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You can't keep a good southern man down ....or off the stage
for very long. Just as we thought ANB Asia Pacific
Novice u70kg champ was going to take time off to grow,
he reveals he's competing again. In his sights is the NABBA/WFF Christchurch on 29 April and as you can see from the pic, Rede's looking great and will no doubt return with an even leaner and bigger body. Well, that's what he hopes anyway. Let's find out more about how he's approaching this contest. right: Rede @ 6 weeks out on 19 March '11. |
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| Why did you get back in contest mode so 'soon'
after your ANB comp last year. Thought you were taking time off to
build size. To me a year is long enough between comps for where Im at now and I think you need to go through the process at least once in that time to keep getting the body sharper. If I didn’t compete I would do a practice prep anyway; so I might as well be up there doing it for real. I find it tough going to shows and watching others compete and not being up there amongst it. 
 Rede ready to go @ 6 weeks out What areas of your physique have you been working on and what changes have you made to your physique after ANB up till this point in terms of mass. I have been focusing mostly on mid to lower traps and outer quad sweep (leg size in general). My mass hasn’t increased as it were (on the scales)…I have actually sat 2.5-3kg lower all year than usual (with less body fat) BUT muscle density Im finding is greater…. What look are you aiming for in the WFF show? do you think you'll be under 70kg? |
Yes I will definitely be under 70kg and fellow competitors have
the potential to be significantly bigger (on the scales at least)
being a height /weight based class I’ll be entering for the first
time. There’s no challenge for me to get under 70kg – the challenge
is doing something different and having to be harder / leaner /
more proportional / more symmetrical and win that way!
 Are you approaching pre contest differently in terms of your diet or amount of cardio, weights and reps you do in the gym My diet has been clean all year to the point I can ‘slip up’ over a weekend and clean it up for 2-3 days and look pretty good again. Presently Im ahead of schedule and yet there are still several key points to meet in my preparation that will keep adding to my condition which is very exciting for me. Cardio has been year round also which is something new I was determined to try, of a much higher intensity (think sprints) and I have even branched out and thrown some ZUMBA into the mix – hey it makes it fun! :) In regard to weights, I always try to focus on lifting speed and quality of each rep rather than the pure amount of weight lifted too much.  Rede @ 8 weeks out on 27 Feb '11 We hear you've been working like a demon while training legs. To the point you bit your lip and bled you didn't know it. Showing that you're a very focused person, where do you think it comes from and what drives you to not recognise the pain. Focus is such a personal thing and I have clients / friends that focus on things important to them that blow my mind…I couldn’t do it for some of those things at all lol. I know how hard Ive worked / what Ive done in the past with legs and so figure they can only improve if I take it beyond that point – that may be biting my lip OR feeling like passing out OR being physically sick AND you cant go much further than that. Every session is a bit of a tightrope walk shall we say… My desire is to be the best I can possibly be within MYSELF and not care what others may think. As always, if someone is training harder somewhere then they deserve to win...for sure. 
 Give us some examples of your hardcore leg sessions. I train legs twice per week and do several HIIT cardio sessions so really there is nothing left in those muscles…on a pretty frequent basis… A typical quads example (without giving too much away) might be: Squat x 75reps Single Leg Press x 75reps Hack Squat x 75reps Leg Extension x 100reps to failure Rede 21 March 11 |
