I felt like I needed a progress picture to be able to 'see' the difference in how my body is changing. So, here's the coulda woulda - I wish I would have taken them when I started! Gaining muscle is SO hard for my body type. I lift REALLY heavy and keep the reps low. I am still a little on the fence about which way I need to lift. I have been told that I need to stress the muscle and so I need to go for the burn and failure. But my research has told me that with my body type (Ectomorph, all the way) I go into catabolic state really quick. Which in lamans terms means that my body eats my muscle for fuel fast when it goes too long in burn mode. Meh. Do you see my dilemma. Obviously muscle builds under stress - but my muscle eats itself when put under too much stress. So there in lies my problem for building muscle. My solution: I have been trying to lift heavy enough that I feel the burn and the stress in a short amount of time. Since shoulders are my area that I want to build the most - I have been lifting them twice in a rotation. My days look like this. Chest and shoulders day, tricep and bicep day, back and shoulders, and then leg day.
These pictures were actually taken on Feb 5th. After looking at these pictures - I really need to remember to keep my heels together! ha ha. I have also had another posing session with Nan since then as well and have fixed some of my quirks :) I definitely think the first one is my favorite.
I have also decided that my first competition will be the NGA in April and then maybe another in May. Then I will keep working at it and do the Fall NGA competition. Hopefully with some tools that I gained from experience on the first one.
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