5 Days till show

[caseymajor]

Whats going on guys, damn how time flys and now I only have 5days left till my comp. I will post pics up when i get back from the show, i took pics feb2-and then the day of show. Diet is hell but glad to here that I am carbing up this week till friday. Well wish me luck and will bring the gold back to WBB. :evillaugh:

[lakeripple]

How many competitions have you done before? I don't even wanna imagine what your diet looks like right now...

Good Luck

[caseymajor]

This is going to be my third show. My diet is pretty hardcore right now but will pay off soon i hope. I am hitting the Kentucky Northern and it is a national Q. so hope it all turns out well.

[Travis Bell]

Good luck Casey, have fun bro

[killxswitch]

Good luck Casey.

[gratz]

Good luck! Are you having to "dry out" at the moment?

[Brad263]

Good Luck!!!

[Keith]

Good luck, bro. I'm sure you'll do great!

[Slim Schaedle]

Don't know if it is in a journal, or somewhere esle, but you should post everything here such as how you are feeling these final days, what little things you are tweeking, water/sodium/potassium manipulation.


We see these things laid out by the pros all the time on the big sites, but I think seeing it posted first hand from one of "our own" would really aid the site from a bodybuilding point of view.


In any case, good luck and kick ass.

[dxiw]

Agreed. I'm actually tweaking water this week too, but unfortunately, I'm doing it at around 9-10% bodyfat, which is not as lean as I had planned to be. You can see in my journal all of the details..

[PelleK]

Good luck mate, cant wait to see the pictures!

[Keith]

Don't know if it is in a journal, or somewhere esle, but you should post everything here such as how you are feeling these final days, what little things you are tweeking, water/sodium/potassium manipulation.


We see these things laid out by the pros all the time on the big sites, but I think seeing it posted first hand from one of "our own" would really aid the site from a bodybuilding point of view.


In any case, good luck and kick ass.


Great idea. We need more of that in here.

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Good luck.

[Invain]

Good luck casey. Can't wait to see how you look.

[caseymajor]

thanks a lot guys for all the support. It really means lots to me, and makes me fight even harder with this diet killing me. haha

I don't have time right now but will post up my diet and things i have changed on the way. I don't really mess with my sodium i just play with my carbs/fats/and water when it comes down to show time.

Not drying out as of yet, my pre judging is at 9am on saturday but will probly be on stage at noon because men's open class is 7th on the comp sheet. I cut my water 18hrs before pre judging so friday night at 6pm is when i cut all water. take my water pill 1hr before cutting water and then 1 more at midnight just in case.

My weight is 202 as of right now and i still have 4.5days till weight in. Only need to get down to 198.25 so i will start my carb up on tuesday night-and all the way till friday night. Then fat load day of the show

[cphafner]

good luck Casey.

[Slim Schaedle]

Then fat load day of the show

Does this mean eat like a pig after the show, or something else, b/c I have never heard of it.

[nhlfan]

go get'em casey

[caseymajor]

my fat load the day of show is usually a cheat meal that is about 2,500cals that includes anything you can eat but dairy. The fat will suck up most or all of your water and your vains will be kicking. This meal is 6hrs before prejudging

[dxiw]

Interesting, I've never heard of the fat-loading. Except for when arnold said that one of his competitors would eat greasy pizza before going on stage haha. I might have to try that out. My plan was to use glycerine/glycerol to draw water into the muscles on Friday before pumping up (I am doing zero carb + long depletion work yesterday, today and tomorrow, for a thursday/fri morning carb up). I was going to cut water 18hours out and eat complex carbs and glycerol to pull water into the muscles. For vascularity should I eat 2-3 tablespoons of flax oil or something a few hours before pumping up for a 6pm ish shoot on friday?

[caseymajor]

Well my diet plan was pretty basic. Year around i stay around 8-10%bf so i dont' really have to change anything till bout 2.5-3 weeks out from a show. My diet is just low carb/low fat/high protein and i am very stick with that when it comes down to it. 1week out i stop cardio/leg training, and that monday i train half upper body/tuesday i train other half upper body. then take wed/thur/fri off and thats when i carb load. To get vasco kicking before you go on stage is from the fatty/sugar foods that i take day of show.

[caseymajor]

here it what works for me best, this is by Mike XXL

Here is a lil’ article about how I do and would carb up for safest & most predictable results;
One week out your show you need to determine how depleted/flat you are, if you are very depleted you will have to start your carb up Monday afternoon, if you are not too bad you can start Tuesday afternoon. My choices of foods are Oatmeal, Chicken & steak. For all food choices I would pick whatever you have been eating leading up to the show, at this point you do not want to introduce anything new and cause any kind of shock or allergic reaction which will make you hold water. So if you ate potatoes, chicken and peanut butter that would be your choices.
So here it goes:
Monday before the show, train half your body, higher reps in the 12-15 range, 6-8 sets per body part, in a 2-0-2 tempo, nice controlled raps, also use comfortable weights, nothing too heavy, at this point you will not be getting any bigger anyway, and DO NOT TRAIN LEGS ANY MORE, just upper body.
Tuesday afternoon, for me it’s 5:30pm train the other half of your body same way as Monday:
Right after training 7:00pm consume 100-120gm of carbs from simple sugars, my choice here is natural rice cakes.
9:00 60gm of carbs coming from oatmeal
11:00 40gm of carbs coming from oatmeal
Now onto Wednesday, total carbs for this day should be 450gm, each meal is eaten with 2-3oz of chicken and 1-2oz of steak, or 2-3oz of chicken and ½ tablespoon of peanut butter. I do not respond well to peanut butter so I do not use it. Maybe I have an allergy. Divide all of that into 7 meals and you are ready to go. Decrease your carbs as you go through the day, for example if your first meal is 80gm of carbs, your last one should be 20gm of carbs, and all other somewhere in between 80-20gm.
Thursday all the same rules apply as on Wednesday, just the total carbs is 350gm.
Friday once again all the same rules except 250gm of carbs.
Water intake is as high as you can go; drink as much as you can 2 gallons a day should be more then enough. On Friday drink 1 to 1-1/2 gallons by 5:00pm (or the time that would represent 18 hours before the pre-judging for your show). At 4:00pm take your first diuretic, I prefer Dyazide or Aldectazide as they are potassium sparing and still are very effective, so the chances of getting into trouble are very small. I take 25-50mg of once of those diuretics 1 hour before cutting my water. Around midnight or 1:00am I will check my condition and depending on my appearance I will either skip the additional diuretics or take 25mg and go to sleep.
Saturday of the show, I take 12.5mg-25mg of diuretic just to keep me dry, more or less precautionary reasons.
In the morning of the show I fat load, at this point all bets are off and you can eat whatever it is you are craving, for me its egg omelet, hash browns, toast with jam, donuts, cherry Danishes, basically anything that has simple carbs and fat in it is good for you at this point, remember to get drastic results and hardness as well as vascularity you must use drastic measures, that’s why all that junk food, don’t worry with no water you wil not spill over, after that meal just cruse through eating oatmeal and chicken and steak. I feel this is a very safe and effective way to carb and fat load that will make you look hard, dry and full, if you are going to follow this advice, fallow it to the “t” otherwise your results will not be optimal. Any question post below and I will try to get to the soon…peace…XXL
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[Cirino83]

Good luck man. Can't wait to see the pics.

[Irish Pilot]

Nice. Give'r hell!

[caseymajor]

I do have to give Chris Mason props for helping me out, without ALN products it wouldn't have been so easy for me to get in this kinda shape. Can't wait to start back on Result/Max/ETS stack because i was making killer gains till i needed to drop weight. Well thanks Chris and will be bringing home the gold for WBB/ALN

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