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 By: Marc Lobliner
Today I am 3 weeks out and weigh 184 lbs. My water weight is up and down due to the show last week. I am looking forward to it leveling out. The main goal is to hit 176 on show day and that should be 100% attainable. I usually drop 8 or so pounds of water that last week.   Click Image To Enlarge.I Am Pretty Amazed With The Weights That I Am Throwing Up At This Body Fat. So even now at this weight, I would be okay. But I am looking to get to 176 on the Wednesday before the show so that I can just coast right in. I might not even carb load for the show as I might do better with steak and almond butter. When I qualified for Nationals last year, all I ate was steak, fish and almond butter and I didn't eat any carbs for 2 weeks before the show. I was full, hard and vascular that show and since weigh in is on Saturday morning, this eliminates all possibility of carbing up and not making weight!  Click Image To Enlarge.But I Am Looking To Get To 176 On The Wednesday Before The Show. 8 lbs really isn't much. 2-3 lbs per week including water drop. Another day, another step closer to taking this thing baby! I will get super shredded! It is game time baby!
I would be a liar if I said that making weight didn't worry me. Even though I know I will hit 176, the thought of not being there sucks. But I have 3 weeks and also have to drop my post contest water rebound still. So 8 pounds really isn't that much. Looking in the mirror, the only fat I have left is on my back and glutes. This is where it will come from and cardio will make sure of this. My hamstrings are diced and my back is going to be in great shape. This is the non fun time of prep, when you try to get below contest shredded.
  Click Image To Enlarge.I Feel Pretty Good Despite All Of This Activity.
Cardio has been stepped up. It rules my life. Here is what I did yesterday:
That is my day. How I am still functioning, I have no clue. I am looking forward to rocking this show and then returning to being normal. During cardio, I use my blackberry to post here and also write emails and sales letters. Basically, I have no down time! But it is all for a reason. This is to show the world that Team SciVation practices what they preach and will do what it takes to live the life! Thomas walked today for the first time on camera! Check it out...
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 Click Image To Enlarge.I Am Looking Forward To Rocking This Show.
Wow. This is happening. The post-contest rebound is over and last night, 2 lbs flew off of my body. Was it fat? Was it water? Was is lean mass? Well, I really don't care. I am a more dominant flat middleweight than a full light heavyweight. Thus, I have adopted a boxer's mentality... make weight at all costs. I am doing more cardio that one can imagine. But through this process, great things are happening. My back is coming in. My legs are separating. My glutes are tight... even though they will be covered by my trunks. So you might be seeing in the process of making weight the emergence of a sick, nasty, veiny competitor. We have 3 weeks, which is a long time, to find out.
  Click Image To Enlarge.You Might Be Seeing In The Process Of Making Weight The Emergence Of A Sick, Nasty, Veiny Competitor.
We will finish off with post-workout cardio and then I will do other things today, like mow the lawn for 3 hours (big lawn!) And do housework. Mowing the lawn takes care of 2 hours of cardio and also my tanning for the day. It is really one h#ll of a pre-contest activity! This is the weekend to get some weight off. I want to be 179 by Tuesday of next week. I do not want to have to panic on the last week that I will not make weight. I want to come in smiling knowing that the scale will say 174 on Saturday morning before the show. That is the goal. So here we are. 1 week post-warmup show and 3 weeks pre-kick@ss show. I had this show in my sights and I will have been contest dieting for 17 weeks on the most effective diet ever, The Cut Diet. It is time to bring it home fellas!
Now, on to my progress. I am 180 today. I can make weight tomorrow if I had to. My body is tightening up even more and I am jacked to see what exactly will happen in 3 more weeks of getting my hardcore prep on. I have never been this lean. My skin is becoming paper thin and I now realize that this version of me will wipe the floor with the version we saw last week. I just look better when stupid shredded. My legs are getting grainy and separated and my glutes are nice and formed. My upper body is in and my back is getting some awesome tie ins. I cannot believe the progress I have made! I cannot go to the water park today! Thomas was up sick all night. Oh well, I have plans for my little girl and I as a backup. We will go for a nice walk in the park and look at flowers, play on the slide and swings. And then go to Play Place and let her play with other kids and if it isn't busy, I will play in the jungle gym with her. Kami needs a day with me. With a baby around, she gets very jealous as expected.
  Click Image To Enlarge.I Cannot Believe The Progress I Have Made!
Also, since that Swedish study showing you can spot reduce your abs, I love killing abs after cardio to make sure that the veins and nastiness gets even more disgusting. I expect in 3 weeks to have the leanest abs any of you have ever seen. I have been doing them daily and in addition to cardio and this diet, watch out!
  Click Image To Enlarge.Kami Needs A Day With Me.
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My hammies are getting ridiculous, glutes have striations, and quads are a little bit of rest away from being deep and split. I belong as a middleweight and will prove it on June 13. The veins in my abs are always there and just nasty. I am excited! Cardio is actually a treat now because I know what the end result is going to be. I am not letting up. I have Xtend and my lean-mass loss is little if any. I am going to keep plowing forward and obtain unreal conditioning. Nasty conditioning.
  Click Image To Enlarge.I Am Diced And I Still Have 3 Weeks Left!
Yesterday was exercise day for Kami and I and I also got a lot of office work done, including drawing up a multi-million dollar contract that looks close to being finalized. I have been working my @ss off to help grow Scivation as has the team including Derek and Rob. Today, I have legs! It is me on my own. Katie is going to the gym later and Thomas is too sick for child care, so we will take turns. I am going to kill it. Burn a ton of calories and etch in some nasty things! Time to get it. The goal is complete shred domination. I am ready right now. Give me 3 more weeks, it is going to be sick! No letting up now. I have been going this long. All I need to do is bring it these last 3 weeks and experience the best condition I or anyone here has ever seen. Y'all ready for this? Yeah Buddy!
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Holy cr@p! What a session. I am starting to feel this low body fat. I went up 20 lbs on squats this week and I felt it! I got 12 reps, not 15, but it burned! My quads feel like nothing. I can hardly stand. I am literally walking on the treadmill at 2.6 speed. And even that is hard. I cannot move, period. Yes! The pump is unreal. 179 and shredded and still crushing the gym. My next set of pics will be tomorrow for sure while training with Rob. So I am gonna finish up cardio and crawl out of the gym. Then, a day full of office work and family! Rock and roll! 3 weeks baby!
  Click Image To Enlarge.Might I Remind You That I Still Have Almost Three Weeks Left?
  Click Image To Enlarge.I Have Been Like A Machine.
What a day! I found a way to let Katie shop and knock out cardio at the same time. Nice! Today Rob and I will kill some chest. I have my hour of pre-workout cardio and then we will slam it. Time to bring the nasty! The shred is on!
  Click Image To Enlarge.Time To Bring The Nasty!
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  Click Image To Enlarge.The Shred Is On!
I belong as a middleweight. I am leaner than I have ever been. I am sticking to the plan and the results have been unreal. I am ready now!
  Click Image To Enlarge.I Am Leaner Than I Have Ever Been.
Yesterday was tough. I got hit a little with what Thomas had and was a bit out there. Work was also nuts and stressful. But we had a great sales day and May was Scivation's best month ever! By a lot! And June looks to be even better!
 Click Image To Enlarge.They Aren't Ready For What I Am Bringing.
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2.5 weeks until gametime. Until the next installment, keep drinking your Xtend and keep working hard to reach your goals!
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