Hello my blogging friends. This Saturday the 24th of August should be my 7 week mark until the New York Grand Prix bodybuilding contest. I hate to inform you but I will not be competing in this event. After looking into getting everything together that I would need for the competition, it would not be a financially smart decision for me to enter. As weird as that sounds, it would cost me A LOT of money for this one day event. This is not to to say that I will not compete because I will and and I cannot wait for that day to come. It will be in the year 2014 however.
In the bodybuilding/physique/figure competition there are different organizations that hold the event. The organization that is holding the New York Grand Prix is the NPC. This stands for the National Physique Committee. The NPC is a very large and very well know organization and is a great place to start a bodybuilding career. I knew that there was a "card" I would have to possess in order to compete in a NPC event. I knew that it was going to cost me $100 to obtain this card. What I did not know is that it is only good for the current year. So in a nut shell, I would be paying $100 for the card, the fees to compete in the actual show itself, money for my posing suit, money for my tanning or services for tanning if I go that route, as well as the expense of gas to get to the venue which is about 2 1/2 hours away. This is a lot of money for a one time event for the year 2013. I am going to wait until the 2014 year to obtain a card that way I can compete in multiple shows and get my bang for my buck.
This really frustrates me that I am pulling out of the show because I somewhat feel like I have let a lot of people around me down. I was on a good schedule for training, my diet was in line and I could see the changes in my body from it. I am trying to stay positive about the situation and not feel like a quitter because I will be stepping on stage, just not until next year.
I sort of went on a mini food binge and my body really reaped the effects of it. I felt bloated, looked bloated, felt guilty about what I had just consumed and it really sucks because I was just enjoying the moment and not focusing on the effect it would have in the future. I am not one to say eat clean 100% of the time because it is good for you mentally to have that ice cream or go out and have some pizza and wings. I have to just learn to control how much of it I take in at one time because it will always be there.
I will still continue to train hard and eat "clean" but be more open on what I can and cannot have I guess you could say. If my wife and I want to go out to dinner one night during the week, I am not going to beat myself up because of ordering something full of carbs on the menu. I am going to learn to enjoy these times until I have to go back on a competition style diet. Life is too short to feel guilty about things like this and I believe in the end I will be more happy.
Enough negative ranting on the topic, so that is the unfortunate news in my life at the moment. I will stay positive, keep training hard and come 2014 I will be stepping on stage and I cannot wait for that day!
Don't feel bad. It makes perfect sense. That food guilt feeling is why i decided i didnt want to compete, I didnt want to give up that much of my life. Life is meant to be lived and enjoyed!
ReplyDelete2014 isnt THAT far away, you will have way more oppertunities then.