Sponsorship Proposals

Here it goes. Saturday is the start of a New Year and I’ve written my sponsorship proposal and the only thing left to do is place a photo in each letter and send it out. I have a list of nearly 30 companies but will have to keep my fingers crossed and hope the companies are interested in my look and what I have to offer.  I will also continue to expand my list until I have exhausted all avenues.

I have already been lucky enough to have http://www.VandellaCostumes.com sponsor me for the second year in a row.  Not only is Kira Jones being generous with a sponsorship but she is going to sponsor me with two suits for 2011. Yahoo!!!

Anyhow, it is way past my bed time.  Until next time.

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My hub: www.bodybuildingfitnessfigure.com

Last year I stumbled upon a ning social networking site called BodybuildingFitnessFigure.com and wondered how I could be getting involved with yet another networking site. I needed this site like I needed a hole in my head. I was already using  Facebook, Twitter, Plaxo and Yahoo! and this was just too much for me to bare.

Well guess what? Here it is soon to be 2011 and this “little” networking site has become the absolute hub of all of my social networking. Don’t get me wrong I use Facebook quite a bit but realized this site covered the topics I enjoy reading and writing about. Though someone in the mainstream they may see Bodybuildingfitnessfigure.com as nothing deeper than big muscles the assumption is wrong. Yes, there is an amount of regular meathead jargon that goes on but many of the issues are quite powerful and debated on in the industry.

Over the course  of the year I have met some lovely people on the site and I love it there.  It is my hub.  I know when I need a good swift kick in the arse or an honest answer I can go to http://www.bodybuildingfitnessfigure.com and get it.  It keeps me grounded in a sport that can be narcissistic and egotistical even in it’s best moments.

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Confessions of changing events

As always, I am a bit behind in my writing but still doing the best I can with the amount of food I’m on. Actually my food isn’t too low but I have difficulties concentrating when I diet.

Within the last few days I have come to a couple of resolutions about my competition endeavors and feel better about them already. Here they are:

NO MORE SCALE!

Done, finished, fini with the scale. It’s just a marker that will drive you to your limits if you allow it. It’s a piece of plastic, an inanimate object that turns the strongest willed people into snivelling, weak-minded insecure individuals and anything that can make me feel bad about myself has to go.

Change of Event

Although I’ve been planning to do the October, 23 NANBF show the realization has hit me that it’s out of my price range. It will be $135 for fees including the poly and though this is average in the natty shows it’s the rest of competing that’s very expensive. It would be nearly $500 after paying for fees, sitter, gas, hotel and food. If I don’t get a sitter then Josh will have to stay at home. He supports me 100% and likes to be a part my events so that wouldn’t work. He said not to worry but I can’t spend that kind of money on a single event not with much needed winter boots and new coats for the kids…I’m a mom, what can I say? Could you imagine if I wasn’t being sponsored with a suit?! I have decided to do the November 20 Midwest States show and it will eliminate some of the cost because it’s about 50minutes from the house.

 Keep giving it all I’ve got.

I’d like to thank Kira Jones of Vandella Costumes for sponsoring me in mycompetition endeavors. For competitors in need of a posing suit you can contact Kira at http://www.VandellaCostumes.com. Please let her know I sent you.

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IFBB ends the one-piece suit round.

Lisa would like to thank Kira Jones of Vandella Costumes for sponsoring her in her competition endeavors. For competitors in need of a posing suit you can contact Kira at http://www.VandellaCostumes.com. Please let her know Lisa sent you

Confessions of feeling behind

Saturday marked the third week of dieting and surprisingly I have gained back 2lbs. Although I know it’s common to bounce back and forth some I don’t like the feeling. It makes me nervous because I’m exactly eight weeks out from the show. My weight dropped from 142 to 139.5 to 137.7 and back to 139.9 and I don’t understand it. Perhaps I’ll be starting my cycle soon but I’m not sure. I do know since Wednesday or Thursday my body has felt bloated and gross. I changed my diet around some last night and I hope this will help out also.

I also recieved some constructive criticism about my posing today and it’s something that was already on my mind. This person was very kind and told me my waist was wide and he’s correct. Here is the dilemma I am faced with. If I “sit on” my abs the way I’m supposed to it widens out my waist and my skin crinkles. On the other hand if I try to “sit on” them, pull them up and stretch my abs stick out a bit but my waist is WAY smaller- I mean WAAAAAAAY smaller. So… what exactly do I do? Sit on them or press them out some? I do understand the latter way is not the proper way to contract my abs but it does look far better…

I would like to thank Kira Jones of Vandella Costumes for sponsoring me in my competition endeavors. For competitors in need of a posing suit you can contact Kira at http://www.VandellaCostumes.com. Please let her know I sent you.   This style 18-b bra style in swatch 25.

Friday Shoulders 6/11

db press 20x20x3

yti’s 15x8x3, 10x7x3

front raises db 15x15x3

underhand db 10x15x3

crossovers cables 20x20x3

db upright rows 30x20x3

db side laterals 15x10x3,10x10x3

Hot Spot Tanning heads to the NPC Tampa Bay Classic

 

 

 

 

 

Hot Spot Tanning heads to the NPC Tampa Bay Classic

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Confessions of feeling bad but not guilty

My partner in crime couldn’t make it to the gym today so I spent my work out doing an arms work out and posing.  The training is coming along and regardless of the competition my true love affair is with the gym.  The exercises, training, people and energy is what makes me love everything about training. 

After my workout I took the kids on our weekly romp to BrookField Zoo with a cooler full of food and snacks.  I pushed the dooly, my 27lb double stroller with 75lbs worth of kids around the zoo while carrying my 20lb cooler. I promised the kids an ice cream and decided to have  one myself.  This is my first cheat I have had in nearly three weeks and it was heavenly.  What was best about the whole experience besides enjoying an ice cream cone with the kids?  For once, during dieting, I didn’t feel guilty!

With my first show last year my calories were so low I would binge badly and have to pay for it mentally.  Anyone who has done a show will understand this.  But, not today.  On every other day I have eaten well; with enough calories to get me through the day and not feel the need to eat “shitake mushrooms” when I’m overly hungry.  As for the feeling bad part; my stomach was on fire!  That one ice cream was setting off some serious silent-but-deadlies and I could’ve cared less. Let’s just say the constipation is over.LOL.

***shitake mushrooms is the code word I use when I’m about the slip with a bad word in front of the kids.

I would like to thank Kira Jones of Vandella Costumes for sponsoring me in my competition endeavors. For competitors in need of a posing suit you can contact Kira at http://www.VandellaCostumes.com.  Please let her know I sent you. This suit is style #622 in swatch #346.

Arms 6/9/10 super sets

db tri ext  15lbsx20reps/20×20/25×20 x4 all of these were continous to get 60 reps

curls ez bar 30x20x4

cable push downs  40x20x2, 50x20x2

cable overheads     40x20x2, 50x20x2

one arm cable curls  20x20x4

kickbacks 5x20x4

db curls  15x20x4

top cable curls 25x20x4

assisted dips  80x12x2,70x12x1, 90x20x15

Confessions of Constipation

It’s not pretty by any means but constipation has set in.  Though most people hate to know the dirty details about women and pooping the fact is… it happens.  It also happened for the last show and my body has a tendency to become constipated as soon as the diet becomes stricter. Oh, is the life. 

Oddly, I laugh when I think of these unsightly details because the sport of bodybuilding, fitness, figure and bikini may look glamourous but is full of ironies when it comes to hygiene and beauty.  As your in the line up of fifteen gorgeous girls and suddenly catch a wiff of BO during a QT you realize it ain’t always what it’s cut out to be.  Deodorant-less competitors are sweating it out on the stage with Pam Cooking spray and turning gray or green depending on their PH balance.  Man… I love this sport.  Competiting or not I love this sport.

I would like to thank Kira Jones of Vandella Costumes for sponsoring my in her competition endeavors. For competitors in need of a posing suit you can contact Kira at http://www.VandellaCostumes.com.  Please let her know I sent you. Kira is a wonderful lady and creates great custom posing suits.  This suit is style #208 in swatch #248.

Yesterday 6/9/10

cable decline flye   40x20x4

bench flyes     20x20x4

flat smith   30x20x2,  40x20x2

incline bench smith  30x20x1, 40x20x3

decline db   40x20x4

push up alt.hand on ball 10×4

cable flye 40x20x2, 60x20x2

Confessions of re-calculating and planning

For the past two weeks the diet has been going well but not the way I was expecting.  Re-calculating and re-planning my diet is now in order.  Last night I spent a long period of time revamping my diet and although I’m keeping the same amount of calories I’ve changed the meals so I am eating seven meals every 2.5hours.  With the more even spread I hope to not be starving at bed time and will hopefully stop the midnight snacking.  Even though the food is clean; each time I get up in the middle of the night I have to stop by the fridge for a snack.  I know some bodybuilders do that but it’s not for me.

Besides the diet my husband told me I had a long way to go before I was ready for the show.  This simple statement has me feeling very discouraged even though I know he didn’t mean it badly.  I thought I was on track.  My weight loss has been where I want it to be and consistent so for now I will keep up the training and cardio.  After  my first show I learned what not to do so if this doesn’t turn out to be the way I hope then I’ll learn from it for my show in October.  I think I’m going to let that statement go… right now as a matter of fact.

Yesterday-Back 6/8/10 

wide grip pull downs  80x20x3

wide grip assisted pull ups   80x20x3

one arm seated rows  20x20x3

close grip pull downs  80x20x3

cable  cross overs   10x20x3 extra squeeze

supermans   5x 3 for a long hold

lumberjacks  45x20x3

smith rows  40x20x3

one arm db rows  15x20x3

Lisa would like to thank Kira Jones of Vandella Costumes for sponsoring her in her competition endeavors. For competitors in need of a posing suit you can contact Kira at http://www.VandellaCostumes.com. Please let her know Lisa sent you. Kira is a wonderful lady and creates great custom posing suits.

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Bodybuilding 101: Food prep during dieting.

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