Finished the training footage last week and I can honestly say that this was far more work than I had anticipated. The sessions were much longer and coupled with running the blast for a few weeks longer than I had wanted to and dieting at the same time, it was pretty tough. I am cruising this week after beating the shit out of myself for almost the last 9 weeks with filming for the last 2. The rest of the filming will be much more fun and less stressful.
Even though this DVD is not about contest prep but more about longevity – training and competing into your late 30s, 40 and even into your 50s, I am still going to have some prep related things in there. Obviously, I will break down the skiploading and the changes and adjustments that I have made to these protocols but other things like a chapter on posing correctly. I am going to break down the mandatories, in detail, to show how to post correctly and effortlessly. I don’t like a lot of what I am seeing on the stage these days with “new” ways of posing. Whether I am judging or competing or putting someone on stage I think that posing correctly is a necessity.
A lot of big shows going for TEAM SKIP. Clients in the LA show, Contra Costa, European shows, Minnesota State coming up and Jr Nationals just to name a few. TEAM SKIP clients are representing well this year, as usual.
Jimmy arrives at camp in about 2.5 hours (as I type this) so I am dissappointed to see him leave here last Friday but excited for him and his upcoming season.
So, my stress levels are down as I take a deload week, this week. I will keep my cardio up and diet on track but will be spending time at my youngest daughter’s play on Tuesday, signing my son up for fall football season, getting my truck mods done and Sissy’s new car in for some minor bodywork/upgrade. Basically, I will act normal this week. Well, as normal as it gets around here, anyway.
I am in the writing mood but I don’t have much on the brain after the last several weeks of running crazy. If anyone has any ideas about what you might like to hear me rant about, email me or respond here and let me know. TEAMSKIP@IntenseMuscle.com.
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Busy, busy, busy …..
I wanted to check in and let everyone know how things are going with ….. well …. everything.
First, training with Jimmy is winding down this next week. We finish training on Friday and he flies home for a couple days and then straight to camp in Minnesota. Camp actually starts this week, Tuesday, but he will be reporting a week from tomorrow. The time always goes by so fast – I hate to see it come to an end. However, this year I will be going out there for some games and he is coming back for a bit over the summer late June or so just to hang out.
We were going to be in Arizona for the weekend but we both just had too much to do and felt guilty going. It would have interfered with the last training session on Friday being filmed, too, and I didn’t want that to be an issue, obviously.
Which brings me to the filming: Everything is going well and we will finish filming the training footage this Friday, as well. It is a BITCH – a ton of work and trying, at times, to get everything the way we want it. Example: Chest, shoulders and tris took just over 3 hours last Monday. Um, that is a long session. When the training footage is done then I can start on what I think is going to be FAR more fun and that is the casual, fun footage and the other chapters where I do more talking and instruction, etc.. I actually got a jump on that today as it was a beautiful day and we were meeting some friends for a refeed day of food. It was a lot of fun.
Training is going well but I am long overdue for a deload week. I was to deload 3 weeks ago but I don’t do that when Jimmy s in town – just the way it is. We have training to tend to and so I deload the week before he gets here and the second he leaves but nothing in between. This one will have stretched for 8 weeks with the last 2 being filming weeks, as well. I am incredibly beat up going into the last week. I am going to have to be careful, for sure. My condition is decent at a baseline before the refeed today of 207. Not sure if I want to go any lower as I feel great at this weight and I have been playing with different refeed/loads, etc.. It is resembling more of a shitload the last few weeks and has been working well. I had to change up the low fat due to having ongoing hyperglycemic issues on refeed days and a complete lack of appetite only on these days and I am convinced the two were related. Since making this change, that I will likely go into more detail in the video, things are going much better.
Otherwise, I am looking forward to getting back to normal after this week and plan to be back in the groove for some more blog work.
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