From Figure to Physique - sy2502 does the Battle of the Bay

[ProYeo]

Hell yes, get it girl!!! I've decided to take 2016 off from competition for some much needed grow time. I can watch you!!

[sy2502]

Hell yes, get it girl!!! I've decided to take 2016 off from competition for some much needed grow time. I can watch you!!

Holy crap, Yeo is in the house!!!! I have to confess seeing you do the jump from Figure to Physique did have an influence on convincing me.
Good for you in taking a little break, well deserved!

[ProYeo]

Holy crap, Yeo is in the house!!!! I have to confess seeing you do the jump from Figure to Physique did have an influence on convincing me.
Good for you in taking a little break, well deserved!

Well that's super cool! The title of your thread totally caught my eye, I had to jump in!! Best of luck to a rockin' prep for you!!!

[sy2502]

Good news, it looks like work will be light from now to mid summer, which means no more 50 hour work weeks for a while, which means less stress, which means less hunger, and more time to workout.

[sy2502]

Yesterday was high intensity arms and abs day, felt good and strong, maxed out several lifts and will be increasing the weight next time.

- Close grip dumbbell bench presses - 50lbs dumbbells, X 3 sets all to failure
- Cable pressdowns - 52.5lbs X 3 sets all to failure
- Incline dumbbell biceps curls - 30lbs dumbbells X 3 sets all to failure
- Concentration curls - 35lbs dumbbells X 3 sets all to failure
- Dolphin planks.

For lunch, I have whole wheat pasta with pork meat sauce. I found this extra lean ground pork, to give an idea, chicken breast is 120 cals for 4oz while this is 140 cals for 4oz, great stuff. I added some canned tomato sauce, 20 cals per serving, onion, garlic, extra virgin olive oil and a generous helping of hot sauce.


After every prep I try to think what I could improve in my food organization. There were 2 things that stood out to me from the last time:

1) Prepping large amounts of food for the week over the weekend. That was quite exhausting and daunting, so now I only cook on the weekend if I fell like it. I cook all dinners from scratch every night because I like to have a decent dinner with my husband, so now I just cook 3-4 portions of dinner instead of 2 and pack the extra portions for the following day. This has been working very well for me.

2) I used to have a very small breakfast, a large lunch, a very small pre-workout snack and then dinner at home. The result was that I'd get home hungry as phukk and in a foul mood, and all I could think was getting dinner together and eat. Since I am not hungry in the morning anyway, I have rearranged my food into 3 equally sized meals: lunch, afternoon meal, and dinner. By eating a good amount of food in the afternoon, I don't get home hungry as phukk and don't stress about getting dinner ready. The downside is that sometimes I don't have time to eat until pretty late afternoon, that is close to my workout, and as we know, intense workouts on a full stomach have their drawbacks. So next week I'll rearrange things so that the afternoon meal is a bit smaller than the other 2 meals and see how it goes.

[ProYeo]

I like to have a decent dinner with my husband, so now I just cook 3-4 portions of dinner instead of 2 and pack the extra portions for the following day. This has been working very well for me.

That's how I do it. Extra food when I cook at night for the following day. Sometimes I might go a bit bigger and do up a bunch of protein or a huge vat of sweet potato if I'm feeling frisky, but generally I take it mostly day to day.

[sy2502]

That's how I do it. Extra food when I cook at night for the following day. Sometimes I might go a bit bigger and do up a bunch of protein or a huge vat of sweet potato if I'm feeling frisky, but generally I take it mostly day to day.

It is very important to me to keep the impact of my prep to a minimum in my family life. My husband doesn't mind eating "diet food" at all, we eat this way anyway most of the time. So I want to have a nice fresh dinner to share with him at night. And just as you said, making an extra portion is really no big deal. Actually a few times my husband has forgotten completely I was prepping and asked things like "Hey can I get you a glass of wine?" That to me is the best scenario, if my husband doesn't even remember I am prepping, I am doing it right.

[sy2502]

On a different note, my office mate is a very emotionally disturbed individual, no, she's not dangerous or anything, she just cries several times a day, has panic attacks, and the emotional equipment of a 4 year old. She's been warned several times by my manager that her behavior is not professional, and that while we are all sympathetic to her personal problems, she is not to create a difficult environment for the rest of us. Unfortunately that's like telling somebody with IBS not to fart, I mean, some things you can help and some you can't. Anyway I leave the office to microwave my food and come back with her pretty much in fetal position in a corner of the office sobbing uncontrollably. The tragedy seems to be that she needs to find another apartment because she doesn't get along with her roommate (one wonders why...) and she is having panic attacks at the very thought of changing home. Oh well, just when the amount of work at the office winds down, we make sure to have other sources of tragedy and stress...

Sorry had to get it out....

[penny0527]

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[VO2Maxima]

I have rearranged my food into 3 equally sized meals: lunch, afternoon meal, and dinner.

I feel like that's probably the ideal way to do it, especially since, as you said, you shouldn't be quite as ravenous later. On my prep, I remember trying to save as many calories for late in the day as possible, because I tend to get hungry at night regardless of what I've eaten early in the day, but when I was eating like 800kcal the whole day just so I could have a big dinner...yeah, I was not a nice person lol.

[Echo814]

I was thinking of approaching Kim once I make my mind up about competing. Paying back student loans now so I would have to figure that out lol.

I love that lean ground pork! I make my meat balls with that and really lean ground beef, a 3oz ball comes in at 133 cals and 17 grams of protein and 5.8 grams of fat. I also do pork taco salad with it too.

Training looks intense! Congrats on maxing some of the lifts out.

Ugh, it's that cowokwr from the What Rustled Your Jimmies thread huh? I feel so sorry for you I really do.

[sy2502]

I feel like that's probably the ideal way to do it, especially since, as you said, you shouldn't be quite as ravenous later. On my prep, I remember trying to save as many calories for late in the day as possible, because I tend to get hungry at night regardless of what I've eaten early in the day, but when I was eating like 800kcal the whole day just so I could have a big dinner...yeah, I was not a nice person lol.

That's what I did in my 1st prep and I learned my lesson. I was particularly skimping on carbs during the day to save them all for dinner and the result was being crabby and in a bad mood. In my 2nd prep I subdivided my macros evenly throughout the day and was way better.
Actually something like what you describe happened to me yesterday, I had my lunch, then later in the afternoon I got one of my violent stomach cramp attacks and eating was the farthest thing in my mind, so by the time I got home I was short of like 1,000 calories. I had to find some really nutrient dense food to make up for it without feeling like I just had Thanksgiving dinner.

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Yey!!!! Welcome!!!

I was thinking of approaching Kim once I make my mind up about competing. Paying back student loans now so I would have to figure that out lol.

She's worth her weight in gold for what I am concerned.

Ugh, it's that cowokwr from the What Rustled Your Jimmies thread huh?.

Oh yeah baby, that's the one. We recently had our yearly reviews and I happened completely incidentally to see the 1st page of hers, and it was miserable, she's going to risk her job if she doesn't get her chit together.

[sy2502]

Yesterday was chest and shoulders day, I opted for a high volume this time.

- Chest presses - 5 descending sets
- Incline chest presses - 5 descending sets
- Shoulder presses - 6 descending sets
- Lateral raises - 6 sets, reducing weight every 2 sets

Total sets: 22


Since I am technically savvy I made myself a cute little program I am very proud of. It's not a calorie tracker, there's a million of those, but rather a recipe maker. Let me explain, suppose you have your macros to hit for a meal and you have a bunch of ingredients and want to know how much of each ingredient to use in your recipe to hit your macros. How do you do that? Well, that's what my little program does! You can enter the foods you want to use and if you want, it will download the nutritional info from the USDA website, you enter your macro targets, and boom, you get your quantities. Here's a screenshot:



Now it's a computer program, but it sure would be nice if I could make it into an app. Knowing nothing about writing phone apps, this isn't going to happen any time soon, but anyway I thought it would be fun to share it.

[penny0527]

Yesterday was chest and shoulders day, I opted for a high volume this time.

- Chest presses - 5 descending sets
- Incline chest presses - 5 descending sets
- Shoulder presses - 6 descending sets
- Lateral raises - 6 sets, reducing weight every 2 sets

Total sets: 22


Since I am technically savvy I made myself a cute little program I am very proud of. It's not a calorie tracker, there's a million of those, but rather a recipe maker. Let me explain, suppose you have your macros to hit for a meal and you have a bunch of ingredients and want to know how much of each ingredient to use in your recipe to hit your macros. How do you do that? Well, that's what my little program does! You can enter the foods you want to use and if you want, it will download the nutritional info from the USDA website, you enter your macro targets, and boom, you get your quantities. Here's a screenshot:



Now it's a computer program, but it sure would be nice if I could make it into an app. Knowing nothing about writing phone apps, this isn't going to happen any time soon, but anyway I thought it would be fun to share it.

That's brilliant!!!

[VO2Maxima]

Oh that's awesome. I wonder if you could sell the code to a phone app developer. I guess you might lose rights to it though, not sure how that works. So, does it fix the recipes so people like me don't accidentally make it taste terrible? (Although we all know there's no such thing as tasting terrible by the end of prep...20kcal noodles made of some kind of super high-fiber beans covered in mustard? Mmm, gimme dat s***! Haha)

[sy2502]

Oh that's awesome. I wonder if you could sell the code to a phone app developer. I guess you might lose rights to it though, not sure how that works.

Yeah I don't know either. I would imagine the user interface would have to be redesigned for a phone, since the way you use a phone is so different than using a computer and you can fit so much less in a phone screen. My husband has been bugging me to make this into an app to sell for a while now.

Any app developer takers?

[sy2502]

Two weeks down, 15 more to go, this is going so great so far!!!

Yesterday was high intensity back and rear delts.

- Unassisted chin ups - 3 sets (I can tell I am getting lighter because I can do more reps )
- Barbell rows - 125lbs X 3 sets to failure (I am slowly building back strength on these. I had to avoid them for months due to my tendinitis)
- Wide grip lat pulldowns - 145lbs - 3 sets to failure

- Dumbell rear delt raises - 50lbs (I do these with my chest against an incline press, and do them 1 arm at a time because the last time I tried both arms at the same time, I almost toppled the bench over. Embarrassing) X 3 sets each side
- Reverse pec dec - 130lbs X 3 sets to failure

[VO2Maxima]

- Dumbell rear delt raises - 50lbs (I do these with my chest against an incline press, and do them 1 arm at a time because the last time I tried both arms at the same time, I almost toppled the bench over. Embarrassing) X 3 sets each side

Video of this + video of WPD poses in heels = viral YouTube video

[sy2502]

Video of this + video of WPD poses in heels = viral YouTube video

Ahaha, I should really do it because people never believe it when I say I do rear laterals with 50lbs.
As for poses in heels, hold on to you panties ladies because they are coming, I am taking progress pics for Kim tomorrow and I will post some funny chit

[sy2502]

As promised, here's a comedic video of some posing practice, sorry for the retarded face and everything, as you can see I am still working on it. I mean the posing, not my face, I can't do much about it, I was born with it

https://youtu.be/_5p8MUtNTbQ

[Echo814]

As promised, here's a comedic video of some posing practice, sorry for the retarded face and everything, as you can see I am still working on it. I mean the posing, not my face, I can't do much about it, I was born with it

https://youtu.be/_5p8MUtNTbQ

SO far looks pretty good Dat back spread at the end, nice work, looks awesome at even 15 weeks out.

Recipie app would be great to have. The one on Myfitness Pal is ok but I find myself cross referencing stuff with all the time to make sure its right.

[jsari23]

Yesterday was chest and shoulders day, I opted for a high volume this time.

- Chest presses - 5 descending sets
- Incline chest presses - 5 descending sets
- Shoulder presses - 6 descending sets
- Lateral raises - 6 sets, reducing weight every 2 sets

Total sets: 22


Since I am technically savvy I made myself a cute little program I am very proud of. It's not a calorie tracker, there's a million of those, but rather a recipe maker. Let me explain, suppose you have your macros to hit for a meal and you have a bunch of ingredients and want to know how much of each ingredient to use in your recipe to hit your macros. How do you do that? Well, that's what my little program does! You can enter the foods you want to use and if you want, it will download the nutritional info from the USDA website, you enter your macro targets, and boom, you get your quantities. Here's a screenshot:



Now it's a computer program, but it sure would be nice if I could make it into an app. Knowing nothing about writing phone apps, this isn't going to happen any time soon, but anyway I thought it would be fun to share it.

this looks pretty awesome!

[VO2Maxima]

Don't know much about WPD or what they're looking for, but looks good so far. Rear double bi especially coming along nicely.

As for the face, c'mon, where's that constipated Joker face? We all know faces like this one below win Olympias:

I'm not sure how that works, btw. Flex Lewis has an amazing physique and absolutely deserves the awards he gets, but if LaTorya Watts or Juliana Malacarne made that face, I'm pretty sure they'd lose lol.

[ProYeo]

I know it's always entertaining to me to get my pics/vids after a show and see what the hell my face was doing... oh and hands... I used to look like Yosemite Sam when I posed, making 2 little guns with my hands to shoot my toes.

[sy2502]

Don't know much about WPD or what they're looking for, but looks good so far. Rear double bi especially coming along nicely.

Oh thank you so much! Still a work in progress. I put the phone on the ground because I didn't know where to put it but it was a great idea because after all that's pretty much where the judges are, and it showed me things I can do better. Here's the judging criteria from the WNBF web site

Front Double-Biceps – (open handed) One leg shifted toward the side, both arms up in doublebiceps
pose.
Side Chest (side of choice) – Arm facing the judges is bent at 90 degrees, with the back arm
reached across the torso to grasp the bent-arm wrist both hands must be open. One leg should
be shifted back to tighten the calf.
Side Triceps (side of choice) – Arm facing the judges should be extended straight down at the
side. The rear arm should be bent with that hand on the hip. (The hands are not clutched
behind the back.) One leg should be shifted back to tighten the calf.
Rear Double-Biceps (open handed) – One leg shifted toward the side, with the calf tightened.
Both arms are lifted up in double-biceps pose. Hands must be open in feminine pose.
Front Abdominal Pose (one or both hands overhead) – One leg must be extended toward the
judges. Hands can be positioned either together behind the head, or with one hand behind the
head and the opposite one positioned on the hips.

Routine for Fit Body
Fit Body competitors will now perform their mandatory poses individually at the finals/night
show. Your time on stage will consist of the 5 mandatory Fit Body poses to music while wearing
heels. The order of the (5) poses is up to you and the promoter will provide the background
music. This is not a model walk or a routine.
The Master of Ceremonies will announce your name at which time you will go directly to the
center stage and start your poses. You will execute the (5) mandatory poses one time and then
exit the stage.

I'm not sure how that works, btw. Flex Lewis has an amazing physique and absolutely deserves the awards he gets, but if LaTorya Watts or Juliana Malacarne made that face, I'm pretty sure they'd lose lol.

I wonder when the constipated faces started, because I don't remember Sergio Oliva, Shawn Ray, or even Arnold making those faces. Phil Heath at least doesn't look too bad when he poses, but say Dexter, as much as I respect him, is another one that looks like he's having a prostate exam.

I know it's always entertaining to me to get my pics/vids after a show and see what the hell my face was doing... oh and hands... I used to look like Yosemite Sam when I posed, making 2 little guns with my hands to shoot my toes.

Ahaha, that was the funniest thing! Pistol grip, pow pow! Yeah in Figure and Phisique it's kind of hard to know what to do with your fingers, you are tensing every muscle, but somehow your hands are supposed to be relaxed. I remember watching a Nichole Wilkins video on posing and she had all these funny terms for bad posing, like the butterfly wings (when people keep re-positioning the elbows and it looks like flapping wings), the pistol grip, and a few others. By the way I have done some goofy chit myself, so guilty as charged lol.

[likeafish]

Eek, been awhile, commenting on last week. That's great that you're finding ways to prep that don't impact your relationships! It's sweet to make sure the only meal you get to share with your loved one is special and feels like together time.

[sy2502]

Eek, been awhile, commenting on last week. That's great that you're finding ways to prep that don't impact your relationships! It's sweet to make sure the only meal you get to share with your loved one is special and feels like together time.

Thank you! At least, that's what I try, with varying degrees of success lol. After all, my family is my strongest support system, so I don't want to alienate that. I keep hearing of so many couples being strained by this lifestyle, how you have to be selfish to succeed, how prep is all about you. I don't want that to be my case, I am pretty sure with enough organization it's possible to make it as painless as possible for those around me. Of course, it helps that we don't eat junk food in general, nor are we big drinkers or party animals (not anymore, that is, we had our time), so it's not a huge disruption.

[likeafish]

It's totally possible, some people prep horribly and yeah, if you're eating 6 250 calorie meals a day, no one wants to share your dinner!

The easiest way I found was to just sub whatever carb my husband was eating with dinner, with more vegetables for me. And to allow more fat at dinner than breakfast and lunch.
Sometimes for fun we do an Iron Chef style cookoff, split the main ingredients and do completely different dishes. He can have all the butter, cream and carbs he wants

[sy2502]

It's totally possible, some people prep horribly and yeah, if you're eating 6 250 calorie meals a day, no one wants to share your dinner!

The easiest way I found was to just sub whatever carb my husband was eating with dinner, with more vegetables for me. And to allow more fat at dinner than breakfast and lunch.
Sometimes for fun we do an Iron Chef style cookoff, split the main ingredients and do completely different dishes. He can have all the butter, cream and carbs he wants

Exactly! For example, I buy 96% lean beef and make burgers with it. I may put a nice thick slice of cheese on my husband's but not on mine, or I may have mine without bun. With the air fryer I can even have "fries" with it, of course I'll divide them so he can have a nice "big boy" portion and I have what I need to have. In other words, there are so many ways of doing it without it being a tragedy. As you say, 6 "meals" doesn't do it. And how can anyone call 2 mouthfuls a meal anyway?

[sy2502]

Had a bit of a poopy day yesterday, the time change kills me every time. I don't know a single person that likes it so why are we still doing it?

On top of that, I had the last appointment I am ever going to make with the allergy doctor, she's been a big fat waste of my time, nothing she's done has helped and I have spent a good deal of money following her advice for nothing. Yesterday I told her pretty flat out that nothing has helped, that the same foods sometimes give me trouble and sometimes don't. The only thing that has helped some has been making my own food from scratch and eating ONLY that, and still I get stomach cramps, and frankly I didn't need to see a doctor to know eating junk isn't good for me. I was pretty ticked off, not just because the time change made me feel like crap but because I have been going to doctors about my stomach for 40 phuking years, and not a single one has helped me.

Anyway after trying to sell me doing more of the same that didn't work, she asks "have you tried acupuncture"? Now throughout my childhood my parents subjected me to every kind of both conventional and "alternative" remedies and none of them did squat, but the alternative stuff in particular did precisely zero so I have very little patience for alternative remedies. So I tried to tell her as politely as possible that I didn't want acupuncture. She went on a whole tirade about "body energies" that left me with my jaw hanging open. A doctor should know a thing or two about physics, please don't give me the "energy" stuff, lady, energy is something perfectly well understood in physics and thermodynamics, why not talk about spirit and aura while you are at it? Anyway again I politely declined saying I found the theory on which acupuncture was based unconvincing. So she said "oh well, if you don't believe it, you probably shouldn't do it, because if you don't believe it, it's not going to work anyway". Again, coming from a doctor, that's astounding. Given my favorite quote is "Reality is that which, when you stop believing it, doesn't go away", that was SOOOO the wrong thing to tell me to convince me. So I did what one is NEVER supposed to do in this circumstance, which is to mention the 2 words they hate the most: placebo effect. You can imagine that flew like a led balloon.

Now don't get me wrong, I know many people subscribe to alternative remedies, and who am I to judge, we each own our bodies and are entitled to do what we please with it, including turning it into a pin cushion. But I am not, I don't believe in it, which is why I go to medical doctors. So when the medical doctor starts talking about energies and cures you need to believe for them to work, I feel like I am being swindled, which makes me rage.

Oh well so scrap that doctor, scrap the gastroenterologist whose answer for everything was "more laxatives", and I am back to square one.