Blog Post by Shane Humphries: IFBB Bodybuilding Champion Looking good and feeling great is definitely one promising aspect of being involved in the bodybuilding and fitness lifestyle but it has so much more to offer! Let me take you on a little journey on how incorporating bodybuilding into my lifestyle has made me the person and more importantly the parent I am today. Routine: Dieting for a show or setting that training plan to become a routine can be a great asset to utilize in the home; getting kids to school on time, getting kids to bed on time. If you have a failsafe routine with the family it definitely makes it easier for everyone and then you get the time to do the things you want to do (Like “GROW”). Goal Setting: 24, or 16, or 12 weeks out from show you have set a time a day and place to be the best you can possibly be, this one is great to help your kids with learning chores and give them goals to achieve also. Like “Hey, let’s see if you can keep your room clean for this whole week and not need us to ask you to do it!”. See – it can work in a parent’s favor but let’s make it fun for the kids too. Sit down and ask them what they would like to achieve this week, month or year! Ok year is maybe a bit too long for a kid. But it can be hilarious to hear what they come out with. Consistency: If our ideal bodies were as easy as getting a new haircut we would all look like Mr. Olympia… Unless you are born with...
Blog Post by Shane Humphries – Activewear Online Promotional Athlete Those three words can do two things to a bodybuilder. Make them cringe (partly with fear and partly with anticipation), or make them excited. Excited for what is to come, what they are going to push their bodies to do, push their minds to achieve. Then after all the preparation it comes down to one day. The big day comes – the day when we get painted tans and strip down to our posing trunks and we just hope that what we have done is enough. Enough so that hopefully we can walk away from that stage with no regrets. Just to be true to ourselves knowing that we did our best. We were better than we were last competition. We improved on our weaknesses and we were overall happy with the outcome. Yes it is a competition but it’s not just a competition against other hungry, painted, posing trunk clad men. It is ultimately a competition against yourself. I think a lot of the trials caused by comp prep can be overcome if you choose to look at it from a different point of view. Competition prep and dieting can be a drag at times let’s face it. Especially on those days when you are second guessing yourself and feeling flat with no energy but hey it’s what we do. It’s what that small minority of us who are able to do to get our bodies prepared for battle against every other competitor and ourselves on that day. So why not embrace it! Instead of whinging and whining about being hungry or eating...
Blog post by Shane Humphries – Activewear Online promotional athlete When I talk to people about the fact that I compete, I find that a common response to what I have achieved is admiration, inevitably followed by the person expressing how they would love to either have a body like mine or even to compete one day. Then the excuses come. Too old to start – you have to start young, poor genetics – you need to be naturally muscular or big, married – most of those bodybuilders are single guys without responsibilites, children – no time, a stressful job, the list goes on. There’s always something holding them back from their dreams and so they let them go. Well I am here to state that a family man with poor genetics and a huge passion driving him can achieve an amazing physique and can step up onto that stage. It just takes the right mind set, a bit more time management and a wonderful family and support network to do so. I’ve got poor genetics, and I’m too old to start! I competed for the first time last year. I am 34 years old. I used to be a skinny kid and I mean skinny like a whopping 68kg ringing wet (hence my nickname “Chicken Little”). But one day something inside me just clicked and I decided that from here on in I wanted to excel, I wanted to move forward and achieve some personal goals. From that day forward training became a part of my life. Its starts off slow and painful as anyone who has started a fitness kick can all relate to (and painful...
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