Firstly let me apologise for the lateness of this blog. This is due to me actually having a social life for the first time in about 7 months. Jono (my best mate) and I went to the cinema to watch Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and it was brilliant, very funny and generally a great night. Now I am always honest in these blogs so I will tell you that I did get popcorn and a bag of chocolates. I kind of saw it as my last treat before 8 weeks of prep and going to the cinema and having popcorn was on my list of things to do after prep – I know its sad but I like to make lists of things I want to do. My reason behind my list of places to eat and things to do after prep is so that I don’t feel like I have missed out when going back into prep or try and use it as an excuse, plus it may reduce my cravings and therefore stop any potential binges.

So yesterday, I started the day off with fasted cardio on the stairway to heaven but at the new gym I have joined. Before I even got in the building I had to navigate the futuristic doors in which you put in a PIN, one door opens and you step into a chamber/capsule thing, the door shuts, waits a bit and then the other door opens. Now the first thing to note is that the chamber thing is not very big so I don’t know how I am going to fit in with my massive gym bag. Secondly that waiting period between the first door shutting and the second is too long, I felt like some random mad scientist experiment stored in a glass jar (a bit dramatic but you get the picture).

Half way though my hour on the stairway to heaven and a woman to my right starts screaming. Now I cant wear headphones when on the stairway to heaven as I sweat far too much, so I heard everything. I look round and see a woman shouting but still running on the treadmill with a guy behind her who has fallen on to the treadmill and his face is now being transported by the treadmill with him struggling to get off the end of the treadmill and be able to stand up. Being the professional that I am I look away and do not laugh although it was funny as it turns out he was trying to impress and surprise her by jumping on the treadmill behind her. I assume this is some kind of new mating ritual which I am not familiar with, if anyone tries this with me it will not end well.

In the afternoon I have my eyebrows microbladed which involves little hair like strokes made with a blade and then filling them with ink. Now when I go to the gym in the morning I will not look like I have just been dug up and should look slightly more human.

I couldn’t complete any further cardio that day as I have to be careful not to get sweat on my new eyebrows so I just did some shoulder, back, bicep and tricep work in the weights section.