He started in the South Regional where he took second place in his category, and after a week and some adjustments, he took the stage at the IFBB National Championship.
Not only did he take first place in his category, he also became the absolute champion of Men's Physique in the Overall, in other words, he is the current national champion.
I started training, in fact, going to the gym when I was around 15 years old with my great friend André Cambim. At the time I played football and wanted to have nice muscles, but I didn't make the effort to do so.
Regularly, with determination and dedication, in 2013, when I was finishing my higher education degree in Sports, this was my change!
I started studying, researching, testing training methods, making some adjustments to my diet and the first results started to appear. I started this process because I decided I wanted to change. I wanted to be different and I wanted to be seen as an example.
I believe that in my area, the fitness area, we, as coaches, must be an example for our students/athletes. It doesn't mean that it is necessary to have huge muscles, but rather, we must be in shape.
I always liked competition, this was the main reason.
I like to compete to test my abilities and at the moment, since my great passion is training, especially bodybuilding, I thought it would be time, as I said before, to test myself and measure ?strength? with others who share the same passion as me.
I don't come in to ?participate? but to do the best you can.
I structured my preparation and put it into practice, luckily it went well!
My diet is based on what I consider basic for the results I want to achieve.
I rely heavily on good amounts of protein and fat, and smaller amounts of carbohydrates, especially when I'm cutting.
When I want to increase a little muscle mass, I increase the carbohydrates and reduce the fat.
This management is done with the help of the Nutritionist who accompanies me, Dr. Rita Mestre, an extremely competent person, with good knowledge of sports nutrition.
For example, when I want definition, I do something like this:
I can't say that I follow the ?X? or ?Y? but yes, I have training methods that I use at specific times.
As I am my own trainer, it is necessary to have good self-knowledge to be able to evaluate which method and when to use it.
I personally like techniques like super-series, tri-series, giant series, drop sets and rest pause.
Now, as I'm at a stage where I want to maintain a low fat percentage, as it's summer and everyone likes to feel good, I opt for Antagonist Super Series, and train the main muscle groups twice a week.
Weekly planning
Example of training? Legs and Deltoids? Supersets
Without a doubt, they are the Squats, Military Press and the Dead weight.
From myself and those who support me (Girlfriend, brother, parents and friends), I always try to be better than I was before.
I consider that I am demanding on myself because I seek perfection, I am never satisfied and as such, to stop is to die!
Of course, I admire the great Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeremy Buendia, Jeff Seid, Felipe Franco, among others, however, if the motivation does not come from ourselves, there will certainly be no one to do the work for us!
The same thing I always say to those I follow closely: Take your time and respect the natural process of things, no one was born ?Big?!
Do not abuse loads and prefer to use intense training instead of very voluminous training with huge loads.
I intend to continue my work and return to competitions in the future.
It's not easy, but I intend to make my international debut. I think it's a good experience and as I'm a believer in the old saying that "anything can be achieved with work", I'm going to work for it!
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