Team Posing Day

The Team Powerfood's J-M.B

After our successsful team meeting a few weeks ago, J-M decided to organise a Posing Day for all the members who recently joined our team. By the way, I'm so happy that our team grows bigger and bigger. We actually have new athletes in every category and I finally get some female support by my sister (fashionbarbecue) , Anne (a good friend) ,Sheila, Linda and Zoé...

Brace yourselves boys, the ladies are taking over.

As our federation, the NAC, announced that the Men's Physique category is, from the next season on, officially accepted, a lot of aspiring athletes joined as well. And so far it looks very promising because everyone is highly motivated.

The Posing Day was held at J-M's place, as he has the perfect spotlights for a posing practice and the space of course. Olivier F. did the Men's Physique Posing, Yannick S. the Bodybuilding and Athletic posing and I did of course the Bikini/Shape-Posing with my ladies. And it was a real success. Almost the whole team joined the posing day and this meant lots of fun, as always. 

If you want to get more impressions of our Team posing day, you are welcome to check out the movie on my YouTube Channel (below). By the way, it's the very first time you will hear me speak in a video... So don't judge hihi (#excited).

For pictures, you can have a look at some pictures on my Facebook page (here). 

Enjoy your week. 

Gym-Weekend

Team Powerfood's J-M.B

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend even though the weather wasn't the best here in Luxembourg. 

As for me, my weekend was pretty productive. 

Usually I take my rest days on Saturday and Sunday that have more time for important things like chilling on the couch and thinking about the gym... #gymratproblems.

But as I couldn't workout the first two days of the week and didn't want to skip two training days I worked out this weekend.

On Fri-yay the gym is always so empty which is of course good for me. Empty gym,happy me. So I had all the place and equipment to myself to hit a great upper body workout consisting of biceps, triceps and side delts. Right now I am focusing on my upper body ever since I realized that my back and legs are my strong points and develop pretty fast. And you know what they say about your weak-points?  

' Work on your weaker spots first '

Saturday consisted of a high-reps/low-weights leg session. As I said, they develop quite fast. 

Sunday was my favorite workout day of the week because the whole Team Powerfood's J-M.B came to Factory4. Seeing my teammates again and exchanging experiences and talking about the different training methods felt really great. 

The looks we got from the few other people when we entered the gym were priceless. It was one of those 'Walking-in-while-there-is-an-explosion-in-the-back' kind of moments haha. Of course we have some great bodybuilders and athletes in our gym too, but when an entire team arrives, then this can be pretty impressive I think. 

While the boys hit an intensive shoulder and back workout, the other focused on legs and I trained my biceps, triceps and shoulders (side&back). 

After our routines, we , the girls, decided to do a little bikini-posing workshop since the dance hall wasn't occupied. Sammie and Anne, our new aspiring bikini athletes, did pretty well and I think it won't take long until they get the hang of posing. For their first posing workshop ever it was really good, considering that the boys had to joke around in the back which made it very hard to focus. I think a posing-workshop once a month should be enough to get the perfection as both of them have a great body control. 

To finish this great day, we went to a Chinese restaurant, named Belle-City in Dudelange, to devour (almost) all the sushis from the sushi train.Speaking literally...

Unfortunately, we weren't complete as some of us had to work or already started the preparation for the autumn season. But there will be more occasions to empty the sushi train muaha.

Wishing you an excellent new week with lots of motivation and success. 

After the gymsession, ready for suhi

Back/Shoulder Session

As already mentioned two days ago, I got a new training plan. 

And with new routines comes new muscle soreness as muscles are being stimulated and trained differently. We switched from 5 sets of 13/15/13/15/13 reps to simply 5 sets of 13, which allows me to increase the weights and also the intensity. So I don't have to occupy half of the weights in the gym anymore, as I always warm-up with lighter weights and go on with two different weights for 13 and 15 reps.

Concerning the Back-shoulder/Back session, we didn't change that much, we only changed the Barbell Rows to Negative Barbell Rows and replaced the Deadlift with the Sitting Rowing Machine, which I have never used before to be honest. It was kind of funny when I wanted to use the Rowing Machine because as I am not very tall, I had to set up the seat almost the highest so I could reach the handholds... (don't laugh at me)

Still I wasn't sure about the weight, so I warmed-up with 5kg each side and went on with 10 , then 15 and finally 20. I think it's better to try it out step by step than to look like a complete douchbag , loading up all the weights and being absolutely NOT able to lift (or in my case, row) it and look completely stupid (like most of the men when they are using a new machine)

I wonder how painful this soreness in the back will be as I still can't walk correctly because of the new leg-day I had on Monday.  Today I still feel , let's say, 'ok', let's talk about it again tomorrow or the day after tomorrow... (#liftersproblems)

Oh and the pictures were taken by a coach of the gym. Of course the staff is always super friendly when you are visiting and checking out the gym for the first time, as they want new members, but they are still all very friendly, open-minded , funny and always ready to help you out, for whatever it might be.

I hope you had a great week so far and enjoy the rest of it, only 2 more days until weekend. #youcandoit