Prepping for a figure competition takes a lot of dedication, patience, and understanding. To compete in figure sets you apart from the rest. Therefore, it is ESSENTIAL that you don't fall victim to one of the weight loss tools widely used.
That tool is the dreaded scale. It is one of the many weight managing tools you love to hate. Newbies, seasoned figure competitors, and even bodybuilders can be scale watching junkies.
While using the scale is fine and does have it's advantages, most women have given it SO much power to it and let it dictate their progress and self-worth.
The ABSOLUTE WORST THING you can do in your figure prep is become a slave to the scale. Far too many people see the scale as a dictator rather than a tool. If you get too wrapped in the scale weight number you can end up in a scale weight vortex, or rather... Scale Hell!
The worst thing you can do is become fixated on the perfect number you create in your head. No one (judges, spectators, other competitors) cares what you weigh in your figure competition. Weight is irrelevant. What you are being judged on is your physique, your muscularity, definition, skin tone, and posing.
If you are ready to step on stage at 135 pounds and look GREAT and can win, why would you want to drop down to 129? Lose muscle? Get that "perfect number" out of your head and focus on the perfect physique.
When training for a figure competition you train to build lean muscle mass and lose body fat, not just drop scale weight. When you can manage muscle gain and fat loss simultaneously, the number on the scale may seem stagnant.
The scale will only tell a small part of the story. To get accurate fat loss and muscle gain reports you need to take your body fat percentage. When you know your body fat percentage you will know exactly how much lean muscle mass you have and how much body fat you have.
I find many newbies fearful of gaining muscle because they think, or have been told, that muscle weighs more than fat. This is false. Muscle does not weight more than fat. A pound of muscle and a pound of fat weight the exact same… a pound.
Muscle, however, is much more dense and takes up less space than fat. Another plus is that a pound of muscle burns more calories than a pound of fat. That's why it is ESSENTIAL you prep to keep your muscle and lose the body fat.
Ideally, you should focus on gaining some good muscle weight in the off-season, while managing body fat. You don’t want your body fat to soar through the roof in the off-season, but it is okay if it goes up a tad.
Then, when it comes time to diet down for your competition you will have added muscle to have a high BMR to burn more calories.
If you need to lose several pounds of body fat for your contest, your scale weight should move down slowly when body fat drops. Don’t put too much focus and emphasis on the scale because your goal is fat loss, not fat AND muscle loss.
The scale number is not the determining factor if you are in shape, lean enough, competition ready, etc. It’s just a measuring device that weighs all the components of you including, muscle, fat, organs, water, blood, etc. It cannot distinguish between each.
Your body should be reshaping and you should be losing inches when you prep for your figure competition.
The scale can be a wonderful weight management tool, but it can also be the one factor that keeps you stressed out.
The BEST way to lose body fat and keep as much lean muscle tissue as possible is manage your calories, NOT cut your calories. You can lower your calories to where it forces your body to burn fat, but if you cut them too much too soon, you'll only lose muscle and lower your BMR.
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