I'm in the home stretch now. Anybody who knows about dieting, or should I say ‘dieting correctly',
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| Ben hunting for dinner with his dogs! |
knows that during the last few weeks days become nights, and nights become days. And time is obsolete. I'm still training with ultra-heavy weights which amaze most people. They think that as you get leaner, you get weaker, but that's just not the case with my body. I'm super strong and, from the looks of it, I feel I look better now than I did when prepping for the Tampa Pro (which I won back in July of 2010). It shows me that when I don't listen to my trainer Dave Palumbo 100% of the time, I don't get 100% of the expected results. This time around, I'm listening to 101% of what he has to say and the freaky conditioning I'm getting is amazing even me.
I know cardio can be boring, but for me taking time out to
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| "Benita" enjoying her wings! |
train with my dogs is a great and pleasurable cardio workout. They follow my same diet and training during contest prep. Weight is still 255 and I've been on close to zero carbs for about 3 weeks now. Once a week, Dave's been letting me eat "wings'; my favorite! I never thought food could taste so good.
I'm sitting back right now; sipping some golden tea . . . with my eyes closed. . . envisioning what I'm going to look like for the Flex Pro on February 19th.
