06/10/2025
BEFORE AND AFTER - 12 MONTH JOURNEY 😃
I set out a bit of a weights adventure after the last years World Championships, in the hopes to put some muscle on the dad bod , and for general future health ( currently 37 ).
This tends to be a bit wishy washy for me as even though I love the weights, I love my cardio / kickboxing stuff too. In the last 12 months I Initially went up a lot faster than what I'm used too, putting on a little to much around the love handles and virtually knocking cardio to almost nothing, of course, this was a great recipe for excess fat gain lol.
Once I got so far with the weight it didn't feel great in some ways and so I though id start to gradually come back down whilst still crushing everything in the gym/dojo. Once the weight started coming down and I crept up the cardio, things started feeling a lot better, then the next phase was to get prepped as much as possible for the World championships this year, which was one of my main goals.
Not a bad 12 months in general, few kilos of muscle on, kickboxing sharpened up after half way through the year and cardio feels a lot better now. Still a bit of time before Xmas but i'll probably go with maintaining now rather than stripping any more fat off, as I write this we're a week away from World Championships 2025 and what's important now is performance, so eating good and not going crazy, but not in a deficit either. It's been a good year so far and one of the first years where I feel like i've done weights, conditioning and kickboxing, not to badly, all at the same time, which is normally not great lol, but my health is good in general and that's the main thing :) .
I hope you guys have had a decent year this year whilst juggling life, and if not, please throw over questions, i'm here to help. Once the World championships has settled i'll be tweaking the page a little bit ready for the "Habitgainz Clinic", to be continued...
Bit of time before Xmas now habitgainers, plenty of time for fitness , before stuffing in the extra calories! Make the most of it :)
Coach Tom