mens physique prep

As some of you know I competed in my first men's physique show this past weekend. I had no idea what to expect besides from the youtube clips that I had watched endlessly to get an idea of what actually goes on at a show. Though I didn't place I learned a lot from the experience. It's not about being huge, but lean body mass and technicality of your poses. It's important to do more poses and try to keep a relax state with locked abs. Physique isn't about showing off massive muscles. I did my spray tan the day before the show to avoid the rush in the morning of getting it done at the show. I went with what is called blackout which gave me a very nice color and it wasn't runny like some spray tans do. The show's are also very long and drawn out so if your planning on doing one be sure to bring things to do or work on because your only on stage for about 10 minutes if that total. Then the rest of the time is sitting around waiting for other parts of the competition to get done. We had a 4 hour break in between our the pre-judging and the night show which I thought was crazy. I'm not sure if other competitions do that or if it was just the show That I went to. As far as dieting the last week I did pretty low carbs kept it around 100. Then the day of the show I carbed up ate a lot of brown rice to fill out. Also ate some fruit before going on stage to help dilate veins. All in all there's not one way of doing a show and prepping for it. The best way to get ready for one is to practice your poses that's more important than having more size. If you don't have the poses down and don't know which angles you look good at you will lose it doesn't matter how ripped you are or how good you look. The other thing to keep in mind is go with what you know. Don't change your routine because someone else is doing it differently. It's more important to be confident and go with what you typically do so you don't mess up. And even if you do mess up so what at least you had the balls to go up their and compete which so many people will NEVER do. I think that takes a lot of courage to go up there and show off your body to a crowd no matter how you think body looks. At least YOUR doing it. No one can take that away from you. Just go out there and have fun and if you don't place so what? There's tons of other shows that you can go to and prove yourself at.

Chipotle is not healthy

I read an article on CNN stating that Chipotle finally came out of the wood works saying that HALF of their menu is GMO products. Yup that "ALL NATURAL" label was total bogus. Funny since I've had so many people try to convince me to go there saying that it was healthy. it's only reasonably healthy if you get the meat with maybe a taco shell since the wraps are dyed and lettuce. The salsa has over 1,000 MG's of sodium which is half of your daily value. The meat is also loaded with sodium to keep it preserved an average burrito has over 3,000 MG's of sodium. I feel sorry for the people that eat there. I've eaten there a few times, but once every blue moon not like most of the high shoolers who would stop there everyday after class. Be aware of what your eating if it's fast food even if they say it's healthy it typically isn't. If you don't know ASK. Or do some research on what your getting. If you go to their website it will say how much sodium etc. is in every item and it's honestly so high it's almost not believable. Take care of yourself's as always as health should always come first!

3 reasons why you should ALWAYS eat breakfast

1. Your body needs energy, it's like a car no gas you wont go anywhere same with your body! Your body needs healthy foods to work properly. If your not eating breakfast you'll drag and be tired.

2. Eating breakfast will help you not crave foods later on during the day. Eating a well balanced meal can help balance out blood sugar levels so that you wont crave "sugar" later on in the day.


3. It improves brain power! If you eat breakfast it helps your cognitive function throughout the day. You also wont be thinking about food until lunch time. Eating breakfast may also help you avoid those embarrassing moments at school or work when your stomach begins to growl and everyone looks around like what was that.

4 Reasons why you shouldn't order pizza

1. A generic cheese pizza has around 336 mg of sodium (per slice) It doesn't seem like much, but it adds up quick!

2. There's about 14 grams of fat in a slice of pizza. Again it doesn't seem that bad until you begin to eat your 3rd and 4th slice. It all adds up like with a snap of the finger.

3. The amount of grease is just disgusting! Most pizza restaurants bathe there pizza's in grease, it's ALMOST unbearable to eat.

4. The high amounts of cheese and needless carbs. There's about 20 carbs per a slice of pizza! Unless your planing to go for a run after you smashed your 3-4 slices of pizza I wouldn't eat it. Most people tend to eat and then go to sleep which is no good because it's just going straight to their stomach. Then they wonder why they gained weight... Hem wonder why! Don't be dumb and THINK BEFORE YOU EAT!