Progress Update

Its been about 3 months now since starting with my coach Summer Bernard from Team peach, therefore I wanted to share with you all my progress and my off season body. Off season to me means time to grow and build muscle ready for my comp to come in October IFBB and November Amateur Olympia.

So at the moment Summer’s plan for me is to work on building muscle and increasing my macros so by the time comp prep comes around I have a lot of macros to play with. Which means now I can maintain my weight but slowly increase my daily intake of macros this way I won’t run out of space to make cuts when it comes to crunch timeJ

I’m a very focused person and have stuck to my plan extremely well.. I’ve been spot on with it all since I’ve started with very minimal days off plan. so I am really finding Macros is working for me extremely well, with not much intent to binge at all. I’ve gone weeks without feeling the need of a big treat meal so this is definitely a big thing for me. Although Easter I definitely relaxed on diet and didn’t track but I did train super hard  J

Now for my photos I feel this to me is a healthy body. I feel good, I don’t feel deprived and I have the strength and energy to increase my muscle mass. I definitely don’t feel I look my best but at the same time I don’t not like how I look. I think we all want to look a little leaner and improve in certain areas but it’s all in time. At the moment I’m eating a lot of food to what I’m use too - good thing of course. What I struggle with at the moment is wanting to look a little leaner but I know in order for me to be a fierce competitor I need to make some serious changes and improve my muscle size first and maintaining this weight is what’s needed. Healthy and happy J

In regards to my progress pics. I’m actually not one for selfies.. I never take any. And it frustrates me and I’m sure summer as I swear there’s always a reason for me to not send my progress pics. Not intentionally of course but I just never take selfies. It’s hard for me to get good comparison pics as I don’t have a full length mirror at home. I also have a lot of thoughts that run through my mind when I am about to take my progress pics - I don’t feel my skinniest today, I don’t have a tan on, I have just eaten so can’t take it now, I feel bloated, the lighting isn’t right, I can’t get my pose right I seriously think of all of this before I take my photo and let me tell you this isn’t a quick selfie this is probably my 30^th pic.. I want it to be perfect. I know I shouldn’t be like that but I can’t help it, so in future I’m going to just take it even when I don’t feel my best and send them to Summer. Even my not so good shots so she gets the right idea.. photo’s can be so deceiving.
It’s a shame I don’t have the same background, outfit and poses to compare perfectly but this is as good as I could get and any progress photo is better than none.

So for these past 3 months I have been training heavy to increase my size.
My photos attached don’t have filters on, haven’t been edited only cropped, I have eaten beforehand but not trained so no pump going on here haha.
 I feel I have increased my shoulders size quite noticeably and of course my arms are a lot more toned and defined. Even surprised with my stomach, which I feel has gotten flatter. I’ve always struggled with getting a flat stomach so for me this is a big thing and I like that there is a slight definition with my abs too. yay – we can’t have everything so this is one thing that I feel is my weakness.
My glute’s are a lot peachier too and noticeable more tonedJ
I’m useless at doing a back pose I haven’t learnt how to tense my back muscles so excuse the non existence there. I do have a great back I just don’t know how to show it lol.
but there’s a few changes and I’m sure you will all notice different ones on me too. I think from now until my next progress pics it’ll be even better.. I have my fiancé in with me at the gym now so that way he will help spot me when I go heavy. That way I can always push myself a lot more knowing he’s there to help push me.

This pic taken January 2015 (nike shorts & crop)

These pics taken April 2015 (black bikini)

 Overall a great 3months with team peach and my coach Summer Bernard.

Next phase is for me to get through my Bali holiday without my usual over the top binges like my last two trips.. I believe I’ve come a long way since then so I hope I don’t fall back into old habits.. Wish me luck!!! Bali on Tuesday eeppp!

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