First I thought I will write only about my ”normal life”. But I was too lazy to writie 2 articles so those who are only interested in my trainings, you will find them in the end of the text. In 30 January we went to watch some football with Sini. It was our first  Bundesliga-game watched @ live. Stadion´s atmosphere was fine but game was terrible.  After losing 1-0 our football friend Laura came to visit us. So on Monday we went to have a lunch in city center. Sophie´s Brauhas is a little brewery restaurant which also has its own tent in Wasen. I will taste that beer after my competitions so we will go there again, won´t we  Sini? :)

On Tuesday I needed to study. and train. and study. Thank god on Wednesday we found some cooler things to do and I saw my first castle! There was cold and windy but the landscape was pretty nice. We will go there again when the weather is a bit warmer.

On Thursday we went to buy our car. The trip was fine but I really need to say I miss cheesecakes. Lauri – a finnish friend of mine – bought one. I decided to start to write a list where I will put all those tasty food that I want to eat after my Nationals. For example Iskender in La Vida, Döner in our own home kebab, Tryffelcake in Starbucks… Oh man I miss eating. This dieting is getting hard for me. That´s why I decided to make my day and I went to buy my diet food and also some chocolate to Finland.

Sini said that she has never seen so much chocolate – only in store :) I have collected it more now- I bought some chocolate in Switzerland.

Our Friday started terrible. We were supposed to drop Laura to Heidelberg at 4 am. But Sinis alarm clock didn´t work and then we wondered to drop Laura to Frankfurt but roads were too slippery and then Laura said she will take a train but she missed it. So I needed to take her to the Frankfurt-Hahn airport and it was easier said than done. But we made it! 10 am we were in Hahn and I said to Sini that I won´t drive anymore –  I will need a break. We decided to go to Koblenz. It was a very beautiful city. I ate there maybe one of the best meat dishes ever. We drove back to Stuttgart and I went to training. I was so tired. 2 nights only with few hours sleep wasn´t enough for me.

Saturday I finally fixed my nails. They were too long and damaged because of my bench trainings. Jossu asked me to put pink nails and I kept my promise :)

On Saturday we went to meet Leena. Leena is our football mate from Tampere who is studying now in Zürich. Before that we went to watch track and field in Stuttgart. :) 23 o´clock we arrived to Zürich and only thing that I could think was sleeping.

On Sunday morning we went skiing. It has been a while  since I have snowboarded but it went pretty good! I really enjoyed my time there and the Alps were amazing! We will go there again on March. Pics tell more than 1000 words!

After skiing we went to Luzern. There are three very old wooden bridges and Leena said Luzern is the most beautiful city in Switzerland.The City is full of those painted houses and some of them are hundreds of years old.

I have also bought new clothes and sneakers. I started to run again. It is easier to lose weight when I have permission to run. Now I am weighting 64kgs so maybe I can handle my scale 27 February.

First I decided to put my trainings in a different article. But because my writing has lasted now 2 days I will add them here.

Week no. 7. My Body weight was OK on Monday and I decided to go to 63 kgs. I also started to train with my tighter suit and BP shirt.

Monday 31.1.

Squat

– 3x 145 ½ , 3x 155 ½ , 3x 165 ½,  3x 175 ½ (I forgot to put camera on…)

Manta

– 3x6x 70

Leg press

Sides

Abs

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On Tuesday my new BP shirt arrived and I decided to try it. I am too small for my old equipments… It worked very well eventhough it was very tight and my first trainings with it. I might have learned something about shirt BP!

Tuesday 1.2.

BP

– 3x 90 3″, 3x 100 3″ with my old Katana and I noticed it was too big for me…

– 3x 110 3″, 2x 120 2″, 1x 125 1″, with new Katana

Block BP

– 3x8x 70 (3″)

Military press

– 3 sets

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And everytime after my trainings I have cycled 30-60min. I won´t write them down now :)

Wednesday 2.2.

DL

– 1x 150, 155, 160, 165 RAW

– 1x 170, 1x 175 ½

– 1x 180 fg (all lifts with 60s-90s break)

Conventional

– 2x6x 115

Rowing

– 3 sets

Pull ups

– 3x6x OW

Hyper extension

– 1x 40 OW

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Thursday 3.2.

Box squat

– 3x6x 80

GM

– 3x6x 90

Rowing

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Friday 4.2.

Squat with wraps

– 4x4x 120

BP

– 3x6x 97,5

BP with mini bands

– 3x2x 50

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In the end of the week I mystically started to gather liquids. I was weighting before that something 65 kgs and on Saturday I was 67.5. I  began to panic because it was only 3 weeks until my Nationals and I didn´t know what to do! Thank god we went to visit Leena and I got something else to think about. But on Monday I needed to face reality. I was too heavy and I was doing something wrong because I have checked everything I was eating during these 6 weeks.

I tried to reach Jani – a friend of mine who knows a lot about nutrion but I didn´t manage to reach him. Jani has his own gym now. It is called Tzemppi. I haven´t visited there yet but next week I really need to because I will go to Finland!

Story continues! I was lieing in my bed and worrying when I noticed a friend of mine –  Juha – in  a Facebook. Juha Ryödi is a Finnish bodybuilder and I knew he has made a lot of nutrition programs. I told my story to Juha and he promissed to check out my nutrition diary. I have kept it very intensively since January. I met Juha looong time ago when I was still living with my parents and we both lived in Satakunta. I have also trained in a same gym with him.  He gave me some tips and I tried them. I started to eat more proteins and less carbos and I also started to run again. That´s why I bought those new shoes. All these helped me a lot and I started to sweat normally again. Now my body weight is 64kg and I am pretty happy. 2 weeks and 1 kg to go :)

I squated new records on Monday!

Monday 7.2.

Squat

– 2x 160,170,180 ½fg

– 2x 190

Manta

– 3x6x 70

Leg press

– 3 sets

Sides

Abs

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Wednesday 9.2.

BP

– 3x 90 (4″), 3x 100 (3″), 3x 110 (2″), 2x 115 (2″) * I am pretty sure that there was 125kg… :D  I noticed afterwards. There was 20+25kg then…

– 1x 120, 0x 125 * my f*****g right arm left my lift again on the way! Little technical problems still..

Block BP

– 3x6x 70 (2″)

Military press

– 3 sets

Dumbell lateral raise

– 3 sets

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Thursday 10.2.

DL

– 3x2x 160 (½fg)

– 3x2x 170 (fg)

Conventional

– 2x8x 110

Pull-ups

– 3sets

Hyper extension

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Friday 11.2.

Front squat

– 3x6x 60

Box squat

– 6x 80,90,100,110

GM

– 6x 80,90,100

BP

– 3x6x 65

BP with mini band

– 3x4x 40

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On Wednesday my legs looked like this :D Thanks Sergey! But wraps were fine eventhough I was first terrified about the tightness.  It is so good to be a powerlifter ;)

Today I will go to have some lunch with my gym mates. They are gonna eat schnitzel. I will take salad :) Then I will pack my things and on Monday finally I will be in Finland!

So next blog will be written there – in cold and dark Finland.  And to all my Finnish friends : here is +14 sun is shining and spring has started.

See you!

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Anni