Week 2

We are back again with this weeks installment of "Countdown to Competition" featuring the lovely Lisa Dixon. From the onslaught of e-mail I received about Lisa last week, I have decided I will take a handful of the good questions you guys send in and we will have Lisa answer them next week?? O.K.? So send me good questions that you'd like to see answered ( keep them reasonable ) and I will put Lisa to work answering them. Now remember, this is a woman training for a serious professional level competition. . . who works and puts together this article weekly for Hypothermia. . so keep the questions to a decent length as well. Other than that, fire away to me here at Hypothermia .

1.) I noticed last week, you quoted bodyfat percentages. . . . .how do you determine what your bodyfat is?? Does it help to be naked when figuring the percentage??

Well actually, the way that my bodyfat is determined is by someone pinching me in 9 different areas with a thing called a caliper which measures the distance from one side of the pinch to the other.

When I get pinched I generally wear a pair of short shorts and a sports bra.

2.)When you say working on a FLEXIBILITY routine and moves. . . what kind of moves are these??

Because flexibility is my best talent I have a lot of them! Some of them I took from cirque de sole (a circus put on mostly in Las Vegas). These include a move where I lay on my stomach and do the splits over my head, a move where I do a handstand and have my back arched so that my feet touch my head, a move where I jump and land in the splits etc etc......

3.) I've heard that bodybuilding and Fitness training is considered an artform, but instead of using clay or paint, it is your body that you sculpt to eventually display. . are you naturally an exhibitionist or has this helped you become one??

Let me just say that Americans in general are very conservative!! For some reason the society is really down on women who like to show a bit more. In Australia woman wear less (could be because of the weather), we even go topless at the beach - something you would be arrested for in most places in the United States!

Of course I have always been somewhat of an exhibitionist anyway. But I will say that the more "in shape" I am the more comfortable I am with wearing revealing clothes.

4.) O.K. a break from the training questions. . . lets hit the personal stuff.

working out?: Usually something with a fast beat e.g. techno or dance music (it gives me more energy)

driving?: I listen to anything from classical to rap, I also like to listen to talk radio sometimes. Have you heard of the Tom Lykis show? I think it is very entertaining to listen to other people's points of view!

5.)Outside of personal training and working out. . . when you have free time, what's Lisa do??

6.) I have heard that fitness competitors and bodybuilders often take either photographs or video of themselves while practicing a routine. . . . . why is this??

Mostly to see where improvements can be made. It is very hard to tell where you are really at, physique wise, by looking in a mirror. I like to see my routine on video to see how the audience perceives my routine, are they entertained, did it look clean, and did any move look cheesy??

and the last question of this weeks installment is:

a.) When your in competition who get's to put the oil all over you??

Actually for fitness we don't put oil on, we do however have to paint our tans onJ and of course that is Jason's job. He gets to make sure that every inch of me is nice and dark. (especially in those "hard-to- reach" areas)...

It doesn't pay very well but it has great benefits! I am looking for a back-up person...in case Jason can't make it... J

Well actually not "oil-boy" but I do need someone to spray my butt with this sticky stuff called Bikini Bite so that my costume doesn't reveal too much! J

And now for this weeks training goals:

Today I did a dress rehearsal with some of my competition. After seeing most of them I can determine what I need to work on the most. The things I plan to improve on this week the most include, getting a little leaner, tightening my backside, finding something better to do with my hair on the day of the show and sharpening my routine.

I plan on leaning out by running for an hour every morning at 5am, doing a medium intensity cardio for an hour at noon, doing the stair stepper for an hour at night and hopping on the bike at home whenever I am not busy. For my butt region I am doing a leg workout every day, this includes lunges in many forms, deadlifts. (I hold a straight 45lb bar and bend over and stand up without bending my knees but by keeping my back flat.) doing a machine called the butt blaster, and doing hyperextensions and squeezing my butt. - all of my exercises are high reps e.g. 50 and really light weight, this insures that my legs do not get bigger they just get tighter. I will look for hairstyles in magazines and try some stuff on my self.

Finally for my routine, I am going to practice it with my coach (IFBB PRO Melanie Webb)!! My diet for this week is going to kill me most likely!! I am eating only protein for 5 meals except 2 were I get to have vegetables. I am also allowed to snack on salad through out the day. I have to have 2 gallons of water and make sure I take all of my vitamins and minerals!

We will see more and more of Lisa as Competition Day gets closer. . . . . so until our next installment, we'll see ya'll later.

Last week I let everyone know I was on the condensed version of Lisa's routine, my progress is amazing. . . this is how my condensed version went this week:

My best talent is to lay on my stomach

I go topless at the beach

Play on the computer, watch movies and SLEEP

I spray my butt with Bikini Bite

Find something better to do with my hair

I read the words "butt blaster" and crack up laughing . . . again.

I will look in magazines

I will snack throughout the day

Whew. . . I am beat!! Good thing I only do the condensed version of Lisa's workout. I'd be dead if I tried the whole thing.

O.K. freaks. . . that's it for this weeks edition of Hanging out with Lisa. I'll tell you what, It's as fun as it sounds and she is even livelier in person. I am honored to have Lisa grace these pages each week. . . . and hopefully for a long time to come.

I want to address a small portion of my readers that ask me about my infatuation with Lisa's posterior ( butt ) and while I am a GREAT fan of her fanny. . . I too am a bigger fan of the rest of Lisa too ( like her brain ). . but I thought I'd let you see some of the photo's I have, that haven't been published yet ( they obviously show that I am "over focused" on other assets too :^) here's a few:

Heh, close-ups rule. . . to say Lisa is a complete package, would be understatement of the millennium. . . and I am a big fan of her package. . . (oops, sorry Lisa ;^)

Also, to address the readers who wonder if Lisa even "likes" games. . well, my answer is. . she sure says she does and I have proof that she even hangs out with us. Here's a pick of Lisa hangin' out with the GameSpy guys, Rick Raymo and Mark Surfas. . . 

That's definite proof she likes us gamers. . . cause even other gamers wont hang out with the like of US anymore!!! 

Thanks Lisa!!

See ya here next edition!!!

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