I've received my training and nutrition plan. Apparently I was generally eating only around 2000 calories a day, which probably explains why I wasn't seeing results. For the first 2 weeks that's been upped to around 2700 which basically means I seem to be eating for most of my waking hours. My request that the meals be ridiculously simple has paid off - it's less cooking and more preparation. Although tonight's baked sweet potato left me scratching my head...I went with; step 1 - peel, step 2 - chop up (saves cooking time), step 3 - put in oven. It seemed to work...
The training plan is by far the most intense plan I've had, making me realise how little effort I generally expend there. For instance my cardio has been upped from 20 mins cycling fake hills at about 70rpm to 30 mins of 2 mins at 80% of my limit followed by 1 min recovery. By the end of that I felt like I'd climbed Everest and may have punched the air. But whatever - looking like a twat in a gym comes naturally.
Oh and the weights stuff is pretty intense and mainly new exercises to me so I had to google them first. The added problem with that is that the weight you can put on to start is laughably small so you inevitably begin by overloading before doing one, wincing, and slyly taking some weight off.
Right...the promised photos...
...here's Venezuela - the start point.
and Patagonia (somewhere near the bottom) - the end point.
Separated by around 5000 miles of life-changing adventures.
End. Was that succinct?
No comments:
Post a Comment