Maraina's Chronicles

Monday, September 11, 2006

NOVICE DIVISION

Good morning. I received an email from Chris and so far 11 competitors in the figure novice have entered, therefore the group will be split into height. I believe the maximum is 9 competitors as Chris says judging is difficult if there's more than 9. Hope this info helps everyone.
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The attendance at Lorraine's pose class was small yesterday. Just myself, Penny and Cheryl turned up. Usually there's at least six to eight girls. Practising with a small group is often better than a large class. We get quality tutoring from Lorraine, almost like a one and one session for the price of a group.

I was disppointed to see I hadn't leaned down further from the week before :( These last weeks I have to up the antes beginning with 55 mins cardio this morning and every morning as well as 35 min cardio every night. I have only 1 portion of carb a day (1/2 cup of oats) and my calorie intake has decreased as well. I was recommended thermogen intensifiers a long time ago but they made me queezy and I felt very unwell. I stopped taking the stuff immediately.

Has anyone out there increased the intake of coffee or diet coke? Not that I am but I know of others who regularly take 6 or more cups of coffee to curb hunger pains between meals or to keep going through the day and when they're training. I'm not a huge consumer of coffee but I could if I wanted to. I figure I felt ill with the intensifiers because of the high quantity of caffine in the tablets. Any comments anyone?
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Oh by the way, I've decided not to compete in the ANB. The prep for INBA is just so damn hard. Check on me at the end of the week ... I will probably change my mind, again!
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And finally, I stole this from Michelle's blog. I love it ...

Courage is not about the strength to go on
It's going on when you don't have the strength

God give me strength!!

3 Comments:

Blogger LizN said...

Hang in there Maraina, I'm sure there is a nice big drop coming your way. I'm behind as well. I'll be the one with the fat behind in Intermediate class :)

Hugs
Liz ;)

8:18 pm  
Blogger Maraina said...

SELLING: One fat tummy for awesome abs like Liz! Any takers?

Happy training Liz. See you at the comp!

Maraina
xx

9:26 am  
Blogger Splice said...

You guys are so naughty!! I think you are worring about nothing.
As to your question on caffine, I have one can of pepsi-max a day (sometimes two cans). I drink about 4 cups of green tea, this is high in caffine. Some weekends a have a long black.
We still have 3 and a half weeks remaining, it will happen. Hang in there.

11 figure novice? I bet most of them a tall lol, I better keep focused ;-)

12:33 pm  

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