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
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| Me and 212lbs Mr Olympia Flex Lewis! |
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| Me and the legendary Flex Wheeler! |
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| Me and PhD's Roger Snipes! |
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| Me and PhD's Tony Pang! |
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| Me and my boy Daniel Blackwell! (Gym Shark sponsored) |
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| Me and QNT's Diego Sebastian! |
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| Me and the reigning MuscleMania pro world champion Ulisses Jr! |
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| 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!
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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)
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18/05/2013
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Twitter - @A_DaleyFitness
that is something! congrats! Did you have any trouble meeting Phil for example? I couldn't reach him at the FIBO this year.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I worked alongside him selling his "Gifted" t-shirts at the BodyPower Expo in Birmingham plus when he was in the UK he trained at my local gym Future Fitness so no troubles ;0)
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