Happy New Year! 2015 is gone and dead, long live 2016.
2015 became a year for change for me, I swapped careers (finally moving back into the fitness industry after a 4 year hiatus), and I swapped lacrosse teams, heading back to Liverpool and started down a path of exploration and personal growth, a path that in part bore the creation of this blog.
2015 also saw a huge change in my diet and training routines mainly due to working two jobs in order to kick start my fitness career.
It seems crazy to say it, and I certainly get some weird looks from those I explain it to, but since working in a gym, I have really not had time to train. in order to make my new job a reality I have willingly sacrificed the spare time I had to train, in order to train others.
I love coaching and I would certainly do it again, the people i coach make it worth it and come February It will be my main career and I will once again have the time to train hard every day and work towards my personal goals away from work... walking the walk so they say.
To assist with this I am going to commit to the velocity diet. Although a seemingly fad diet, a number of respected trainers in the industry have tried and reviewed the diet and i was convinced to try the protocol by a review by Dan John, I have been reading through alot of his work lately and his results on the diet were enough to convince me to take the leap.
I expect the results to be reasonably impressive, I am combining the diet with an intense 3x a week lifting routine @Raw Strength Gym Warrington as well as 2x a week Kettlebell conditioning and a weekend lacrosse game.
I come into this weighing 104kg and boasting about 25-32% BF (3 separate measurements taken between callipers, Navy Seal BF% protocol and bioelectrical impedance)
I will be tracking my daily energy, mood, hunger levels and will be taking weekly body measurements. I’ll try and keep the updates coming complete with graphs and eventual before and after pics.
The diet in short is 5 to 6 high quality protein shakes (I am using MP Total Protein) and 1 cooked meal a day of 400-700 calories.
My daily menu looks like this:
2x Scoops of Total Protein
3x Small Scoops Total Nutrigreens
Lunch:
2x Scoops of Total Protein
2x Scoops of Total Protein
400-700 cal Cooked meal or Muscle Food Ready Meal + Veg
1x Scoop Micellar casein 1x Scoop Impact Whey
Wish me luck! it’s going to be a interesting 2 month roller coaster im sure!