ROCK THAT STAGE !!
Cassie's Figure Competition Journal
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Best of luck to you
ROCK THAT STAGE !!
ROCK THAT STAGE !!
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GOOD LUCK CASSIE! WE ARE SOO PROUD OF YOU!!
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and I'm still working on getting the body for last years swim suit, lol.Boss Man wrote:
Can't believe how the sandpit has grown into a Beach.
So is there any word on how Cassie did? (inquiring minds and all
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Actually, I think Lesplease just wants a good photo of Cassie's back. 
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Helloo Friends!!!!
Sorry for the delay! goodness it was a long and exhausting weekend!
I posted pics if anybodies interested. They aren't the best... still waiting for other ones to get here ( friend is mailing me a cd so might be a while on those).
So the show was a blast in an exhausting, drawn out, torturous kind of way. I didn't place as well as I had hoped but goodness i learned SO MUCH! First of all, posing sucked... it was 100% terrible and I was pretty disappointed in myself for totally messing up poses. shoulders were hunched, arms were out way to wide, and I was beyond tense. No bueno. HOWEVER I entered this competition for the learning experience and I definitely got that out of it. I learned that I MUST MUST MUST nail poses. It doesn't matter if I'm in the best shape EVER... if i can't hit poses then really nothing else matters. So for the next 4 weeks I will be practicing poses every single day.
So the show was MUCH bigger than i realized and anticipated. It is one of the biggest shows in the Northwest and is one that many seasoned competitors attend. I'll be honest... it was pretty intimidating being lined up with a bunch of people who have dozens of shows under their belts. I had to puff up chest a bit and pretend like i knew what i was doing because I honestly didn't have a clue! The tanning was a totally new experience... bought tanner and had no idea how to apply it (boy was that a mess!!) Also had butt glue (to glue suit to butt) and again had to have somebody show me how to use the stuff. Luckily there were lots of nice people there who were more than willing to help me figure the stuff out.
For anybody considering doing a competition I must warn you in advance that the week before the show is UTTER HELL.... By Saturday afternoon I was completely miserable and was ready to climb up on top of the nearby roof so that i could throw myself off and put carb deprived body out of misery. No joke. Utter hell! You spend Monday-Wednesday eating VERY little carbs and drinking enough water to make a person explode. Then Thursday isn't so bad... you get to increase carbs a bit but youre so tired of the diet at this point that an extra bowl of sweet potatoes isn't really very exciting. By Friday youre exhausted and just thanking your lucky stars that you dont have to hit the gym that day. By 6pm Friday evening you are DONE eating and drinking for the rest of the day. Saturday you wake up (if you are able to fall asleep... I finally fell asleep at some point before midnight then got woke up right after midnight by some jacka$$ yelling right outside window. Hes lucky i didn't stomp out there and jam foot in his mouth) and pray to God before looking in the mirror that you have 'peaked' properly. I unfortunately did not. I woke up feeling puffy and stomach was bloated... not a good look for hopping up on stage in a bikini! So Saturday we started getting ready at 6am, then arrived at the show by 8:30. The show started at 10. I should mention that Saturday i was told not to eat or drink anything before the morning show. The morning show started at 10 so i got up on stage around noon... by the time i was on stage i was beyond hungry and thirsty. After the morning show was over (around 1 or so) we had 5 fun-filled hours to sit around and wait for the night show. At this point trainer informed me that I could "eat or drink but not do both". Well I was starving so snacked on a bit of fish (3 bites maybe) and had some puffed brown rice.... also had a sip of water and ate a few ice cubes while i watched friend eat a grilled chicken burger (her trainer told her to eat... i'm thinking about switching trainers as i like hers better than mine!). So after "lunch" we still had 4 1/2 hours to kill. At this point I was pretty much hating life. I was grumpy, exhausted, thirstier than i have ever been in life, and frustrated because i know that I had totally messed up poses for the moring show (the morning show is where you are judged.. . then you find out the results in the night show). By 2 oclock i was ready to say "screw it!" and go home without getting up on stage again. I had decided that i was NEVER going to do another show and was ready to eat some ice cream and be done with all the nonsense. Finally around 2:30... we decided to go do some shopping to take mind off of the fact that i was about to die of dehydration. So we ( best friend and I) went and walked around the nearby shopping area for a while, pretty much killing time and complaining about crappy we felt. FYI: If youre ever looking for some serious attention/stares throw on 3 coats of cometition tan and go out shopping. After 3 coats of tanner you look like a big walking carrot and people are sure to stare. Not to mention (if you're a girl) you look very much like a hooker with all of the stage makeup plastured on your face. I'm sure people walking by us were trying to figure out what the heck we were up!
By 5 oclock we arrived back at the show and started getting ready to get back up on stage (night show stared at 6). By 5:30 people had begun filtering in and you could definitely feel this sense of excitement in the air. I gotta admit it was pretty cool! Backstage all the competitors were prepping... lifting weights, eating their rice cakes and protein, applying finishing touches of tanner, and just kinda hanging out. I think it was at this point that I totally fell in love with bodybuilding. There is just this sense of... I don't know... like even though we're competing against each other we're kind of all in it together. We all know what everybody else is going through. We are all miserable, nervous, carb deprived, thirsty... and yet we're all enjoying the hell out of it because this is what we signed up for. And, every time you look in the mirror you do a double take because you are so amazed that its your body looking back at you and damn it looks good (even though mine was bloated!LOL!). I'm getting goosebumps as i sit here and reflect back on it. It was THAT COOL!
By 9 oclock it was FINALLY turn to get up on stage. I waited backstage for 3 1/2 hours!!! That very well could have been the longest wait of life. I was thirsty, exhausted, and just ready to get up on there and make up for poor performance that morning (even though abs were even more bloated than in the morning show... and i had already been judged). I felt WAY more confident for the night show (even though poses still sucked!) and wasn't nearly as nervous as i had been that morning. I'm told that the nerves do subside a bit with every show so am looking forward to that!
After the show I ate so much chocolate that i was sick to stomach. I also ate a taco from a fast food joint (I haven't had fast food since i was 16) and seriously thought i was going to throw up. That was a good reminder of the many reasons why I don't eat fast food. Yesterday I ate so much I practically had to roll myself into bedroom last night to go to bed. This morning in workout I felt like SUPER WOMAN with all those carbs floating around in system. I also noticed that fingers were swollen up like sausages from all the sodium. I definitely got all the sugar and salt cravings out of system! And, after 3 days away from the gym I could not wait to get back to workouts this morning!
So now the countdown is on for the next show on November 7th. This is a much smaller show so am really looking forward to that. I'm revamping diet and changing a few things to get me through the next 4 weeks. I've decided to increase carbs and fat a bit as I definitely can't keep going on how what I've been eating for the past 8 weeks. energy levels have been so low that workouts have suffered tremendously. plan is to increase the calories a bit (slowly of course) then hit it harder in the gym for the next 4 weeks and see what i can do. I need abs to come through a bit more and would like legs to lean out a bit. We shall see! I'm SO incredibly motivated to hit it hard again for another 4 weeks. I can't wait to get up on stage again and see what I can do.
Sorry if this is a bit jumbled. I think I'm still kind of hopped up on carbs/sugar as mind is racing quite a bit today.
Hope all is well with everybody!
Cassie
Sorry for the delay! goodness it was a long and exhausting weekend!
I posted pics if anybodies interested.
They aren't the best... still waiting for other ones to get here ( friend is mailing me a cd so might be a while on those). So the show was a blast in an exhausting, drawn out, torturous kind of way. I didn't place as well as I had hoped but goodness i learned SO MUCH! First of all, posing sucked... it was 100% terrible and I was pretty disappointed in myself for totally messing up poses. shoulders were hunched, arms were out way to wide, and I was beyond tense. No bueno. HOWEVER I entered this competition for the learning experience and I definitely got that out of it. I learned that I MUST MUST MUST nail poses. It doesn't matter if I'm in the best shape EVER... if i can't hit poses then really nothing else matters. So for the next 4 weeks I will be practicing poses every single day.
So the show was MUCH bigger than i realized and anticipated. It is one of the biggest shows in the Northwest and is one that many seasoned competitors attend. I'll be honest... it was pretty intimidating being lined up with a bunch of people who have dozens of shows under their belts. I had to puff up chest a bit and pretend like i knew what i was doing because I honestly didn't have a clue! The tanning was a totally new experience... bought tanner and had no idea how to apply it (boy was that a mess!!) Also had butt glue (to glue suit to butt) and again had to have somebody show me how to use the stuff. Luckily there were lots of nice people there who were more than willing to help me figure the stuff out.
For anybody considering doing a competition I must warn you in advance that the week before the show is UTTER HELL.... By Saturday afternoon I was completely miserable and was ready to climb up on top of the nearby roof so that i could throw myself off and put carb deprived body out of misery. No joke. Utter hell! You spend Monday-Wednesday eating VERY little carbs and drinking enough water to make a person explode. Then Thursday isn't so bad... you get to increase carbs a bit but youre so tired of the diet at this point that an extra bowl of sweet potatoes isn't really very exciting. By Friday youre exhausted and just thanking your lucky stars that you dont have to hit the gym that day. By 6pm Friday evening you are DONE eating and drinking for the rest of the day. Saturday you wake up (if you are able to fall asleep... I finally fell asleep at some point before midnight then got woke up right after midnight by some jacka$$ yelling right outside window. Hes lucky i didn't stomp out there and jam foot in his mouth) and pray to God before looking in the mirror that you have 'peaked' properly. I unfortunately did not. I woke up feeling puffy and stomach was bloated... not a good look for hopping up on stage in a bikini! So Saturday we started getting ready at 6am, then arrived at the show by 8:30. The show started at 10. I should mention that Saturday i was told not to eat or drink anything before the morning show. The morning show started at 10 so i got up on stage around noon... by the time i was on stage i was beyond hungry and thirsty. After the morning show was over (around 1 or so) we had 5 fun-filled hours to sit around and wait for the night show. At this point trainer informed me that I could "eat or drink but not do both". Well I was starving so snacked on a bit of fish (3 bites maybe) and had some puffed brown rice.... also had a sip of water and ate a few ice cubes while i watched friend eat a grilled chicken burger (her trainer told her to eat... i'm thinking about switching trainers as i like hers better than mine!). So after "lunch" we still had 4 1/2 hours to kill. At this point I was pretty much hating life. I was grumpy, exhausted, thirstier than i have ever been in life, and frustrated because i know that I had totally messed up poses for the moring show (the morning show is where you are judged.. . then you find out the results in the night show). By 2 oclock i was ready to say "screw it!" and go home without getting up on stage again. I had decided that i was NEVER going to do another show and was ready to eat some ice cream and be done with all the nonsense. Finally around 2:30... we decided to go do some shopping to take mind off of the fact that i was about to die of dehydration. So we ( best friend and I) went and walked around the nearby shopping area for a while, pretty much killing time and complaining about crappy we felt. FYI: If youre ever looking for some serious attention/stares throw on 3 coats of cometition tan and go out shopping. After 3 coats of tanner you look like a big walking carrot and people are sure to stare. Not to mention (if you're a girl) you look very much like a hooker with all of the stage makeup plastured on your face. I'm sure people walking by us were trying to figure out what the heck we were up!
By 5 oclock we arrived back at the show and started getting ready to get back up on stage (night show stared at 6). By 5:30 people had begun filtering in and you could definitely feel this sense of excitement in the air. I gotta admit it was pretty cool! Backstage all the competitors were prepping... lifting weights, eating their rice cakes and protein, applying finishing touches of tanner, and just kinda hanging out. I think it was at this point that I totally fell in love with bodybuilding. There is just this sense of... I don't know... like even though we're competing against each other we're kind of all in it together. We all know what everybody else is going through. We are all miserable, nervous, carb deprived, thirsty... and yet we're all enjoying the hell out of it because this is what we signed up for. And, every time you look in the mirror you do a double take because you are so amazed that its your body looking back at you and damn it looks good (even though mine was bloated!LOL!). I'm getting goosebumps as i sit here and reflect back on it. It was THAT COOL!
By 9 oclock it was FINALLY turn to get up on stage. I waited backstage for 3 1/2 hours!!! That very well could have been the longest wait of life. I was thirsty, exhausted, and just ready to get up on there and make up for poor performance that morning (even though abs were even more bloated than in the morning show... and i had already been judged). I felt WAY more confident for the night show (even though poses still sucked!) and wasn't nearly as nervous as i had been that morning. I'm told that the nerves do subside a bit with every show so am looking forward to that!
After the show I ate so much chocolate that i was sick to stomach. I also ate a taco from a fast food joint (I haven't had fast food since i was 16) and seriously thought i was going to throw up. That was a good reminder of the many reasons why I don't eat fast food. Yesterday I ate so much I practically had to roll myself into bedroom last night to go to bed. This morning in workout I felt like SUPER WOMAN with all those carbs floating around in system. I also noticed that fingers were swollen up like sausages from all the sodium. I definitely got all the sugar and salt cravings out of system! And, after 3 days away from the gym I could not wait to get back to workouts this morning!
So now the countdown is on for the next show on November 7th. This is a much smaller show so am really looking forward to that. I'm revamping diet and changing a few things to get me through the next 4 weeks. I've decided to increase carbs and fat a bit as I definitely can't keep going on how what I've been eating for the past 8 weeks. energy levels have been so low that workouts have suffered tremendously. plan is to increase the calories a bit (slowly of course) then hit it harder in the gym for the next 4 weeks and see what i can do. I need abs to come through a bit more and would like legs to lean out a bit. We shall see! I'm SO incredibly motivated to hit it hard again for another 4 weeks. I can't wait to get up on stage again and see what I can do.
Sorry if this is a bit jumbled. I think I'm still kind of hopped up on carbs/sugar as mind is racing quite a bit today.
Hope all is well with everybody!
Cassie
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Congrats Cassie on a job well done!!! I am so, so proud of you. I think your show pics look awesome, you look beautiful and your suit looks pretty, great color on you! Way to go girl!!!!
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Well I am going to politely refuse both apologies, because I think it would be rude to accept something you don't need to do.
In eyes, you have proven you are a bone fide athlete, and that in itself is a title worth something, and you are still a winner, so you certainly have not been found wanting from this experience.
In eyes, you have proven you are a bone fide athlete, and that in itself is a title worth something, and you are still a winner, so you certainly have not been found wanting from this experience
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WOW WOW WOW THAT IS ALOT OF EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!! LOL! You COULD do what I did! I hope you do someday. Its such an awesome experience! You gotta try it... just once.Lesplease wrote:Oh I'm soooo excited for you!! I'm really really glad that you didn't let the nerves get the better of you! I know I could never do what you did! You are sooo amazing!! You are soooo crazy tan! I am glad that you had fun and learned a lot, and that you decided to go ahead with the next show! I can't wait!
This is a lot of exclamation points!!
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I agree, thank you for sharing your journey with us!!!!!amatlack wrote:Congrats, Cassie, and thanks for taking all of us on this journey with you!!
I’m so happy you didn’t give up and left the show!
I’m sooooo soooo proud of you and your hard work!
Keep it up girl... We will be here to cheer you on with your next one!
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Cassie, I can feel the excitement just reading your report to us. By the way I give you an A+ on composition and A++ for effort. Thank you for being a role model and inspiration to all of us here at shapefit.
cheers
cheers
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Simply put Cassie - you are beautiful! The perfect balance of strength and femininity! You should be soooo proud! I too want to thank you so much for sharing your incredible journey - the transformation is unbelievable (BTW you were gorgeous before), you are beaming now and you should be, you've worked so hard and you look great!! I'm another one of your admirers that's sooooo proud of you! You are a winner!
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AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENT!
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing
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You'd get penalised thoughLesplease wrote: I think if I ever did a comp, I'd go in totally w/o the tan. Just to throw 'em off.
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What if i'm already "tan" color... do I have to tan some more??? 
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Depends how tan you are. There were a few black guys at the show who didn't have to put any tan on. I had to put on enough tan until I looked like a carrot. When you start to look like a carrot you put on one more coat of tanner... then you're good to go. So it would depend how carrot-ish you look already. If you have darker skin you could probably get by with only one coat of tanner. Putting on the tanner was actually one of favorite parts! Youre body literally changes before you eyes. Its like you're applying muscle tone or something with how much it changes the look of your body. I'm tempted to buy a big ole bottle of the stuff and apply it every day! LOL! I kid.
So it would depend how carrot-ish you look already. If you have darker skin you could probably get by with only one coat of tanner. Putting on the tanner was actually one of favorite parts! Youre body literally changes before you eyes. Its like you're applying muscle tone or something with how much it changes the look of your body. I'm tempted to buy a big ole bottle of the stuff and apply it every day! LOL! I kid.