Thanks you guys, I really appreciate it!
I FINALLY got some pics taken that show that I do have a little leg separation lol. My lower body is tighter and more defined than it was at three weeks out last year for sure, so I am on track, and now it's time to just focus on making the final cuts and fine-tuning things over the next three weeks.
Michele...thanks!
Yes, Maggie is making my suits for me, as she did last year. I don't want to reveal everything, but I haven't fully decided yet on color for this year. I am having her make me two suits, both in shiny satin...one black and one bright color (not pink lol). I am not sure yet which one I will feel like wearing. And she is stoning my bright blue suit from prejudging last year, which I will wear in the finals.
I haven't put together any routine music yet, so I will get that together this weekend, and I have A LOT of posing practice and routine practice ahead of me in the next few weeks.
I'm gonna keep the double cardios up, triples when I can, keep the diet VERY tight (I get a piece of sirloin steak this weekend!!
), and train very hard for at least another 2 weeks. I still have a few pounds to lose to make the lightweights.
Oh, and I am definitely more vascular this year than I was last year. I think that you get more vascular over time, with age and training, and so every time you diet down for contest prep, you end up a little more vascular than the time before.
I have crazy veins in my pecs and back, and all around my biceps right now. I have a double bicep vein in the left arm. Not sure if you can see it, but that little bump on my stomach is actually a weird vein that sticks out funny when I am lean. I can even see veins in my calves, and I have never had any lower body vascularity before.