My current fitness

It's been a while since I last posted, life has got in the way, I'm currently doing my level 4 in fitness so I'll be qualified in every area when I finally finish, currently focusing on the nutrition side before moving in to the classes! Also I'm working between 16 and 35 hours a week have the two munchkins and trying to fit in going to the gym as well..

At work we're in the process of a change over from virgin active to David Lloyd, I'm hoping this is a good change and means I can get back on track to working my way to being fitness manager again and hopefully means more classes for me to get trained in.

My fitness plan was Jamie Eason live fit but yet again I get to a certain point and then struggle to do it because my gyms not really built for it so I spend my entire time running around the gym to use all the equipment so I have gone back to just doing different workouts and that works for me at this present moment.

Yesterday I did glutes and left the gym a sweating meas, it was a killer of a workout yet written down looks so simple.. today I am doing a Dana linn Bailey shoulder workout so I'm sure I won't be moving after today, I am doing some cardio not much, I need to build the muscles that I do have before I can strip them of the fat or there really isn't much point.

My goal is just to be as strong as I can possibly push myself, I do wonder if I could train my body up to bikini level on my own but I get bored and I do like to eat the foods that I like without restriction, my diet is 80/20 and that prob means Ill never be as lean as I possibly can be but I am happy with that because it's only me I'm in competition with.

Here I am not the leanest but the strongest I've ever been, can do monkey bars and loads of unassisted pull ups- winner

Jamie Eason live fit

I have completed Jamie Eason live fit, it was a 12 week programme split up into 3 sections, each section was broken up into 4 weeks, and the exercises changed every 2 weeks. 

Live fit is a free programme designed by Jamie Eason and is found on body building it is a website which gives free workouts, free advise, nutrition advise from top athletes in the bodybuilding world. It is great to use if you are a beginner or an expert as it give you workout videos, etc.

Jamie Eason has another workout which isn't up on bodybuilding but can be found on her page, it is called from flat to all that, I started that programme a while back to help me get back into routine after my holiday, and will be going back to follow that programme from start to finish and will write a post on it.

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Overview of the programme

The nutrition plan that is for the programme is a good starting point to look at, if you have been eating poorly, then I fully advise taking a look at it, and having a look at the allowed list of foods, that way you can kinda create your own plan if toy don't want to follow the plan. 

I used the allowed foods and made my own meal plan, I did try to stick to my plan as best as possible but did sway a bit but I am only human

The first stage of the programme which is muscle building: weeks 1-4

- no cardio

- 3 sets of 12, 

- exercises are simple to help build up muscle and to perfect form

- simple but effective

Second stage of the programme which is muscle endurance: weeks 4-8

- cardio is added in to help start to shed some of the body fat

- higher reps low weight

- low reps high weight mix to help keep your body functioning

- workouts are still kept simple with videos to help and also alternatives if you find something hard, or can't do due to gym

- lots of super sets which is great, but sometimes hard to do depending on your gym layout, I sometimes had to walk from 1 end of the gym to the next just to do a superset and hold both equipment which can be deemed as rude

Third stage which is the cutting stage: week 8-12

- circuits are added in which sometimes is hard because your gym layout may mean you are wandering around he gym, and having to try hold 2-3 machines at the same time which isn't really easy to do

- plyo exercises are added in which is a great alternative to weights and helps with the cardio and makes it feel like you have worked out harder

-long workout, some of the workouts can take up to 2 hours to do which isn't really something that I can do, I normally run to e gym before my shift at work so by time I have finished I would have to get straight to work which wasn't really something I wanted to do

Overall this is an excellent programme for beginners or someone that hasn't done strength exercises for a while, this programme gives you an excellent structure and each programme gets harder and progresses you, it give you chance to get stronger, build strength and also to cut body fat whilst regaining your strength

I would fully recommend is programme to any one, especially people that are just going around in circles and do not feel that they are progressing