The last couple of days have been interesting to say the least!
Personal Fitness wise I am coming along great guns, my endurance has improved, my speed has improved and I have still kept my strength and muscle mass, though I am leaner around the waist.
Day 18 was a fantastic day at the gym, completed a hard fartlek treadmill routine and caught up on my arm exercises - I was really happy and felt positive.
Unfortunately, Days 19 and 20 where not the spectacular finished I wanted due to the effects of over-training really hitting home... no injuries, just a raised metabolic rate and a feeling of being run down.
So I took my foot off the gas...
Now is the difficult part, phase two as it were, getting myself into a routine that isn't going to lead to over-training and one that is going to keep making good gains in a short amount of time.
Overall the 'jump start' worked, yet, if I was doing this again I'd possibly run the intensity training over a 15 day period and then settle into some long term routine fixtures. 20 days was possibly a bit ambitious.
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