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Here is a cut and paste from my "News & Views" section - my blog wasn't working when I last made a post:

...So I will have to use this for my personal blog until I can get it figured out! I need a permanent IT specialist here! It’s a full time job just trying to get/keep things working as they should! I also don’t seem to be able to post pics in this area, so I have submitted a support ticket.

So, to my training. Today was my final check in with my trainer for this 12 week program that I have just completed. I called him at 11am and we chatted for about 20 mins. I will be re-signing in about 8 weeks when I am due to start my competition preparation. I’m sitting at about 8% less body fat than I started my last comp prep, so, that has got to make it a little bit more bearable I sent Kim a photo of where I was at this time last year, OMG it was scary. I was in my bulking stage and feeling VERY uncomfortable. Kim was happy with the progress I’d made, he believed I’d lost from 2-5% body fat from when I started 12 weeks ago. The measurements say I’m the same, but he feels from looking at the photos that I have changed my body composition, that I’ve lost fat from hips and inner thighs, that my upper body is ‘cleaner’ and tighter and I’ve kept my back width and shoulder caps. So, his simple instructions for the next 8 weeks are to maintain my current condition. I’ve been doing that relatively easily so this should not be a problem.

Kim says that with my condition the way it is now, it will make the dieting easier, and will not be so hard on my body, and, importantly, I will be able to hold on to more muscle. It was quite funny, as he said to me ‘because you are so tall with long limbs…’ - I said “I’m not tall!! I’m 5′3″!!” He laughed and said ‘well it must be the shoes and the camera angle because you look very tall in the photos! But you still have long limbs…” I told him that everyone is surprised when they meet me in person because they all think I am tall. And, I’m so not! Actually I don’t mind being little :)

When I train upper body I get so pumped, and when I do my front relaxed pose I am getting a very nice v taper. I have a good lat spread from the front, I just need to perfect the back pose. I’ll be seeing Jo Rogers of Style on Stage for that, when I head up to Brissy in a month’s time. I hope to also catch up with Hils while there. I also found out that Deb, another client, will be attending PHAT Camp on the Gold Coast too, so there is another lovely client I will get to meet! If there are any of you in Brissy, Sunny Coast, Gold Coast area that would like to get together, maybe even for a training session please email me!

So, today i did my own training plan - still in various stages of devision (is that a word???) You know, I’m still devising them Today was legs. I started with supersets of heavy stiff leg deadlifts, for 10-12 reps, supersetting with smith machine lunges. 3 supersets. Followed with high wide leg press, 20 rep, 300lb. Then a triple drop set, 8/8/8 of seated hamstring curls. OMG. I was seeing stars Another set of leg press, 15 reps at 360lb. Then another triple drop of seated curls. One more set of 10 leg press, 400lbs.

Then on to knee extension - triple drop set. I was starting to feel a little ill after these 2 sets Followed that with 3 sets of BB Squats for 12 reps each. Took that fairly easy as I haven’t done free squats for about 3 months. So I used 40kg for 3 sets of 12. My legs were like jelly before I started them, but I actually managed these quite well and I will probably be able to increase this a fair whack next couple of weeks. Workout only took about 35 mins but it was intense. My heart rate was racing for the entire session. It was up to the high 160’s at one point.

So, I think I’ll do shoulders and chest tomorrow. I’m going to try training shoulders 2 x week, instructions from Kim. Kim by the way, is Kim Oddo - trainer of the amazing Monica Brant and many other sensational Figure competitors in the US.

I have my music cd burned Di, so I will send that to you so you can make me an awesome routine :)

Ok, well I just wanted to check in and let you all know how my training is going, since you can’t read my blog.

“When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”Alexander Graham Bell