Caveman Guest Posing

Dear Friends and Fans,

I'm surprised I made it through the week with trying to get ready for the guest posing on Saturday. It is still a lot of preparation to guest pose, sometimes even more since you have a captive audience. It's important to present your physique as professional as possible. I did awesome with my work load seeing that it's Sunday and all I have is some dictation. I managed to get everything in the office caught up so I wasn't loaded down with a BUNCH of work. Now I only have SOME. The Caveman was a great show this year. The competition was the best I've seen in a long time. The show ran smooth back stage and everything. The fans were wonderful to me. I enjoy just hanging out in the lobby meeting and greeting my fans. It's so much fun. Don Long was there to pose and FLEX LEWIS. What a cute guy and very friendly. He like had everyone hanging on his every word.. probably the deep accent..lol!! Just playing his accent is sexy!! He seems to be VERY marketable and will do very well. Nick Scott was there to do couples wheelchair. He is such a HIGH ENERGY guy. The crowd just loves him... and he eats it up. He really does motivate people. He got the crowd off their feet. He has turned this one young woman on to fitness and I can see the quality he can bring to her life. My neighbors Patty and Sandy came to the show. It was there first one; You all remember yours don't you??? They loved it!!! It motivated both of them to continue to stick to there own fitness goals. I met several new fans in the lobby that were spectators, virgin ones, and all they could express is the focus and commitment they have seen there friend display. We are all here to motivate!! What would the sport be with out the people??? As a bodybuilder, there is no bigger compliment than someone acknowledging the mental, psychological,and physical challenges we over come daily and express the fact that most cannot over come them, and that is why we hold our heads high! Thank you to everyone at the show who gave me a reason to be there and share the glory and spot light with the athletes.

I'm 2 weeks out of the Europa Super show. My weight was 144 this am. I had a fat day yesterday( good fat it's part of my plan)... so I would expect a little push up from that. NO MORE Fat now. I would expect my weight to be 140 or under by next weekend and I will be in good shape. This will be a hard week. When the diet changes like this it usually hits me on Wednesday. Just irritable a bit. I'll work this week in the office then no one the week of show. Charles doesn't like me to be standing all day the week before the show. I've never listened before, but to tell ya the truth... I just can't handle it the week of. Too much stuff to take care of... my mind gets elsewhere. The glute ham area is just shaping up nicely. I swear my legs look better than at the Jan Tana. Really just in the legs just an all around fuller more definitive lines. I love it!!! I have been nursing a sore piriformis (glute muscle) on the left. I just got adjusted, which was much needed, and doing physical therapy and trigger point.. it's sore, but I know how to take care of it. I've waited a bit long ... like everyone else..lol.. Maryjane still seem to have a sore back too! I can't elicit a pain response anywhere, but she has difficulty get up from a seated position. Any suggestions to you vets out there?? I do just need to pay a little more attention to it. A little trigger point for her too. I do adjust her, just need to be consistent for a bit... just like I tell my patients...lol..!! It is going to be a fat burning week which means my stomach is going to constantly growl and burn with hunger. I usually try to go to bed as soon as possible, so I won't be on cam too many evenings, but you can catch me in the afternoons a lot too! Okay.. you all have a great week. I hope you are all enjoying the site.

Your Pro,

Dr. Dena

Still Feeling Crabby

Dear Friends and Fans,

People always ask... how was your weekend.. or what are you doing over the weekend... here is my moment of glory to bitch about that. It seems that I work just as hard, if not harder, over the weekends. I'm stuck here on Sunday morning, but to me it's GROUND HOG DAY!!!!. I would love to sit around and sip on coffee and lay on the couch or something, but here is all I have to do before I can even think of doing any of those.. Usually I complain in my mind as I do these particular activities I'm about to mention... so by the time I'm done complaining one exercise program is out of the way. So, before I can even eat breakfast ( 12 egg whites ) I have to go through my mandatory poses... 25 min, then I do a ab/leg wk out routine every morning on the floor in my bed room 300 sit ups, and 100 different types of squats and glute curls ( approx 15 mins), then 1 hour of cardio ( 30 min walk with Maryjane, 30 mins on the treadmill), then I can eat my first meal. SO about 2 hours of exercise before I can really do anything for the day, because I have to have the cardio done on empty stomach. I'm dying to get all this stuff done. I can then eat and decide.. do I want to relax a bit or hurry up and get the next segment of training out of the way... I weight train over the weekend too so there is another hour to add to my daily exercise and don't froget to add on the other hour of cardio I have to finish before the day is up.. yeah folks.. 2 hours /day of cardio. I have a show in 3 weeks, and a guest posing next weekend ( july 28th), so I have to spend time practicing my actual routine, 45min- 1hr. Okay, now I can start the rest of my day which on the weekends is cook, clean, paperwork for business,and of course my web site!! I hate to even talk to people sometimes.. it seems all I have to say is... I've been exercising all day!!...lol... I don't mean to be a complainer..I'm just letting you know how it feels to have been training and dieting all this time. Like I said I usually complain about it to myself as I'm getting it done. It makes me work harder because I'm mad at the exercise for making have to work so hard... I'll show it!!!...lol.. I'll hit the pavement, crunch my abs hard and grunt through those squats!!! GRRRRRRR!! Anyway.. off to work on mandatories and then cardio. Hope you all had a relaxing weekend. I've done enough exercise for all of us!!..lol Oh, by the way, everything is coming along... Dave say I'm a little smooth from the back... so more cardio!!! Hanging at 145...for some reason 147 this am... but whose counting.. we'll say 145...lol...ok

Your Pro,

Dr.Dena

3 Weeks out of the Europa Supershow

Dear Friends and Fans,

Is it okay that I've been jamming out to Michael Jackson's Greatest Hits?..lol I've been getting great cardio workouts to a number 1 album Jillian put on my i pod. I am an 80's girl remember.. I loved Michael. I would still today stand up for him in a crowd of people supporting the fact that he LOVED and FELT the music. The other shit is his business!!! It's ground hog day for me. I can remember the last time I felt like this way I was preparing for the 2005 Nationals... same thing day in and out.... always feeling behind because you have so much to do...wondering why you feel exhausted then you realize all you're doing is working!!! I'm working every second I'm awake.... I am a great sleeper... thank god!! Along with all my other big belly workouts, I'm still continuing to work on more sculpting stuff. My inner thigh is looking great and full, more cuts... yeah!! I'm still training them 3x/week in addition to hams(1x/wk) and quads(1x/wk). I'm up to 1.5 hrs. cardio a day. My weight this am was 147.9.. I feel a little heavy... I think it's all the liquid.. I've been drinking a lot. Still feeling strong, but robotic... I'm on a path... get out of my way...lol... It's important to stay focused on this road right now. If I seem surfacey....I am...It's what it takes sometimes..the robot is on the path... it doesn't have emotion.. it just does what needs to be done. I'll tell you it does get tough trying to bring it on again, again,and again...

I hope you all are liking the new website. I love going to it and checking it out myself. I can get lost on there. I've made arrangements with Dan Ray for the week before the Europa and during the show.. so we have so much fun stuff to come. I also have a big surprise planned, but I can't start training for it till the shows are over. Let Joel, Colette or myself know your thoughts on the site. Let us know what you want to see. I have to get good this week at my posing. I've been working on them.. in my head..lol.. no not really.. but need to get better with it! Hope you have a wonderful week. Stay cool! It's very hot here in St. Louis. Got some shots from http://www.johnstutz.ocm/ .

Your Pro,

Dr. Dena

4.5 weeks out of Europa

Dear Friends and Fans,

Today is the first day I noticed changes for the better in my physique. It's been really hard on me trying to pull everything back together; just mentally... I've questioned myself if I can handle it... Of course my SUPER EGO takes over and tells me I can do anything... which leaves me working very hard. People ask how I can have 2 careers .. well each year it is becoming more difficult. I am really growing in my practice.... which leaves me working and needing to focus on that a lot. It is kinda messing me up in the head... just trying to do both and leaving myself wondering if I could do better. I now have a person to help manage my bodybuilding and other issues. I'm learning how to develop more organization in both of my careers. Once I can do that, then I will have a couple more years to grow and handle it on my own.

I trained biceps and triceps today. My color is all off now so I look like a ghost.. but I'm really noticing changes in my physique that I didn't see at the Jan Tana. this makes me feel very happy, because I've struggled with the fact of going from contest shape to and really full look ( Helen the hippo), and just trusting the fact that I can get it back again, and hopefully better. I spoke with Don Long at the KS City show. He look at my legs and some pixs and he pulled out my inner thigh. Dave has been telling about my inner thigh for the past year, but I've been in sweep mode. Anyway, Don and Dave gave me some suggestions on training my inner thigh.. OMG.. I've been sore. I can really feel how I've been neglecting them, but now I Can see so much more, already, in the glute/ ham tie in and girth of my thigh in general. I can also see some crazy stuff happening at the triceps tie in under the shoulder. It is getting really chiseled, and the triceps is just standing out in my back biceps shots. I was happy!!! Made me train sooo HARD!!! I'm big and full. 147 lb... I can tell that I got a GREAT rebound from the Jan Tana... I'm feeling positive.

I hope you guys like the new site. I'm very excited! Colette and Joel have work very hard at making everything just perfect for me. Thank you two so much! We have so much fun stuff planned. Both of them have me so pumped to be more involved my site and interaction. I hope you all continue to be motivated and stimulated by my life and dedication. I get true gratification from all of you. When I feel like no one understands.....why I like to be strong and have muscles... I come here.. to my email.. on cam....You all up lift me.

I have a very busy 2 months. I guest pose in 2 weeks, and then compete in another 2 weeks... I need to start getting on my posing, mandatory poses.. back to (2) 25 min sessions a day.. see this all take a lot of extra time. It gets hard to work in the office long hours and train. Thank you to all who have signed up as supporting members on my site and support me on http://www.herbiceps.com/ . Proceeds from that goes towards my training and helping me. I appreciate you all.

Let us Know about the site.

Your Pro,

Dr. Dena

Back From KS City

Dear Fans,

Well here I am sitting on the train headed back to St. Louis from Kansas. Don't ever take the train... this is my first and last time. The accommodations were fine, but I could have driven up and back 2 times. The 4 hour train is really 7 hrs. with all the delays. I was in KS City judging a show, and enjoying my week off of the diet and gym. I had a great time mingling with friends, fans & fellow competitors.. Don Long, Elaine Goodlad, Sherry Smith, Michelle Baker and Nick Scott to name a few. I did a photo shoot and planned a shoot with Dan Ray before the Europa. Lot's and Lot's of cute stuff to come. I appreciate all of your patience with the updates on the web site. We are on the verge of breaking into a totally new and exciting site. Thank you so much for hanging in there.

I've had time to cool down and direct my energy since the Jan Tana. So, Texas here I come!! Monday starts my prep, I'll be back on my diet and starting up my cardio. I guest pose here locally July 27th, 2 weeks before the show, so I hope to be shredded to the bone so my town friends and fans can see me in shape on stage. I'm expecting a great turn out and Lot's of fun. My plan for the Europa is this.. I want to come in tight, conditioned and polished, not like this is an unusual look for me, but it seems to just be taken for granted the fact that I always come in shape. The size changes needed will take place off season. I do plan ,however, to really hit my inner thighs, lats and calfs in addition to my other areas. I have a lot of inward focusing to do on myself and practice. It's gotta be me time!! I had a lot of extra emotional issues that kept coming up during my Jan Tana prep, so full warning NOW to all of those, other than my patients, that expect or need emotionality from me will not be granted this! I need to still tell you about my NY trip; I'll do that in another blog because I've had something on my mind for a while I would like to address... My image and purpose...It's funny how your so called "Friends" like to talk behind your back and say hateful things to pull you down, to make themselves feel or look good. Yeah, you know who you are!!!! My physique is my masterpiece, my artwork, my canvas, my life, my love. NOW what is the purpose of a frame around a painting?? To protect, support, hang, and accessorize... right? I selectively pick clothes to do just this. Would you cover your prize painting with a tarp?? My clothes accentuate my physique. they frame my prize possession. I get great joy out of showing my physique of in a tasteful manner. SO when you see me wearing a tight fitting outfits with my muscles popping out everywhere... I'm not doing this to get "extra attention" from others, I do it for ME, because it makes me feel proud of my perfectly framed masterpiece, that's all folk!!! Don't try to make something else out of it. What amazes me is the fact that just because I have a professional career as a chiropractor, I can't be sexy, attractive or sexual??? I didn't know a career took these emotions away or now makes them unacceptable, so I must hind from who I am or share this with one particular person in my life who doesn't even exist?? I've worked hard for 36 years building up my own esteem and confidence to the point where finally I love who I am. When I'm not able to be me; I become unhappy. Others like to turn my confidence into cockiness, or self absorption. I've come to realize that the people who really know me, love me for who I am and that's all that matters. Everyone else should stick their nose somewhere else... how about in your own stinky shit!!! I want to inspire other women and let them see that being strong, independent, and in total control of your life is SEXY!!! Strength is beautiful!!!

Special thank you to Patty and Sandy.. my neighbors.. They landscaped my front yard with beautiful flowers and bedding while I was gone. It felt do good to be home.. It feels great to love and be loved.

Check out this pix.. how is that for a couple of bellies???lol..

Your Pro,

Dr. Dena