With the new July 17th date we are now just under 6 weeks out to the Vancouver Island Showdown. Prep is going good, the extra time has for sure taken a little bit of pressure off of me and I feel it will help me to come in with a little bit more size for this show as I have three additional weeks to focus on building rather than cutting hard.

At the moment I am sitting at just a hair over 200 pounds and according to my InBody home scale I am right around 10% body fat but generally it is. At least a point higher than the Pro InBody body compositions scale I have access to at my gym. Last week I was just over 9% so I am hoping this week I may be just under 9%? I am not cutting hard but I am hoping to be redistributing some fat for muscle so it is possible even not in much of a calorie deficit right now. I do feel like this is in fact happening based on what I see in the mirror...

Over the next two weeks I will be in a slight calorie deficit each day of around 500 at least Monday to Friday with a bit higher calories on the weekend but not going over maintenance. The 4 weeks out I will begin to push things more hitting around a 1000 calorie deficit most days with more gerneal activity increasing as I get closer to the show.

Well that's the plan for right now but it can and most likely will change a bit as I get closer to the show, every show is a little bit different than the one before and my body even though I understand it well likes to throw some curveballs at me that I will need to adjust for on the fly!