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I want to update a bit.

I’m so busy and happy. Everything just goes really good. My training and diet, my job in the gym, own coaching business and my little coffee thing I have on the side of everything. When you then add a perfect husband and my dogs plus a hobby of buying cars every now and then…

I’ll take some progress pics soon. This weekend it’s been 6 weeks since the last pics. I’m excited to compare them. It’s always difficult to see the change in the mirror but when you take pics it’s so much more visuable what’s going on.

And being in Team Fairing just rocks

There’s a team get-together the 11th of March and I really wanted to come, but other exciting stuff is going on. We’ll take a flight to Stuttgart, Germany and buy a car and drive home, visit family in Denmark on the way home, and due to my husbands work and other plans in the other weekends we have to do it that particular weekend where the team get-together is.
I do want to come to the next one. I want to get to know the others. The support we have towards one another on facebook (see our group here: http://www.facebook.com/groups/21379746524/ ) is great. We are going to do amazing at the competitions we will attend this year.
That I’m sure off

Am I insane if I love the great pain that comes when I push myself to my absolute failure in the gym, knowing it will give me great results?

Am I insane if I want to have a freaky body that’s almost impossible to get, because I think it’s beautiful, because it shows the disciplin I have in me, because I can do it the healthy way and because it makes me proud and happy?

Am I insane if I don’t care what other people think, if they get it or like it, but just care about being true to myself?

Am I insane if I want to connect to my inner beast that makes me do one more set, one more rep and work all the way through the pain feeling the rush of the endorfines?

Am I insane if I am different and love my life?

“Time is your enemy only if you’re trying to kill it.” – Randy Gage

“I don’t find time to exercise, I make time to exercise” – a qoute I saw on facebook.

We are all given the same amount of time per day, week, month.., how we use it is up to us. Do we waste it, trying to kill it and therefor always complain that we don’t have enough? or do we plan, prioritize and make the time to do what we believe is important to us?

I know what I do and it keeps me happy. I’m in control of my own life.

About making things (like time and health) your enemy or you friend:
Don’t push the things you want away from you, but make them come to you.

You can do this with everything but think about time. Of course it’s your enemy if you try to kill it!

About health and being in better shape… Think about this: If you complain about being fat and in a bad shape. You most likely are getting even more fat and in even worse shape. But start taking the time to exercise and eat better and start focusing on the progress you make in the gym and in the kitchen. Then you not only most likely, but for sure, are getting leaner and in better shape.

Focus on the bad stuff and you’ll get more of it. Focus on the good stuff and you’ll get more of it

Here I made time to do a nice walk with the dogs

I want to share a bit of my plan.

The check points along the way that will make me able to adjust if needed.

My goal weight for the Classic Bodybuilding Competition in October is 68,5 kilos  (150 pounds) and I have about 36 weeks and 9 kilos to go down. The main goal is not weight loss, as you otherwise would expect. The main goal is to keep the muscle mass. That’s the reason I have started to slowly (half the pace than what’s usual) get rid of the fat now. I aim for 1/4 a kilo a week (~½ a pound). This will not only make it possible to eat more all the way to the comp, do less cardio, and therefore lift heavier, keep the mass, have more energy… It will also make it easier to not go up that much after the comp. I want to qualify for the Nordic Championships and I want my weight to be as stabil as it can possibly be. And after I’ve competed in the Nordics I don’t want to add that much afterwards. Then it will be finetuning what I have. I want to remain in Classic Bodybuilding and not grow so big that I have to switch over to “real” bodybuilding.

I’ve made myself a diet that makes me go down that one fourth of a kilo a week (I’ve actually lost weight a bit too fast here in the start of the year so I added cals back in) and I’ve started to do a little bit of cardio and the check points look like this:

Feb the 10th: 77 kg
Mar the 9th: 76 kg
Apr the 6th: 75 kg
May the 4th: 74 kg
Jun the 1st:  73 kg
Jun the 29th: 72 kg
Jul the 27th: 71 kg
Aug the 24th: 70 kg
Sep the 22nd: 69 kg
Competition date  is not sure yet, but the guess is Oct the 6th.

I am so proud that Fairing wants to start a cooperation with me. They want me in Team Fairing!

I’m honored.

Fairing is a Swedish high quality sports nutrition company that makes supplements based on the latest science.

This is what I believe, do and recommend:

I do all I can to be as healthy as I can possibly be. And what’s that?
That’s when you are as strong and fit as you can be and still improving, never get sick, feel good and are happy.

How do I do that?
I exercise (a lot), I make sure I get the rest I need (also a lot), I eat healthy (meaning a lot and what my body needs, both nutrients and vitamins-minerals, in order to make it like I want it. I don’t eat or drink anything that’s bad for me) and what I can’t get from my food I get from supplements.

I take a multivitamin and mineral supplement to be sure I get what I need of that. Even though I eat tons of vegetables most of them have been frosen and I just don’t believe that I get what I need from them. I take extra calcium because I don’t drink milk and the calcium in the other pills is not enough.

I have Udo’s Choice oil on my food to get the perfect amount of omega 3,6 and 9 and give my body the healthy fat it needs.

If I should get the amount of protein my body needs, when I exercise as much as I do and with the goal that is to keep/add muscle mass, it would be expensive and unpleasant. It would simply be too much meat! So I eat protein powder which I have right after my workouts. I also eat fast carbohydrates with the protein to get the depleted muscles filled with energy again as fast as possible. This is good since it raises the insulin which then tells the body to add mass. Right after a tough workout the mass that will be added is muscle mass.  Here I choose a supplement too for the same reason as with the protein powder. I like that I can drink it and don’t have to eat food right after I work out.

Both protein powder and carbohydrate powder is all natural and is actually just food made into powder to make it easier to “eat”.
It’s possible to get these powders all clean from any artificial stuff.

When I do cardio I have BCAA + glutamin in the water I drink so I won’t burn any of my muscle mass. BCAA (branched chained amino acids) and glutamin is also protein. These amino acids actually raises the insulin, like fast carbs do, and that’s great when you don’t want to burn your muscles. I also have BCAA + glutamin in the preworkout shake I have about half an hour before my workouts.

I use a preworkout supplement to make me focused, energized and get a good pump in my workouts. This is because of my goal to keep/add my muscle mass. What it does is that it forces the blood into the muscles and with that nutrients. So the result is that the muscles have more nutrients at their disposal when I break them down, and therefore it’s easier for them to build themselfs up again.

… since I started this blog and a new year is about to start.

A lot has happened in this year! and I’m sure a lot of exciting things will happen next year.

I am a person who loves setting goals and reaching them. I look at the new years resolutions as goals. I wont make any promises to myself that I wont be able to keep. I’m not afriad of calling them resolutions, since they are, for me, goals
My new year resolutions:
I will compete in Classic Bodybuilding in the Swedish Championships October.
I will do everything I can to win and qualify for and compete in the Nordic Championships.
I will keep on educating me and will study and attend education throughout the year.
I will make a living out of my coaching and my coffee.

If you want to reach some goals in the year to come, make SMART goals which means these things:

Specific – exactly what is it you want to be, do or have?
Measurable – know when you get there, when is the goal reached?
Atractive – it has to be something you really want, so is it?
Realistic – is it something that is actually achievable?
Time specific – when do you want to reach the goal?

Write out the goals and make a plan to reach them. E.g. if you want to weigh a specific weight at a specific date, you can split up the goal into smaller goals and keep track on yourself.

You have to plan, do, check and adjust.

When you have your goal you make a plan to reach it.
Then you do what you planned.
Then you  check if you’re on track and progress as you want to.
Then you adjust the plan if needed, and then you repeat..

I promise you: If you make SMART goals, and plan, do, check and adjust along the way, you WILL get your goals!

The mental aspect in everyting.

I work with people (in a gym and private, I have weigh loss courses and I’m a coach, a PT and have classes..) And I’ve seen it again and again, and experienced it myself:

What you believe and expect, is true and what you get.

We all live in a predictable world and we can all make our own future. We do have to believe that we are capable, and we also have do what it takes to get there, but it is possible.
We can either choose to be a victim and let outside things we can’t control get in our way and choose to think that we aren’t in control.
Or we can choose to be a victor and react on the outside things in a way that make them work for us.
And then sometimes we acheive greater things than we could imagine. Just by doing what we know is right and staying the course.

Btw Pauline Nordin just posted this on fb “every obstacle is just a way to grow taller mentally, physically and spiritually and then climb it. When you look back standing at the top and you see you went where you thought you would never go you feel enlightened.”

We are only in control of two things in our life:
Our Actions and our Attitude.
We choose what we do and we choose how we react on the things that happen.

So believe, expect, take action, focus on the progress and the good stuff and you will get your goal.
Don’t believe, don’t expect, take some action just to try, focus on what’s bad and doesn’t work. Guess what – you won’t make it!

The year is about to end and…

~The way you end this year – is the way you start next year~

I’ve set some pretty big goals for next year and I’ve already started to go after them. Why wait to start untill January when you can start now?

I want to win the Classic Bodybuilding class at the Swedish Championships.

I want to qualify for and compete in the Nordic Championships.

When I look at these pics og myself from mylast competition, Olso Grand Prix, I get so motivated…

…but I know exactly what I need to improve.

I need a wider and thicker back and shoulders. More V-taper. So I’ve really worked on that the last many months, and will continue to have that as my main focus.

The plan of attack weight wise looks like this:

January I want to be just under 78 kg and then I want to go  down one kilo per month, so when we get to October I’ll be just under 69 kg which is my goal weight for the competition.

Start pictures. My biggest this building phase and the turning point as I will start to get the fat off of me now.

This is how I look now: