Cold hit!

Well I'm not having much luck in terms of avoiding the cold. Everyone around me has been dropping like flies so I suppose it was only a matter of time before I caught it as well. Generally I don't feel that bad so I went training this morning doing the upper body at 10reps and 1min rest between sets. It was hard going but only a little harder than usual so I'm glad I went. If I take a rest over the next couple of days I should be ok to get my last two sessions in back to back before the gym closes for the christmas break. I'll then have time to recuperate fully before starting up on Hypertrophy II sessions in the new year. I have a busy year ahead next year and have a number of goals that will take a lot of work. There's personal fitness goals, a charity bike ride (this includes proper training building up to it), then there's work and career progression through various projects and training that are already diaried in. So yes I'm intending to be very busy next year. I will need to stay focused if I'm to achieve everything I want to. Cheers

The Big 5!

Today was the lower body session and the 5 sets of 5 reps range. This is pretty tough even with a rest period of 90 secs between each superset. The first of which is Squat coupled with Deadlift with a shrug. Then the next one was Bulgarian split squat with Step-ups. After that your legs are like spagetti. To fininsh the session are 3 sets of 20 reps Reverse crunches then your done. Literally, and that's the Big 5 for the lower body. Cheers

Christmas Stuffing started early!

I've been training hard over the past week but I've also been eating hard as well. Stuffing myself with alot of things that I really shouldn't be eating. I've put on quite a lot of weight I would say since I last weighed myself and I do feel considerably fatter but I'm not going to stress too much about it just before Christmas. I'll get back on track properly with cv work again and better eating (although I'll still be sticking with plan D until end of March [under current plan]) less rubbish going in more focused training etc. I do look bigger but I'm not sure whether some of this extra size is due to muscle growth with the training or whether its all just increased fat. I suppose until I finish the hypertrophy phase and strip the fat away with a fatloss phase I wont be able to say for certain.

The new year should hopefully signal a new start (as it does for many of us). I've achieved a lot during this journey already I just need to make sure I don't slip permanently back to old ways of eating etc. The TNT diet and the NROL workouts work but they have to be followed properly. If they are then achieving your goals is just a matter of effort and time. Both are something I have plenty of. I'll keep you updated as much as I can.

Cheers,

2nd Session In: Workout B

I haven't re-introduced any extra cardio back into my training as I want to get back into the swing of actually getting to the gym in this horrible winter weather. I went this morning in the ice and dark to do workout B (lower body) at the 5 sets 5 rep range. It was difficult to get going but the gym was very quite and so there was no problem in getting on and superetting exercises together. Thi is one of the main reasons why I train early in the morning. First to be able to actually get on the equipment in the way my programme intended and so that I have it done and dusted before most people are out of bed. I'll probably be aching more tomorrow as seems to be the case with this particular workout and I'll certainly be tired later. I've been sticking to eating plan D much better but once this particular phase is complete I'll feel better reverting back to plan A to assist fatloss. That's a way off yet and I've still a way to go with these hypertrophy sessions, I'll let you know how I get on.

Cheers,

1st Session Back

The first session back today and it was really hard. It was cold dark and I really wanted to just turn over and go back to sleep but I'm really pleased with myself that I made a start on getting where I want to be. If I can keep this up during the winter months whilst the weather etc are bad then it will be much easy as it gets better.

The session it self was very difficult and quite taxing on the system. Infact I did feel a bit queasy afterwards. I'm sure this will past and put this down to merely a shock to the system. I'm glad that it wasn't workout B the legs session that I was doing otherwise I would have been much worse. I have that to look forward to on Wednesday. Anyway this session the rest periods were short at 30 secs (which I stuck to as much as I could) and the rep range was high at 15reps. When I got back home I was getting changed to go to work and I could see the difference training has on me, I suppose with not going for a while this would be more noticable than usual. I'll let you know how it all goes.

Cheers,