-Written September 2015, by Mindy Irish BS Education | NASM CPT | NPC Bikini Bodybuilder —– I know that I got interested in competing in 2012 because I started seeing it become more prominent on social media. That brings up a good topic: When is someone really ready to compete? It varies with each person, […]
Lasting Changes do NOT happen in 12 Weeks!
Are you upset because you didn’t hit your goals in 12 weeks? Well I didn’t either! •2010: I was down from 225 to about 175 here and was to the point where my body wanted to be comfortably. My old lifestyle would have kept producing that result. But I was not ok with staying […]
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What is a Reverse Diet?
There is a lot of talk about Reverse Dieting lately and I thought since I’m smack dab in the middle of one, I’ll elaborate and share out about it. This is my third time to reverse diet, commonly known as Rev Diet or RD. I’m a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, Online Coach, and a competitor […]
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A Change of Plans: From Figure to Bikini!
After all my weight loss, in 2012 I wanted to take my journey up a notch and began training to compete in bodybuilding. In 2013 I competed in my first NPC Figure show and did 3 shows that season. After that season, I was hooked! Then I entered into a year-long building season with my […]
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A Number is Just a Number!
I rarely post my progress updates, but my hobby is to compete in the Figure division of bodybuilding with the NPC. I’m heading in to my 3rd season and will compete again locally in Indy in late August and then at Nationals, the North Americans, in early September. For those of us in the sport, […]
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A Figure Update….So how can this work for you?
This weekend I am 19 and 20 weeks out from my third season of Figure competing in the NPC. That means I am officially in prep and in a slow diet down (caloric deficit) to get ready for the stage. Last season I was 128 on each of my show days and after this 7-month […]
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Notes & Updates on my NPC Figure Journey
I started competing in the National Physique Committe (NPC) in 2013. As of now, September 2014, I’m in a building season with my Coach, Brooke Erickson Be-Fit and plan to compete again at the North Americans in August 2015. Below are some of my Figure features and recent updates to my journey. I also spent […]
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My 2014 NPC Figure Journey, First Trip to Nationals, the North Americans!
My name is Mindy Irish, creator and operator of the Fit Gal Club, and I’m a gal on a mission. I started competing in the Figure division of Bodybuilding with the NPC in 2013. I blogged my 19 weeks to the stage in that season and then trained with my then Coach Shala Singer […]
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My NPC 2014 Figure Journey, Summer Show
This is my story of my Peak Week and day-of-show fun in my NPC Figure journey for the summer of 2014. I started training to compete in Figure in the spring of 2012 and had three shows in my first competing season in 2013. You can read my 19-week documentation to that first season HERE! […]
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My 2014 Journey in Figure Competitions….the story continues!
I’m writing this three weeks out from my first show in my second season of competing in Figure competitions. You can read my 19 weeks to the stage from my first season on this link HERE! Much has changed since then, but it was where I was at that point in time and I get […]