? How do you move past the fear factor?

loud angry music

[CMoney320]

Had an amazing birthday thanks to my thoughtful boyfriend! Cake and drinks and a big fancy dinner! Just what I need after being so good for so long! Back to work though, gotta get back on track!

[TimVYSS]

So this week is deload week for me, had been feeling weaker and weaker and more and more tired and less and less recovered by the next session.

So I decided to take a deload and back off to go forward again next week I hope. Weight has remained steady this week as a result.

Had a DEXA scan done on Monday and was very happy with the result. I'm making good progress.

[zamwoi]

I've had a good week. Hoping to get below 200 soon...weigh in on Saturday mornings. I think I'll be close but not quite there, maybe next week.

[browguy808]

So last night I up my pr on dead lifts by 20lbs. I honestly think I can do more but have a level of fear blocking me from going higher. Has anyone else had this problem? How do you move past the fear factor?

The best way to overcome that fear is to conquer it head on. I enjoy tackling new things that I know are foreign to me because it presents a certain drive and determination. Just get yourself psyched up, keep tight and pull!

[tjwoody]

rough month. first stomach bug had me out for days not bad respitory infection has me out a week. diet is off, no workouts. I will have my work cut out for me hard after this!!

loud angry music

this helps me.

The best way to overcome that fear is to conquer it head on. I enjoy tackling new things that I know are foreign to me because it presents a certain drive and determination. Just get yourself psyched up, keep tight and pull!

x2.
the mental limitations are harder to break through then the physical ones. it took me years to learn this.
example, i was reading about not having the strong mind may be hindering ones physical strengths. so i tested this with something easy. tricep pressdowns. i thumbed through logs to see what weight/rep counts i was working on. i focused on this pressdown as my major movement for the day. i counted reps but tried to not let the reps control me. not only did i beat the reps i crushed them. it was something like rope pressdowns i was working up to 80x20 and this day i did 90x27. in my case the # of reps were a barrier for me so i pushed them out of my head. if im training for size i believe more in blood flow so this works. strength/power i would tackle this a bit different but the same.

i then moved onto other isolation exercises beating all them then i moved onto compounds. to me isos are easy, the compounds are a whole new level so i started with easy and broke through my mental barrier to help work towards my physical ones.

this ultimately led me to breaking a 405 press into 455 which i thought id never do. id try it with squats but with disk herniations i rather not. now leg ext, damn this is a hard one to break through. the lactid acid build up is a toughie but i am slowly breaking through using drop sets and rest pauses.

i dont know, something to try, it worked for me.

now i do this thing on my last set where i ask myself "did i leave to much on the table?" if the answer is yes i sit back down for another servings.

remember train smart. pushing through barriers can hurt.

[bulldogged]

So last night I up my pr on dead lifts by 20lbs. I honestly think I can do more but have a level of fear blocking me from going higher. Has anyone else had this problem? How do you move past the fear factor?

You can definitely psych yourself up, but it's probably a safer approach to "own" your current PR. Say it was your 1 rep pr, I would work in 2 sets of it the next time you hit the exercise and ramp up until you can comfortably hit 5/6 reps. Some days you may not be able get all 5. But when you can hit that number even on a not so good workout day, you will be pretty confident to bump the weight up. Admittedly this not a very exciting approach but probably help longevity and many more PRs in the future.

[rocketman766]

I don't know if it was my meal before tonights workout or the switching back to a previous pre workout sup or just being pumped from the visual progress I'm making, but tonight was INTENSE! I had more energy, more umph, more of everything! I now have the ( very slight but still present ) arms showing some vascularity at all times, not just during a pump, and even though tonight was arm/upper body night.... the veins in the quads were feeling left out so they started poppin'!

I need to stay up late tonight so I can sleep in tomorrow since I am starting my night shift, but when I come down off this high, I'm gonna crash like a mofo! Still pumped!

[live4gs]

Hoping to hit some weights then cardio, it will be only cardio if grandsons come over tonight. Cant have 3 sets of hands around the plates on the weight machine, That was a bad experience.
Cardio should be good. getting warm and humidity is high.

[MoEcho]

I don't know if it was my meal before tonights workout or the switching back to a previous pre workout sup or just being pumped from the visual progress I'm making, but tonight was INTENSE! I had more energy, more umph, more of everything! I now have the ( very slight but still present ) arms showing some vascularity at all times, not just during a pump, and even though tonight was arm/upper body night.... the veins in the quads were feeling left out so they started poppin'!

I need to stay up late tonight so I can sleep in tomorrow since I am starting my night shift, but when I come down off this high, I'm gonna crash like a mofo! Still pumped!

Veinage!! WAHOO!!

[qstick99]

Been a crazy week over here with kids sports, work and general family stuff, not a lot of gym time but nutrition has been pretty good.

[johnplante2]

still trying to get stay in a routine, every time i turn around someone in my family is in the hospital....

[rocketman766]

still trying to get stay in a routine, every time i turn around someone in my family is in the hospital....

Hang in there dude... I hope everyone is ok and gets well soon. I have felt your pain... I won't go into great detail, but that is sorta what drove me as my latest motivation for my lifestyle change and transformation. Basically in the last 14 months my wife spent 3 months in the hospital and in-patient physical therapy for a broken hip, I lost a son ( still born ), my daughter broke her thumb and just last week she broke her ankle. My insurance company hates me.....

[XKINGX]

finally Saturday got to sleep in a little, time to go do what others want everyone have a great blessed weekend!!!!!!!!!

[live4gs]

Got the weight moving in the correct direction! Woke up at 227.0 for this week.
Hope to keep it coming off, while adding some firmness back!

[Godhelpme]

finally Saturday got to sleep in a little, time to go do what others want everyone have a great blessed weekend!!!!!!!!!

You too!

[Godhelpme]

Got the weight moving in the correct direction! Woke up at 227.0 for this week.
Hope to keep it coming off, while adding some firmness back!

Great work!

[Godhelpme]

I did Chest and Tri's yesterday and today it hurts to lift my arms, killed it!!!

[browguy808]

still trying to get stay in a routine, every time i turn around someone in my family is in the hospital....

Hope everyone is okay.

[Godhelpme]

[MoEcho]

Did HIIT today on the treadmill. Been a while since I've chosen that method. Now I remember why..

Tomorrow I'll try HIIT burpees... I wonder which will be worse??

#GETERDUN

[TMcDermid]

Love the activity in this forum - always gets me motivated. Have a great weekend everyone!

[anti-bonk]

Sometimes there is a very fine line between "just having a small cheat meal or snack" and "completely going off the rails". Came close last night to completely going off the rails when somebody started dishing the cookies and cream ice cream. Somehow I was able to enjoy my first (small) dish of ice cream in 9 weeks and not go completely crazy. That's not like me. Normally if I cave in a little I'm done for.

[The Solution]

Sometimes there is a very fine line between "just having a small cheat meal or snack" and "completely going off the rails". Came close last night to completely going off the rails when somebody started dishing the cookies and cream ice cream. Somehow I was able to enjoy my first (small) dish of ice cream in 9 weeks and not go completely crazy. That's not like me. Normally if I cave in a little I'm done for.

Portion Control and a "Healthy" Relationship with food
Remember FOOD WILL ALWAYS BE THERE

Think about your decison before throwing it down your throat.
While its great to eat big, there is a fine line that may take away all your progress in 1 meal from over gorging.

Sometimes to fix a problem you have to take it head on to fix that. Just think food will always be there, having 5 slices of pizza wont be better tasting than the first 1-2 slices with a law of diminishing returns.

Live and learn, move on and remember the past and also take what happened and remember it for the future to correct it!

[Godhelpme]

Did HIIT today on the treadmill. Been a while since I've chosen that method. Now I remember why..

Tomorrow I'll try HIIT burpees... I wonder which will be worse??

#GETERDUN

Good job Mo!!!

[PhiSig2298]

Diet and training have been great this week.

Spring food plot is tilled. I'll seed it on Monday and the rain will be here Tuesday. I'm planting clover and chicory for the deer and Turkey! Turkey season starts on April 6th. Can't wait!

[Free Weight Friedel]

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Contestants - Week #9




Women's Transformation


Picture Thread Link: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=159760121


**Links below names are journals for this contest** (IF you have a log/journal, please post the link)


BOLD names means you have posted during the current week.


cyanotikat
MoEcho
laurenrun262
MsClickClick
beefcake66
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=159521421
CMoney320
ms_mac
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=156571063
gobbles23



Men's Transformation


Picture Thread Link: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=159760171


**Links below names are journals for this contest** (IF you have a log/journal, please post the link)


BOLD names means you have posted during the current week.

live4gs
lsbowen
PhiSig2298
chavostrong
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...post1201096681
JaySinX
xr7gt
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=159650581
browguy808
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=159770301
rocketman766
zamwoi
McWinning
qstick99
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=159531411
InfiniteForward
anti-bonk
GettingfitAgain
Vytis
TimVYSS
biggoron
EjnarKolinkar
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=152312773
bulldogged
TMcDermid
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...post1197822721
XKINGX
johnplante2
tjwoody
RUTHL3SS
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=159968661





Contestants Who Have missed a Week Posting


Women's Transformation

MsClickClick - Week # 5, Week # 7, Week #9 - Disqualified
CMoney320 - Week # 5
gobbles - Week # 6
jenleon - Week # 7, Week # 8 - Disqualified


Men's Transformation

bauercm1 - Week #2, Week # 3 - Disqualified
lsbowen1 - Week # 3
TimVYSS - Week # 3
ShackledOrphan - Week # 3, Week # 4 - Disqualified
shortfield - Week # 3, Week # 4 - Disqualified
Mighty Kev - Week # 4, Week # 5 - Disqualified
zamwoi - Week # 5
PhiSig2298 - Week # 7
JaySinX - Week # 7. Week # 9
XKINGX - Week # 7
EndOfHeartAche - Week # 7, Week # 8 - Disqualified
chavostrong - Week # 9



Week # 9 is complete!






JUDGES

Free Weight Friedel
TheSolution
mrdead
Ceejay84
WandyDiane
Godhelpme



**More Judges to be added**


To ALL Contestants: Make sure you read & understand the rules in the first post. If you have any questions, post them in this thread or send me a PM.

[xr7gt]

Week 10 already? Time for all of us to dig deeper. Are you on track to goals? Minor course adjustments needed? Some great after pictures are in the works.

MoEcho's burpee hiit sounds interesting (read brutal), may try it this week.

[live4gs]

Wow week 10, time flies.
Had a bad cheat night on Saturday.
Too much food & drink. So no cheating till next Saturday. Got to get rid of the bloat from last night by April 4. That will be our wedding anniversary but we are planning to celebrate on April 5.

[Vytis]

I've been directed to do 5 HIIT cardio sessions a week. Last week was tough. Session #1 coming up....hooray????