Tuesday

An absolutely cracking workout today. It's strange, because for a couple of days I've felt like I was coming down with a cold, and there's a very old rule that the absolute worst thing you can do is hit the gym hard when you're ill. However, I've never put an enormous amount of faith in it - if you're seriously ill, then obviously you'd be daft to go. However, if you're only feeling moderately unwell or just suspect something is on the cards, I often find that a gym session can be exactly what the doctor ordered. Sweat it out, and all that. However, it can still go either way.

But it went great today - felt super-strong and fit all the way around and the bench press/push-up combo was spot-on. Took another two seconds off my 1000m row, but had to totally bust my balls to do it.

Today was the last weights day of week #2. Once tomorrow's cardio is done, that's the first two weeks complete. That wasn't too bad, was it? Week #3 is back to the 'easy' week, but with more reps. I'll go into more detail about that on Thursday.

Here's the workout:

And here's what I ate:

All that lot was only 39g of fat.

Back to work tomorrow - no more alcohol for me for four days, now.

Friday I'm going to take some photos and put them up. It's a mixture of arrogance and unease but it's something that needs to be done. In fact, I'm going to put new photos up every two weeks from then onwards. There's nothing worse than seeing 'before and after' pictures in any kind of gym program that claim to be x weeks apart but quite blatantly are not (and sometimes look as if it's two different people.) So, by the end of this, I'll have eight groups of pictures, and can do a proper comparison. I'm also planning to do some shots of the various exercises in the program at some stage. How thrilling for you.