The Competition
I can’t, I won’t, I am not aren’t words in a vocabulary of a Competitor, I am, I can, I will be are the words they best describes them a little better.
Many things come into play when training for a show; you get it all the good the bad, the highs and the lows.
But, do you know what it really takes to be ONE of them? What it’s all about? Let me try to explain to you all the in’s and out’s.
The dirty looks of people thinking you were just born that way, the mood swings, hormone changes, and body malfunctions are just another day. The constant drain and fatigue on the body is the price you have to pay.
The hours spent away from family and friends, relationships are tested they waver and bend.
Mornings are long, afternoons are longer, nights are great because you know that when your body gets stronger.
You go to bed knowing what the next day will bring, but when that 4 am alarm goes off its nothing but a thing.
Because you know what you are training for, you know the heart and determination it takes and so much more.
You know the competitive drive you must need, you know it’s all about heart, strength, dedication, and speed!
You know what your body will become; you know it takes 110% and then SOME…
I know what I have to do to be my very best, it’s all about me and what I bring SCREW the REST!
Endurance, Strength, mind over body is what it takes, extended sessions, expenses, and sacrifices you have to make.
The hours of hard work you must put in, and even thinking about cheating with one golden FRY is possibly one of the 5 deadly sins.
Time it takes ordering your food when you’re out, NO I don’t want it covered in butter, NO I don’t want extra salt, please someone HELP A SISTER OUT!
Hours you spend in the isles at the grocery store, it’s tiring, draining, and exhausting and the food is a real bore!!
The money you spend to have someone else kick your BUTT! Pivot here, flex there, stand up straight, belly in or BUST!
At the end of the day if I know I gave it my ALL, then it’s on me whether or not I sink or fall.
All the training has lead me here right now, I have to find my enter strength some way somehow.
The posing classes, long training sessions, the bathing suit fittings, and tannings, the mood swings and two a days, have lead up to this moment in time…. So shoulders back, tummy tight, and start to pose… because ready, set, GO is all your trainer has to left to say because it’s here, you made it, COMPETITION DAY!
Samantha Harvey 4/24/2012
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