How are you feeling about the competition?
Kristie Trasey – I have not looked at the pro line up yet but I hear that the pro line up is pretty stacked. But I’m ready!
Michelle Trasey– Personally I feel prepared but a little nervous about the pro line up. As for my competitor doing the show. I am really excited for each and every one of them. They have all worked really hard and I can’t wait to see each of them on stage.
Tell us about what you have done to prepare for this show. What were you challenges
Michelle Trasey – I was only 2lbs from my show weight since my last show. I found that I had a hard time finding the motivation to get serious with everything. To help with my motivation issue I made my MWF “HARD CORE” Days. These were days that in my mind I would push myself as hard as I possibly could all the way till the end of my workout. Tuesday and Thursdays were more of a lower intensity days to help recover physically and mentally and just to give myself some time to re-charge.
Two days before the show I was just in a bad mood. So I called my sister and we had a little heart to heart. Sometimes I just need to vent. After the call I decided that I needed to re-arrange my attitude! I’m a strong believer that I am the only one in control of my attitude. If you are in a bad mood everything seems to not go your way and make it even worse.
Monday night my whole family ordered my favorite pizza and bread sticks for delivery. This was so tempting…because it looked and smelled SOO good. To keep from being tempted I ate my salad before the food was delivered and played with my daughter Tenley while everyone ate. It was nice because I got some one on one time with my little girl.
To get in a little extra exercising I did squats while I was cooking my food for the weekend. I also did lunges up and down the stairs with Tenley on my back while letting the dogs out for exercise in the mornings.
Kristie Trasey – I have had a hard time getting my head into the routine. This is my 13th show of the year. I started this week up 3lbs from my show weight. I needed to lose those 3lbs before Friday. I basically got up every day and made a daily goal. Such as, im going to be 100% on my nutrition today. The next day I would get up my goal was to make my cardio count. With my nutrition I just made sure that I was 100% on my plan and did not eat anything not on it. No little bites of this or that while getting dinner ready for the family or baking muffins for the girls.
Talk about getting in my last chance work out!! I had a 5am track day at the track this morning with any of my competitors that would come work out with me. I had 4 of them and my sis show up. We did stairs, sprints, squats and lunges for 55min. All six of us had a great time and a great workout! We are ready for this weekend!
