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See if this scenario sounds familiar: Your figure or bikini coach has had you dieting pretty hard and nonstop for weeks. You made some good progress at first, strength/performance in the gym was okay for a while, energy throughout the day wasn’t too terrible all things considered, and you still liked asparagus. Then as the [...]
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Continue ReadingIn this final installment, I’m going to take you through the steps of setting up a carb cycle for figure or bikini competition. As mentioned in Part 2, I don’t really see the point in carb cycling much sooner than about 6 weeks or so out from a contest, although I have occasionally used it [...]
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Continue ReadingOkay I think I’m probably about 2-3 weeks late writing part 2 of Carb Cycling for Bikini Competitors, but I re-checked and google still has little to offer on the subject. Not that its google’s fault. I love google. So I realized after re-reading part 1 that I never really bothered to explain what Carb [...]
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Continue ReadingOkay, looks like I’m finally fired up enough about something that I may have to write my first blog post in 5 months. Every once in a while I like to pretend I’m a bikini competitor (this isn’t going where you think it is…get your head out of the gutter) looking for relevant contest prep [...]
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Continue ReadingI should really name this post “How to break typical bikini competition dieting rules and win first place”, but I’ll keep the focus on my client instead. Well, that and our collective awesomeness. The latest success story is Dr. Val Eckard, a 41 year old radiologist who came to me already in very good shape. [...]
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Continue ReadingWhile I think most figure competitors and contest prep coaches have come a long way with regard to pre-contest depleting or “drying out” practices, there still seems to be a lot of confusion regarding sodium manipulation. I’ve intentionally left bikini competition out of this post, since depleting is completely pointless, and actually a bad idea [...]
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Continue ReadingAs much as I hate some of the recommendations the “eat this, not that” books make, the concept itself is great. The average person with average fitness goals could probably make some measurable improvements in their overall health and appearance by simply referring to these guides whenever they’re thinking about a double bacon cheeseburger (or [...]
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Continue ReadingI’ve learned as a trainer the importance of putting myself in my clients’/prospective clients’ shoes. Not literally, although high heels do make my calves look even sexier (as if that’s even possible). What I mean is that topics I might find satisfying to preach and blog about may be a total bore for women who [...]
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Continue ReadingThis post is sort of an expansion on last month’s Do you really need to count calories post. That post focused more on determining caloric need and very briefly suggested a 40/30/30 macro intake (mainly for simplicity since it would allow one to use Zone Diet recipes). Now that I have more time to delve [...]
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Continue ReadingTake it from a seasoned Personal Trainer: Nothing scares clients away faster than telling them they have to count calories. Many fitness professionals have gotten so used to rejection when proposing this idea that they don’t even bother anymore. It’s definitely not something I would just throw out there to the average soccer mom or busy [...]
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