Sunday, August 30, 2009

Going to switch weigh day to Mondays

Today is Sunday, which makes it my official weigh day. I did my weigh in this morning as always, but them I went back to bed and dreamed about body comps! When I woke up I couldn’t remember the right one. I did another measure at 11am out of curiosity and it was 14 stone exactly (woohoo!), but being several hours late, I can’t count it. Pretty sure it was over 14 stone at 8am because I would have remembered if I’d hit that milestone.

As it happens, I have been following NROL4W for six days now, since last Monday. This involves three workouts a week and eating at maintenance calories with a 40/30/30 macro ratio. The eating is going great with an average 40/29/31 (C/P/F) in the first six days and despite the heavier lifting, both my weight and body fat have been coming down. Given that, I reckon it makes sense to switch official weigh day to Monday for a while and that will give me week by week results.

The workouts are also going well. The weights take around 20 to 25 minutes (with another 15 to 20 for the intervals), and it is nice to use some of my other equipment after doing TT and BFS for most of this year. I bought NROL4W a while back, as I was coming to the end of BFS, and that was when I upgraded my equipment to a new bench with squat rack and lat tower, and bought a bar and weight plates (and my SelectTech dumbbells). But then reading some of the posts on the NROL4W forum, I got a bit scared off because people were talking about bulking rather than fat loss. A few game women were planning on bulking first then slimming down, but I was at a point where I really wanted to cut the fat, so I did TT instead. TT is very home-workout friendly and mainly uses dumbbells and body weight exercises. So it’s nice to finally be putting my barbell and lat tower to good use, rather than having them simply cluttering up my home gym and providing additional objects for me to walk in to whilst trying to manoeuvre around the room.

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