OK, so the weekend was a bit up and down. Firstly Friday night I headed out for some HIIT. After reading the thread on the fitness boards about it I decided to go with 15sec sprint, 45 sec cooldown. Even just during the warmup jog down to the park I could tell I was out of practise running. Just felt stiff, sore and not into the swing. That feeling lasted all the way through. I got through what I wanted to do and was buggerred by the end, but I think it'll take a week or two until I readjust to running again and get completely into the swing of it.
After the running I got the GF to take some update pics just in my running shorts. Picture showed about what I expected, but still dissappointing. Muscle definition up, especially through the pecs and traps. Did a back double bicep pose (
) and I've never had lumps and dimples like that before, but at the end of the day theres still a fairly thick layer of fat overlaying it all. GF says she can see its down in the pics and I think I agree, but still definately more than I'd like. The next morning we did measurements. Again about what I'd expected. Chest, biceps, hips and thighs all up, waist and calves down. As expected muscles have grown and some fats gone, just not as much as I'd have liked. BF% actually measured up but I think I just suck at measuring consistantly.
So where does that all leave me? Well I'm lifting heavier than ever and gained some good lean muscle. I've worked out consistantlly for a while now and am into a routine. Slow gains made so far. Whilst I havnt made the progress I'd want, my eatings been pretty good and I'm only just now adding HIIT into the equation. If I can do HIIT two times a week, play basketball a third and just mess around having shots a couple of nights then suddenly I'm adding nicely to my "calories burned" and so on. Hopefully by easing into things a bit like I have I can step things up to full out without worrying about burning out or injuring myself.
Did squats, calves this morning. Put squats up to 105kg and thought it wouldnt be a big issue. For some reason I had trouble maintaining form. I'd get the first 3-4 reps out great then lose it on the 5th and have to brute force it up (I have a bad habit when things get hard of lowering the weight foward and just driving up with my quads instead of using my posterior chain). Ended up only getting 5,5,5,4,2 out. One thing thats crept in is I'm taking the weight out and then standing with it on my shoulders for way too long before I start my first rep. I've got to get better at just getting out, setting up quickly and getting into it. I think just plain exhaustion played a part. So I'll leave it the same weight next week (dissappointing, had thought I'd go another 5 or 10 kg before missing a full lot of sets) and expect to power through it fine if I concentrate on it a bit more. Calves up to 240kg and got through them fine.