A few months ago, you could've safely taken a bet that I wouldn't have stuck to such a thing as a circuit training schedule, especially since it involves me getting up at 7AM and losing an hour's sleep.
But I've been doing it almost religiously each day for a few weeks now, and I'm beginning to notice some improvements.
I started off doing two circuits of each day's programme, then after two weeks I bumped it up to three. Every morning I end up red faced and dripping with sweat (blech), but that's GOOD. It means I'm burning fat and building muscle, which is attested to by the fact that I've lost precisely 400g of body weight. Four hundred grammes. That sucks.
However, in reality I haven't really changed my diet so I couldn't expect to lose all that much weight. My main objective was to be less chubby, less weak and less unfit. And fortunately, that seems to be slowly happening. The only vital statistic which has changed is that I've lost 4.2% body fat, which takes me down to 21.2% - just below average.
I feel a lot better though. In addition to a slightly trimmer appearance, it feels good to know I've finally motivated myself to get my arse out of bed in the morning and do something to combat the chub which I so often moan about. I feel a bit fitter when playing football or on the rowing machine, and a bit stronger.
So even though progress has been a little slow, I plan to make circuit training part of my daily routine until I drop dead, so hopefully the progress on fitness and physique will continue. It's not too much of a pain to get up an hour early for the sake of my health.
But I've been doing it almost religiously each day for a few weeks now, and I'm beginning to notice some improvements.
I started off doing two circuits of each day's programme, then after two weeks I bumped it up to three. Every morning I end up red faced and dripping with sweat (blech), but that's GOOD. It means I'm burning fat and building muscle, which is attested to by the fact that I've lost precisely 400g of body weight. Four hundred grammes. That sucks.
However, in reality I haven't really changed my diet so I couldn't expect to lose all that much weight. My main objective was to be less chubby, less weak and less unfit. And fortunately, that seems to be slowly happening. The only vital statistic which has changed is that I've lost 4.2% body fat, which takes me down to 21.2% - just below average.
I feel a lot better though. In addition to a slightly trimmer appearance, it feels good to know I've finally motivated myself to get my arse out of bed in the morning and do something to combat the chub which I so often moan about. I feel a bit fitter when playing football or on the rowing machine, and a bit stronger.
So even though progress has been a little slow, I plan to make circuit training part of my daily routine until I drop dead, so hopefully the progress on fitness and physique will continue. It's not too much of a pain to get up an hour early for the sake of my health.
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