First time for everything

Hey my name is Kim. I'm new here to this blog. Guess I figured ya'll might care about my life too. LOL. Want to thank Malenna for inviting me. But this is my very first time blogging....so please excuse my inexperience. Alright....I will be back later......

11 weeks out...

Here I am again preparing for another competition. I was supposed to do one in July but my plethora of lame excuses has me blogging today about my second competition still. No excuses. So I read a post today that stated 


‎"We are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good." -Vince Lombardi


Not remotely interested....Let's get it!


Breakfast - 
Natural flax bread
Egg whites 
Natural Chicken Sausage


WORKOUT


Chin ups 4x10 (30lbs assisted)
Military Press 3x16 (40lbs,50lbs)


Elevated Push ups 4x20
Bridges 4x25


4x20
Arnold Press (20lbs)
Rear Delt Static Hold (1 minute)
BB Front raise on one leg (30lbs)
Rear delt DB row (22.5lbs)


BB Upright Row (3x30)
Ab extensions/Bicycles


LUNCH
Bok Choy
Brown Rice
Bison

You know, it doesn't matter how small of a plate I use...it still looks like a little bit of food..That's why I take closeups.... :)

Three weeks ago, I was fired...

And I haven't been writing as I should. It has been a rough three weeks.  The idea of competing has not been on the forefront of my mind let alone telling the world what I am eating for breakfast. As I sat and sulked within one tumultuous event after another, I realized there were things going on around me with other people and their lives as well. 

• Another friend was fired last week
• A friend witnessed a man being crushed by a train
• A friend just lost her father
• A friend had a sick mother with eye problems which has recently been diagnosed as cancer

It made me wonder, first off, why I was being such a baby.  My problems did not seem to measure up at all to the issues others were encountering. Then it also made me wonder what I was supposed to get from this and how I was supposed to serve as a support to my friends, if I couldn't be that to myself.

So, I think I'm over it.  Quote of the day: " The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage."

What's for breakfast:

4 oz egg whites

2 oz chicken

1/2 C broccoli

We have a shoot in 3 days....We have a show in 3 weeks...Let's be about the business of victories.

A new day...No Excuses

Motivation of the day:

“A man who wants something will find a way; a man who doesn’t will find an excuse.”

Sometimes, you just get tired of the constant 'struggle' and hearing that 'everything will be ok' and 'joy cometh in the morning' lol. Really?
I don't expect things to always be easy, but I wouldn't mind if it weren't so difficult on occassion. I guess it's a matter of perspective. Everyone has some level of difficult in their life. It's a matter of how we migrate through those difficulties that determines if we come out on top.  With a little more than 4 weeks to the next projected show, I wonder if this is something I should really try to push to do. I feel tired.  We'll see. July 16th is the date of the show....

Breakfast. Protein, veggie, good fat, and starch. All I am missing is my fruit and the grocery delivery should be here shortly with my grapefruit....

1 tsp olive oil
4 oz egg whites
1/2 C broccolli
1/4 C quinoa

Bfast, Lunch and workouts

Weigh In - 143




2 C uncooked spinach
4 oz egg whites
garlic
4 mushrooms
1 oz fat free feta
2 slices whole wheat toast


Workout

Warm Up - 1 Mi Run 7.32 min mile

BACK and BI's

Chin ups

DB Bent over Rows - heavy!
BB bicep curl (straight bar)

Narrow grip seated cable rows
BB wide bend over rows

Lat pull down wide reverse grip
Rope hammer curls

High cable bicep curls
Alt. Bicep DB curls

Cool Down - 1 Mi Run 7.35 min mi

POST WORKOUT

Whey protein shake with banana and flax oil

BOOTCAMP 1030-12

LUNCH

Turkey burger
2 slices wheat bread
cucumbers
3 oz cashews

SNACK
Banana and 1 tbsp natural peanut butter

Back on that grind....

It's back to the workout and eating regiment....the 'break' is over...

7:30 Greek yogurt and half a grapefruit
9:45 1 oz almonds
12:00 4 oz chicken, 1/4 c quinoa, celery, 1 tsp flax oil
2:00 Protein Shake (chocolate whey, banana, peanut butter, L-Glutamine, BCAAs)
4:00 4 oz chicken, sweet potato, cucumber, 1/2 grapefruit, Ezekiel Bread
8:00 1.5 oz almonds
9:15 4 oz tilapia, cucumber

MY WORKOUT
Run 1.1 Mi 9 minutes

OH plate raises 3x15
Mountain Climbers 3x20
Tricep pushups on stability ball 3x15
Active Rest - Jumping Rope 60s

Tricep Dips 3x20
DB OH Extension 3x15
Reverse grip tricep Pressdown 3x15
Active rest - Jumping rope 60s

DB Push Press 3xFailure
Bent over raise 3x15
1 arm lateral raise 3x15
body rows 3xFailure

OUT DOOR BOOTCAMP TODAY

I went...I walked...I didn't fall down

When I started this blog, it was to walk us through a journey to a competition of which I had never been..I did not blog near as much as I should have and 3 weeks later, the event has come and gone. It was a stressful journey but I made it through my first competition in one piece...Let's give a brief recap of how far we've come..

Dec 2010...

Weigh In 162

Waist 31

Hips 40.75

April 24 2011

Weigh In 143
Waist 27
Hips 35

Competition Day
Weigh In 138

So did I win? Nope...I did not place. Does my journey stop here? Nope. Next competition, in July. What did we learn from this experience?

• When you do not show up on stage for your event, you don't receive a score
• Always bring an extra pair of clear heeled shoes 
• Just because you are in a casino does NOT mean you can find a deck of cards
• Johnny Rockets does not make the best brownies
• No matter how slow you think you're walking, you're probably going too fast

But it was fun...I even have a short video to share...We are going to try this again but next time, we need to come home with a trophy...So..July 16th..We are 10 1/2 weeks out...operation Trophy has started....

Enjoy the show...