Fitness

Finish what you start :)

Posted by Claudia on July 20, 2012
Posted in: Excerise, Fitness, Personal Training.

I will meet up with Angela and the girls today!
Each one is very special in one way or another!
Elida will compete for the first time!
At 46 she is in amazing condition!!!
Her transformation is dramatic, and I’m so proud of her accomplishment 🙂
She turned into a beautiful butterfly with confidence and grace!
Shana will also be competing the very first time!
Shana has in the past started many things, but kept getting interrupted by daily life!
This young girl has stuck with this program for 12 weeks, lost almost 30 pounds even while dealing with a close family death!
She is simply amazing!!!!
And it shows how strong our support system is…
I know she will finish everything in the future!
Maria met us ( after following us for some time on Facebook) in March at Jon Lindays Culver City Competition.
After that she decided to move to Las Vegas and become a member of our team!
Maria just revealed to me resently that I helped her going through a divorce by my daily inspirational quotes on fb 🙂
Makes me happy…..
Natalie is so special to us !
She is doing this for her brother who died while serving this country!
She is an amazing beauty with a golden heart.
A very special girl 🙂
Kayla is this very tall Barbie looking cutie!
She is a Physical Therapist, helping people everyday!
I have never seen Kayla in a bad mood ( must be the additional peanut butter she wasn’t suppose to eat)!
I can’t wait until I see her onstage!
Just remember Kayla ….small steps (lol)!
Samantha will go into her 4th Competition.
Coming from Figure, last time placing first in Bikini!
This amazing girl used to be 70 pounds heavier!!!
What I love about Samy is her confidence that reflects on stage!!!
I’m sexy and I know it….attitude 😉
Xoxo girl!!!
Patty placed first in Jay Cuttlers Desert Classic in April!
She is a queen ( i’m bringing you my grown I bought)!
The way she walks, waves, interacts with the judges is a skill!
Patty’s genetics are perfect 🙂
She is an amazing person inside as well!
Patty just recently saved a life when she was performing CPR!
I like to call her our little Angel 🙂
Mervat is our Team Captain!
This girl is not just very beautiful, she is also very intelligent!
Mervat is competing for her 4th time!
She places higher with each competition, improving each and every time dramatically!!!
Mervat knows what she wants and will go for it 🙂
Mervat’s ability to multi task and being a single mom is very impressive!!!

All our girls are so special, so amazing!
Hard work, discipline, persistence, and determination will pay off!
I am so proud to be a part of this incredible team!!!
Thank you Lord for being there for us and guiding us every step of the way!

If you want to be a part of the Las Vegas Figure and Bikini Team ( Competing or not) in conjunction with Freddie’s Nutrition to help achieving your personal goals, please contact me on this site!
Thank you 🙂

Thursday update :)

Posted by Claudia on July 19, 2012
Posted in: Diet, Excerise, Fitness, Personal Training.

Yesterday was our competitors last day of training!
Until Saturday it’s rest and carbloading 🙂
I already know these girls are going nuts until Saturday!
So much time and nothing to do….
Why are we doing this?
Well, now they are depleting water and sodium…
You are pretty much dehydrating your body as well as your joints!
Workouts don’t do much at this point anymore and you need to give your body a chance to get your carbohydrates into your muscle or glycogen storage!
Carbohydrates will attach to the circulating water in your body and push it into the muscle!!!
If you still work out, you may end up flat onstage…
Carbloading only works if you have depleted glycogen stores first ( in appearance )!
This is when competitors get very tired and weak.
Low sodium levels (muscle contraction) and dehydration!!!
You guys are going to be thirsty all day 🙁
Sorry….
It’s almost over!
Coming of that stage and knowing you did this will make you feel like a million bucks!!!!

Emotional state during Competition Training!

Posted by Claudia on June 7, 2012
Posted in: Diet, Excerise, Fitness, Health, Lifestyle.

Competitors go through a variety of feelings while dieting and training for a Competition!
After the first few weeks the feeling of “depravation ” is coming in!!!
Competition diets are very restricted of alcohol, sugar, heavy fats and starches !
There are carbohydrates involved, but they are all good old boring plain clean foods….
The use of food for emotional feelings is completely out!!!
In the end there is no cheating allowed at all and eating has to be 100% on dot!
Timing , amounts, ratio, water intake, supplementation……
As your body fat goes down a woman will create less estrogen and more testosterone !
That just happens naturally in your body!!!
As a woman we are producing estrogen not only in our ovaries but also in our fatty tissue 🙂
A woman’s brain works on estrogen ….
Ever wonder why women go crazy once entering menopause?
Estrogen deprivation !!!
And even though a Competition Woman does not enter menopause, she is still going through estrogen deprivation …..
Emotional ups and downs, crying a lot without reason, feeling sluggish and depressed are typical symptoms!!!
So what can you do about it?
Well, you can not take estrogen if you don’t want to add body fat!
But you can mentally prepare yourself and your family that this is what will happen during the last Quater of your journey!
Try to keep a positive mind set.
Surround yourself with positive friends.
Play up beat music …..
Focus on the date set of your goal and the changes you made in your body!
Design a dinner date in your head once Competition is over!
But even just by knowing that this will be only temporarily will help you focus on bigger and better things!
Just be prepared…