Wednesday 18 April 2012

A New Me

It's A New Dawn, It's A new Day, It's A new Life For Me... And I'm Feeling Good!

For just over a year now I have been food blogging, and while it has been a fantastic experience and wonderful to be experimenting with a world of ingredients, it hasn't been kind to the waist line. Don't get me wrong, the vast majority of my recipes are healthy and everything in moderation and all that... but when you are thinking, living and breathing food 24/7 its gonna catch up with you.

So my new venture is simple... continue food blogging, cooking and experimenting but to also get fit... get into the shape of my life. With a strict but manageable workout routine which I have devised for myself and a host of new recipes coming your way... recipes that will be great for weight loss, to deter hunger pangs and for recovery from training. 'Simple he says... ha!' 

Now I have dabbled with running on and off for 6 years now, completed 1 marathon and 3 half marathons along with 10k runs here and there, but it has all come in waves, 5 months here 3 months there etc. When I'm training I feel great, bursting with energy and ready to take on the world but then laziness kicks in, I complete a goal and I become complacent and lazy, lazy and some more lazy!

When I ran my own Plastering business I could eat anything I wanted and my 32 inch waist never faltered, now that was a mix of being in my twenties and burning about 3000 calories a day along with playing football 2 nights a week and again at the weekend. But unfortunately the plastering come to an abrupt end and so did my twenties so my 32 inch waist 'relaxed' a bit, then another bit and then some more.

Now I'm not in too bad of nick to be honest but when I'm running now I'm carrying an extra stone and a half more than I need to, that's like carrying 9 and a half bags of sugar with me while out for a jog... I could certainly do without that. So that is one of the targets, cut my weight down from 14 stone (88.90KG) to a trim 12.5 stone (79.37). Is it possible?? Yes, anything is possible! There are 1 or 2 draw backs though... My Father God rest him leaving me his bad back in the will along with 11 years abuse, of said back, while plastering has left it that it can go into spasm at any given moment so some of my workouts are limited. Heavy lifting is out of the question along with sit-ups, dead lifts, weighted squats etc.. But I will carry on with what I know my limits are. I have my first 8 week plan made, them will work on a different one to start after.

Ok so the embarrassing vital statistics at the moment are as follows:

Height: 5'10
Weight: 14 stone (88.90kg)
Neck: 17 Inches
Chest: 44 Inches
Waist: 37 Inches

Target Statistics: 

Height: 6'3 (I joke, I joke... of course it won't change!!)
Weight: 12.5 stone (79.37kg)
Neck: 16 Inches
Chest: 40-41 Inches
Waist: 33 Inches

My workout plan for the next 8 weeks to strip fat:

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Week 1 Weights day 1 Interval 4 mile run Weights day 2 Interval sprints 200m x 8 Weights day 3 REST Steady run 6 mile
Week 2 Weights day 1 Interval sprints 200m x 8 Weights day 3 Interval 4 mile run REST Weights day 2 Slow run 7 mile
Week 3 Weights day 3 and interval sprints 200m x 8 Rest Weights day 1 Interval 5 mile run Weights day 2 and interval sprints 200m x 4 REST Steady run 7 mile
Week 4 Weights day 1 Interval 5 mile run REST Weights day 2 Weights day 3 and interval sprints 200m x 10 REST Slow run 8 mile
Week 5 Steady run 5 mile Weights day 2 Interval run: half mile slow- half mile fast x 4 REST Weights day 3 and interval sprints 800m x 4 Weights day 1 Steady run 8 mile
Week 6 Weights day 2 Interval sprints 200m x 10 Weights day 3 Steady run 6 mile Weights day 1 and interval sprints 200m x 8 REST REST
Week 7 REST Steady run 6 mile Weights day 2 Steady run 6 mile Weights day 3 Interval 4 mile run Slow run 9 mile
Week 8 Weights day 1 Rest Weights day 2 and interval sprints200m x 12 Steady run 6 mile Weights day 3 REST or slow run 2 mile Slow run 10 mile


Weights Day 1: Back: Reverse fly's- 4 sets of 10 reps
                                   Bent over 1 armed rows- 4 sets of 10 reps
                        Chest: Wide grip bench press- 4 sets of 20
                                    Close grip bench press- 4 sets of 15
                                    Fly's- 4 sets of 10
                         Lats: Pull ups 4 sets of 10
                         Punch bag workout- 4- 2 min rounds

Weights Day 2: Biceps: Wide grip barbell curls- 2 sets of 15
                                      Close grip barbell curls- 2 sets of 15
                                      Dumbell hammer curls- 3 sets of 30 (15 each arm alternation)
                         Legs: Body weight squats- 4 sets of 20
                                   Body weight lunges- 4 sets of 20
                                   Body weight calf raises- 4 sets of 20
                         Punch bag workout- 3- 3 min rounds

Weights day 3: Triceps: Body weight dips- 4 sets of 15
                                      Skull crushers- 4 sets of 10
                                      Kick backs- 4 sets of 12
                        Shoulders: Upright rows 4 sets of 15
                                           Shrugs- 4 sets of 20
                                           Kettle bell forward raises- 4 sets of 8 on each arm
                        Punch bag workout- 6- 1 min rounds.

So every week I will do a weigh in and measurement check and put it up for the anyone to see, this will help my motivation to keep on track... well that's the plan anyway!! And after the first 8 weeks I will put up my before and after pictures to show my progress. 
                                

2 comments:

  1. Nice one dude. Good Luck with the journey. If you can, get into the pool and swim. Its a fantastic all over body workout that is kind to bad backs...

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  2. Thanks Cindy... although I swim like a brick, good time to learn tho! :)

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