Eat Stop Eat...
Last week I registered for the Adonis index transformation. I took my pictures (and yes I was horrified, actually a little too powerful a word...displeased), I did my numbers, and then got down to work.
I read through the Adonis workouts and found one that seemed to start a super compensation phase. So I started it.
The idea is this the same workout is repeated 4 times in a row, incrementally getting harder. By day 3 last week I was absolutely in bits, everything on my upper body hurt, I was actually dreading the 4th workout. Then the 3 day adaptation happened, my body was fine and performed way better than the previous days.
Now the idea is then to rest the upper body and repeat the same process this week on legs. For me this was interesting for two reasons. On Monday I planned to do my first 24 hour fast and I wasn't sure how I would cope with 4 leg workouts in one week, especially if they are anything as brutal as the upper body ones were.
A little bit of background on the idea of fasting. Every week I have a sports massage with Alek. Alek is a climbing instructor and is in typically brilliant shape, lean as.
He had a wake boarding accident a year or so ago and after surgery had to lose some weight. I have been his client for a number of years, and every Christmas he would do an 8 to 10 day fast. Earlier this year he had been doing the 5/2 diet and gotten really ripped within a few weeks. So I did know about this.
Alek is a bit brutal with me, tells me I am too fat as a trainer and that kind of stuff. He told me a story of a guy 10 years older than me with a similar physique who last loads of fat on the 5/2 diet.
So over the holidays I started looking into it, getting my body used to not eating. At first I felt slightly light headed, then I realised that actually my body didn't NEED the food I had a developed a psychological attachment to food.
So I decided to Follow the East Stop Eat diet.
Basically its simple, you eat as normal but somewhere in the week you fast for 24 hours twice. Monday I chose to fast from 6pm to 6pm Tuesday. I had a number of workouts planned including my normal weekly swim. the swim was 3-3.30pm so about 21 hours in. I thought I would struggle but surprisingly I had loads of energy.
One light headed moment around 1 pm, other than that I was fine.
During today's workout I noticed lines that didn't exist two days ago. I can see the difference. My next fast is planned as Friday 10am to Saturday 10am. This means I can eat breakfast before my class, then eat again after my training session on Saturday morning. Very different timings so I'll be interested to see what happens.
My leg workouts have been a big surprise. I thought they would be too hard but I feel like I am coping far better with these than the upper body.
I read through the Adonis workouts and found one that seemed to start a super compensation phase. So I started it.
The idea is this the same workout is repeated 4 times in a row, incrementally getting harder. By day 3 last week I was absolutely in bits, everything on my upper body hurt, I was actually dreading the 4th workout. Then the 3 day adaptation happened, my body was fine and performed way better than the previous days.
Now the idea is then to rest the upper body and repeat the same process this week on legs. For me this was interesting for two reasons. On Monday I planned to do my first 24 hour fast and I wasn't sure how I would cope with 4 leg workouts in one week, especially if they are anything as brutal as the upper body ones were.
A little bit of background on the idea of fasting. Every week I have a sports massage with Alek. Alek is a climbing instructor and is in typically brilliant shape, lean as.
He had a wake boarding accident a year or so ago and after surgery had to lose some weight. I have been his client for a number of years, and every Christmas he would do an 8 to 10 day fast. Earlier this year he had been doing the 5/2 diet and gotten really ripped within a few weeks. So I did know about this.
Alek is a bit brutal with me, tells me I am too fat as a trainer and that kind of stuff. He told me a story of a guy 10 years older than me with a similar physique who last loads of fat on the 5/2 diet.
So over the holidays I started looking into it, getting my body used to not eating. At first I felt slightly light headed, then I realised that actually my body didn't NEED the food I had a developed a psychological attachment to food.
So I decided to Follow the East Stop Eat diet.
Basically its simple, you eat as normal but somewhere in the week you fast for 24 hours twice. Monday I chose to fast from 6pm to 6pm Tuesday. I had a number of workouts planned including my normal weekly swim. the swim was 3-3.30pm so about 21 hours in. I thought I would struggle but surprisingly I had loads of energy.
One light headed moment around 1 pm, other than that I was fine.
During today's workout I noticed lines that didn't exist two days ago. I can see the difference. My next fast is planned as Friday 10am to Saturday 10am. This means I can eat breakfast before my class, then eat again after my training session on Saturday morning. Very different timings so I'll be interested to see what happens.
My leg workouts have been a big surprise. I thought they would be too hard but I feel like I am coping far better with these than the upper body.
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