Posts Tagged ‘peak week’

More Figure Competitor Nonsense

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Oh, I’m back with more for ya:

I talked to “trainer’s name here” and again he made sure i understood that i need to get that 2 hours of cardio in … and more if possible.

So last night i did 2 hours … and add that to my 30 minutes in the morning … 2.5 hours of cardio yesterday on top of my shoulder workout! I already feel leaner! Silly i know, but i know that is what is going to get me the smallest … and hopefully the muscles will show as i lean out more

Come on!

When are people going to wake up and get it? How is this fun? Training 3 hours a day? 20 hours a week? For how much progress? Seriously?

Sure if you eat few enough calories and exercise enough you’ll lose weight. That’s certainly not rocket science.

Here’s what I think of this:

How about this one?

Fitness trainer at my local gym told me that I should drink only 2 cups of water a day until Friday if I want to look cut. But I’ve decided to go with reducing sodium intake method. If I,

A. consume less than 500 mg of sodium per day.
B. do cardio and sauna
C. drink more water
D. cut down my carbs by 30%

would I be able to look somewhat cut?

The fitness trainer says to drink 500ml of water/day in the final week. Wow! So the girl isn’t going to do that and appears to make a better choice when she says ‘drink more water’ - but I don’t know what that technically means, but for sure it’s better than the ‘fitness trainer’ advice she received.

500mg of sodium per day for the final week? That one is going to backfire.

Sauna? No, no no!

You know, it’s when people aren’t in good enough shape that they’re banking on final week voodoo magically transforming their body. And the truth of the matter is, it doesn’t. Add to that, any visual effect is really only apparent if you’re lean enough in the first place. If I were to run myself through a prep week, you know what would happen? Nothing. LOL! I’d look exactly the same at the end of it.

Focus on getting in great shape and using those last few days to polish things up, not try anything crazy that you’ve not even experimented with before.