Personal Training

Following My Dream

Posted on by Naomi
Hey guys! How is everyone’s morning going? First, I want to take this time to congratulate CAITLIN for the opening day of her Book, Operation Beautiful. I cannot wait to get my hands on a copy and I know it will be so extremely successful!! What a big day in the blogworld!
Yesterday was a bit of a whirlwind day, I didn’t take a whole lot of exciting pictures. Just the usuals. I did want to share something that was a big decision for me to make, but is something that I have wanted for way too long now. I have always admired those women in Oxygen magazines and those who compete in fitness/figure and bikini competitions. We all know some beautiful ladies who compete or have competed: Tina,  Averie, Jessica and Alyson being four who I have followed for a while now!
I have always made excuses for myself as to why I have never competed “Oh, I don’t want to change my diet to much” or “Oh, I won’t have time” or “Yeah, I don’t want to completely give up things that I love” The fact is that I love to eat healthy and I love to train. For me, competing is something that has ALWAYS been in the back of my brain, and never made it to the front. To me, this would be the most amazing accomplishment I can think of, for ME. For some, its running a marathon, for others, its getting an ‘A’ on a test. For me, its competing. I want the challenge. I want to work hard and show it off. So friends, I have decided to enlist with the amazing help of Cathy Savage Fitness to enter and train for a competition! Now I have to decide whether to do bikini or Figure, and Frankly, I am not quite sure which to do. I am thinking Bikini first, and then see where that takes me. I asked the woman who I was emailing the difference between the two. She said:
Figure is more of a leaner, muscular look whereas bikini is softer, athletic, curvier (“sass”)
I still don’t know where I stand on this, but I am leaning more towards bikini. The wonderful thing about working with CSF is that they are based out of Boston in a town about 20 minutes from me, which is great because it is easy for me to attend some camps and training. First, I have to take some pics of myself and fill out the forms, and then I will begin! I will be sure to keep you all updated on how everything pans out. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. For those who have competed, I will take any advice, comments ANYTHING you have for me! just shoot me an email 🙂 I am readily available to chat Onefitfoodie (at) gmail (dot) com!
Lunch yesterday was a delicious spinach salad! I packed it with cabbage, ‘shrooms, red pepper, grilled chicken and cucumbers. I also had 1/2 of a sweet potato
I found this awesome lower ab workout in a mens fitness magazine.
Yes, I love reading mens fitness mag’s beacuse they give me amazing ideas for workouts and also have awesome nutrition/health/wellness info. I suggest you check one out!
There is also some nice eye candy, which never hurts.
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My afternoon workout was P90x chest and back. I really pushed myself through thsi workout. I can tell I am getting much better at push ups!!! Slowly getting stronger! I also did a killer ab workout from this magazine afterwards, focusing on the lower abs for the most part.
Post workout time with J.R
Simple in some cold water.
Nothing special for breakfast but some hot oatmeal cooked in water. I added some blueberries and strawberries as well as some cinnamon. I had 4 hardboiled egg whites on the side. Like I said, nothing too exciting!
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Today I am working, snapping some pics and filling out my CSF forms, then have a HAIRCUT! Guys, I have to say it has been nearly a year since I had a haircut (gasp) I know I know…my hair is screaming at me, so today is the day! Nothing crazy, just cleaning up the ‘do
  • What is one thing in life that you would love to accomplish? (see above for my answer)
  • Are you like me and occasionally forget about your haircuts? or do you get it cut just about every 3,4 or 5 months?
  • Ali and Roberto?!?! I was mixed on this. I was rooting for Chris, I really liked him and I think that Ali is pretty infatuated with Roberto because hes a hottie BUT she did seem genuinely happy

Naomi
Naomi