Eat Fit, Get Fit!

Eat Fit magazine is a new publication that helps give everyday people a few fresh ideas on how to get into shape, via healthy and flavoursome recipes.

Through a few different contacts and some other photo shoot work, I got in touch with the editor of Eat Fit to see what the opportunities might be like. After emailing some photo's through to him, the deal was done and I just needed to wait for a response for a specific day and time for the shoot.

I got the heads up just one week before the date!! Yikes! I guess it just goes to show that you want to try and stay as close to your goal weight as possible!

During the one week preparation period, I continued my resistance training 4 times per week, but increased my cardio to a daily routine, which consisted of both long distance & interval runs, generally lasting a minimum of 25 minutes. A longer duration at a lower intensity means that the fat stores in your body are targeted for energy use, more so than glycogen stores in your muscle, so this development which you have worked hard for during resistance training will be less likely to put your muscles into a catabolic state (breakdown for energy use).

From a diet perspective, I continued to focus on eating 4 meals per day of lean meat (which weight-wise was worked out relative to my body fat%) and was predominately white meat, such as chicken & white fish, which tends to have a lower fat content than the red meat varieties. Green vegetable were a solid make up of my carbohydrates which helped fuel my training sessions, and plenty of water a few days out from the shoot got decreased substantially the day before.

Although the preparation period was shorter than ideal, this protocol seemed to work ok for me and I'm certainly happy with the end result, although, like most of us, there's always something that you think you could've done better!