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All right, since I'm offically out of the IM comp and focusing on increasing my endurance to have a kickass tri season I will begin today.
My background: personal trainer for almost five years and corporate wellness centre manager for the last two - bodybuilding for most of that time - competing twice in fitness model shows and not placing well (too small). Took 8th out of 15 in my first one and no idea in the 2nd. I now have two jobs - work about 55 hours a week and also take courses via correspondence (currently chemistry) - my time is VERY limited.
After my last show I got sick of the bodybuilding competitive circuit and a friend convinced me to enter a short triathlon - a "try a tri" which was short. Gave me something different to train for and I found I really enjoyed it because it was a new physical challenge. Inspired me to take a spinning course and change the way I look at training by learning new approaches and techniques. My first season was not a good one, but I had fun and I learned a lot.
Last seasons peak race was a sprint distance: 750m swim, 30km bike and then a 7km run. I finished it in 2 hours 4 minutes, which was quite slow but not bad for only having trained for eight weeks.
Goals for upcoming season: Finish an Olympic distance triathlon which is a 1500m swim, 40km bike and 10km run. Also complete a half marathon in October (21km running race). I also have about 3-4 other races planned as "B" races for the season, which begins in May and ends in October. So the first few months of this year is spent building an aerobic base for the first bit of the season.
Current program: Weights 2x per week - total body and core strength focused.
Running 2x per week minimum 35 minutes.
Cycling/Spinning 2x per week minimum 45 minutes.
Planning on adding 1 swim workout per week - this may change if my job does over the next little while as well. Assing 10% to my workouts every two weeks. I need to be able to run for an hour at least and spin for 90 minutes. Then we'll work on speed.
Nutrition is pretty good in terms of choices - I'm shooting for 2500-2800 calories a day at a bodyweight of 183 at this point. I'm a little higher on carbs than a bb diet due to my increased aerobic workouts. Goal weight around 165-170 which will make running and swimming a lot easier.
That's all for now - if you actually read this. Feel free to post away with comments and support - I know I'm not a typical bodybuilder anymore, but if you can learn something from what I do, then so be it!
My background: personal trainer for almost five years and corporate wellness centre manager for the last two - bodybuilding for most of that time - competing twice in fitness model shows and not placing well (too small). Took 8th out of 15 in my first one and no idea in the 2nd. I now have two jobs - work about 55 hours a week and also take courses via correspondence (currently chemistry) - my time is VERY limited.
After my last show I got sick of the bodybuilding competitive circuit and a friend convinced me to enter a short triathlon - a "try a tri" which was short. Gave me something different to train for and I found I really enjoyed it because it was a new physical challenge. Inspired me to take a spinning course and change the way I look at training by learning new approaches and techniques. My first season was not a good one, but I had fun and I learned a lot.
Last seasons peak race was a sprint distance: 750m swim, 30km bike and then a 7km run. I finished it in 2 hours 4 minutes, which was quite slow but not bad for only having trained for eight weeks.
Goals for upcoming season: Finish an Olympic distance triathlon which is a 1500m swim, 40km bike and 10km run. Also complete a half marathon in October (21km running race). I also have about 3-4 other races planned as "B" races for the season, which begins in May and ends in October. So the first few months of this year is spent building an aerobic base for the first bit of the season.
Current program: Weights 2x per week - total body and core strength focused.
Running 2x per week minimum 35 minutes.
Cycling/Spinning 2x per week minimum 45 minutes.
Planning on adding 1 swim workout per week - this may change if my job does over the next little while as well. Assing 10% to my workouts every two weeks. I need to be able to run for an hour at least and spin for 90 minutes. Then we'll work on speed.
Nutrition is pretty good in terms of choices - I'm shooting for 2500-2800 calories a day at a bodyweight of 183 at this point. I'm a little higher on carbs than a bb diet due to my increased aerobic workouts. Goal weight around 165-170 which will make running and swimming a lot easier.
That's all for now - if you actually read this. Feel free to post away with comments and support - I know I'm not a typical bodybuilder anymore, but if you can learn something from what I do, then so be it!
Takes most people 12-14 hours of constant movement. Crazy ass but I'd love to be able to say that I did it, just like I love telling people I can deadlift double my bodyweight or do standing squats on a stability ball. 
I agree with the others, any triathlon is no joke! An Ironman is practicly insanity 
It was sliding everywhere. Good thing I know how to drive properly. 
Means I'm going to be hit pretty hard financially unless I get this new job. So I'm going to kick some ass and get it. Today was just generally not a good day so I'm glad it's over. Tomorrow will be better. 
