Christmas! Again! December was the death of a lot of my muscle. It marked finals for the first semester of college and as such, I had zero time to workout. I was still able to stick with my diet but I didn’t have time to implement the body weight exercises I had wanted to at the end of November. Once winter break started, however, I got right back into a new regimen. This one was…
November was similar to October with a few differences. I stuck with my diet, tried to work out as much as time permitted, and ended up losing a little bit of muscle. The one thing I discovered, however, is that body weight exercises are more time efficient than weightlifting. Besides the fact that they can be done anywhere, I found that I was more tired after doing body weight exercises than weightlifting. I only found…
My break from heavily working out was still in effect in this month. It saw very few changes to my fitness (which is a good thing). I stuck to the diet I made last month and was able to maintain my weight and feel good while doing it due to my healthy eating. One slight difference this month was that I had even less time to work out. Although I was worried this would start…
September began a bit of a break from actively losing weight/gaining muscle. I was focusing more on starting college and the other things that came with that. That being said, I aimed to maintain what I had achieved through the bulk of my journey. I did this by eating right and working out whenever I could. This consisted of half an hour of cardio and half an hour of lifting as often as I could.…
I had decided at the very end of last month/beginning of this one to try out intermittent fasting. This is when you eat all of your food in a certain period and fast (don’t eat) during the rest. It allows your body to lower insulin levels (which facilitates fat burning) and increase human hormone growth (which increases fat burning and muscle gain). I chose to follow the 16:8 form of intermittent fasting which is when…
