Preparations for Alpe d´huez!! Do I now any cyclists?? ;)

So today it's take off!! I'm really going to bike
Alpe d´huez! :-O
Those who knows me knows I think this is craziness :P (I've been on a bulk since last summer, and have done nearly NO cardio!) - maybe you think it's crazyness too?? But yeah, I like a challenge, and a challenge it is!!
So now lets see if strenght training can help you on the way up this hills! I've been training a lot of "lactic acid" training trough my weights - but have no other goals than reaching the top ;) (taking it easy!)

The day started with a upper body workout! Supersets FTW! then som school, and then some preparations!
SO - I'm bringing food for 3 days! (my diet is not starting before the 20 of may, since I'm going on this trip)
On the menu:
2100 grams of chicken, and 2600grams of rice!

 How to make ALL this food in a simple way?!?!

Well -
1. Put the oven on 220degrees
2. slice the chicken
3. add some seasoning (i used garlic, lime, pepper and salt)
4. add 2 cups of water
5. cover with aluminium foile
6. let it stay in the oven for 30-40 minutes

Voila - non dry tasty tender chicken ;)


And of course, don't forget to boil the rice ;)

Put it in boxes - equals one box with rice and one with chicken is what I'm supposed to eat during 1 day :)


Wish me good luck!! :) I need it!! (pray for me!!!)


C yah later! peace out!

Walters Open Holland Cup 2013, ( pictures + practical cooler bag! )

This weekend I was at Walters Open Holland Cup to watch and help Nick at his first stage performance, he did the mens sports model class (beach boys). (Visit him on http://guidetofit.net/ )


This was a nice experience, and as a little helper I got the title coach and where allowed to go backstage! pretty cool huh? ;)


It was really nice to be backstage and see how the athletes prepared for their stage performance, with color, pumping up, makeup and everything that belongs to being ready to enter the stage at a Bodybuilder/fitness cup.

We laid several layers of color, practiced posing and did some mixing and tricking with different food too get the perfect shape, did you know that you need certain types of food if you look flat(flat muscles), look good or are a watery?



The day started at 6:30, driving car for about 2 1/2 hour.

Me and Stina being the most exited ones ;)

"We gonna watch some muscles!! " :D

Directly after signing in, I got my eyes opened by this super duper handy cooler bag!!
I've been watching this at internett for several times, and there it stands in front of me screaming
"BUY ME!"
and I answered, "Of course I will buy you baby! ;) " with a big smile on my face :D

It's nice and feminin, have 3 main rooms with separations so everything stands stable.
The boxes where included, 3 normal boxes, and one for pills / nuts.
Including cold packs - so the food and drinks (there is place for two shakers in each side pockets) stays nice and cold all day long!!
A dieters wet dream ;) In this I can put all the food and supplements I need for at least one day! :)

The show statrted at 13:00 and lasted all day long:

Here is Nick in action!!

Bodyfitness Women

Different bodybuilding classes men

 Women's physique

Wish the quality of this lady where better!! Because she was awesome ! :)


So in total this was a day full of impression, I was a little disappointed so many of the women categories had been taken out - since I really wanted to se them in real life, to see what I'm reaching for ;)


Hope you had a nice weekend :)

Fitness - synonymous with an eating disorder? My personal experience.

Definition of a eating disorder:
Eating disorders are a group of serious conditions in which you're so preoccupied with food and weight that you can often focus on little else. The main types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder.

- characterized by serious disturbances of eating behavior

Look HERE to see the symptoms of the most typical eating disorders.



Definition of Fitness

1. The state or condition of being fit; suitability or appropriateness.

2. Good health or physical condition, especially as the result of exercise and proper nutrition.

3. Biology The extent to which an organism is adapted to or able to produce offspring in a particular environment.

okey, lets look at definition two:
2. Good health or physical condition, especially as the result of exercise and proper nutrition.

This is the type of fitness I'm thinking about (even all of the definitions are relevant). And the key words are exercise and proper nutrition.
If you are a fitness freak (like me) this two words stays in you head 24-7.


We are using exercise and food to achieve different goals within our sport - as you know, my focus is mostly about strength training; first developing muscles, and then getting a fat percentage that shows what you have developed (is the plan now).

The stronges counterparts are what we call Bulking (creating a bigger volume) and Ripping/cutting (getting rid of body fat).

I have always had a big focus on training,been a really active person since I was born. I've been through many many sports, and all my education have been circling around the human body(itself and its function) its ability to perform sports, and ability to adapt to external stimuli (like exercise).


Let me take you through my first journey of getting ripped.

Why? Well, I have always had a inner dream to stand on the stage, winning some sort of fitness/bodybuilder class.
So last spring/summer I decided to see how my body would react, and just see how it looked with a lower fat percentage.
To get the perfect summer body. To feel well and proud walking around on the beach!

Feelings and thoughts during the ripping:
- I loved to see the fat disappear
- I loved to see how muscles where more visible
- I was speechless too see how you actually could manipulate how your body look with some adjustments in exercise and diet
- My favorite jeans fitted again
- I liked to show of what I had worked for

BUT! there was also some less positive thoughts and meanings around it as well

- I started comparing myself to others all the time
- I though it was 100% okey to give the body less food than what it needed.
- My focus on how the body looked got enormous (more than whats healthy as I see it now)
- I bought clothes in a smaller size to see if I could get into them
- Got self centered
- I cared more and more about what people where saying about me.


Well - this type of dieting is actually a kind of controlled form of anorexia, and they say that many people having a sort of eating disorder does it because they want a feeling of control.

Maybe actually this was the case in my situation too? when I look back on it, I see that some of my thoughts could be worrying - if you set it in a perspective to a eating disorder.

Need control!
At the time I started dieting, I was in a early stage of my grief process after the loss of my dad.
Grief is a really hard emotion to handle - or its a mixture of emotions you really cant handle. You just have to go through it.
The training and the dieting became a way for me to handle this emotions.
By pushing my mind and body close to the limit all the time, I created an illusion to myself that if I can do this, I can handle everything!

You maybe heard about the "good girl syndrome" - and there you got me in a nutshell!

I stuck to the school and my training regimen, to always have something to put my thoughts at, pushing the feelings away.

I wanted to be best in everything!
- Be strong
- Look good
- Good at school
Yes, I wanted to be superwoman.
And yes, this where the things I stuck to in order to cope with everyday life. 

Result:

A nice lean body, and NO motivation and joy around training anymore.
All the focus in the training got centered about the fact that i wanted to "look good".
And NON of my problems disappeared. Of course my old jeans fitted well, but emotionally I where still the same.

So! If you want to get ripped, I hope you consider the risks that actually exists around it. And that you are doing it for the right reasons.
Your body does not reflect your self esteem!! It's important to cope with the feelings you have in a proper way, and let the esthetics of your body belong to another category of motivation. 



And NOW, Let me take you through my journey in bulking!

The summer was over, and now I decided to start bulking. I wanted some more muscles on my body.

- I got bigger, really fast (more than I ever weighted)
- I felt extremely big (and not in a good way)
- My clothes didn't fit anymore
- I covered my body
- I felt fat and ugly (feel sorry for my boyfriend hearing this sentence over and over again!)
- People started talking about me
" She is much bigger now "
" Why didn't she just maintain what she have obtained?"
" I heard she gained 15Kg's"
- My self esteem hit the bottom

BUT I did not stop eating more than what my body needed.
and slowly but surely my thoughts changed ( it took only 8 long months!)
- Now I feel I look good
- I have a feeling of control
- I like what I see when I look in the mirror (but still i have some problems looking at pictures taken now and then)
- I enjoy the excess energy on training
- I enjoy being stronger

- my focus in training is where it's supposed to be, and where it always was before this little dark period of mine.

I still miss my dad, but I got the joy about training back, and I've started to look forward to do things I enjoy.
You can say it like I got back the joy in my life :)


And, as you know - now I will start on a new period of ripping

This time more prepared physically and mentally.

My goal this time is to be able to do a competition this fall.

But I have to pay close attention to my feeling and thoughts. If my thoughts get worrisome again, then I'm simply not mentally ready to stand on a stage where you are being judged by appearance.

This sport is not just about exercises and dieting, but it's a mental test.

I feel ready! So I hope I am! :)

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/eating-disorders/DS00294

LEG DAY!! D: motivation!! thoughs and pictures!

Today I literally got up on wrong side of bed!

The day started with headache, and everything felt bad.

Started schoolday with practical lesson in endurance (yeah, my favourite :P) - and the pain got even worse - felt like needles inside my head stabbing my brain for every single step... got to love that huh? Some new shitty acupuncture style!

But got through the day at school, slept for some hours - and then it was time for legs!!
Of course it had to be legs today, disaster!!! I weighted back and fort whether I should go or not -

While I was surfing the internet, feeling sorry for mysel I found this picture, of my beautiful beautiful perfect role model: DANA <3

My inner voice shouted  "NO WAY I'm gonna sit here and feel sorry for myself!! Of to the gym Bitch, and lift some weights for God's sake!"

Earn your body!

And lift I did!!
And do you know what?!?! The workout went fuc** great!! believe it or not!!

And now I conclude with myself that I'm the perfect woman!! Ohh yeah!

Pictures from today :)

Do you see any improvements? Well, I think I do myself, and thats what really matters ;)

If you believe you can, you can!

Would like to learn some more about mental training actually, so maybe there will be a post about that soon :) Have to see how much time I get for my personal education (yes, thats what I feel I want to learn besides the physiotherapy education I'm working on now! :) 

Well, time to study some Biomechanics <3
And then I'm going for a info meeting about the bike trip: Alpe d'huez here I come! :D

This is BTW the rout we are going to climb ;)

Peace, love and happiness!!