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Hey V,

She's definately down for the March show. Masters aiming for pro-card and finally feels confident enough to compete in open as well where she would have (IMO) placed well this time.

November is correcting time though. She's got a qualifying marathon end of Nov in Seattle so as much as I'd like to use the post-show supercompensation time to build new muscle, she needs to be light in the lower end, and FEEL light. So she's got two days corrective based (her hip external rotators as really very weak, especially the right side where she's prone to injury). The other two days are upper body building based, with emphasis on shoulders and upper lats. This time however I'm seperating shoulders on different days for each portion (front, middle, rear) which naturally brings the volume and recovery time up.

I was experimenting with angles last time after watching movement patterns, it just happened to work. This time, watch out, this girl is gonna look freaky in every way we need her to. I remember this girl's butt, and that other girl's shoulders, and that other girl's conditioning....we're gonna have a whole bunch of that rolled into one sweet little package.
:-)

Going to sit down with her tomorrow night and work out time frames as her marathons need to be her focus as it makes her super happy and keeps her focused. The training for the March show I'll have to program backtracking from March to November to ensure she's up to par with those Advanced girls.
Problem always ends up being the Boston marathon is usually so close to the March show. And it's damn near impossible to have full muscle bellies while training for a marathon like that.
But hey, that's why I love my job.

Start thinking about her poses! If you can give me feedback on her weaknesses I can iron them all out in her training. So far I got upper lat width, glute/ham tie in, hip stabilizers (tfl, glute med), rear delts and overall delt fullness. We did a TON of work to get her back to look that way last time but I need to lay off the lower lats or she'll lose that waistline that pops so well from side poses.

Victoria!

You'll be happy to know our gal did very well! She placed 1st in Novice Masters Fitness Model, 2nd in Novice Masters Figure - Physique and 2nd in Novice Masters Muscle Model.

Her posing was such a strong point this year thanks to you. She said she had a blast, but she was very tired come the end of the evening.

Hey Victoria...just wanted to say hi and looking forward to seeing you this weekend at the FAME Nationals!!!

Yes, he got back to me about the same thing. So open/novice it is. Not worth competing against one or zero people.

Corinne may look a little flat come this Sunday as her weight training volume is super high right now (better her than me, I tell ya!), then next week I plan to deload on the weight training (about 1/2 the current volume), allowing her to up her cardio and let the muscles swell, then last week volume comes up first three days (but not resistance) but major difference is her carb load will match it, then it's low coming into the show for 2-4 days.
That's my plan.

Your insights on her shoulder fullness needing to come up was helpful; I made adjustements, you should notice quite a difference in the next couple weeks. Anything else you're expertice can suggest, it's more than welcome!

adrian@adriancrowe.com
easy, huh?
thx!

Cool...Thx a lot!

Hi Victoria!

Good job with Corinne thus far! She loves it! Was thinking about the Novice/Advanced thing too. I see no one's gotten back to you though.
Once concern is that last show there was <5 total Advanced competitors for all categories.
Your thoughts?
p.s. I'll try Jeffrey on the category issue too