BC Championships - 6 Weeks Out - Shoulders, Back & Calves Workout

We are now at the 6 weeks out stage in my contest pre for the BC Championships Pro Am being held in Vancouver BC Canada. I will be competing in both Men's Masters (40+) and Open Physique divisions.

I am still right around 190-192 pounds but feel like I am right on track and compared to this time last year I feel I am stronger and lower in body fat when compared to where I was 6 weeks out for my last Victoria Cup Competition. So hopefully this means I will come in a little better shape :)

I am still struggling with some elbow/bicep tendon soreness especially in my right arm so this week I have been taking it easy on my upper body pulling exercises and trying not to engage my bicep too much/ It is starting to feel a little better so hopefully I can get past this shortly.

In this video I do a Shoulder, Back and Calf workout over at Fit4Less, I was planning on doing some Abs but kind of ran out of time. You can see my full workout details over on my Fitty.co account.

BC Championships - 7.5 Weeks Out

I am about 7.5 weeks away from the Vancouver Pro Am Where the BC Provincial Championships are going to be held. Last year I quailed to compete in both Masters and Open in this years BC Championships so I will take part and do my best to move place at the BC's and move forward into the Nationals.

I am right about where I want to be in terms of my weight and body fat percentage, of course I would like to have a little more muscle but this next several week swill be very intense at the gym and I should add a few pounds will losing a little body fat at the same time. I am currently sitting right around 190 pounds and just a tad over 7% body fat. I need to get down to between 4-5% body fat for competition day.

I am contending with a bit of an elbow/bicep tendon issue. The more work you do the more chance of straining the body and one area I find this happens to me is in my bicep tendon area. It just tends to get soar and likes to make my workouts a little less comfortable ;) I will be modifying some of my exercises around this strain to lesson the stress on the area and hopeful recover from it.

In this video I also show a little bit of my workout routine on this day which targeted Chest, Legs, Triceps and Abs.

May 2016 Update Video - My Dog - Contest Prep - SMP - Apple Watch Case

Some stuff going on in my life right now... My dog Sammy got injured, both of his front legs got broken and we are not entirely sure how it happened, we found him lying mid way in our driveway early  Monday morning. It could have been a car but only his front legs where injured and nothing else. I also think he may have tried to jump the ditch and because there is a lot of tall grass in the ditch he may have not realized how deep it was and landed badly, there was a lot of flattened grass in one of the ditch areas near where he ended up so this is a possibility?

We had our local vet put pins in his legs but this was not holding so we had to take him to a $$$ specialist $$$ where he had plates installed which is much more secure than pins and should help Sammy get back to full heath as soon as possible.

I am about two months out now from my Men's Physique contest (Masters and Open categories). The show is called the Vancouver Pro AM. I feel like I am well on track, perhaps even ahead of schedule in the cutting portion which is OK since I can focus a bit more on my Workouts and add some muscle mass for the show. If all goes well at the Vancouver Pro AM and I place in my Masters division then I will be going to the Nationals in August, you never know I could also being going to Nationals as an Open qualifier but I am not counting on this one :)

I had my 3/4 session of SMP (Scalp Micro Pigmentation) and it's looking real good up there, I plan to go back for one more slight fill in to hit a couple spots that perhaps need just a little tlc. But overall I am happy with everything so far.

Lastly I received a new Apple Watch Case called the Lunatik EPIK, I went with the Polycarbonate version since I was a bit worried that the aluminum one may scratch my Apple Watch, the Polycarbonate version looks the same and is a little less money. Right after I bought mine Lunatik came out with the H2O water proof version but I don't plan to swim with my Apple Watch so simple is better for me. I plan to do a review of the Lunatik EPIK once I have worm it for a while but so far so good!