Well my plan was to start an online journal with the launch of my own personal website but seeing as I still haven't managed to get that up and running yet I figure this is the perfect place to start one since I seem to be frequenting these boards more and more.
A bit of background...
This year marked my first competitive season in tall figure.
This time last year I was 20lbs overweight and although I was still training, my motivation was pretty much caput... my husband and I enterered a summer shape up contest. I won (he came 3rd
) and I've been on track and setting new goals ever since. 
Between April and July of this year I competed four times, I managed to pick up 3 trophies along the way and made it to the Canadian Nationals which was my goal... mission accomplished!
My goal for next year is to place top 6 at Nationals.
My ultimate goal is to earn my pro card in figure... a lofty goal but what the heck!
From the feedback I got this year at Nationals my biggest disadvantage is my height! Pah!
I need to put on some serious mass and fill out to be able to compete with the 5'4" girls (I am 5'10"). I still don't get how a 5'4" person is considered tall?! I am hoping that at next years Nationals they will add a medium tall height class. There were 31 tall figure girls this year and 16 were eliminated in a preliminary round... thankfully I made it through that round and got to compete.
Anyhow, off-season is now here and I am done competing until 2005.
My goals over the next few months are to gain the necessary muscle I need to give the girls at next years Nationals some serious competition so I am training hard and eating and sleeping lots!
I am currently working a six day split... I normally do a three to four day split but am experimenting with training all body parts except chest twice per week allowing 72 hours between training the same muscle groups. I've been doing this for four weeks now and am already noticing some gains. I will have to see how I go with this workout plan overtime to see if I am going to burn out on it, it's pretty intense and I am perpetually sore but in a good way!
Monday:
Chest/Shoulders/Tris
Flys - 10/10/10 - 25/25/25
Smith Machine Incline - Press10/10/6 - 50/50/50
Machine Chest Press - 10/10/10 - 60/70/70
Hammer Strength Shoulder Press - 10/6//10 - 70/70/60
DB Seated Side Lateral Raise - 10/10/10 - 20/20/20
DB Bent Over Rear Delts - 10/10/10 - 25/25/25
French Press - 10/10/10 - 50/50/45
BB Skull Crushers - 8/11/8 - 50/50/50
Kickbacks (Consecutive) - 10/10/10 - 20/20/20
A bit of background...
This year marked my first competitive season in tall figure.
This time last year I was 20lbs overweight and although I was still training, my motivation was pretty much caput... my husband and I enterered a summer shape up contest. I won (he came 3rd
) and I've been on track and setting new goals ever since. Between April and July of this year I competed four times, I managed to pick up 3 trophies along the way and made it to the Canadian Nationals which was my goal... mission accomplished!
My goal for next year is to place top 6 at Nationals.
My ultimate goal is to earn my pro card in figure... a lofty goal but what the heck!
From the feedback I got this year at Nationals my biggest disadvantage is my height! Pah!
I need to put on some serious mass and fill out to be able to compete with the 5'4" girls (I am 5'10"). I still don't get how a 5'4" person is considered tall?! I am hoping that at next years Nationals they will add a medium tall height class. There were 31 tall figure girls this year and 16 were eliminated in a preliminary round... thankfully I made it through that round and got to compete.Anyhow, off-season is now here and I am done competing until 2005.
My goals over the next few months are to gain the necessary muscle I need to give the girls at next years Nationals some serious competition so I am training hard and eating and sleeping lots!
I am currently working a six day split... I normally do a three to four day split but am experimenting with training all body parts except chest twice per week allowing 72 hours between training the same muscle groups. I've been doing this for four weeks now and am already noticing some gains. I will have to see how I go with this workout plan overtime to see if I am going to burn out on it, it's pretty intense and I am perpetually sore but in a good way!
Monday:
Chest/Shoulders/Tris
Flys - 10/10/10 - 25/25/25
Smith Machine Incline - Press10/10/6 - 50/50/50
Machine Chest Press - 10/10/10 - 60/70/70
Hammer Strength Shoulder Press - 10/6//10 - 70/70/60
DB Seated Side Lateral Raise - 10/10/10 - 20/20/20
DB Bent Over Rear Delts - 10/10/10 - 25/25/25
French Press - 10/10/10 - 50/50/45
BB Skull Crushers - 8/11/8 - 50/50/50
Kickbacks (Consecutive) - 10/10/10 - 20/20/20
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Pah... well so much for leg day! I hate to jam on a workout but I have been so nauseaus the past few days from a new presciption med that I am on and today I just couldn't face it. Training legs usually makes me want to hurl at the best of times and since I am still as sore as heck from Saturdays leg workout I figure pushing it back one day will be okay. Hmmm... it's not good for me mentally though, I feel quite guilty!
one question though- do you normally eat such high amounts of protein? (270g seems a fair amount for your stats). 
Im also addicted to trident spicy cinnamon, trident "new" very berry, and trident pink bubble gum. Going to Costco soon to stock up! People think Im weird when I pull out 4 different kinds of gum from my purse.
