Another week down, this week was the same exercises but done as a tabata protocol. Now technically this means you do actually less exercise in you 16 minutes than the 50 10 protocol but my god it’s harder. I think the main reason is 50 seconds means you pace your self more. With the tabata 20 seconds on 10 off you can just go hard the for the whole work period. Also there is a lot less chance of failure kicking in.
There is also one thing I have noticed, mct is not fun. I don’t actually look forward to any of the workouts. I know what they are and that they are just going to hurt, I’m actually dreading each one. The joy of conditioning work eh 🙂
I’m also struggling with the calorie intake this week again. I have finished work (I.T. desk job) and are packing our apartment before we move back to Auckland. I’m supposed to add one times my bodyweight into pounds to my calories per day for every 2 hours of extra workouts in the week. Now I’m doing 8 hours of low level lifting and I’m lost as to what this should count as. I have decided to allow an additional 350 calories per day for this. So I aimed for between 2050 and 2400 a day, which I’m hitting most days.
The grease the groove pull ups is still going good, I did above 20 reps for the first 4 days this week and did 30 today and will aim for 30 tomorrow then rest Sunday. I have been doing a four sets of 5 but today I have done sets of 2 throughout the day which I think actually leaves me less fatigued with a higher reps count.
Again its too soon to see progress but I’m down a kg on the scales now (from the start) and half a percentage point of fat. This could all be water but at least it’s heading I think it’s heading in the right direction.
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