Day 4!

It's day four for my workout streak and conscious eating habits and I am super stoked!
I just seem more focused than I have ever been before and I am not sure why?
I am on top of my assignments, not wasting time playing games on my phone or watching TV (like I did much of that anyways) and utilizing all the time I have in the day.  I just feel like I get more accomplished that I ever have!
Yesterday was what I call my "pull" day, essentially back/biceps.
-Single arm dumbbell rows
-dumbbell alternating bicep curl
-back extension
-lat  row
-lateral raises
Then I do three circiuts of
-stability ball rollouts
-mountain climbers
-plank w/ walkups

It was late, I was hungry, but I knew that if I went home and ate them decided to go to the gym...I just wouldn't.  Do what you have to do to get your butt in there and get your work done.
You will be thankful that you did later.

I am about to leave for the gym and do my weight lifting before class.  Then after class I am finally getting with two of my bridesmaids to work on a wedding surprise!  Once they leave at 9 I will do my LISS cardio before shower and bedtime!

Whenever I get just ONE second to breath, I have a few of my friends I am making up programs for!  I am just about as excited as they are!  Welp, finished my online exam, wrote in my blog, about to get on the ball with the rest of my day!

xoxo
Krysta

I cannot beleive it's April!

I started making a free online website to reach out to people and inspire them to do what I am doing and they have a blog option.  I thought to myself whoa!  It's been SO LONG since I've wrote in my own!  Even though I told myself I would write in it more. HAH!
Maybe now  I will though. (;

Well, since my last post in JANUARY, I HAVE OFFICIALLY COMPETED!
It was one of the greatest experiences of my life! Expensive, but completely worth it.

Just to let you know how they go down:
Friday we left after we got finished with classes which was about 2 o'clock (just so happened to be Valentines Day) and hit the road running.  That evening I had scheduled my polygraph test and directly after that, my spray tan.  I won't even begin to tell you how nervous I was for my polygraph test.  I thought people only took them if they killed someone. haha.
It just so happened that after looking like an idiot in front of the man administering the test, it was Matt Shipley, who is the owner of the organization. Dope!  At least he will rememeber me. (;
I passed the test, obviously, no drugs in this body!
After that I ran to the next hotel and got ready to get my spray tan.  This was my first time having a spray tan done by an actual person, and only my second spray tan, EVER!  So of course it was nerve wracking for a shy little girl like me.  Plus, there were naked girls and guys running everywhere.  Not like you actually got a great look at them, but the thought of a naked person being in the spray tent right in front of me had me a little concerned. :o  But I'm alive, I survied. (:
When I walked back out to Jamie, he started to chuckle.  I could not WAIT to see how tan I was!

No wonder he chuckled! I was now a different ethnicity!  I absolutely could not stop looking at myself in the mirror.  Just to think, this was only coat number 1!
I would have to get another coat in the morning.
Sleeping stunk.  I brought two towels from my own house so I would not mess up the hotels bright white towels, but I didn't even think about what I was going to do sleeping wise. :/   I laid down two towels to sleep on, then covered myself with one towel and covered the top of my body with one of my t shirts.  It was mostly a sleepless night since I kept on getting cold.  I guess that wasn't the only factor though, I was about to step on stage as a bikini competitor for the first time and I was excited for just about everything there was to experience on Saturday!

Saturday came and went so fast, I wish I could replay it over and over.  It was great the feeling of meeting people who had the same goals, ate the same foods, and were just all around as passionate as you are about changing their life.  I didn't walk on stage looking ANYTHING like I wanted to look, to be honest, I almost chickened out.  But, this was my first time and I told myself I was going to do it regardless.  I am so thankful I did too.

There were about 120 competitors, but that was for the overall show.  This included all the body builders, physique, figure, bikini and I feel like I am missing one... too early, brain fart.

 Overall, I worked out for the show, at least twice a week (which is not as much as you should have) and I didn't really eat as well as I should have.   My body showed for it too. I am proud at myself for getting on the stage regardless, but it just sparked a flame in my body to try THAT MUCH HARDER. I know I am capable of getting the body of my dreams, so now I just have to do it!
I need to lean out considerable, need to work on my itty bitty booty, and I need more mass in my upper body, this is all things that I've worked into my next program.  Which, so far so good, I've been following it to a T.

I managed to walk out with a trophy, which did make me feel like 100 bucks.

And afterwards, with everyone staring at me like I am actually dumb enough to sport that spray tan all year round, I had a nice soup and salad dinner at Olive Garden with the worlds best fiance'.
 A Valentines Day weekend for the books, that's for sure. <3

But onto why I am restarting my blog.  Stay with me. I'm super busy!
I am taking 18 credit hours, have one more semester in school, working two jobs, babysitting two days a week, play volleyball two days a week, and getting everything ready for this amazing wedding.  I keep my schedule packed, that's for sure.

But this weekend I put ALL things aside because Teresa Scanlan, who was Miss America in 2011, invited me to ride down to North Carolina with her to meet with her trainer, Lindsay Messina, who is a two time WBFF fitness diva.  These two are both incredible women and have accomplished so much!  I am now so excited to say I have met them both and can't wait to continue working with them.
Lindsay Messina is the founder of The Fitness Divas and she held a workshop in North Carolina that focuses on the life before, during, and after competition. We worked out, learned our T walks, and talked about nutrition among other things.
One of the best things I heard over the weekend that I needed to hear was "You come before anyone else."  What they meant by that was to put yourself first.  Do things for everyone else only after you've taken care of yourself.  This is exactly my problem.  I don't do anything for myself, or when I do, it's sparingly.  I deserve the gym, not once a week or when I can make it, I deserve the gym seven days a week if I want to go seven days a week.  You cannot take care of anyone else until you take care of yourself.  I am getting married soon and hearing this was like a blessing to my ears, because it's true.

I am now 12 weeks, 4 days, 1 hour, and 6 minutes until my next show and after this weekend I am full steam ahead!  I want to help myself and help YOU!
If you have any questions or want to talk about setting up a program, just email me at kmayvillefitness@hotmail.com

Keep coming back for more posts, I will try to post every few days now that I am 100% focused!

xoxo
Krysta

A month out

I am a month out from my first bikini competition, and though I have been training mean(er), I have not been eating clean.  Which is arguably the MOST IMPORTANT part of compeating.

Though I am not NEAR where I should be in my journey, I am going to continue to compete anyways so that I can get my feet in the water.  If I look the worst, that's motivation for me..because I'm not use to that.. haha!

I've picked out my second show and my second bikini already, and I haven't even hit the stage yet!
It's all a learning experience, which is deffinitly what it is. 
I started at 139ish when I moved out of my house into my fiance's house.  Which might I add, has a treadmill...so I have been LOVING that aspect.
As of right now. I am still about 135.

Na na na na.

Today is a big step, and a scary one at that!
I am PAYING today, for my first ever bikini competition. I am SO NERVOUS!
You should know me well enough by now to know that I have TRIED and TRIED and TRIED to get started over and over again. 

Well, as of this weekend I am 13 weeks out.
I weigh RIGHT NOW 135.4.
I extimate that I need to be at LEAST 125 or below before I hit the stage.
I've got my bikini, although I am not sure that I like the bottoms and MIGHT end up having to buy another suit.. (aka, someone can always buy me one as a christmas present..hint hint)
This show came out of nowhere however I feel like it is a complete hit.  It is the first show of the year, so it would give me enough time to train for another if I want to next year.
Who says becoming a pro next year is too hard of a goal? (;
Unfortunately, there is not a debut category like the one in March had, but there is a novice, and I can switch over to open just to see where I stack up against everyone else.  I can only imagine that there will be a TON of amazing women trying to compete for a pro card just like I hope to do one day.
I am still figuring out the basics, but.. HERE GOES NOTHING!

Busy Weekend!

Guess what I did this weekend?  I ran TWO 5k's and even made time to still make it to my volleyball game!

 DIVA DASH

On Saturday my mom and I ran the Diva Dash which was held in Frederick Maryland.










http://www.divadash.com/

 THE COLOR RUN!

Then on Sunday I managed to talk my whole family, as well as a former coworker and her family to do the Color Run that was held at the National Harbor near DC.
 http://thecolorrun.com/

 So, for all my workouts I use MapMyRun which is a free app that I have on my iPhone.  It calculates your routes, calories burned, feet gained and lost, distance traveled and so much more.  I use it for all my runs. 




 The one on the left, 2.88 was actually the Color Run and the 3.01 was the Diva Dash.

Neither was Technically a 5k.  Which I always think is interesting when I track my runs.


Talk about fun though!
I had a great time!
Two more 5k's for the season and then I'm done for the year!



Next year I'll be spending all my money on those bikini competitions I've been putting off!
Hoo haaah!

Then, like every Sunday, I had a volleyball game in Frederick... and we didn't do great.  Oh well, I always have fun!

Until next time,

xoxo
Krysta.

Again, it's been too long!

I'm Beyond upset I am going to have to cram all the things I've been up to IN ONE BLOG POST!
I need to get better at doing this. Sigh. Maybe one day!

Well, momma and I have still been obsessing with 5k's, if you didn't already know. haha.
I can't even remember which one came first!  Is that sad?

I want to say that Lolizu Mud Run was first, and here's the pictures from that one:

 If you can't tell, it's quite obvious that my first mud run, as well as my mom's was a BLAST.

 So much, that we signed up for TWO MORE after that!



Random fact:  Our team name was the Mud Turtles, and I made our outfits. (:
Not like you could tell or anything..

& Yes, I did have to bring my phone.  Had to time myself... duh!






Check out their website!
http://www.lozilu.com/




After begging and begging other friends to join in on all the fun, I was only able to coax one of my friends join in.  Alexis.  The good friends are the ones that have been friends with you forever! She had a blast too!  We actually got WAY more pictures from this mud run, because she brought her own cheering section to take pictures and cheer us on.  I was more than happy to have her with us too!
Here's the pictures from the Muddy Mama's Mud Run:

We decided to become nerds.
I might be a little bit biased, but I think we make some attractive nerds if I do say so myself.

At about two and a half miles in, and we were still having fun!
I thank our cheering section a TON for following us around and taking some awesome pictures!

At the end, the final obstical!  Make your way through a ball pit.
A BEACH BALL PIT.
How awesome?

Fifteen Obsticals, 3.1 miles later and we all had a blast!
I think even Alexis enjoyed herself, even though we might have been slowing her down a bit. (;


Check out Muddy Mama's Mud Run website:
http://www.muddymamasmudrun.com/











Gasp, I think that's all we've done so far.
This weekend though, (today is Friday) I am running TWO 5k's.  I'll be testing my body for sure!
Saturday is the Diva Dash, and then Sunday I am running the Color Run!
I'll make sure I post those as well.

Happy Days everyone!


xoxo
Krysta

The undecisive has decided!

It'll be a bikini competition! I've passed Christmas, New Years, my birthday, and every holiday in between. I have NOTHING to hold me back! I've considered 5k training, which I'm still going to do, 10k's, and just about everything in between. 😁
I am three days in on my PERFECT eating and I am unbelievably proud of myself! I've wanted to do this for God knows how long! It about time I finally push my start button and get this shoe on the road! It's amazing how quickly your body can change after just a few days of cutting out all the bad fats, grease, and unnecessary calories.

In addition to this blog being my journey to compete, I think I'm also going to use this to showcase great recipes and workouts that I encounter throughout my endless amounts of research I do while being bored at school! Haha.

I shall add more this evening!