Hey welcome, or welcome back to my blog! Today I’m coming at you with a slightly chatty health post to hopefully motivate and inspire you guys to continue your fitness lifestyle and join me on my journey. A lot of stuff changed in my life this week and it sort of forced me to start challenging myself with new projects, but I think I’ll write another chatty post all about this next week. This week I wanted to talk you through my week of workouts, my current fitness goals and my general digestion- as you guys know I have been trying gluten free and dairy free to deal with bloating.
This week I have really started focusing on HIIT workouts, whilst integrating cardio into days where I also use weights for resistance etc. By doing this I can start my workout with some interval running or a HIIT workout on youtube to burn fat and get my heart rate up immediately, then I can try and sustain this for the entirety of my less fast pace workout to maximise fat loss and muscle building. I’m trying to lean down and lose cellulite on my legs to appear more toned and honestly feel more strong- I’m not trying to lose weight, because I’m a very healthy weight- I’m simply changing my body composition. I’m pretty happy with my physique, the only place I am not happy with is my thighs as they do store a bit of cellulite. I have been focusing on eating whole foods and minimally snacking, but if I do it will be fruit, nuts or a healthy raw protein bar. I don’t track calories or macros, because I used to do this and I felt like I was restricting calories too much and taking the enjoyment out of eating, because I would be too focused on how many calories something contained. I simply intuitively eat- I know there is a lot of stigma around this word, but I have got to a point where I can just listen to my hunger queues and only eat at these times, rather than bored eating- but I’ve never really been a bored eater. Wow, this is so rambly. If you want me to talk about any of these topics in more detail, please comment down below- it would be so appreciated.
So my week of workouts- this is just the exercise I have been loving recently, I honestly switch it up all the time and I’m lucky, because my family are very active, so we have a treadmill, rowing machine and dumbbells available, and a bench press, but I haven’t quite worked up the confidence to use it yet!
Monday- leg/glutes day (15 minutes HIIT cardio, 15 minutes weighted glute workout, 10 minutes bodyweight)
Tuesday- HIIT day (45 minutes of YouTube HIIT workouts)
Wednesday- cardio day (2 miles of interval training on treadmill, 2km rowing machine, 20 minutes abs- but I mix this up I don’t do each section all in one go or I get bored
Thursday- leg/glutes day (same as before)
Friday- upper body day (25 min HIIT workout, 10 min weighted arm workout, 10 min weighted ab workout)
Saturday- rest day
Sunday- cardio day (same as before)
And I just wanted to end with saying since eating more whole foods, no gluten and less dairy I have noticed a considerable decrease in my bloating!
Thank you so much for reading this very rambly blog post- I hope you enjoyed it and it was somewhat helpful. I would really appreciate any comments you have and it would mean a lot to me if you liked or shared my post.
Eva’s Fitness Journey 