@beachfitproject anti-catabolic marathon training week 2

Week two is beginning this week, after bedding in from week one last week.

This week now the cardio and exercise programme has been set will be more focused on diet, making sure that I’m taking in the right stuff to make the good stuff happen.

I’m increasing my carb intake to about 150g a day, which should still see me be able to perform the cardio for longer periods of time.

Last week consisted of 4 runs – 4 long slow distance runs (3 treadmill and one outside), soccer for 90 minutes on Friday and 3 hours of squash on Saturday Fartlek style on and off. With the three treadmill runs I also included some HIIT training at the end to completely deplete sugar stores.

Before all of the cardio sessions were done I did some heavy weights with reps only up to 8 to fail, and split body parts throughout the week.

Sunday I had as a rest day, and this morning I’m raring to go for another LSD run.

Have a great week.

Day 4 Carb Re-Feed and training

Morning all.

Been to the gym this morning, day 4 of the beachfitproject. Today is also my carb re-feed day after having three days of up to 100G of carbs each day. As expected I was feeling quite lethargic, tired and muscle aches. The grenades (thermogenic) have helped me push out a cardio session this morning.

10 minute warm up on the bike
Followed by 10 minutes interval hill programme at level 5 on the Vario (variable cross trainer) followed by an intense 20 minutes of heart rate anaerobic sprints on the treadmill. The grenades gave me that energy I needed to fulfil the time I needed to get into the zone and complete the training.

It’s now food time, and I’m looking forward to some carbs today! This will replenish my stores but just enough for me to burn as energy for the next three days, and not store as fat.

Enjoy the rest of your day whatever your doing.