Found this draft that I never blogged...interesting to look back. It was drafted at about 4 months post partum. I suppose my proposed training plan did stick. I kept adapting my training throughout though, depending on what I had going on and how I felt energy wise. I also had to consider how my body was holding up. I've had good days, really shit days and everything in between and I'm still having them. The important thing I found is to just KEEP GOING! Training is always going to be a work in progress. Rarely have I met anyone who is happy with where they're at with training. Actually I never have. Then that's half the fun of it isn't it, to keep striving to be better everyday.
...Well the stats are in and there's no hiding from the facts!! It's all there in black and white. Well, for the past 16 weeks I've been mucking around in the gym, just going through the motions really with no real sense of direction or reasoning....that's not how I roll as a rule. I need a solid reason to be able to focus and get the results I need. I know myself well enough to know that unless I want something bad enough I tend to lose interest and my attention dwindles and I'll end up going and finding myself another hobby...at the moment the closest thing would be a hobby of walking to the fridge and mindlessly grabbing myself another block of chocolate. Hey I'm truthful if nothing else :)
I have found to hard to focus and thought to begin with it was just baby brain... a phenomena I once thought was bull shit. I think it's true now. It seems to be that your mind can't fully focus on one thing as it's thinking of everything all at once. The baby thats crying etc etc weird stuff
Anyhow here is my body composition scan at 6 weeks post baby.
I sure put on more body fat than I anticipated. I put on 9% body fat. Uh -oh!!
Got to have a plan!
The plan is to dedicate three days a week to strength training, with focus on volume. So, for example: 10 sets of 10 reps (or similar that gets the high volume in) using one main muscle group with additional assistance exercises (small muscle groups) in order to build endurance back up...oh and also heavy enough to illicit a response. I know it's heavy enough when I hear myself roar haha
The magic will be in finding a balance in strength training and increasing my metabolic conditioning.
Three separate days will be for building my metabolic conditioning, you know the sweaty stuff that leaves you panting. These will be Crossfit style. Will also work on my olympic lifting technique when time permits.
Lastly whenever I have the chance I will incorporate anything cardio based in an aim to shed some kilos. Also plan to do some hill repast on a hill local to me. Only once a week or even fortnightly. Used to smash me even when I was at my peak of fitness. And that my friends should keep me busy!!! Feeling positive about the plan though as I've finally able to get the head space to have some focus. Sleeping more hours in a row...thank god!
