Day 35: Keep the faith....

That was a fantastic rest day and sooo what my body needed. I had a good chill out, nice swim which really sorted the remaining aches out in my legs. I ate clean all day to counteract the lack of a workout but boy is it getting hard now. I am planning a great meal for next weekend after the shred has finished. Also starting to get some cravings now as I have been eating so clean. I suddenly thought yesterday I have not had a crisp for over 2 weeks. I love crisps, I really could eat them all day and used to have 2 - 3 bags a day!!

I think it will be very important to indulge when the shred is over but carefully. Even though the shred will be over I will have around 3 weeks left in my own personal challenge so I will have a week of eating clean but not as clean as the last 2 just so that my body has a chance to get rid of all it's cravings and so I do not go into starvation mode and then it will be a final 2 week shred to get to my 10 weeks goal!!

Today's Workout

As I said the final aches went with my swim yesterday, or so I thought! Another hectic pre warm-up ironing, lots more this week as the kids were back at school so there were about 7 sets of uniforms!! Usual 5 mins on the treadmill to warm-up and then it was the dreaded lower body supersets...

Squats first and at the bottom of the first squat the aches came straight back. They were hard work but reassuringly not as hard as the first time! The workout was:

3 sets of 15 reps:

Barbell squats supersetted with dumbbell lunges
Barbell dead lifts supersetted with dumbbell step-ups

So this time there was only 30 rest between exercises rather than 1 minute, but all 3 sets rather than 4 but 15 reps instead of 10. The weight was lowered slightly to take into account the higher reps.

Made it through and could still work, did some additional lower back machine sets just as extra 2 sets of 15 and then called it quits.

Had another swim this afternoon which seemed to help my legs somewhat. Cardio tomorrow and only 3 more days of training left before my final photo!!

Ohh before I forget I had my BF rechecked today and it would seem my fears were correct about the false positive reading. It measured an average of 14% today. I am kind of pleased about this in a way as to lose that much BF and see very little change in my body was a little worrying. I think it must have been the weights that changed it! I will still be re-doing my stats officially tomorrow though so stay tuned.

Keep up the amazing work everyone, I am still checking on you all just have very limited time to comment at the moment. You are all doing fantastically though.

Until tomorrow....