Maxine's challenge - 8 weeks down!

My training diary

About 2 weeks ago I got myself a little notebook which I have made my training diary. Pretty simple - I just write down everything I do in terms of training. Sounds good but this has absolutely changed the way I train! I now know exactly what I'm doing in each session, what weights I did last time so I can try and do a bit more, which order I did them last time so I can change it up a bit. It's just great!

so the photos are a look at my last week. I'm pretty happy with it.

2 x legs sessions

2 x shoulders, chest and tris

1 x back and bis

2 x cardio sessions with 2 more to come on the weekend

Thats 5 weights sessions and 4 cardio - perfect!

Ive decided for the final 4 weeks of the challenge I am going to try and do each body part twice a week (legs, back&bis, shoulders&chest&tris). That's 6 sessions in the gym per week which I am already doing. I will continue with 3-4 cardio per week but I'm not looking to lose any more weight so don't want to overdo the cardio. Really need to just build some muscle now!

I also got some advice during e week from Kate and Wendy about nutrition. They advised to add some sweet potato in at dinner and increase the protein. This will prevent further weight loss and increase muscle growth. I've also decided to cut dairy so am now having my oats on water - doesn't taste too great but can live with it! The things we do!!!

So my daily nutrition now looks like this:

Breakfast: 1/2 cup oats with water, handful blueberries, shake, long black

M Tea: 15g almonds and pear

After workout: 3 rice cakes and shake

Lunch: 100g chicken, 1/2 cup brown rice, salad or steamed veg

A Tea: shake or bar

Dinner: Meat and steamed veg and sweet potato

Snack: shake

Pretty basic but it does the job!

Weekend in noosa this weekend which I'm really looking forward to. No gym access but I did a Weiss set today knowing that I'd have 2 cardio days over the weekend.

Feeling positive and looking forward to some awesome changes over the next 4 weeks! Can't believe there's only 4 weeks to go!