Thursday 25th January 2018

Today was a tough day. Physically drained. I finished work the night before at 9.30pm... I had to wake at 4.30 to start work at 5.45am, and I was also due to deadlift at 2pm. I realised by 2pm that I wasn't going to be able to deadlift, I had all the best intentions, I had my preworkout oats and coffee before hand, did my usual warm ups, but I really really struggled and couldn't get my mind in the right place at all. Mind set is a huge part in my deadlift workouts currently, they are so fatigueing that I need to have a strong mindset and strong internal motivators to get it done. 

At this point I decided to leave, my body was telling me rest was absolutely necessary. The last thing that was going to happen was a successful workout. So I went home a little teary and napped really well for about an hour and woke naturally from this. After my nap, I still didn't feel 100% so decided a bubble bath and a night in would be perfect and that I actually didn't mind this as a one off alteration to my plans..... However..... I decided to run this all through my coach first before making this my final decision. Dan wasn't on the same wave length as myself and wanted me to push through this tiredness and to prove to myself it's all in the mind. 

Dan wasn't 100% correct, I still went back to the gym to train an sacrificed my bubble bath, I did manage a really good back and chest session, however I was absolutely knackered still and did have to fight off crying, which seems to be a natural response I have to exhaustion. (And it's not exactly a great look for members while you're training....)

I'm still exhuasted, my body is still over stressed and refusing to lose weight, infact its so stressed we are on the rise in weight. Let's hope things improve over the next 7 days as I stick to Dan's madness.

Training day menu:
(1900 cal)

4.30am Oats, chia seeds, frozen fruit, egg whites & ketchup

8.45am Chicken, sweet potato, carrot, spinach, coconut oil

1.15pm Pre-workout oats, whey, banana & Jam
- which ended up not being preworkout as I couldn't train at this point...

4.45pm Chicken, rice, broccoli, tomato, coconut oil

8.30pm Post workout beef mince, new baby potatos, asparagus, red pepper, cherry tomatos & Greek yoghurt 0%, whey, dark chocolate
2 meals in 1 as I needed to get them in.

Training day programme:

Single arm row, plate loaded machine
Weighted pull ups
Lat pull down, narrow neutral grip to mid body
Pec flyes - changed to Watson handles press ups
Flat DB Press
Standing cable face pull into banded face pulls
Hanging leg raises
Ab crunches
Cardio (20 mins)

Trust the process x x x