Started the day off bright and breezy on the stairway to heaven for 40 minutes. Yes my love affair with the stairway to heaven is back. I don’t think the people in the gym this morning have experienced my acrobatic skills on said stairway to heaven but that didn’t stop me from busting out some moves and luckily I didn’t trip or nearly fall off, so levels of total coolness were at an all time high. Completed an abs session and I can still feel them so I think they are slowly but surely growing and one day they will pop out and I will look awesome.

Was working from home today as I was waiting for another delivery, so the cat got to spend all day with me which consisted of him either trying to sit as close as possible and tap my cheek with his paw when I was working or just lie on my keyboard. I would just like to point out that my delivery did not turn up and a strongly worded email will be delivered to said company tomorrow morning backed up with an angry phone call.

As I had to wait in until 6pm to receive no parcel, I was late getting to the stables and the gym. However, I busted out a great leg session and pushed my weights up again on hip thrusters and squats. So I am now squatting 65kg (5 up from last week) and 70kg on hip thrusters (10 up from last week). Not mega heavy but its heavier than what I was lifting in my last prep so I am taking that as a positive. My quads and glutes were on fire when I finished so I know that I gave it my all – I felt damn good afterwards which is good and I need to remember this as I wasn’t that enthusiastic about going to the gym this evening (everyone experiences this strange feeling every now and then).

Got home and food prepped for the next week and made all my porridge for this week. This should save me sometime in the evenings as I need to go to bed earlier so I get up and get a full hours worth of fasted cardio in before doing abs. I am going to start back up with my meditation tracks in the evening as they have always helped me to relax in the past and send me off to sleep pretty quickly. I think I may also need to fire back up the motivation YouTube videos which are so loud and in your face that you have no other option than to get out of your bed like a maniac and seize the day.

I have felt really focused all day and I am so looking forward to the final. My head is in the game well and truly.