LeeB's contest prep 2007

Shredded

hi lee,when a this running around is done and over with,we will have to get together over a skinny thingy what people drink and have a chat and if i can help you i will do my bit to help.as was said at the week end,no man is an island,and to be a successful bodybuilder you need a whole heap of people around you,as you saw at the show i have two of the best people around me i could have,tan my best other half,and young dan,the best set of calves this side of anywhere!!!!!!!

teams are a good thing but they done give you heart and desire,these come from within,but you have to becareful that they dont run rough shod over everything else.like a good physique its all about balance,and as you go futher down this road the more you woll find it.

my best wishes to you and you own.

main

LeeB

cheers paul.

i would love to maybe come down to eccles one day in a few weeks after all your shows and have a training session with you mate!

..and am getting stuck into my cardio!!

Shredded

Yeah it would be great for you and your family to come down and we can have a session then join the lasses for a skinny thingy! Have a think what you want to train and let us know then I will change my week to suit. I really aprreciated everything at weekend and your feedback when we chatted on the fone and online has been invaluable. Will probably catch up with you at one of the shows before then anyway.

LeeB

ill be at the nabba north in a few weeks mate! so will catch up with you there.

zara-leoni

swiss cheese.... yep that sounds about right - spacecake i am now haha!

I am supposed to be doing the prolab @ lochgelly a week today, nabba scottish the weekend after, then hopefully dougies show - the caledonia proam the weekend after (if dougie has a novice female class then i will). Having a wee crisis this weekend though as i am not quite where i wanted to be and dnt know whether to pull out of the prolab and use the extra days to get stuck right into my cardio and be better for the scottish. If i do the prolab i'll lose valuable days....... Also as i am toned not trained figure, being a tad out at the prolab will look worse than normal as most of the girls i will be up against are trained girls.

You are very, very lucky having such good support. You hear of ppl who dont and it must be hell for them.

Hows it going now? craving KFC yet??

Verne

Best wishes for the contest prep Lee...awesome pic...something for us all to strive for...keep it up bud.
Verne

PScarb

Lee good luck with the prep mate after seeing you last year in scotland i am sure you will achieve all your goals this year onstage....

LeeB

well week 1 i had stomach bug... tue last week i spent 30 mins in the gym training alongside a lad i have previously nicknamed dangerous bryan (due to his ability to be completely unpredictable whilst spotting you - i have injuries to prove it!!.. including once nearly letting a 60k dumbell fall onto my face!!lol)... anyway.. said dangerous bryan usually has every bug known to man... if they cut him open theyd no doubt find cures for mrsa, hiv, the common cold and all sorts of previously incurable stuff......... anyways... 20 minutes on chest with him... and i woke up the next day with a sore throat GREAT... since then it got worse and worse... im more or less 100% again now... but I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER....

so 2 not so great weeks for me... but for my body there are changes so am happy! its a long road of sacrifice and feeling sh*t in my opinion so im just sucking it up and plodding along!

still sticking in with diet and cardio... never really get cravings apart from an evening when am tired... at that point i know i would not cheat anyways so its never a problem (well apart from when your cooking turkey dinosaurs and onion rings for the kids haha)

am looking forward to watching a few shows over the next month or so... nabba north britain (for anyone doing nabba brit class 2... bryan flockhart is doing class 2 again this year and is apprantly looking absolutely amazing and by far his best ever.. so am told! look out at the britain!!), then ill be at the caledonia too (so will be good to catch up with you zara!), then the nabba britain (finally i may yet meet the mighty scarborough????) and also hopefully the ukbff warrington too.... so ill be a busy lad but going to shows motivates me to train hard!

one bad thing for me right now is i am starting my diet at the same time as a few mates of mine are nearing the ends of theirs... so they are looking amazing and new details are coming through every week.... whereas... well im not basically!! haha... mentally thats a tough thing when everyone around you looks better than you do! but i have to be rational and understand that this is part of the mentality of a good bodybuilder to be able to see this!

all that matters is how i look on the day of the show!!!

LeeB

well.. shock horror.. today i actually feel quite good... with no illness to hamper me im actually looking forward to my training tonight....

yesterday was the first time i looked in the mirror and actually thought to myself... hmmm am actually not going to do too bad at this bodybuilding thing! lol

for anyone interested my diet is currently:

meal 1 - 70g Extreme Performance Whey (~50g protein), 100g oats

meal 2 - 220g chicken breast, 130g sweet potato, udos

meal 3 - 220g chicken breast, 130g sweet potato, udos

meal 4 - 220g chicken breast, 130g sweet potato, udos

*pre training - 70g Extreme Performance Whey, glutamine, BCAAs

meal 5 (post train) - 70g Extreme Performance Whey, 60g waxy maize starch

meal 6 - meal 3 - 220g chicken breast, 130g sweet potato, udos


for the last meal of the day ill occasionally have a steak. every friday evening (leg day) my last meal will be steak and ill have a few bread buns with some butter on as a treat and as a source of getting some high carbs in after a hard leg workout.... its not the best way but the benefits for now is it helps keep me sane.... closer to the show it will be stopped.

supplements include:

Whey
Glutamine
BCAAs
Multivit
Udos
ZMA
Green Tea
Glucosamine
Vit B
Dandelion Root

yes i do take gear, altho im not going to go into it here unless someone asks a specific question that i feel might highlight something specific about my prep... but its nothing extra ordinary or out of this world!

wont be using GH or IGF1 or insulin..... i personally want to see if i can establish myself without spending a fortune..... then maybe step things up a gear!

Tall

Hey Lee,

Cheers for posting your diet. Do you not get fed up of chicken and sweet potato? How do you manage to manage to get it all down your neck?

I'm finding at the moment I really struggle to eat 6 meals a day, and I'm going to have to supplement more to get my protein up, and cut down my portion sizes so I can just 'graze'.

What brand of BCAA's are you using...?

Keep up the good work mate.