So the end of the first week back seriously at the gym, it's kind of been a settling back into the routine week and some new stuff with the Yoga on Wednesday and my musings on the yagos ession.
Some of my strength has increased while I have had some time off, like my bench press which I was able to go straight back to my normal weights and then get a few more reps out on my max weight which was very cool!
I still haven't caught up with my mate Davey yet to get my new workout routine, but I am hoping to do that int he next cooupld of days. When I get the new routine I will post it up on here. So for now I am still working through my old workout routine from August.
Whilst I have put on some serious mass since starting all these new workouts I have also managed to stay stable on the body fat issues as well. I would estimate my current body fat is somewhere between 12- 13% which is still higher than I want. But I have to actually do something about it rtaher than just mope hehehehe.
For my two week break I decided that I was allowed to eat anything, and I do mean anything, cholcolate brownies, tim tams, chinese take away, chocolate (there is a common theme with chocolate).
The problem with doing this sort of diet is that the fat all goes to my mid section and quite quickly too. I rarely measure my body fat, but I do keep track of how tight my pants are and how much extra space is in them. And over the last two weeks they have been feeling just a tad tighter than normal.
So I am back on the good eating pathway and am also back doing my normal 10 minute high intensity cardio warm-up and then my three time a week 40 minutes high intensity cardio session.
I don't really know enough about nutrition and working out to really really know the optimum way to lose the body fat, and so I am considering finding a sports nutritionist to help me match my workout / lifestyle to an eating plan.
Because I used to smoke and eat next to nothing, I don't seem to have that ability to stop feeling hungry after eating a meal, and I can eat a huge meal of pasta for example and then feel ravenous 30 minutes later.
Mind you I am thinking of going in protein supplements again and using them as a form of meal replacement to stop me from eating empty calorie snacks like cruskits etc.
I have however noticed that my biceps have ceratinly maintained the extra size in them as has my resting heart rate stayed consistently down to a healthy range!
So this afternoon my mate is supposed to come and be my gym buddy, but we will wait and see since he opted out all of last week!