It’s the Final Countdown! T-minus 6 days and counting. I am so excited about my trip to the NPC Nationals, but I am not nervous at all. Even though I recently found out just how big of a deal this show is. If Figure & Bodybuilding were football, this would be the Super Bowl. It’s the largest NPC show of the year, and this year has the largest number of competitors of any show in history–over 550!!! That is the total of men and women in ALL categories. I am expecting probably 30 or 40 in my class.

Thank goodness the competition is split up into two days! Men’s bodybuilding and Women’s Bikini go on stage Friday. Then Figure (me) and the Women’s bodybuilding compete on Saturday morning. A cool tidbit: The winner of the Bikini overall title gets to be on the cover of Muscle and Fitness HERS magazine. How awesome is that? A magazine cover would definitely be an item on my Bucket List!

I feel I am as ready as I can be, physique-wise. I still stink at posing, and am practicing as much as I can. I don’t know why I just can’t seem to get that mind-muscle connection in my back, but my hard head and my lats just won’t communicate! I received some excellent guidance today from two wonderful NPC judges who live here in my hometown, and Michael took a video as they taught him exactly what to look for, so he can help me practice. That is a godsend! I can’t see my back when I practice, and Michael didn’t know what I was doing wrong. So now, we should be able to make some progress! Hopefully by this Friday, I will ‘get it’. Shannon said I will have an “A-HA” moment when it just clicks. I am waiting to hear that click!

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I had a photo shoot this morning at Brickhouse Gym, which is a local ‘hardcore’ bodybuilding gym, kind of like the gym where Arnold worked out in Pumping Iron. By hardcore, I mean it is bare-bones basic, no fluff, no girly-stuff–just serious iron and other tools used to build the best bodies in the world. I love it! Too bad it’s so far from my house. I would love to train in an environment like that. I am a LIFTER, and I like to be on the weight floor busting out reps. I don’t care if I am the only woman in a 20-yard radius–I like the iron!

Scott Krause, who has done many of my photos before, was kind enough to get up and come photograph me on his Sunday morning. He is so good, so fun to work with, and just a genuinely nice person with a good heart. I cannot recommend him highly enough–his website is Scott Krause Photography. He does all sorts of photos, including some of the best children’s photos I have ever seen. If you are anywhere close, give him a call. You will be so glad you did.

I only have a couple photos so far, and I copied these off Scott’s Facebook page:

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These were just the first outfit that I wore. We got the swimsuit stuff out of the way first, and then went into the workout shoot. That was fun. I did a hardcore, military theme, complete with combat boots! Brickhouse has a climbing rope, so I got to play on that for a while, and they even have all these sledgehammers which I just had to work into the shoot too. Michael was wonderful as Scott’s little helper and my personal assistant. He is always so helpful and organized. He especially liked spraying me down with the water spritzer between shots, so it would look like I was sweating and working out hard. It was cold, so I didn’t like it so much. Now if someone would do that while I was REALLY working out with the Bombshell sweat sessions………

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BIG NEWS!!!!

I don’t want this to get lost in this post, so I am going to do another one solely dedicated to my newest project. I am very excited about the possibilities, and want to share it with you all! Stay tuned, and definitely check out the next posting!

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GREAT quote I saw this week:

“If you want to have legs for days, you have to train for hours!”

Be Defiant!

Christy

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November 15th, 2009
Categories: Main. Tags: Bombshell, bombshell training, brickhouse gym, brickhouse gym columbia sc, female raw vegan bodybuilding, fitness, gratitude, hardcore gym, healthy, leg workout, living foods, scott krause, scott krause photography, scott krause photos, Team Bombshell
Author: Christy

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