Week Three

Well into the plan now and this week's been quite a good one if you discount my poor workout on Monday. I've managed to get through two birthday parties without touching any of the pizza, potatoes, bread, sausages etc. and I've eaten really well again this week. The longer I go the easier it seems to get, whereas I would usually had a blip by now, so everything seems to be going to plan.

Wednesday I went back to the gym and did a successful 12x3 workout and today I was back for some 4x8. I started off a bit sluggish and managed to pull a muscle in my shoulder doing the military press, so I had to lose the last set of those, but once I hit the squats, bent over rows and deads I really got into it and came away feeling very satisfied.

I've managed to increase the weight on the last three exercises slightly and my 4x8 now looks something like this.

Incline chest press (dumbells) - 44kg (22 each side)
Military press - 20kg (I hate this exercise!!)
Bent over rows - 50kg
Squats - 90kg
Deadlifts - 75kg

Ok, so I'm not going to tear up the record books with those weights but it's an improvement by about 20kg from three weeks ago on those last three sets so I'm happy with that, and hopefully I can get more out of it in the next three weeks. I might ditch the military press in favour of a dumbell press as I know I can lift at least 10kg more doing that.

Overall I'm fairly happy with the way things are going, I certainly feel more healthy and better about myself and I'd say I look a bit better when tensed, even if I'm still not happy with the way I look relaxed. The weight isn't coming off either but at 13 stone 2 and 6 foot 1 I'm happy with my weight anyway so it's not really an issue.

This weekend should be a healthy one, I'm not going out and unless I have a few beers at home it should be an alcohol free weekend, with plenty of chicken, fish, vegetables and of course protein to see me through!