Getting results...
Over the first four weeks of this present type of training I've been making all sorts of adjustments to how I relate to myself and the type of training I normally do.
Before Christmas I'd trained hard and tried to lose weight, but to be completely honest, I'm just not into dieting. It bores me.
I love food. The tastier the better, so the idea of eating bland boring food is a one way trip to failuresville for me.
Doing this fasting business has been really rather interesting. I've learnt to have control over my food cravings, I've learnt to be able to not respond to my chocolate cravings as well. After Christmas I was well and truly out of control and this has taught me how to respond.
So my fasting pattern for the first 3 weeks was:
Monday 6pm to Tuesday 6pm complete fast
Thursday 6pm to Friday 6pm, also tried 9am Friday to 9am Saturday but this was really hard.
This week I tried Sunday 6pm to Monday 6pm. This was a brilliant time to do it. Sunday you can eat quite a lot (as normal), then stop at 6pm. So easy to then go through to 6pm Monday.
I then ate extremely healthily till this evening. My cheats were a couple of raspberry fools. But hey so much better than my old pattern of eating.
Now on the training side I have been doing a super compensation program.
The Adonis workout had a series of hypertrophy programs. Upper body one week and lower the next.
Basically I tweaked it. 4 workouts the same, each getting progressively heavier over 4 days. By day 3 I am in bits, then my body adapts and on day 4 I am stronger.
Now I start the first workout using very moderate to light weight, but really focussing on my form, and creating a tension in the muscles from the start to the end of each rep. Day 2 I increase the weight, still moderate but now getting heavier. By day 3 I am knocking at the door of my heaviest weights, and day 5 I am blasting close to my personal bests. It's hard, but then I can rest the body on weights for at least a week, enabling it to slingshot forwards.
This week I have started training 2 a days. Strength in the morning, with metabolic circuits in the afternoon or evening.
With the evenings getting lighter and warmer it is only a matter of a few weeks before I can start going cycling each evening.
Overall I will write up my results so far for this first month but I am VERY pleased with what been achieved.
Before Christmas I'd trained hard and tried to lose weight, but to be completely honest, I'm just not into dieting. It bores me.
I love food. The tastier the better, so the idea of eating bland boring food is a one way trip to failuresville for me.
Doing this fasting business has been really rather interesting. I've learnt to have control over my food cravings, I've learnt to be able to not respond to my chocolate cravings as well. After Christmas I was well and truly out of control and this has taught me how to respond.
So my fasting pattern for the first 3 weeks was:
Monday 6pm to Tuesday 6pm complete fast
Thursday 6pm to Friday 6pm, also tried 9am Friday to 9am Saturday but this was really hard.
This week I tried Sunday 6pm to Monday 6pm. This was a brilliant time to do it. Sunday you can eat quite a lot (as normal), then stop at 6pm. So easy to then go through to 6pm Monday.
I then ate extremely healthily till this evening. My cheats were a couple of raspberry fools. But hey so much better than my old pattern of eating.
Now on the training side I have been doing a super compensation program.
The Adonis workout had a series of hypertrophy programs. Upper body one week and lower the next.
Basically I tweaked it. 4 workouts the same, each getting progressively heavier over 4 days. By day 3 I am in bits, then my body adapts and on day 4 I am stronger.
Now I start the first workout using very moderate to light weight, but really focussing on my form, and creating a tension in the muscles from the start to the end of each rep. Day 2 I increase the weight, still moderate but now getting heavier. By day 3 I am knocking at the door of my heaviest weights, and day 5 I am blasting close to my personal bests. It's hard, but then I can rest the body on weights for at least a week, enabling it to slingshot forwards.
This week I have started training 2 a days. Strength in the morning, with metabolic circuits in the afternoon or evening.
With the evenings getting lighter and warmer it is only a matter of a few weeks before I can start going cycling each evening.
Overall I will write up my results so far for this first month but I am VERY pleased with what been achieved.
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