Finished training yesterday
Over 12 weeks of some of the most gruelling workouts
Might get to them another time
Cuz I wanna go through how my food has changed over the last 3 months or so
I’ll set the scene first
I wasn’t training, at all
Kept making excuses,
Too busy, no time
Remember I own a gym
And I still thought I didn’t have the time
Batshit crazy I know
My food was below what I’d normally eat
I was eating very little during the day
Would buy my lunches and choose whatever I fancied at the time
Then I’d pig out in the evening
The best way for me to change was to hire a trainer
And set myself a goal
12 weeks – photoshoot at the end, no pressure right?
Food went as follows
Weeks 1-3
– Started eating better
– Cooked more
– More nutritious food like veggies, protein, carbs
– Ate more regularly throughout the day
– Didn’t cut out anything
– still drank and ate pizza
Weeks 3-9
– Increased food, especially carbs
– My initial aim was to gain as much size as possible
– Didn’t cut out anything
– still drank and ate kebabs
Weeks 9-12
– Started reducing calories
– I’d been tracking what I was doing so I just reduced portion sizes
– Didn’t cut out anything
– still drank and ate chinese
Week 13
This week
I’ve cut out carbs completely till Thursday
Only eating white fish and green veggies
Doing some crazy stuff with water
All to manipulate how I look in the pics
A few days later and I won’t look anything like that
I’m telling you this because
I see people trying to do what I’ve done in the last 3-4 weeks
And even more extreme versions
But their only starting off
They’ve no baseline
Which means they’ll just go back to the way they were
Guess what happened on Sat
When I started this really strict stuff?
I immediately wanted a chipper
I wanted rock shandy
I even wanted an Indian and I don’t even like Indian
Too spicy for me
All of this, because I can’t have
And it’s why every programme at SF
Starts where you are starting from
Not some strict plan that even I find hard to stick to
And never tells you ‘you can’t have’
Yet, will deliver the best results you can possibly imagine
John ‘I’m hot enough’ O’C
P.S. I’ve taken pics and am gonna do up a blog
Just to show how much you can manipulate ‘results’
in a very short space of time
It’s what a lot of models do for pics
Like you see in magazines and on social meja
John O'Connell is the owner of SF Fitness & Health Centre. He started working in the fitness industry in 2002 after suffering a back injury. He has worked with many professional organisations including Leinster Rugby, An Garda Siochana, New Zealand Rugby, Dublin GAA, Spar and CBRE. He has also appeared muliple times on both RTE & TV3 as a health & fitness expert. John is the co-author of 2 international best selling books - Total Body Breakthroughs and The Fit Formula.