Road to the Vancouver Fall Classic 6 Weeks Out Update

We are almost 6 Weeks Out now to the Vancouver Fall Classic and it's time for another update video. This video will not have any posing in it, that video will follow in a couple of days when I am within a day or two of being 6 weeks out.

I kind of missed my 8 Week Out Video but it was intentional, I just didn't feel like there was anything to really show everyone, I have been on track for the most part with my training, activity and eating, but at least visually not much had really changed. I am hoping this 6 Week Out Posing Update video will show some significant improvements over the 10 Weeks Out Video.

I have been working very hard and even dropped my calories a bit more down to 2000 per day for the last 4 weeks to make sure I stay on track and don't have too much work to do all at the end, that can really such!

In terms of my daily calorie deficit I should be close to 1500 most days with maybe a closer to 1000 on the weekends. I am achieving this by walking 5 to 6 miles per day which burns around 700-800 calories at my body weight of just over 200 pounds and I also weight train for at least an hour per day generally burning about 500 calories. I also burn an additional 200-300 calorie  from NEAT activity through the day for a total of around 1500 calories burned via activity. When you add in my BMR of around 2000 calories this gives me a total calorie burn of right around 3500 calories each day.

With 2000 calories eaten and 3500 burned this puts me in a 1500 calorie defect and should allow me to lose around 2-3 pounds per week but it is not always as simple as that... As I get older my body does not respond as quickly for sure and I do have to work harder than before but I am up for it!

Generally I am feeling pretty good, my energy is good most of the time and I am not overly hungry because I have made my body use to not eating much the early part of the day and expecting more food in the evening so I don't go to bed feeling hungry. I also eat a bit more fat than most people in a contest prep and this helps me feel less hungry, this does come at a light cost to protein intake which I have to be careful to get enough of each day when only eating 2000 calories of total food.

Well stay posted for my 6 Weeks Out Posing Video where I hope to show everyone what 4 weeks of pushing hard can achieve.

Road to the Vancouver Fall Classic 10 Weeks Out

Here we are three weeks later form my 3 month out to the Vancouver Fall Classic Update Video and I have been doing everything for the most part in my game plan. Interestingly I feel like I look a bit worse in this now three weeks later video but there are some possible reason for it and at this point I am not too worried as I feel my next update video in 2 to 3 weeks will be more of an indicator of where I am at in this prep.

It's hard to shoot a video a few weeks apart and really know what's going on as there are so many possible things going on with your body, in one video I could be super dry and holding very little water and in the next I could of had too much salt the day before making me puffy and watery looking which I think is what happened in this latest update video. At this point in the game holding water really doesn't matter, in fact you don't want to be too dry! Unfortunately it doesn't make for an impressive update video where people will be shocked and amazed at the progress I have made in a few weeks time.

All I can say is my strength is up and my weight generally speaking is where I want it to be (when not holding water). My diet and training have been on point and with some small adjustments I still feel like I have the potential to bring my best overall size and conditioning to the stage for this show. Only time will tell but I can promise I will do my best to get there!