Phase 2 day one.

Well, day one started ok.

As stated breakfast was the eggs/bacon grapefruit juice and toast with PB/Nutella, then school/nursery run and back and straight out the door to do sprints. Sprints went OK came back downed the banana with the preworkout drink and had a massively excellent workout!!!!

Then it was time for recovery drinks, some food(14:30) some more food(17:30) and and nuts and protein due at 20:30 tonight.

The down side?

The hunger. It’s clawing away at me from the insides and I’m dying for 20:30 to come so I can demolish those nuts and that protein drink!

I think I’d be fine if I could just go to bed, but I’m nights and need to keep going until 07:00 this morning! I hope I can make it! I’ve got an amino drink and more protein to get through and I’ve browned off a serving of plain mince to have this morning at about 03:00. Just mince. Nothing else. Just to put something in there!

Oh results.

So. You may remember I posted my figures at the start? Well,
Here we go, 3 weeks in and we have:
Resting heart rate at 52!

Body fat is down 2%
Weight down 6lbs, about 2lb per week so far.
Muscle % is up 1% so far also.

Comparative photos show:

I’ve still a long way to go to get the results I want, ideally I’d like 10-12% BF and weight about 178lbs(81kilo).

As can be seen below, there is a difference in bodyshape, not much, but noticeable from the January pics.
If you strain your eyes, there’s even a 3 pack emerging from within the lard!

Early jan photos:

I can definitely say:

The next four weeks should be interesting, I might not even have to go to stage 3.

Mens Sana In Corpore Sano.

Days 3/4

OK. A change.

I’ve decided to publish on Mo/Wed/Fri/Sun, otherwise it will be a bit boring.
Diet seems to be going well, night time is the hardest as I just want to eat crap and it’s always at night I feel
Like this. That’s probably why I’m not looking forward to night shift this weekend. Been using this wee image I got from the fabulous model and athlete Samantha Ann Leete as a guide to how much I should have on my plate!

Eating as boring and bland as it is, IS where abs and fat loss is done, abs are made in the kitchen so they say! For me, so far so good. My fitness pal as a motivator always works and as you can see seems to be hitting the spots.

My intention is to post a weeks cumulative pic of the pie chart and
Macronutrient list every Sunday.

TRAINING.

Well, Wednesdays plan for BJJ was almost scuppered by going to court on my day off, so I had to plan to take my kit and hope that I’d be away from
Court in time for class. As it was I was away by 11.35 and made class by the skin of my teeth at 12:00!
Not much of a workout as it usually is as there was very little fighting or rolling/live training as they like to call it until the last 6 mins. Of course that sort of suited as I’m well behind the fitness curve now!

Today(Thursday) was a wee lazy day, I was awake at 7:50am, but stayed in bed til 11:30. I justified this to myself since I’ve only had one day off this week thanks to court. Regardless, when the wife got back from
The gym, at 11:30, I got up, had something to eat, picked up my at daughter at 11:55, returned and then at 12:30 did 12x100m hill sprints on the aptly named (by me!) C*nt hill. A beauty of a hill, at least 13~14% gradient!

The last 25m on this feel like running on quick sand. I haven’t missed it!
After that I ran home, so the wife could go to work at 13:00. Had I got out of bed earlier, it wouldn’t have been a rush, but hey. I put in the Insanity Asylum strength DVD and rocked that for 47mins.
The asylum isn’t as lung burstingly challenging as Insanity, but three workouts stand out in the pack, •strength.
•back to core and
•relief.

Relief being a 30min stretch DVD!
Once a week I’ll alternate between strength and back to core with my other body weight workouts. As I said in the opening blogg post, no gym is needed. A few dumbells, a pull up bar and a prison cell worth of space is all you need at home to lose weight.

Til tomorrow,
Peace to the O-U-T.

Mens Sana in corpore sano.