Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Future Physiques Bodybuilding Competition!

It's been 1 week since my first competition on stage and I've literally eaten everything in sight. chocolate cheesecake, double dozen krispy kreme donuts, chicken chorizo & cheese pasta bakes, Mass gaining protein shakes with full fat milk & added 100g Oats (1000 calories minimum), Hobnobs, Chocolate digestives, chocolate malted milks, Galaxy cookie crumble. You get the point, in fact no you don't. Flapjacks, cadbury dairy milk, chocolate fudge brownie pieces with vanilla ice cream and finally, Jalfrezi. I think that's it. Now I'm fat. My abs disappeared by Wednesday; I knew what I was doing but I missed naughty food so much I really couldn't care less! My next competition is in just under 6 weeks, now my diet is back and because it's bodybuilding, I need to be more shredded than I was at the BodyPower Expo. It's game time!

Sunday 7th of July is the date of the competition and I'll be in the junior category (21 and under) I still need to put together my 1 minute posing routine! Also figure out what to go for during the pose down. A pose down is a short time on stage when all body builders carry out the poses they feel their biggest strengths to give them an aesthetic preference over their competition to win the judges vote.


As for my diet, my macro nutrients will be around the same as they were when I was 6 week's out of my 1st competition. Only difference is my protein will suffer a little this time round purely because of finances! :( To be fair though, I should be having 30g per meal, I eat 6 times per day which is 180g of Protein, I'll be having approx 250g up to the competition so I should be cool! Here's what my diet plan looks like for this week!

Diet Plan


  • Meal 1 – 7am | 50g Oats (with water) |

Calories = 178kcals Carbohydrates = 30g Protein = 5g Fat = 4g

  • USN Pure Protein IGF-1 (with water)
Calories = 203kcals Carbohydrates = 2g Protein = 40g Fat = 3g

  • Meal 2 – 9am | Egg & Onion Omelette |
Ingredients – 8 eggs (4 Whites, 4 whole), Half a red onion.

Calories = 414kcals Carbohydrates = 7g Protein = 41g Fat = 23g
  • Meal 3 – 12pm | 150g Chicken breast & 200g Sweet Potato |

Calories = 430kcals Carbohydrates = 56g Protein = 37g Fat = 4g
  • Meal 4 – 2.30pm Pre Workout | 130g Tuna & 200g Sweet Potato |

Calories = 396kcals Carbohydrates = 56g Protein = 30g Fat = 0g
  • Meal 5 – 6pm Post Workout | 150g Chicken breast & 200g Sweet Potato |

Calories = 430kcals Carbohydrates = 56g Protein = 37g Fat = 4g
  • USN Pure Protein IGF-1 (with water)
Calories = 203kcals Carbohydrates = 2g Protein = 40g Fat = 3g
  • Meal 6 – 9pm | 100g Salmon & 200g Sweet Potato |
Calories = 418kcals Carbohydrates = 56g Protein = 24g Fat = 8g


Total Calories – 2672kcals
Total Carbohydrates - 265g 
Total Protein - 254g 
Total Fat - 49g



Here I have 7% body fat. I need to get down to approx 4%.
Vascularity will be out of this world! I'm going to be dry
and shredded as hell! I'll be sure to take pics ;0)




Wednesday, 22 May 2013

Top 25 on Saturday, 2nd place on Sunday!

Best weekend of my life! Everything went to plan. Working with Phil Heath, Dana Linn Bailey & Kris Gethin. Meeting Flex Wheeler, Flex Lewis, Ulisses Jr & Diego Sebastien. Catching up with Rob Riches, Tony Pang, Roger Snipes and Nigel St Lewis! 

As many of you know I competed for the first time ever in the Physique of the Week competition on both the Saturday & Sunday. 250 competitors took to the stage over the course of Saturday awaiting a call back into the top 25 finalists which I made! However I don't think I expressed enough personality to make the top 3, also the top 3 were in amazing shape so I took that one on the chin and called it a day. However, that evening I got into bed and told myself "Sunday, I WILL make the top 3" I got on the stage, showed way more personality, had much more fun, played with the crowd, and made sure I was smiling from ear to ear whenever I was within 50m radius of the stage! I got 2nd place! Really happy with the result and made sure to congratulate 1st place winner Daniel Joseph. He competed on the Saturday and came 2nd so when I saw that I made the top 3 with him on the Sunday I knew he would win it, which makes sense! Next year I'll enter both days again and I have promised myself and I'm promising you, yes YOU who is reading this right now! On either the Saturday or Sunday next year, 1st place is mine! Competing in this competition has made me want to enter muscle model categories as well as bodybuilding. Miami Pro Universe competition on November 24th still has entries and I'm thinking about entering the muscle model category there! What I've learnt to understand is as much as I want to win everything I enter (No brainer) getting my name out there just by entering various competitions is also effective, 2014 and beyond is when I'll focus on winning absolutely everything!

Click the link below to watch video footage of me on stage at the competition on Saturday!!

Aaron Daley's first ever fitness competition! Physique of the Week Live! 18th May 2013


Me and 212lbs Mr Olympia Flex Lewis!


Me and the legendary Flex Wheeler!
Me and PhD's Roger Snipes!
Me and PhD's Tony Pang!
Me and my boy Daniel Blackwell! (Gym Shark sponsored)
Me and QNT's Diego Sebastian!
Me and the reigning MuscleMania pro world champion Ulisses Jr!
Me and Mr Olympia Phil Heath!!!

The 11 week diet I endured saw me go from 80kg to 73kg, approximately 13% body fat to 7% body fat. To be honest, I hated every second. I enjoyed bodybuilding until the day I began dieting, the day I started to enjoy it again was the day of the competition. I'm happy with the condition I entered the competition in, it was just so hard to stick to my diet and not cheat. In the final 2 weeks I was beginning to lose my mind, BBQ sauce had to be summoned back in and boy did it make a difference!

02/03/2013 - 10/05/2013
As you can see I became much more shredded as I lost all the weight through weight training and cardio whilst at a caloric deficit of my 2662kcal maintenance. 100% the hardest thing I've ever done, a real test of my resolve and discipline. You'd think I've had enough, that I'm currently declaring the termination of my pursuit of building a physique nothing short of Poseidon's descendant himself. I'm sure you know me much better than that, my next competition is in 6 weeks time. ;0)

18/05/2013


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Thursday, 16 May 2013

Cutting/Shredding Diet Part 6!! (The final part I promise)

Ok I know I said part 5 was the final part but I've made further alterations to my diet that I thought I'd share! I think I was quite naive to think there wouldn't be any changes in the final week leading up to the competition. So what changes have I made? I've dropped my carbs for the final time (I promise) and increased my fats again to prevent calorie deficiency. Here's what my diet looked like from Monday 13th of May and will be until competition day, the 18th.

Diet Plan

  • Meal 1 – 6am | 50g Oats (with water) & 50g Brazil nuts & 1 teaspn Cinnamon|
Calories = 520kcals Carbohydrates = 32g Protein = 11g Fat = 36g

  • Meal 1 – 6.15am|Fusion Whey Protein Shake |
Calories = 150kcals Carbohydrates = 0g Protein = 33g Fat = 0g

  • Meal 2 – 9am | Egg & Onion Omelette |
Ingredients – 8 eggs (4 Whites, 4 whole), Half a red onion.

Calories = 414kcals Carbohydrates = 7g Protein = 41g Fat = 23g

  • Meal 3 – 12pm | 200g Salmon & 200g Broccoli & 2 fried whole eggs|
Calories = 524kcals Carbohydrates = 3g Protein = 62g Fat = 26g

  • Meal 4 – 3pm | (Pre-Workout meal) 130g Tuna & 200g Broccoli |
Calories = 174kcals Carbohydrates = 1g Protein = 30g Fat = 0g

  • 5.30pm |Post Workout shake Fusion Whey (with water)|
Calories = 150kcals Carbohydrates = 0g Protein = 33g Fat = 0g

  • Meal 5 - 5.45pm | (Post-Workout meal) | 200g Chicken breast & 200g Broccoli |
Calories = 290kcals Carbohydrates = 1g Protein = 50g Fat = 0g

  • Meal 6 - 8pm | 130g Tuna |
Calories = 116kcals Carbohydrates = 0g Protein = 30g Fat = 0g

  • Meal 7 - 10pm | 130g Tuna |
Calories = 116kcals Carbohydrates = 0g Protein = 30g Fat = 0g


Total Calories - 2454kcals
Total Carbohydrates - 44g
Total Protein - 309g
Total Fat - 85g 


No more sweet potato! Only carbs i'm getting now is from my oats in the morning, my body's definitely become accustom because I'm not feeling as groggy low low on energy as I was when I first started lowering my carbs between part 1 & 4. 44g of carbs per day, I feel the effects more so when actually in the gym and struggling to maintain intensity, as expected when carbs are so low. I'm also doing a water load. I'm having 9 litres of water per day so I'm practically living in my bathroom. Today I'll sip my 1.5 litre bottle of water throughout the day and my body will continue to flush out the water as if I were still taking on 9 litres per day. Consequently my body will be holding far less water on Saturday, giving me more of a dry look, helping me look more shredded. 


11/05/13
I think I'm ready, I just hope the judges feel the same way! I'll be at the Body power Expo all weekend working with "Nutrition by design" "Bodybuilding.co.uk" and Phil Heaths "Gifted" stands as well as competing. I hope to see you all there!


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Sunday, 12 May 2013

BODY POWER EXPO 17th-19th May 2013


 

The biggest sport, fitness and nutrition event of the year has arrived again and I am stupidly excited to go back! Last year was my first time, I met top fitness model Rob Riches & PhD's Roger Snipes and Tony Pang who're all role models of mine. I saw Mr Olympia Phil "The Gift" Heath but the queue to meet him was crazy long, this year I'll be working at his stand selling "Gifted" t-shirts so I probably won't have to wait as long this time ;0) I'll be working on Saturday the 18th & Sunday the 19th, I cannot wait! It's the one and only time per year that you'll see and meet up with those amongst myself who call themselves "Fit fam" from all over the UK. There are simply too many amazing features with competitions in almost all happening for me to fit in this post to be honest, to name few...

  1. Bodybuilding/Fitness modelling
  2. Gymnastics, parkour and free running 
  3. British Weight lifting & Powerlifting championships
  4. Triathlon & Athletics
  5. Brazilian jui jitsu, Muay Thai and Martial Arts
As many of you who've been following my blog will know I'm competing at the Expo on May 18th in the Physique of the Week competition. My preliminary judge is at 10.30am, they'll take a full body front picture and one from the side. (Whilst wearing board shorts, no man thongs...yet) I'll have 1 pose to choose If I make it to the top 30. No music or routines as this is a fitness competition. 



My boy Daniel Blackwell is last years winner on the Saturday which got him a PhD sponsorship! Got himself on this years flyer and you can see why. He told me to go for it this year, and I didn't have a reason not to. I believe in myself, I've worked hard and nobody can take my effort away from me. 

10/05/2013
"It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you implement that effort into your life...every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs. Keep going, remember why you started."

I've been on an 11 week diet which has been nothing but hell. I've lost a total of 6kg. (Just under 1 stone which looks like it's fell off my face but we won't get into that) which would have been more If I chose to get even more shredded, say 3-4% body fat. But as It's a fitness competition I need to go more lean than shredded, say 6-8% (I've got a pump in that picture, hence the more shredded look ;0)) But I'm in the best condition I've ever been and how I do in this competition will answer the question of whether all of this was worth it! I'm excited and ready for whoever and/or whatever stands in my way! 

I don't think I've been biased to any particular sport at the Expo, I know I have. I'm 100% there for all the bodybuilding hype! (With no disrespect to the other sports!) Current Mr Olympia Phil "The Gift" Heath, Kai Greene, 2012 212lbs Mr Olympia Flex Lewis, 4x Mr Olympia Jay Cutler and record holding 8 straight Mr Olympia Ronnie Coleman who will be training at my Gym in Coventry, Future Fitness! and many more pro's all weekend. If I somehow haven't managed to convince you this isn't an event to be missed then the website will definitely have you!





Opening times

17th May 11am - 5pm (Preview day)
18th May 10am (VIP's from 9am) - 6pm
19th May 10am (VIP's from 9am) - 5pm

Ticket costs

Preview day
Advance Only - £25

Standard day Expo ticket 
Advance - £19.50
On the Door - £24.50

Standard weekend ticket
Advance - £34.50
On the Door - £44.50

VIP day ticket
Advance Only - £40.00

VIP weekend ticket
Advance Only - £60.00

3 Day tickets
3 Day Standard ticket £60.00
3 Day VIP ticket £70.00

I hope to see you there!


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