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 By: Michael Beltrami
Email: strongman_mikey@hotmail.com
Transformation start date: July 2005
Something very exciting has happened to me since I first sent in an e-mail enquiring about possibly being featured as a "Transformation of the week" which was October 2nd. On October 22nd I competed in my first ever bodybuilding competition, the Western Ontario Bodybuilding Championships in London Ontario. I placed first in the junior men's (under 21) category.
   Click Image To Enlarge. Front Double Bicep, Early-Late August.
The reason I began to cut down in July was because I had suffered a minor pec tear in my left pec minor and the short head of my left bicep and I knew that was it for the heavy lifting for awhile. Actually that was it for upper body training period until around mid August.
  Click Image To Enlarge. Front Double Bicep, September-October.  How I Did It
Through physical therapy, which I still go to once a week to this present date, the pec and bicep feel fine and besides me not doing flat bench anymore everything is back to normal as far as lifting goes. For the first month and a bit of my cut, I was unable to train upper body at all so I hit legs three times a week and did cardio 6-7 days a week.
 Rear Lat Spread, October 20th. When I was able to train my entire body again I did each bodypart once a week with the exception of calves which got hit 2-3 times a week and abs which got hit 3-4 times a week. Cardio was at 6 times a week now, the only day of the week I completely took off from training was Saturday.
I only had two cheat meals the entire time from the beginning of my cut in July all the way to the day of the competition (October 22).
 Click Image To Enlarge. Abs On A Very Full Stomach, October 20th. These are the diets I followed for my transformation, each one was used for approx.3 weeks.
These are the diets I used for the last week before the competition:
(Mon and Tues: 6 liters of water)
(Thurs: 3 liters of water)
(Fri: 1.5 liters of water must be consumed by 6pm)
(Sat: 0 water) 7:30am (Smitty's restaurant): 3 egg/3 cheese omelets w/ketchup and hashbrowns w/ketchup and 3 pancakes w/honey and maple syrup and a cherry danish. Pre-judging began at 11:00am. However I didn't get on stage until I believe 2:00pm so I snacked on rice cakes and honey, and downed honey straight from the bottle before going on stage.  Click Image To Enlarge. Front Double Bicep, Pre-judging. I also had a chicken breast w/ketchup on a bun sometime around 1:00pm or so while I was sitting in the pump up room.   Click Image To Enlarge. Side Tricep & Front Lat Spread, Pre-judging. After pre-judging, I believe around 3:30pm, (at Montana's restaurant): 2 chicken breasts, large plate of rice and steamed vegetables with teriyaki sauce. Right after Montana's I went back to the hotel and I finished off another half a cheese cake. The finals began at 7:00pm; I was on stage shortly after 8:30pm, immediately after receiving my first place trophy I began to engulf caramel chocolate chip rice cakes w/crunchy peanut butter and blueberry jam (it was all over me and the trophy). Just after 9:00pm I met Frank Roberson again for the third time of the day and he had some very kind words for me, he said he saw me do the routine and said I have a future in the sport. At this time he also signed a Flex Magazine I have with him featured in it.  Click Image To Enlarge. Frank Roberson. I had my first drink of water since the day before at 6pm around 10:00pm or so, I then watched Frank Roberson do his second guest posing routine of the day. After that my mom and dad and I went to Jack Astor's restaurant where I had three glasses of water with orange slices (for some strange reason I craved these bad in the last few hours before I was able to have something to drink) and I had a massive plate of nachos with all the fixins. My mom and dad got a pizza (ha-ha I hope they never thought they were actually going to get to eat the whole thing), and I had a ceaser salad.
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