Day 8 - Legs

Day 8 - Legs

I was able to up my weight this week, I knew I could do this as I was doing far too many AMAP's last week. So my lunges went from 6 and 8 up to 10kg with 6 AMAP. Squats were still at 20kg with 5 AMAP (up by two). RDL's were up from 6kg to 10kg but still with 12 AMAP. Calf raises (they still hurt) were up from 4kg to 6kg with 4 AMAP. So I've still got areas that I can increase the weight and get more benefit from the exercise, I'm going to increase everything but the calf raises aiming to only be able to push out 3 or 4 AMAP's at the end of each set.

The body feels pretty good actually. I noticed Sunday night that my body was pretty much back to normal, a little tightness across the chest and triceps but nothing bad at all. This is a really good thing as I'm now heading into week 2 feeling "normal", no pain to speak of that would lessen my experience. I really need to push hard on the upper body exercises (actually destroy myself on the day) so that I can improve my pull ups. I have been doing narrow, under arm pull ups which tend to focus on the biceps (unless I'm doing them wrong!), so I might try slightly wider pull ups to get more of my back involved in the lifting.

As I've previously said, I'm going to blog much less about my meals, I just wanted to lay out what I had in the first week for anyone that's thinking of doing the Challenge so they can see the kind of things they need to do. I will blog about any tips I've picked up along the way though. Such as, if you're low on your protein then try low fat natural yoghurt. Again, always check the "of which sugars" content value and make sure that you are not throwing loads of sugar into your bloodstream or you'll never burn the fat. I picked up some Sainsbury's natural, pro-biotic, greek yoghurt which I've had with fruit for breakfast - it's quite nice actually!

If you are still delaying about taking up the challenge and making a transformation in your body, stop delaying now! Just go and do it for a few weeks, it's not "that" hard and can make a real difference. It does take determination and committment however the results have already started to become apparent to me after only one week. I'm going to complete it so I look and feel healthier.

later,
Lee