Coming back to Body Building

Hi ladies or gents wanted some advice!! I used to do a lot of weight training in my mid-late twenties and before I had children!! My physique was getting very good and I was thinking of entering a body building comp!! Then 25 I had my first child!! I snapped back into shape after very easily!! And actually had lower body fat than before my daughter!!
Five years later and still training I met my hubby had another bubba and now I hate my body!! I actually work in the fitness industry but I think I now look fat!! Have lots of body fat!! Look and feel tired all the time and I feel I don't "look like an instructor" I'm now approaching 32 and I'm wondering if it's too late to reclaim that figure I once had??? My tummy I hate the most and always cover up now infrint if my husband!! My confidence is shot to pieces now!!! When I do try to train at work I get stared at by my colleagues!!! Laughed at!! And quizzed about what I'm doing!!! Then when i do tell them what i am doing,i get told "why? and  "thats stupid" and i also get the good one of "why do you want to do weights?" do you want to look like a man?? This is coming form some people that are personal trainers????
then when i also try and change my diet and they see what I'm eating they then quiz me about that?So I eventually loose confidence again and give up!! I get said to me by my colleagues "just stick to teaching classes!!! That's all you do"
I really want to look how I used to look or at least a big improvement!!! I really admire Jodie Marsh at the moment!!! I think she looks fab!!! I feel like I want to do this,look amazing and prove everyone wrong!!! Show them how I can look!!!! Feel amazing again!!! As part of my job I have to teach classes!!! So I was wondering if I could incorporate this into my training??? I do three spin classes (very high intensity cardio) a week and two body Pumps!!! and when i do body pump i use good heavy weights!! Again i get the piss taken out of me for this? that Body pump is rubbish,waste of time,spin will just make me fat and give me a big bottom?? I'm so confused with my training now i feel like i have completely lost my way and confidence!!!! 
I am also training for the marathon so i have this added on swell,but i thought surely my classes can be added into a routine??? no? My diet is terrible at the moment,I'm not going to lie,but again this is something that has changed?? it never used to be bad? But i have been very stressed at work lately (doesn't help that i work with idiots)
 
Any advice would be greatly appreciated please xxxxxxx

Thankyou x

Jesus where do you work?!!? They sound like frickin arseholes!?!
TeeHee! Sorry to b so blunt and straight to the point, LoL!
HelloOo! Welcome!
There's lots of articles re diet & training on here you can check out.
Post a suggested weeks excercise and a days eating then people have a starting point to critique.
Where are you? The BNBF natural BBing fed have monthly meetings all over country where for a couple of quid you can train/chat/pose they're amazing!
:-)xx

Your probably more qualified than me to answer your question. It's all about hormones especially when getting older (im 35) I have to do interval training to lose bf. Just believe in what you know and yourself. Good luck Bunnyc80

First of all, your colleagues sound like complete knob jockies and I would far rather have you as my PT than any of them! In fact I'd run a mile from them.
 
Secondly, welcome and get stuck in. I'm certain it's not "too late" and you will get a lot of advice and encouragement here.
 
Perhaps post up a typical day's eats? And week's training (including teaching). I have to be honest and say that I think full marathon training is incompatible with training for a bodybuilding comp (I say this as a former endurance runner/cyclist/swimmer) but that's not to say that you couldn't start laying the foundations down now - in terms of weights and diet - and then set your sights on a BB comp next year? I'm guessing by "the marathon"  you mean London, so you'll be done by end April?

i agree with the comments about your work colleagues. Its hard enough without coming up against that continually.
 
i love pump! i teach one (occassionally 2) classes a week and teach 4 zumba a week thats what maintains my shape and bodyfat levels.  If you can get yourself into the shape you want with some additional weight training/ diet/ cardio then the classes you teach will help maintain it, plenty of women who compete manage to do so aswell as teach classes so dont feel like that will be a hindrance.
 
 

I get the same comments too, and this is from people who know I've been through something which almost destroyed me, something they didn't like yet now I want to be an athlete again it's "Oh you don't want to look like that do you?".
 
One positive thing is when I get comments about "make sure you don't get too big with those weights love", well they have usually come from the same people who have just said I have a lovely figure, ahem this was acheived by lifting said weights.
 
What I'm trying to say is you just have to ignore them, those that dis bodybuilders are usually either jealous, or scared you'll show them up.
 
I find the initial few weeks and months the most difficult, it's a time when you see little rewards although really you are making massive progress underneath the covering. Remember it takes 6-8 weeks for any training programme to have real effects.

Kels on here teaches classes, and competes  
 
It can totally be done! I guess I'd count the classes (if high intensity as my CV) and I'd keep weights separate. Make sure you get in enough calories too for you needs!
 
Good luck and welcome

Wow ladies Thankyou so much for your replies!!! You have all given me a lot of inspiration!! Yes I am doing the London marathon!! I like to set myself goals!!! So yes I want to set down the foundations and def do a comp next year.....so what next????

I'd get the London Marathon out of the way first
 
From the little bit of training I've done for distance events, the one thing I do know is that I couldn't fit in both dedicated time to bodybuilding and race training so it had to be one at a time

It's never too late to reclaim your figure, your mucles have a memory and if you have been in shape before you can do it again. Age is non-issue, I am 48 and my body is in super shape (according to many!) me I am very critical of myself!
Even pregnancies are non-issues. My advice is to get your nutrition in gear, hit the weights heavy and intense and do cardio only 30 mins every day post workout. Everyone is different and I would need to see you to tailor training and diet, but generally speaking 30gr of carbs a day, lots of protein and good fat, carb loading at week end up to 150 gr and you should see results in 8 weeks.
Let me know

Thanks ladies,yes I know prob need to get the marathon out the way!! But can't I get started a bit? 😁Model64 can you give me some advice on training? What is your diet generally like?


Mine:

Breakfast either two egg whites one egg golf and 20g ground oats made into a pancake or porridge or wedtabix

Sometimes I miss lunch naughty I know!! Sometimes find it hard finding time to make anything it il have tuna jacket pot or chicken and sweet potato


Dinner can be anything like fish and rice or pasta


I tend to snack a lot in the evening when kids are in bed and I kind of let go,relax, and see this time to unwind (especially after being at work)


Training

I'm running at least three times a week at no
Two spins Monday evenin
One body pump turs evening
Weds usually run
Thursday off or il do a class eg combat
Friday usually run
Sat off
Sunday I do spin,bodypump, and zumba(I teach all three every Sunday)


Help please!!!!!

I guess the question is, WHEN could you fit in training? Feasibly?
 
Distance-running uses slow-twitch muscle fibres and weight training predominanatly uses fast-twitch muscle fibres so it's hard to do the two, both productively at the same time. Not to mention you need some recovery time!

WTF??!!??
I'd be passed out on the floor if that was all I ate!

Bunnyc80

Mine:
Breakfast either two egg whites one egg golf and 20g ground oats made into a pancake or porridge or wedtabix
Me (8am): 250ml egg white inc 1 whole with 30-ish-g oats or 70g rice
Sometimes I miss lunch naughty I know!! Sometimes find it hard finding time to make anything it il have tuna jacket pot or chicken and sweet potato
NOT an option you MUST eat!
Me:
Meal 2 (11am): 70g rice+170g white fish in miso soup base
Meal 3 (2pm): as meal 2
Meal 4 (4.30pm): PreWO shake - 22g protein+30g oats
Meal 5 (7pm): PostWO shake - 22g protein+small banana
Dinner can be anything like fish and rice or pasta
Me: 150g chkn/steak/salmon+70g rice+LOTS green veggies
I tend to snack a lot in the evening when kids are in bed and I kind of let go,relax, and see this time to unwind (especially after being at work)
I don't snack, every meal is planned in a tupperware container ready in the fridge to eat, no-one plans to fail, they only fail to plan.
Meal 7: Bedtime shake 22g protein
Training
I'm running at least three times a week at no
Two spins Monday evenin
One body pump turs evening
Weds usually run
Thursday off or il do a class eg combat
Friday usually run
Sat off
Sunday I do spin,bodypump, and zumba(I teach all three every Sunday)
Me in an ideal world:
Mon: AM - 40 cardio, powerwalk out or bike in gym + PM - Legs weights+40 cardio bike in gym
Tues: AM - 40 cardio, powerwalk out or bike in gym + PM - Chest n Bis weights+40 cardio bike in gym
Wed: AM - 40 cardio, powerwalk out or bike in gym + PM - 40 cardio bike in gym
Thurs: AM - 40 cardio, powerwalk out or bike in gym + PM - Back weights+40 cardio bike in gym
Fri: AM - 40 cardio, powerwalk out or bike in gym + PM - Shoulders+Tris weights+40 cardio bike in gym
W/Es off at the moment.
Help please!!!!!

Hope that gives you some ideas, not everyone should train/eat the same by any means but I hope you can see how you could be easting a LOT more and seems like you should be able to fit your weights in pre-cardio classes if life allows?
xx

Mod Edit : As this is a public forum we like to have all advice on show for all members to take advantage of. Your post comes across like you're touting for business. If this is the case, please contact James for advertising rates.
 

Bunny, you need to eat more than that to train for an run a marathon.
 
As for getting started with weights now, yes I'm sure you can but it depends on what focus you are giving your marathon training and what your goal is for the race. It's going to be very hard to do long runs, recovery runs, tempo runs and all that malarky with DOMS in your legs and vice versa, hard to train with weights with DOMS in your legs from your running. 
 
Eat up!

Thanx 'ModEdit' this had been bugging me since the post was made.
:-)xx

Business? :-) not at all, just like to help a fellow BB and since I need personal info, I asked her to send in private!

Fair enough fitmodel, but as it's a public forum we encourage posts on the board.  Just seems strange that out of all 4 posts you had made you had commented about being a PT etc. Many of us are on here

nope not me wanting personal advise, she asked for advise and I said that if she wanted something more personalised I needed specific information and it would have been easier to take it offline so I could tailor my advise specifically to her needs. That's all. Am disappointed that people are so quick to jump to the wrong conclusions and have such negative attitude about themselves. I would never be suspicious of anyone, but that's me and that's why I never thought I would kick up such a fuss. Apologies to anyone who felt 'offendend'!! My motto in life is 'what people think of me is none of my business'. Peace&Love