Whats up everyone. Its two days after the Houston Pro show and as you all know by now I was seventh place and not satisfied with my placing. Lets talk about getting to the show...lol. My plane left on Wednesday morning for Houston, walking through Detroit Metro airport all I could see was Bagels, Cinnabuns, Chocolate bars and Sandwiches. So after fighting the urge to eat all of those things I found my way to my gate scaring half the public because I am an abnormally large arab man with a mohawk...lol. I do my best to smile but I don't think it helps..lol
I boarded the three our flight in good spirits then we hit a storm, just as we were about to land the plane picks up again and we get redirected only to sit on a tarmac somewhere else for an hour and a half before being able to come back to our original airport to land. So I missed a meal and was pissed. Then the cab ride from Houston airport to the hotel was about forty-five minutes and eighty bucks later and that pissed me off. Then the hotel didn't have a microwave for me that they were supposed to have and that pissed me off. Then I had to change rooms because there was no fridge and That pissed me off. Anyway after all was said and done I was checked in and pretty pissed off.
From there on things turned around. My girlfriend showed up the next day and helped me calm down by helping me prepare food and cleaning up and things like that. I slept a lot Thursday and ate every couple hours making sure I was nice and full for the battle Friday. There in lies the problem, I ate too much. I have added about 8-10lbs of muscle since the last show and trying to fill it out became a chore and I went a little overboard.
I hit the stage on Friday at a full hard 249lbs and I was the first one out to do my free posing, I felt big and hard. After I went off I had to wait for twenty-one other guys to go and as I waited I could feel the pump spilling out over the muscle and I was losing it as I stood there. By the time I was ready to go back out for comparisons I had spilled over and it was evident that I had tried to fill too much.
After all was said and done I received a good crowd response, a good response from bodybuilding insiders and tons of support on the muscle forums to go with my seventh place finish. I am unhappy with my placing but am happy to know that most of the public noticed my gains and sees my potential now its up to me to put it all together in Tampa.
August 9th is just under five weeks away and since I have been eating ice cream and pizza for the last three days I guess its time to get back to work. I plan on hitting the stage in Tampa a big, shredded 244lbs and hopefully this time I won't miss the mark.
So I want to thank everyone of my fans for there support and I also want to apologize for letting you guys down. I know a lot of you made predictions and I did my best to make them come true but I just missed the timing a little, don't lose faith I will be back to show what I am really made of. Thanks for having my back y'all.
Sacrifice Without Regret,
Fouad Abiad
