fitness articles: FAP Update

Just a quick post on Fitness America so far.. Yesterday I competed in Figure Prelims (I was in short class) and Fitness. Figure was in the early afternoon, and I was pretty nervous for my first time on stage. It went pretty well. Finals are today. Everyone goes, then they call out top 5 (I think) to re-walk and pose.

Right after my first time on stage! Figure Prelims

Fitness was later that night. There were 40 girls competeting in the Open Class, plus another 10 or so competing in Classic. I was 19th up in Open. They gave us about 10 minutes, for all the girls to use the stage to warm up.. yeah, think giant clusterf*&K.. but I tried to stay warm backstage.

So they announce me.. I get up on stage, get in position, the music starts.. and the music skips… ahhh.. so I just stood there It took them a while to turn it off. I exited, then went back up after the next girl. The music was good this time, but right after my first tumble pass I felt my legs completely cramp up! The dialog in my head was something along the lines of “oh crap”. I finished the routine, but I was off on my music and my other gymnastic skills weren’t as strong as they could be. For the Fitness America version of the posing round, they just have you do a T-walk, no mandatory poses. Think it went ok, but I was definitely still a little flustered from my routine mishaps. At the end they have all the girl walk out, and they called out top 5. I wasn’t top 5, but that’s ok, I’m not disappointed in that, just that I didn’t show everyone the best routine I can do. BUT the great news is, I get to do it again next week when I compete in the Arizona NPC Western Regional!