11 days to go to my Victoria Cup Men's Physique Fitness Contest and it is getting real now! I started the low carb portion of my cut yesterday (Monday - 12 days out) and to be honest it was kind of hard adjusting to no carbs so abruptly but today I feel a lot better and even managed to get in 2 workouts with about 1200 calories burned for both workouts combined. I hit back and biceps in the morning and Legs in the evening with some Ab work mixed in.
My goal is to be about 1500 to 2000 calories under each day and put my body into a state of ketosis where it will use fat as fuel instead of carbs. This method during the last part of my cut gets amazing results! I will lose 4-5 pounds of fat in 9 days of eating and training like this. Granted I will not have tons of energy but being as determined as I am I will get the workouts in and hit my goals.
Wednesday evening next week I will start to introduce carbs into my diet again and replace the lost glycogen which will fill my muscles and veins back in for the contest, last time I started carb loading a bit late and found I was off by a day or so. Water consumption will also be loaded starting on Monday before the contest and then reduced the day before and day of the contest to make sure I am not holding any excess water. This is something you kind of need to do by feel.
Currently I am around 189 pounds and around 6-7% body fat, on the day of the Victoria Cup I will be around 185 pounds and somewhere between 5-6% body fat, hopeful closer to 5% :)