Looking forward…
To a day of grocery shopping, cleaning and refocusing tomorrow.
My eating has been very 50/50 since moving to Sydney. 20 days of good eating, exercise & rest to come.
Please add more Trance Vocal Tunes :)
(Source: Spotify)
Those of you who love a good Facebook stalk or have been following my travel blog will know that I am currently volunteering for a children’s charity ‘The Educators Trust’ in India which helps to provide an education for slum and street children in Goa.
It is a life changing experience which is hard to put into words. I feel so lucky that I am able to be part of this incredible project that is helping to change the lives of these young vulnerable children.
For a lot of you with jobs, mortgages, children and other responsibilities, giving up two months (or any length of time) to do something like this is tough although I’m sure you would like the opportunity.
Which is why I’m offering you the chance to make a difference regardless!!! Last year I started a fundraising page for the Educators Trust before I left and I raised an amazing $700. Now I’m ressurecting it and I need your help!!
Please don’t just ignore this. I am living this right now and they need donations.
I’ve loaded lots of photos today so you can see how your donations would be invested so please take care to look at their faces carefully and ask yourself how you can say no??
You can make a donation at www.justgiving.com/alaina-mcgregor.
I would love to raise another $500 before my two month placement ends in three weeks.
Please!!!
It’s one glass of wine or beer that you can forgo that will make so much difference!
Thank you!
Alaina xFor more info visit www.educatorstrustindia.org
My good friend Alaina is fundraising for Indian kids take a look at her page and if you can make a donation!
HSN IS MOVING TO SYDNEY!
As of this weekend I will be living in sydney. Pretty scary stuff!
As a newly qualified fitness instructor I will be looking for opportunities to work in Sydney.
I will also be pursuing an online coaching programme.
Watch this space.
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New program
Hit me up with some key exercises you think should be incorporated into my new 4day a week program.
Legs day is looking like this so far:
Stiff leg dead lift
Split squat front leg raised
Split squat back leg raised
One legged leg press
Progress
Good things take time.
After getting my DEXA this afternoon, I’m still happy. I’ve done a bit of an analysis of my Body composition over the last 12 months. I.e. from my scan completed on 20/04/2012 and my one done today 05/04/2013.
I want to note I also did a big detox in July 2012 which meant I actually lost a lot of mass and muscle tissue.
July 2012 to April 2013 (so after a ‘fat’ release detox)
Body Composition - Fat % has decreased by .2%
Lean Mass - Gained 3.07 kgs
Fat Mass - Gained 17.6 grams
All this says to me is that detoxes like this advertised “fat release” don’t keep your muscle, and therefore don’t just eat away your fat. From April 2012 to July 2012 however it did make me lose 2.6 kgs of fat which I have kept off essentially 1.66 kgs.
April 2012 to April 2013
Body Composition - Fat % has decreased by 2.2% (I clearly find it difficult to move fat)
Lean Mass - 937.2 grams of Lean Mass Gained in 12 months
Fat Mass - 97.6 grams of Fat Mass has gone
Total mass - 759 grams gone.
Anywho, that may not seem like much, but it seems to take a lot of effort for my body to respond to clean eating and gym work.
Overall I’m all of 25.7% bodyfat, which for a female is pretty normal.
Plenty of improvement to go.
Watch this space :)
12 week stats
Photos to come…
But I have lost 9 cm all over (more to come for sure!)
Using a Skinfold test I have dropped from 23.06% to 20.35% (DEXA to be done today for more accurate measurement). This was measured by the same person from Week 1 to Week 12.
Good times.
I’ll also be updating my 1RM stats as well…More information to come later today :)
