Figure or Bikini Competitions

Tomorrow I will be 14 weeks out from my first competition. I am not sure if I am doing figure or bikini but looks more like figure. I still really don't know what I am doing so I can't offer advice. I hired a coach who has created a workout program and meal plan specific to me. She changes it regularly.
I don't have a whole lot of suggestions for meals, I pretty much eat brown rice or sweet potato, chicken and white fish and veggies. A lot of it. I have salmon and red meat twice a week.
My favorite meal is any lean ground meat, turkey, beef (when I can have it) or chicken on sweet potato with some peppers.

Feel free to add me if you want, I am light on contacts with this goal.

Thanks. I don't think steroids are for me since I'm female and don't want to wind up with a deep voice and hairy chin. HA! But I do need to lift heavier. I'm a personal trainer and boot camp instructor. I'm using a lot of light weights to get all of my clients through the numerous workouts I do.

The tanning thing helps! Thanks! Definitely don't want to look orange! I've done the ECA stack before.

Any supplements. I was told extra calcium?

There is a fitness and figure competitor group on her too, by the way. I'm in it, and I believe one of the others that replied to this is as well.

As far as supplements go, right now I am taking a multivitamin, 500mg of Vitamin C twice a day, Glucosamine in the morning, and L-Carnitine before my morning workout. I will be adding extra calcium soon and most likely echinacea and ginkgo biloba at about 8 weeks out from competition.

I am currently at 158lbs and about 20% bodyfat (at least based on my best estimate right now having trained like this in the past. I need to test for real though). I'm 5'10" and expect to compete at about 140 lbs. I am 18 weeks out from competition now, so a pound a week is a safe amount for me considering that I also need to add a little upper body muscle right now.

wow - I would never recommend Melanin II to someone.

The product is an uncontrolled substance, and certainly has a number of issues associated with it. It is not a safe product by any means.

The company that produces it, actually stopped promoting it as a tanning product, because of some of the issues related to its use, and some very real safety concerns..

Many countries, including the USA FDA, and Europe, have issued very server warnings related to its use.

See here:
http://www.sunless.com/phorum/read.php?1,255284


Most Body Builders / Fitness Models also use Sunless, or Spray Tanning Options. Easy to do at home, or you can have a pro spray you. Much safer, and healthier option. You can even buy the equipment and solution and spray your self or have a friend spray you.

Orange come from using to dark a product for your skintype, to high a DHA level, or poor skin prep exfoliation. (this is a field I have many years expertise in)

UV Tanning is also an option, but I personally would not recommend it.

No good having a great tan if your skin ages extra fast, and and you develop UV related skin cancers, age related UV damage, etc..

But to each his own.

Just research fully the options you use, to protect yourself.

There is a fitness and figure competitor group on her too, by the way. I'm in it, and I believe one of the others that replied to this is as well.

Yup, thats me. Its pretty quiet in there though. I would love to see more conversation, I just don't know what to ask to get it going.

I am also taking multivitamin and vitamin C.

There are a couple of us in there that are close to competing at the same time, so I think as competition time approaches, it might pick up steam a bit.

That is my ultimate goal! I dont think you have 7% body fat to go if you are at 18% now though!! Essential fat for women is the 10-13% range