I’ve been acting like a crazy person the last 8 weeks. I’ve really been busting my butt at the gym, but being a little too liberal with the nutrition on the weekends. Making a change has actually started yielding results. It’s unfortunate that it took me weeks to come to that realization. Better late than never I guess. However, there are changes that also had to be made with regards to workouts. I was really just doing too much. More is not necessarily better. I was behaving as if I was still in Thailand and had nothing to do all day but train, eat, sleep….train, eat, sleep.

Unfortunately, I live in the real world just like everyone else. I have job that consumes about 50hrs a week and I have responsibilities just like everyone else. Doing all this and also trying to fit in 3hr workouts a day was not the most efficient use of my time. It was downright wearing me out. It was to the point where I was dreading going for my beloved Muay Thai training because I was just too tired from the 5.30am morning workouts to do an additional 2 hrs of Muay Thai in the evening from 7pm – 9pm after a full day at work. Then I would attempt to do another intense workout at 5.30am the morning after on about 5 hours of sleep. That plan was unsustainable. In addition, I was always tired, my performance wasn’t getting any better and I had no enthusiasm. To make matters worse, the scale hadn’t moved at all in 8 full weeks. With the workouts I’ve been putting in and with a single minded goal towards fat loss, this is unacceptable. I gotta tell you folks….that’s no place I ever want to be in again.

The decision now is to do just one very intense, highly efficient, highly effective fat burning workout each day and no more. These workouts incorporate compound movements using both free weights and body weight in a superset format followed by HIIT cardio. My only interest is fat loss.To understand what I’m talking about, please so to Alywn Cosgrove’s website. Read all his posts and all his archives like I’ve done and get a better understanding of what this all entails. I started doing his afterburn program as of this week and I’m a believer that with these new changes, there is no reason why I should not be seeing a 2lbs drop in fat weekly. Just no way.

I ain’t playin around no mo’.