Get Fit Over 40 Update Video - 2.5 Weeks Out Victoria Cup (Posing)

As promised this Update Cutting Video is recorded in 4K so enjoy the super high resolution quality!

Only 2.5 weeks to go now till my Victoria Cup Men's Physique Fitness Contest and I'm still feeling pretty good overall. I am starting to get a few more food craving as the body fat diminishes but overall it's still manageable.

My weight is right around 190-191 and the body fat is still right around 7% according to my Sklupt Aim Body Composition Tester. I know I am leaner than last week so you can't always depend on the scale or electronic devices even though they are great as a reference. Water retention can play a big factor when not eating super clean. I will be managing the water weight during my last week of cutting and should lose at least 5 pounds fo water which will show off all the the hard work.

I am still hitting the weights with a vengeance but there are times when I do not feel like it,usually once I get going I am fine but that first part of the workout can be hard.

Get Fit Over 40 Update Video - 3.5 Weeks Out Victoria Cup (Posing)

Here we are 3.5 weeks out from my Victoria Cup Men's Physique Fitness Contest and so far so good! I am consistently cutting 5000 calories from my base metabolic rate each week and I am feeling leaner even though my weight has not changes so much. I know I have put on some muscle but still in theory I should be down about 4 pounds from when I started and I am perhaps only down 2 pounds.

I imagine some of it could be water retention since it is summer and I am not eating super clean just yet, that will come in my last two weeks of cutting. I am sitting at 6.8% body fat right now according to my Skulp Aim Body Fat Measuring Device. My workouts are going great and I still have energy most likely because I am replacing the carbs I burn each workout and avoiding energy draining cardio workouts completely!

Watch my latest 3.5 weeks out from the Victoria Cup update video complete with some shirtless posing :) More to follow next week hopefully in 4K if I get my SDXC high bit-rate memory card for my brand new Sony RX100 IV Camera!

Get Fit Over 40 Update Video - 4 Weeks Out Victoria Cup (No Shirt)

I'm now 4.5 weeks out from my Men's Physique Victoria Cup Fitness Contest in beautiful Victoria BC! I have been really good about sticking to my eating program and for the most part I am at a deficit of about 1000 calories Monday to Friday with a break period on the weekends where I hit my maintenance calories on these two days.

This gives me a 5000 calorie deficit for the week which should equal about 1.5 pounds of weight loss per week. So in theory I should be down about 4-5 pounds of fat but to be honest my weight has only dropped a couple of pounds. I am at right around 192-192 pounds each morning and only weight a pound or two more by the evening. I can say I am getting leaner and I know by my extra training in the gym that I am putting in the time and effort to not only keep the muscle I have but also add a little while I cut! And to the critics out there yes it can be done and without any "special" supplements.

All you have to do is skip cardio by adding in extra weight training sessions, keep pushing yourself harder each workout. None of this super high rep light weight cutting crap. Make sure to get enough carbs to replenish your glycogen levels and give yourself enough time to get the job done, so no radical calorie restrictions!

I recorded this update video outside this time to get more natural lighting, it was a bit shadowy in places but you can get an idea of where I am so far in my cut, to be honest the video is not doing me any justice but at least when I get contest ready you will see some big changes. I figure I will be walking on stage at around 185 pounds. Last November at the Sandra Wickham Men's Master Physique Contest that I won, I was 175 pounds but was a dehydrated 175. This time I am going to dehydrate less and trust that my conditioning will get me as shredded as I need to be. The problem with dehydrating is you also lose muscle size from water loss in the muscle fibers :(

Well stay tuned for more Victoria Cup Contest Prep update videos...

Get Fit Over 40 Update Video - 5 Weeks Out Victoria Cup (No Shirt)

Getting a bit closer now, only 5 weeks plus a few days out from my Men's Physique contest at the Victoria Cup. I started last week with my weight cut since I do not have a lot of extra body fat to lose. I really only need to lose about 5-6 pounds of fat, last week I was able to cut out about 5000 calories below maintenacne from my diet so that should of equaled around 1.5 pounds of fat loss. I am currently aorund 192-192 pounds and my Skulpt Aim Muscle Quality Meter as showing about the same body fat percentage as the week before (about 7.5%).

I am not surprised at these results, tech gear is not always 100% accurate so there are going to be slight deviations. What I need to do is stay focuses and trust that my program is going to get me to my body fat percentage goals, over time I will see the results I want!

The lighting in this video was not all that great for showing cuts so you may not notice any improvement over last weeks video update, after all it is only a little over a pound of fat loss so there is not much to see just yet. The big changes will take place in the last 2 weeks as I get really aggressive with my diet at that point :)

Get Fit Over 40 Update Video - The Cutting Begins (No Shirt)

I am 6 weeks out to my Victoria Cup Men's Physique fitness contest in Victoria BC and I have officially started my weight cutting for this competition. I plan to compete in both the Masters and Open categories of Men's Physique.

I am currently somewhere between 7-8% body fat according to my Fitbit Aria WiFi Scale and Sculpt Aim Body Composition Reader.

For the record I am just over 6 feet tall, I used to be  6 foot 1 inch but I think I have shrunk a bit in my old age perhaps under the pressure of heavy squaring and Deadlifts ;) I am also around 191-195 pounds depending on the day and time I weigh myself. (So on average around 193 pounds.)

I want to get down to around 5% body fat for contest day which means I need to lose 2 pounds for every body fat percentage decrease I need to make. This means I need to lose around 6 pounds of pure fat in total and get down to around 188 pounds and 5% body fat. I will be training hard this last 6 weeks so putting on a bit of muscle is not out of the question while cutting, I have done it before so I know it can be done again.

My plan is to cut 500 calories per day for the first couple of weeks and then reassess where I am and be either more aggressive or stay the course with my calorie intake. My last week of cutting is always pretty extreme since I do a veggie and fish diet that is super low carb and low calories, I usually lose at least 2-3 pounds in that week and if there is any fat left it will be all gone :)

I will be making weekly videos of my progress up until the week before the contest, then I will most likely be making daily videos in a VLog format till the contest. So keep checking back for more cutting videos to watch me while I shrink :)