Day one of comp prep!

Yay! I’m so excited. Today was the first day of my 2010 competition prep. I met with my trainer and nutritionist, Kim Oddo, last week to get my program – nutrition, supplements, workouts and cardio schedule. I used last week to start to move into my program by ordering my supps and buying the food items needed. I added a second afternoon snack and switched my dinner meal over to white fish but didn’t incorporate my bedtime meal yet. It’s interesting. Within two days of making those tweaks to my diet, I could feel the change in my metabolism. It got faster and I got hungrier. Crazy how that happens.

I’m on 1830 calories per day to start with. Nice! Hopefully, I’ll keep all the muscle I put on this summer while leaning. Cardio is starting out nice and easy. I have a fast metabolism so don’t expect to have to increase it too much.

Today I did my first leg workout of two for the week. Tomorrow I’ll tackle back, rear delts and abs and Wednesday will be chest and biceps. I’ll rest on Thursday and then hit legs again on Friday and shoulders, biceps and abs on Saturday.

The elbows held up pretty well today. The only exercise that bothered them was ball wall squats. I was holding 25 lb dumbbells and they just pulled way too much on my elbows. I guess I’ll try it with 20 lb dumbbells and just focus more on keeping it slow and holding the squat at the bottom and not so much on the weight I’m holding.

I’m looking into seeing a joint mobility specialist, masseuse and acupuncturist throughout my comp prep. Between the elbows, knees, lower back/hip and IT band injuries that are all in various stages of healing, I need to make sure I have the best team of professionals surrounding me so I can bring the best me possible to the stage in June.

Mentallly, I’m ready to focus on prep. As much as I love a good glass of wine, I’m ready to give it all up and concentrate on my training and squeaky clean diet. Typically the first two weeks of prep are the hardest, as the body gets used to the changes in diet and structure. That said, somehow I don’t think it’s going to be much of a problem. I’m really, truly ready to knuckle down and do this!