Results Day - Week 4

The effort is paying off. I knew it would as long as I stuck to my guns, faced down the empty calories of beer and kept up resistance training coupled with cardio training.


Let's take a look:
Weight 93kg (down 1.8kg from last week)
Fat 10.6% (down 0.6% from last week)
Waist 84.5-90cm (improvement of 1.5cm on both measurements)

I know that I am succeeding because I can feel it. I can feel it in my waist and I can feel it in my muscles. I feel great straight after a workout, the endorphins surge through my system and I feel chippa for the rest of the day.

Then, I feel the post workout soreness arrive, a bit of lactic acid residue, a bit of muscle repair as they respond to the resistance training and cardio training I have done.

I feel good.

I feel happy even though I may feel a bit sore and tired I know that I am succeeding. I need to feel sore and tired to know that I am achieving my goals.

You don't lose fat by sitting down and eating cake, you don't get muscle soreness from eating cake... So, it's all about feedback from your body; pain is feedback, especially when it comes from your muscles. Embrace it, it means you are challenging your body to become the you that you aspire to be. If you don't have an image of the new you in your head, you won't get there. Honestly, you won't.

Use the feedback to strive to your next goal, if you have not quite made that goal, use the feedback to find out why.

Don't forget that if you find this hard to do on your own find a Personal Trainer that can help you define what you want to be, and then help you get there.