TGIF

I hope everyone has enjoyed a solid week of training. 

For me this week has been superb in and out of the gym. Training has been fantastic and the quality of training really high, my sessions have been short, fast and heavy and my form has been 100%. I have had good recovery between my workouts also. Stepping into this off-season I can easily notice a difference in my recovery time, having more calories in my daily diet is making the recovery process a lot faster and I am able to recoup quicker ready for the next day which is far from what I found pre contest where the lack of calories had me feeling sore for days, my muscles were tight and of course I was drained of energy. 

My nutrition has changed slightly. Pre contest I was having minimal carbs with most of these positioned around my workout. I have tried to adopt something similar in my off-season as I find my body responds really well to good fats such as the monounsaturated fats found in almonds, and avocados etc. By having fats in my diet as an energy source I was able to reduce the amount of carbs I was having, this being said my coach instructed me to increase my carb intake just slightly this week and I have felt better for it. My main sources of carbs now are sweet potato and white rice.

I weighed myself this morning (Friday) before breakfast and I am sitting at 102kg, At this weight I still have visible abs and I will ensure I always see abdominals throughout this off-season as I don’t want to be putting on excess body fat at all. I will be changing my diet weekly if needed depending on how I am looking each week.

There is one thing I have learnt this year and that’s - Having a plan is great, but things change and if you are not open to changing the plan sometimes it can work against you. Your body changes just like the weather and you need to be constantly monitoring what you are looking like and how you are feeling and nothing is more important than listening to your body.