When you decide to do something in your life, it is amazing how easily you are derailed if you are not careful. It seems as though all the things that need to be put aside or every temptation you have ever faced seems to crawl out of their holes to present themselves to you. Now! is not the time to allow the ghouls that so easily distract us to rein supreme in our lives.
I have 10 weeks to go until the National Masters Bodybuilding Championships in Pittsburgh, PA. I’m bearing down on all aspects of the prep including diet, supplements, aerobics, killing it on the weights, and soon I will begin posing for my coach. Everything is on the table and nothing can be taken for granted. I can tell you that there is a sense of urgency building inside me. It causes me to train “with wreckless abandon” in the weight room. All exercises are taken to extremes that I have not experienced recently. My hardest areas are my diet and the new mode of aerobics that Justin Dees has demanded of me. The diet is tough because I am keeping track of all items eaten much more strictly and this requires obsession with getting enough of the right jet fuel to prepare to win. It’s a special kind of craziness and obsession that a person would go through at any age of their lives. The aerobics is the key to decreasing overall bodyfat and to provide superb conditioning to an already well-conditi0ned body. Justin has me doing 30 minutes twice per day on the eliptical machine. Each session is described as interval training….3 minutes relaxed walking alternating with 3 minutes of all out sprinting….Repeated over a 3 minute period. On leg days, this interval training is nuts. I went out and bought an eliptical machine for the home so I will always have access to it and I can do more if it’s required.
Ten weeks and the prep is on. God, has brought me this far and He is going to have to take me home. Everyday my mind is preoccupied with getting this body into shape to compete against some of the nations best. This stretch is where the money is made. Where the trophies are won. Where the MAN in me emerges. Thus, I keep my focus and I press forward toward the PRIZE.
Today, I weight 195 lbs and I am at 5.5% bodyfat. I have dropped from 210 lbs and 10% bodyfat to my present status. I have a long way to go and I intend to win.
Thanks to all of you who read this blog and encourage me to never quit and to keep at it. You mean the world to me.
Foor all of us. THIS IS OUR TIME! Stay with your dream and continue the effort getting the dream under your belt. The journey is as important as getting the prize. So, get started and never give up the thing that needs your attention to accomplish.
Pictures in prep will begin to appear…..SOON!
Until Next Time! Douglas E. Graham
Six Pack and Senior 