Week 2 summary

The time is really flying. 9 weeks to go and I have very mixed feelings. On the one hand, i’m making some good progress with running and weight lifting, on the other hand the increased dosage of creatine is not making weight loss any easier for me. But first things first.

1) Running: 14 miles in total so in line with my goal for this week. My runs are still plagued (occasionally) by injuries but even this is getting better now. Funnily enough, now my spine hurts when jogging, especially after I do a weightlift activity and proceed immediately to the run.

2) Daily stamina training.
Some steady progress here, too. I’m doing 28 reps for crunches, weight pullovers (20kg) and bench presses (64kg) now. This means that by end of next week I should be done to 33-35.

3) Weightlifting
I’ve ordered some more weights, which allowed me to add deadlift to my list. I’m stuck at the 6x6x92-7x5x97-8x4x102-10x3x107 kg series because it’s the plateau now and I think i won’t be able to go over that in the foreseeable future. So I will be repeating this for the next few weeks unless something changes. I’m starting the deadlift with 10x33kg and will be increasing this slowly (adding 2.5kg every time) over the course of the next few weeks but I don’t want to go higher than 80kg until I lose some belly fat. As it is, I can’t crouch low enough to lift the weight properly, and the spine is overwhelmed. A few months ago I did too much and my back still hurts. So this time I’m taking things slow.

4) Other activities: farmer’s walk, stationary bike training etc. I do these once a week now as I’m running short on time. Work is giving me hell and kids have their summer holidays so things are not as relaxed as I planned them to be.

5) Weight loss: this is a disaster. I’ve put on weight instead of losing it. I need to reverse the trend quickly by running more and with less bpm. In the past running 25 miles per week was enough to lose some weight so in 3-4 weeks I should see results. Naturally all the training makes me look leaner but numbers don’t lie. I’m at 148kg now (and I was already at 141kg two months ago)

Overall feeling: I feel like I’ve never been fitter although I know it’s not true because I have my Garmin Connect times from 2021 so I know I’m much slower. The feeling is nice though. I’m drinking hot milk with Mesir Macunu every day and I have no idea if this is doing anything. But I like the taste and I feel like a tiger. ( a very fat tiger, or maybe a tiger that has just eaten 5 other tigers)

Plan for next week:

18-20 miles of running + business as usual for other activities. As a bonus, I want to always run the last mile with less than 145bpm so that I burn off more fat (aerobic vs anaerobic).