What Will the Future Bring

Day after day I wonder where this whole figure and fitness thing will take me. Sometimes I get a little down and think I will stick with some general figure competitions and try and continue working out. Other days I remember my passion for dancing and joy and excitement every time I watch it (not a trained dancer by any means but I love to dance in general). I used to cheer in highschool and I was decent but as the years went by I realized how much I miss doing routines and so forth. My passion was initially for fitness competitions and would record them on a regular basis when I was in the military and just sit there mesmerized. I've always had a vision of me doing that. I decided once I had gained a ton of weight and started to lose how much I really enjoyed the figure portion of competitions. Looking at the symmetry and tone of these beautiful women. I don't necessarily want to be as defined as some women but look at them with amazement and envy just the same. I have an idea of what I want my body to be and as much as I want the body of others I see, I will eventually realize what I want for myself and continue on from there. The other day I was looking at the Cathy Savage Fitness website and basically found exactly what I was looking for. For me, my look almost seems to be between a figure competitor and a bikini competitor. I do want the nice muscle definition with the nice quads and round glutes but have found that as you begin to look at the pro and some national level girls, they are a little bit too muscular for me. They look amazing just the same though but it is just not what I am trying to achieve. The women in some of the pictures though were exactly what I aspired to eventually gain as a body and it totally had me excited. I looked through many of the pics and realized how much I really would like to do fitness in the future and how much I want to make this figure and fitness world a mainstay in my life. No to do the things that go with it. In order to live out your dream, you must conquer the path that leads to it. My path has already started and my first competition date is still tentatively set for October 18, at the OCB Cape Cod Naturals as long as I get the time off from work and my body cooperates with me, lol.

So yes I eventually see fitness competitions in my life but for the next year I will be focusing on figure competitions and gaining the body that I need for that. As I increase in strength, strength moves, stamina, endurance, and flexibility, as well as work on stage presence and dancing ability/technique I will look at a date for a fitness competition. I am leaning towards the fall of 2009 though. That will give me a year of figure competitions under my belt and help me to feel more comfortable onstage as well as get the input of other fitness competitors. That date may totally change but is just what I am looking at right now.