I’ve got 4 weeks on Sunday to go till my friends stag weekend in Benidorm, and to be perfectly honest I’ve still got a long way to go till I feel comfortable taking my shirt off on the beach. I’m working extremely hard at the moment and doing most things right. I know that I can do better though.
My diet is fairly good but I am still snacking slightly in between meals. I am 100% better than I use to be though. I’m doing on average around one hours cardio each day, so on weight training days I’m doing two hours of exercise that day. So if I’m working late I’m finding it extremely difficult finding the time and motivation to keep doing it.
The experts say that the best time to burn fat during exercise is first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. I’m currently getting up for work at around 7am. So I am going to start setting my alarm clock to 6 am and get my cardio exercise in then. Not only should I benefit from having more time for myself when I finish work but hopefully I will be burning more fat. And the one hour cardio session each morning will give my metabolism the much needed boost I think it is needing at the moment.
I’ve been exercising nearly every day during 2009, it does get a little tiresome and boring. But I know that it will all be worth it in the end, when I reach my target body fat percentage of 10%. Lots of people have emailed me and said reaching ten percent body fat is easy. Why don’t you aim lower and really gets your abs to show. Well I’ve set myself the target of 10% because an extremely low body fat percentage is not only dangerous it is extremely difficult to maintain.
I want to reach a target goal and weight that is has easy to maintain as possible. I know 100% that I can not keep up with my current diet and exercise routine it’s just not practicable. I also know that I can not return to my old ways. I need to find a happy medium once I reach my goal that will allow me to maintain it. Losing the weight and body fat is going to be the easy part, keeping if off is the part that separates the winners from the losers.
