Monday, 5 January 2015

Road to strength: part 2 - Diet

I have just under 14 weeks to my first meet so I've had to start thinking seriously about diet and weight categories.

My meet is following IPF regulations so the weight classes are:
45kg
52kg
57kg
63kg
72kg
84kg
84kg+

I fit comfortably into the 84kg+ weight class and there's no way for my first meet I'm going to try to lose like 10kg.  So the plan is I'm going to go on a mini cut for two weeks to get rid of water weight, a little of the Christmas excess, to see where i'm actually at and then I'm going to lean bulk until the meet.  If I'm already comfortably in the biggest weight class, and not going to drop weight for the competition, then I'm going to fill myself with as much lean muscle as possible in the next 14 weeks.

I'll be on about 2000-2200 calories for the next two weeks and then reverse dieting until I see the scales go up.  I got some pretty good advice about reverse dieting so I know I'll be upping my carbs and fats by 10% each week until I see the scales go up.  My protein is already high so I'm leaving that alone for now.  I am very aware that I will gain some fat, but with training being so intense and me doing cardio as usual (because everyone should!), I'm estimating it won't be a lot.  I also know it's not possible to gain like 10 pounds in muscle in 14 weeks, but even a little bit more muscle will help!

There are plenty more things to plan for this competition - soon you will see me in a singlet.  HOW EXCITING.

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