MY SIX PACK HAS ARRIVED!!!

So after waiting 8 day on what was meant to be a 24 hour dispatch from www.bodybuilding-supplements.co.uk  my ‘Six Pack Meal Management System’ has finally arrived and I have to say that what I have seen/touched/felt of it at the moment (admittedly is not a lot) its brilliant! I'm looking forward to loading up my lunch and taking it in with me to the office tomorrow.

Here she is…

As you can see I have already loaded some stuff in there ready for the morning and I have the meal trays in my kitchen ready to load up with turkey. The only down point that I have to say is that one of the meal trays are cracked… L I think this might have been from transit as this was the tray that was on the bottom of the system. I have emailed www.bodybuilding-supplements.co.uk and I’m just waiting for those guys to come back to me and let me know what the situation is. Normally I wouldn't have said anything but it did cost a fair bit and im not being funny but if I’m going to pay that for it I want it to be perfect! – That’s not too much to ask is it?!

Succeeding to Fail!?

Ok so today we tried something a little different down the gym. After chatting through with my good friend JW (ex semi professional body builder) about my work out I wanted a way of getting a bit more out of it as I felt that my muscles were getting used to the work and not reaping the full benefits – so I decided to cut my sets from 6 to 4 (with a initial set of 20 reps as a warm up) and then ‘go to failure’ before pyramiding the weight up for the next set - I’d heard of the concept before but never really given it much thought.

So anyway… me and Gaz (my gym buddy) got ourselves down the gym with the aim of succeeding to fail! As with all our workouts we started with 15 minutes interval training on the treadmill and then 15 minutes interval training on the rower – get the blood pumping and the heart nice and warm. Then onto the main work out that consisted of:

Chest, Biceps and Triceps

• ·         Hammer curls
• ·         Zootman curls
• ·         Triceps cable/rope pull downs
• ·         Flat bench
• ·         Inclined bench
• ·         Decline bench
• ·         Cable crucifix
• ·         Triceps extension with a dumbbell

After that moved onto the mat and finished off with 15 minutes of core work (crunches, Russian twists, sit ups, obliques crunches, abdominal roll outs with a ball, leg raises and plank)

Going to failure is definitely the way forward. I felt like I got so much more out of the work out although after the work out my energy (and blood sugar) was very low and I had to reach for the JB (jelly babies!)

Time to continue to fail!?

Sack-off the Sickness!

Ok so I just wanted to do a very quick post about sickness at the gym. Sounds very odd I know as if your feeling sick at the gym what the hell are you doing right!? …but anyway, a few times down the gym me and/or my training buddy have started to feel sick. From reading around I think the science behind it is that if your doing a lot of activity (interval training, weights, weights, more interval training, more weights) then after time your blood sugar decreases as your body cant metabolize fats or food fast enough. A few times I have come out of the gym after pushing it a bit to hard and had to have a quiet sit down before I was violently sick!

HAVE NO FEAR! – I HAVE FOUND A CURE TO THIS POST WORK OUT SICKNESS…

Jelly babies! – pop a couple of these suckers in your mouth and you will be feeling as right as rain in 3 mins. Sounds odd but I find that It really sorts me out! Im sure there are 10000 of other quirky post gym ‘pick me ups’ but I found that Jellies worked for me – I always keep a tub of them in my gym bag for sickness emergencies. This does not mean that you can have a mouthful of them but a couple will help with the sickness.

That’s how I sack-off the sickness… how do you do it?

Super Easy to Make High Protein Cookies!!

OK! So… I found a recipes for some high protein cookies and they looks really tasty (and a welcome change to the chicken and salad and broccoli) so I thought I would give it a go. I have visions of hours in the kitchen measuring out hundreds of ingredients to make one of these little bugger but truth is it was so easy I found myself making more and more!

So ingredients are:

1. 1x 3/4 cups Oatmeal
2. 2 tsp Splenda
3. 6 egg whites – I still kept the yokes and made up some scrambled eggs for dinner
4. 1/2 cup raisins
5. 1 tsp vanilla extract
6. 1/2 cup un-sweetened apple sauce
7. 4 scoops whey powder (I used vanilla but im going to try some more with chocolate - im sure you can use any flavour really)
8. 1 tsp virgin olive oil

Once you have everything together, mix them all up in a big bowl. (there really is no order just stick it all in and mix until dough like). Make some disk like shapes on a baking tray and stick them in the oven (on 300) for about 20 mins

Its as easy as that….. DE-LISH!