AX1 - WEEK 06 - half way through

Hi Everyone,

Here we are ... this is the half way mark of my AX1 first round.

First of all, a confirmation of what I was mentioning in my first post about AX1, it is a very exiting program.

I have not been bored once over the past 7 weeks (yes, remember, I doubled-up the week 04, so 7 weeks).

Every day is different. There’s many ways to adapt the plan if you face issues with an exercise (like I did on the 11-11-11 challenge – see below).

It makes you feel like you wish the next training session to come faster.

I’m surely not the best at controlling my diet, so somehow, my weight has not decreased at all … still at 84kg.

However, looking at my overall dimensions, there’s clearly something happening. Might it be possible that I was so weak at the start that I could gain as much muscles as I loose fat these days? I doubt it, but I still can do more than I used to (like I start using 11kg DB for bicepts and stand-up press while I was struggling with 6-7kg at the very beginning.), and I get regular remarks that I look slimmer, fitter, more in shape … more ATHLEAN! ;-)

Also, there’s something you can’t beat. It is the feeling of self-satisfaction after a good training and the fact that you feel better in your body over the weeks.

With another 6 weeks of program to go, I just hope the result become a bit more visual, so the satisfaction gets bigger!

As for week 06 of the program, it was all about MMO!

Basics are over and so basically it is time to push harder. The highlight of the week was the 11-11-11 challenge. I introduce Jeff’s official video in my previous post. Here is mine … slight difference in the execution! :-)

Well, 14min. I fail the challenge by 3min.

There’s a bike burst training next week which I’m not really interested in. So I might take the 11-11-11 challenge again and see how.

I’m a bit frustrated that I have not passed any of the challenges so far (I’m still missing 1min++ on the 400 challenge. But this one will be in the program in week 08, so no rush). Taking the challenge again asap seems to be needed. Hopefully I’ll kick its ass.

The rest of the week was core on Wednesday (my abs literally burnt), an interval training on Thursday (always tough for me when running is on!) and full body work-out on Monday & Friday. Those were great.

I think I could have done slightly better this week in terms of performance, but I started with a non-resting week-end. We are moving and I had carton boxes to shuffle around (down 2 floors, up 4 with no elevator). It was a great addition to training, definitely an exhausting one.

I will take it easy this week-end. I want to get into week 08 strong, especially knowing there’s a new attempt at pull-ups on Monday! :-)

Right, that is it for this week.

My brother starts to be interested in my videos intensely. He might be the first one I drag in with me (well, he would start ahead of me for sure) … but it could be fun to challenge each other sometimes!

Alright, thanks for reading,

Cheers,

Seb