Most clients I come across, and most people in general, usually need to up their activity levels when we start with a new goal. I genuinely struggle to rein Jo in, she likes doing random events and is a very avid cross-fitter (no judgement here). Jo came to me wanting to compete, she gave me about 9 weeks, so we acted fats. We also contended with a very busy (yet super cool) job, family and a couple of ultramarathon and tribal cross-fit events.
We had to lose fat, fast, so quite a severe deficit was put in place, with periodised carbohydrates around workouts, and her events. The deficit was big, but we still had to maintain health as best we can throughout, manipulating fat and vegetable intake to get a complete range of nutrients. We monitored fat loss through fat measurements and pictures, adjusting carbohydrates when stress got the better of our water retention.
Our training needed very little change, a more hypertrophy approach to the gung-ho nature that is Jo and cross-fit. However, we still managed to keep cross-fit in till about 2 weeks out, more as a precaution for injury than anything else. Jo was very unlucky to miss out on. Place at her first comp in Sept (2019), probably due to something that we couldn’t have accounted for, but we will be back stronger and better!!!
“I learnt a lot this year, Im looking forward to next year already, coming back with a much better physique! I cant thank Paul enough, putting up with my wobbles and telling me to sort my **** out when I needed it.”