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c H A p T E R 6 Competition Training Program TODAY AN ENORMOUSnumber of bodybuilders are working out for two or three hours a day and dedicating themselves to building a bigger and better physique. Yet only a small percentage of these obviously motivated bodybuilders ever go on and take the next step-to Competition Training. The barrier that has to be overcome in order to work toward compe- tition is more mental than physical: You have to make up your mind that what you really want is to join the ranks of the competitive bodybuilders, pitting yourself against bodybuilders whom you have probably admired in the past and whose images have helped to inspire and motivate you to con- tinue training. BUILDING A COMPETITION PHYSIQUE Competition is a whole other ball game. You suddenly become concerned with things like skin tone, presentation, posing routines, and, above all, learning to deal with a kind of pressure that simply does not exist in the gym and against which you may have developed no defenses. Physically, you are not just trying to develop a massive, balanced, and defined physique. Now you must reach for total perfection, every muscle and muscle group sculpted and chiseled into its ultimate form and a body fat percentage so low that every striation and muscle separation shows it- self clearly. In Advanced Training we talked about developing each area of each body part. When you get to Competition Training this becomes even more complex and you need to consider such details as: Chest-upper, lower, and middle pees, the split between the upper 216