Hello there! Apart from reading these forums and posting a couple of times under a different nick I'm relatively new here!
Welcome, happy to have you here!
My story is I always used to be thin, and then when I hit 21 I put on 6 kilos (sorry I'm from Australia) 13lbs and that was insane for me! So after wallowing in my self pity I decided to get to a gym and once I started researching gym things on the internet i realised that figure and fitness ladies may just be the most amazing looking women on earth! :P
So I made a goal that in three years I was going to enter a figure competition! I have no intention of getting anywhere, i just want to feel good enough about myself to do it! (and meet stacks of those awesome looking ladies!
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Excellent, I am sure you can do it and do well!!!
I trained at a tiny little budgo gym in all the wrong ways with all the wrong advice, and i got small amounts of results but it was pretty much 6 months wasted
and then i joined an awesome gym where some of those ladies worked out! OMG!
hehe, so I've been there since January 06, and set myself some goals and started getting results right away!
But I also found out I was 26% body fat!
And i read somewhere that you should always try and stay at 16%? and you wont see abs until 14%, is that true?
Actually gals hi 6-9% according to subcutaneous fat, under the skin.....12% or so will show some abs, higher if you build them up.
Anyway, so now I'm calorie counting and i've lost 1.5 kilos (3 pounds) in 1.5 weeks of what seems to be just fat! I miss being full!
I cant wait for it to be over!
So once its over? Do i still have to count calories? or eat as much as possible to put more muscle? Do i just eat and grow until i get up to like 20% body fat and then cut again?
It will all depend on your goals but preference too, I do not count cals, I compete now for 10 years and have done all classes. You will get the hang of it and not need to track so much data unless you want to but I would not sit at 20% even for off season, that is a bit high, it does help to have body fat and contest bf is too low to always keep but you do not need to be that high for muscle gains.
Its all so confusing!
I took some photos ofthe start of my new body, but i dont know how to put them on here (I think i have to be a paying member) but here are my measurements if that makes it easier for you to help me!
I would love to see them, it would help, post a link if you get them posted.
5'5"
21 years old
49.5kgs / 109lbs
26% body fat (last time i checked when i was at 51kgs/112lbs)
Thank you very much for any advice and support you can give, and to the fitness/figure ladies thank you for being so inspirational and thank you for listning to my story! I hereby declare to be a really active member of these forums!
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