YOR BEST BODY

Going into this challenge my expectations were limited to what I would of achieved 8 weeks from the start. Knowing I had 2 major Triathlon and a Ironman comp in this period and my required training program to taper in the week leading up to these competitions, and also with Christmas and New Years at the 4-5 week mark making my challenge harder than expected. I came into this with a starting weight at 73kgs that I had always been around and struggling to gain muscle and loss any excess fat.

As my sport requires a low body fat % I had all intentions to lower my Body fat % down to 4-6%, I started at 10%, I can officially say today at the end of my 8 week cycle am down to 4.9%. While also gaining 4.5kgs of pure muscle mass and tone up and now at 78kgs. My strength is through the roof and my swimming and Cycling have improved dramatically shaving minutes of both my times, I now can finish a 90k bike ride in 2hrs 22mins with my previous best of 2hrs 33mins. THAT’S 11 mins I have saved!

The main products that I was taking over this period were Probiotics Ultra, Yor Supergreens, Fibre Plus, Repair Ultra's and the MRP. I was taking my Probiotic and 2 repairs every night before bed when my body is in recovery mode and regain my energy at most. When I wake up I would always have 2 scoops of MRP, 1 scoop of Fibre plus and would mix this up from time to time with a banana and mixed frozen berries. Having this gave be enough energy to hit the pools or jump on the bike for 3 hours and not feel hungry or the need to have a big meal. After my mornings training sessions I would always have my supergreens to re energize my body so I could function at high optimal health for the rest of the day. After a big gym session I would also take a MRP as my protein shake.

My training over the 8 weeks was very rocky as I did have 2 comps in this space and the week leading up to these events had to be a light week with carb loading 2 days out. My normal week of training would consist of 1 long bike ride 90kms plus, 1 sprint bike session around 40kms, 1 wind trainer 2hrs interval session, 1 long run around 20kms, swimming 3 days every week and 4 gym sessions and at the start of every session I would always do interval running 1min on 1 min off for 20mins @20kms/hr and then down to 10kms for my minute off this was done every gym session both on lower and upper body days. I incorporated Stretching into every session and every night to not allow my muscle to tighten up!

Since I started my challenge my health and life have improved substantially, I feel like I want to wake up every day and work and train with nothing but my goals and tasks in sight, my energy levels have increased allowing me to function throughout the day focus on what I need to do and staying injury free. I maintain an above average diet and did have a cheat meal maybe a couple times to many but this was my reward for my hard work.

I can’t thank the people who have helped me and my training partners who believed in me to achieve what I set out to do, and not to mention the Yorheath product range allowing me to operate at a high rate, you really don’t know how good you can feel until you really look after your own body! I'm happy to say I have motivated 5 of my friends to join the 8 week challenge and set some great goals this is a great feeling knowing I have helped them start their journey!

I will be back for another round of the 8 week best body challenge.