It’s late for me and I’m doing a bit of “home work.” I have another new client for posing who begins on Wednesday and I’ve got to get her ready for the  NPC Ottawa bodybuilding show. She’s got a fantastic physique so now we have to work on a very important and difficult aspect of the contest prep.

I understand that diet is 80% of the game but nothing looks worse on stage than a competitor who is shaking in their plastic high heel shoes because they didn’t practice posing.

Okay, I’m moving on to something new. Today, my partner Amanda and I were having an enjoyable back work out. After a set of exercises we moved on to do rows on the smith machine. In the Downers Grove XSport there are three Smith machines in the corner with very little room in between them.

In this teeny-ass gap between the Smith machines this man was doing some very ill-performed exercises and when I asked if he was using the  Smith he looked at me like I was crazy.  He say’s “Am I going to be in the way.” Um yeah… my only answer was “Yes, because I’m going to hit you with the bar.” Now, I didn’t say this rudly, but he was dead center between both machines and was occupying space that wouldn’t allow anyone to use the Smith’s.

He still stood there looking at me. I looked at him. He looked at me. I looked at him and said “Just forget it.” Then, he tried to move over. I could have stayed for longer but he had gotten on my last nerve within that two-minute show down. He won that battle because I walked away.  Five years ago I would have jumped on his back like a damn monkey until he gave up the spot. I guess I’m happy times have changed.

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