Just found a very interesting article on Shape magazine...
Think yourself thin
What do you think?
In love and in health
OG
25 Oct 2011
Training day
Every day is a training day for me, but today was a session with my PT and also unfortunately measurement day!
I should be ecstatic about my results but I am just not. My CM and my KG have not budged... not one bit, some of them even went up, saying that my BF% has dropped. I will know tomorrow exactly how much compared to the past results... that I am excited to see.
Despite all that I had a bad bad training day today and I could see it in my PT's eyes how disappointed he was in my performance... it always seems to happen that way. We will talk about my motivation and what I need to do in order to lose more weight and faster... we will talk about food and water and also that I need to train harder and stronger and increase my intensity, but when it comes down to it I seem to fail in actually doing all those things.
To him it probably seems like I am all talk and actually no action, I don't think he understands how hard it is for us "average" and overweight people, who are not fitness freaks and have bodies like G-ds. I have so much to lose before increasing resistance is not just difficult for obvious reasons but also the reason that I am carrying so much extra weight on my bones and muscles. Somehow I wish I could make him understand this. As much as I adore him... and I really really do! He is still very young and very over the top (for lack of a better word) and he pushes everyone to their limits... EVERY time!
I exercise a FUCK load (excuse the profanity) more than the average person and yes I could do better in my cardio workouts and my eating, but I am only human... I want to run and I want to cycle up huge mountains and I know the minute I do that I have reached a goal, but until then my knees and my ankles can't seem to carry my weight so I have to take it slow. But I know.... the trick to looking like this chick is to CARDIO CARDIO CARDIO
I should be ecstatic about my results but I am just not. My CM and my KG have not budged... not one bit, some of them even went up, saying that my BF% has dropped. I will know tomorrow exactly how much compared to the past results... that I am excited to see.
Despite all that I had a bad bad training day today and I could see it in my PT's eyes how disappointed he was in my performance... it always seems to happen that way. We will talk about my motivation and what I need to do in order to lose more weight and faster... we will talk about food and water and also that I need to train harder and stronger and increase my intensity, but when it comes down to it I seem to fail in actually doing all those things.
To him it probably seems like I am all talk and actually no action, I don't think he understands how hard it is for us "average" and overweight people, who are not fitness freaks and have bodies like G-ds. I have so much to lose before increasing resistance is not just difficult for obvious reasons but also the reason that I am carrying so much extra weight on my bones and muscles. Somehow I wish I could make him understand this. As much as I adore him... and I really really do! He is still very young and very over the top (for lack of a better word) and he pushes everyone to their limits... EVERY time!
I exercise a FUCK load (excuse the profanity) more than the average person and yes I could do better in my cardio workouts and my eating, but I am only human... I want to run and I want to cycle up huge mountains and I know the minute I do that I have reached a goal, but until then my knees and my ankles can't seem to carry my weight so I have to take it slow. But I know.... the trick to looking like this chick is to CARDIO CARDIO CARDIO
I will however not get too desponded about all the happenings of today. I will strive forward!
In love and in health
OG
24 Oct 2011
Why is the first always the hardest
I found that no matter how I start off a blog post especially the very first one on a new/ improved blog (such as this one) is always so difficult and I always look back at the post and find myself thinking how stupid it is! I have started this blog post about 3 times over now, each time thinking the next time will be better, but I can not seem to find the right way to start it off... so in the end I decided to just tell you how it is... simple... right?
As you have probably already read you know that I am using this blog as a means to an ends to release some of my thoughts some of my inspirations and motivations as I travel along this very long and winding road of fitness and weight loss. Unlike most people, I can afford to go to gym twice on a Monday, purely because I work shifts. Today happens to be my off day and that allows me to to do what I want when I want :)
They call the classes the Warrior Workout. It is basically 1 hour of absolute and utter torture. Its mostly floor based and weight based and most of the time its done in groups/ teams and on a rotational basis. Today was hard Wes and Dan really enjoy killing our upper bodies, working our chests and arms with weights, followed by some killer Kettle bell moves and of course abs. Now evening warrior is like daytime warrior on steroids... man oh man... they don't call it the Chris Walsh Academy for nothing and tonight even though we had a massive class we all walked out of there like total zombies... I am chuffed with myself that I managed to get in two sessions of the warrior workout but boy am I feeling it.
I decided that this week will be the beginning of something new for me (again) my eating has always been my downfall. No matter how hard I try I always seem to fail when it comes to eating properly. That and drinking enough water are my downfall and I know that the minute I manage to get this all under control the weight will just fall off me... and I am trying, don't get me wrong I am trying really really hard, its just that I am hardwired one way and to change it is a difficult process, now I just have to take it one day at a time.
Todays meals so far (all the supplements I use are Evox products - www.evox.co.za):
10h00 - Oats followed by joint support pills, omega 3&6, and xena
14h10 - Whey protein shake with glutamine and rice milk powder
14h45 - fruit smoothie
16h30 - 2 slices of homemade bread with feta cheese and tomato
20h45 - Fresh Tuna seared with lettuce cucumber and asparagus and for a dressing I used plain old Soya sauce mixed with some Wasabi for flavour
Water consumption: 1.5 of 2 litres (not counting the water I drank during the gym, cause without a doubt that was sweated out)
So far so good I just hope I can keep this up....
Tomorrow is measurement day.... dum dum dum :)
As you have probably already read you know that I am using this blog as a means to an ends to release some of my thoughts some of my inspirations and motivations as I travel along this very long and winding road of fitness and weight loss. Unlike most people, I can afford to go to gym twice on a Monday, purely because I work shifts. Today happens to be my off day and that allows me to to do what I want when I want :)
They call the classes the Warrior Workout. It is basically 1 hour of absolute and utter torture. Its mostly floor based and weight based and most of the time its done in groups/ teams and on a rotational basis. Today was hard Wes and Dan really enjoy killing our upper bodies, working our chests and arms with weights, followed by some killer Kettle bell moves and of course abs. Now evening warrior is like daytime warrior on steroids... man oh man... they don't call it the Chris Walsh Academy for nothing and tonight even though we had a massive class we all walked out of there like total zombies... I am chuffed with myself that I managed to get in two sessions of the warrior workout but boy am I feeling it.
I decided that this week will be the beginning of something new for me (again) my eating has always been my downfall. No matter how hard I try I always seem to fail when it comes to eating properly. That and drinking enough water are my downfall and I know that the minute I manage to get this all under control the weight will just fall off me... and I am trying, don't get me wrong I am trying really really hard, its just that I am hardwired one way and to change it is a difficult process, now I just have to take it one day at a time.
Todays meals so far (all the supplements I use are Evox products - www.evox.co.za):
10h00 - Oats followed by joint support pills, omega 3&6, and xena
14h10 - Whey protein shake with glutamine and rice milk powder
14h45 - fruit smoothie
16h30 - 2 slices of homemade bread with feta cheese and tomato
20h45 - Fresh Tuna seared with lettuce cucumber and asparagus and for a dressing I used plain old Soya sauce mixed with some Wasabi for flavour
Water consumption: 1.5 of 2 litres (not counting the water I drank during the gym, cause without a doubt that was sweated out)
So far so good I just hope I can keep this up....
Tomorrow is measurement day.... dum dum dum :)
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