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Greetings all!

Great to see an active New Zealand bodybuilding forum - I've had scarce luck finding any southern hemisphere forums with the magical combination of good moderators and good community and from a brief lurk this looks pretty impressive. :)

It's strange but refreshing to introduce myself on a non-animal orientated forum, haha. Oh and if I end up posting here much you will quickly establish my inability to be succinct: so apologies in advance for the length of my intro. ;)

Who am I am why am I here? I am a 24yo (female) Wellingtonian, not in the best fitness. I weigh 90kg, should be around 70kg, ideal fight weight 62-65kg but no idea what would be an optimal weight with decent bulk and little bodyfat.

The first real training I dedicated myself to was kickboxing/Muay Thai at 18, trained for ~3 years. Only had two fights, was keen to have more but personal dramas led to me leaving. My last fight was at 69kg with a good deal more muscle than I'm carrying currently but a decent amount of fat too. Also my first experience with dieting! Haha.

Beyond very inconsistent dog walks (something I am seeking to rectify) I have been almost entirely sedentary for a good 3 years. I've found a new kickboxing club and am looking at fighting again when I can get back in shape, but there's a new passion in my life...

Basically, with the success of antidepressants and getting out of a toxic environment, I started being able to actually feel motivation. Shocking. And in my growing confidence and ability to apply myself to my goals, I decided goddammit, I wanted to look like this... and this. I love Pauline Nordin.

OK, so that is an extremely low level of bodyfat and it takes years to get that kind of definition. But basically I want to build speed and strength for fighting, and I want size and definition because I think it's gorgeous. High goal? Well sure, but I'm giving myself time.

Oh and it's probably worth mentioning that my exceptionally ectomorphic partner did weight training for about 20 years, and it's him who's addicted me to female bodybuilders... fitness models... and in between. But the propensity was always there. :grin:

So, I've been going to the gym for a week and a half, or four sessions. We're just doing a full body workout for the first 4-6 weeks, then a three day split which we haven't decided on.

We're just going in the mornings at present, looking at splitting it into half morning, half afternoon once our sessions get too long but for now an hour's enough. We're doing three sets of 15, 10 and 8 and I attempt to do more than 8 if I think I can. So far:

Squats: Highest I've tried is one rep at 60 (including Olympic bar), 8 reps at 50 was OK.

Leg curls: Can't remember, about 36kg, my terrible flexibility makes these shittier than they already are.

Bent over rows: Finding these very tricky, started out with cable rows but sticking to bent over rows to get the hang of it. Can't remember, think I did 8 reps of 40 (including bar) last time.

Bench press: I think my 8 reps last time were 40 (including bar) but I can't find my notepad. Not too hard, getting the hang of it.

Shoulder press: Weird exercise, starts off easy, tires easy! Max 9kg for all three sets, got through each one shakey but OK.

Pathetically, I cannot do any chin ups, and maybe 5 press ups? I have always prided myself on good technique, I can assure you of that, but with my current weight everything is exponentially more difficult. *sniff*

I started dieting four weeks ago, it's up and down. Was good the first week, quit caffeine which sucked, all good for another week and a half, the last week and a bit I've been pretty slack. The wine I shouldn't be drinking right now probably contributes to the length of this post. :P

Basically my diet looks something like this:

5am: Banana

6:30am: Post-training protein shake + 2 bananas

10am: 1/2 cup brown rice, 1/2 capsicum, 1/3 cucumber, 1/2 tomato, 4 egg whites scrambled.

12pm: Big handful mescaline salad, 1 chicken thigh, a dollop of hummus and unsweetened acidophilus yoghurt.

3pm: 1/2 capsicum, 1/3 cucumber, 1/2 cup beans, 1 chicken thigh.

6pm: 1 fillet fish (whatever I can stand, alternatively chicken!), 1 cup peas, some broccoli.

9pm: Tasty tasty smoothie, 1 banana, small handful frozen raspberries/boysenberries, some amount of (lactose free) milk... maybe a cup.

Also taking zinc, chromium, vitamin B and flax seed oil, and drinking 1.5L of water with 4+ cups of herbal tea.

So yes! I'm quite excited to find this forum, I really want to believe I can stick to this and achieve my goals. Quitting caffeine and eating real food (even interspersed with pizza and coke) has made a huge difference to how I feel so I don't want to give up on this.

Any tips or critique would be appreciated - hell, I'd be impressed if you made it through this! Thanks for reading if you got this far, hope to talk to ya'll soon. \:D/

Oh and I don't have any pictures to make it more interesting but I have a highlights video of my one full fight:

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Welcome on in :grin: Could do with a bit more protein, not much chicken on a thigh aye probably only 50-100gms whereas you could probably do with 150-200 per meal uncooked, trimmed MEAT oh and I'd ditch the narny out of your tasty smoothy at night, just a few berries and a scoop of protein EAT Me has cheap protein with no flavour or vanilla which is good for smoothies

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welcome. nice clip.

get back into it and youl shred the extra kilo's :wink:

and the motivation of a sport is a great way to kick your ass into gear.

passion for the game will help ya achieve the weight loss.

GO HARD!!

:clap:

oh, and patience.

itl happen. may not be instantaneous, but it will happen.

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Awesome...where did you train and who trained you chick? You got good balance and a good fast switching stance, plus you you throw some nice weight in behind those punches of yours...very impressive :nod: ..very quick :shock: .

Welcome to the forum by the way. :grin:

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Thank you all very much, felt slightly embarrassed at my verbal (er, written?) diarrhoea this morning, lol.

Welcome on in :grin: Could do with a bit more protein, not much chicken on a thigh aye probably only 50-100gms whereas you could probably do with 150-200 per meal uncooked, trimmed MEAT oh and I'd ditch the narny out of your tasty smoothy at night, just a few berries and a scoop of protein EAT Me has cheap protein with no flavour or vanilla which is good for smoothies

Ah OK all good. Not horribly attached to the banana in the shake and I love me chicken. :D Thanks!

Nice fight, you landed some clean hits to her head if you had a little more power you could have knocked her flat!

Thanks! Yeah it was a real pity, my fitness was crap as I'd been doing too much jogging and not enough sprint work (not my decision *mutter mutter*) I was sad about that. And I also need to learn to actually use full power, all this sparring ruins your ability to really try and put someone down!

FYI I lost w/ split decision, was all good as she definitely threw more (see: fitness), but they weren't great punches... I gave her two black eyes and possibly broke her nose, and I saw her want to give up at one point. Hehe. Nice girl, good to see someone with spirit.

Awesome...where did you train and who trained you chick? You got good balance and a good fast switching stance, plus you you throw some nice weight in behind those punches of yours...very impressive :nod: ..very quick :shock:

:D Aww, the only complement I like to get. Haha. I trained at Victoria University when Mark ran it and before it became the Muay Thai Institute. I'm now training with Pete Bailey at Sanuk Muay Thai.

Mark got me to train southpaw when I first started even though I'm right handed, and I thoroughly recommend it. Great fun stuffing everyone up being the wrong way around, and you end up with a nice jab. :nod:

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:) Yeah righties should learn if only to be able to hold pad for us. Hehe.

Ya; Mr Hampton and I may have our disagreements but you couldn't ask for a more dedicated trainer. I was doing 8 sessions a week with him at one point, I don't think many other people can say that!

And I just want to fight like Pete. Ahhhhh. =P~

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:D Thank you! It's so funny, I have ridiculously bad static flexibility but can do a pretty decent whip kick (better than those) on a 6' dude.

Haha, my first thread here has me as motivated to get back to kickboxing properly as hitting the gym...

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Hey everybody,

New to pretty much all sports except rugby, im hanging my boots up and looking to spend more time in the gym weather it would be kick boxing/muaythai or normal gym hehe...

If any one has any idea's on how to get into it please let me know :)

Currently looking for cheap places to buy Chicken Breasts

Hey and to the kickboxing girl wow! mean keep it up! I want to fight as well.

Live in auckland might go back to ETK -Jason Suttie's Gym lol.

All the best everybody, my biggest problem is nutrition, eating right etc.. :naughty: i know lol

Phaddy

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Hey everybody,

New to pretty much all sports except rugby, im hanging my boots up and looking to spend more time in the gym weather it would be kick boxing/muaythai or normal gym hehe...

If any one has any idea's on how to get into it please let me know :)

Currently looking for cheap places to buy Chicken Breasts

Hey and to the kickboxing girl wow! mean keep it up! I want to fight as well.

Live in auckland might go back to ETK -Jason Suttie's Gym lol.

All the best everybody, my biggest problem is nutrition, eating right etc.. :naughty: i know lol

Phaddy

You can start your own thread you know mate :lol:

You can get cheap chicken breast from any of the big supermarkets just wait till they are on special. The cheapest I've gotten it at countdown was $12/kg which is pretty good although others have gotten it for as little as $10/kg. Just have to keep an eye on the specials and when it's ridiculously low buy in bulk and chuck it in the freezer. Nutrition is so much harder than training for me anyway :lol:.

Good luck with your progress.

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lol @ Shruglife. :lol:

Unfortunately I have no specific recommendations for Auckland but there are a lot of good gyms in Auckland, best place for it really. ETK is a good gym for sure (if you're a man, hmph), but it's also reasonably hardcore so depends on what environment suits you really.

Just get out there, give it a go. I find my body just loves training to fight so I very quickly fell in love with the training. If you find a gym with a good environment, go a couple of times a week, you'll start wanting to go more and harder, trust me! :grin:

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:D Thank you! It's so funny, I have ridiculously bad static flexibility but can do a pretty decent whip kick (better than those) on a 6' dude.

Haha, my first thread here has me as motivated to get back to kickboxing properly as hitting the gym...

I wouldn`t worry too much about your static flexibility, you showed in your fight that you have good dynamic flexibility to get kicks up to the head nice and quick, great fight by the way! :D

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Thank you everyone else!

I wouldn`t worry too much about your static flexibility, you showed in your fight that you have good dynamic flexibility to get kicks up to the head nice and quick, great fight by the way! :D

:D :D Well I have to make some effort but I like your approach... we hates stretching! ;)

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