Back To Training Basics!
Hi and welcome back to My Health And Fitness Today.
Firstly i want to apologise for the scarcity of posts of late. My excuse is the same as my lack of workout training too, let me explain; Last August my partner Zoe became ill, and after a month of her doctors arsing about and generally doing bugger all, i lost my temper and took her straight to the Accident & Emergency Department of the local hospital.
She was admitted immediately with a temperature of 40deg and a very low blood pressure, they told us that it was probable Colitis and that after 2-3 days of intravenous steroids, she’d be fine and able to return home.
5 days later and still no improvement, it was found that her body was rejecting her bowel and would need to be put on immuno-suppressants. This in turn had other implications and required further drug treatment to counteract the I-S’, finally after 12 days in hospital Zoe was allowed home. Sadly she was told that she would no longer be able to breast-feed our baby girl Isabelle, due to the massive dose of steroids she was on which upset her terribly. Unfortunately she was unable to breast-feed our first daughter Olivia, now 3yrs past the first week, as she really chomped down and caused major problems, so when she had got to 3 months with Isabelle she was really loving it and wanted to carry on till 6 months, this was not to be.
Anyhow, at home she had to take a whole raft of different drugs, steroids, I-S’, magnesium, and god knows what else, 29 pills a day, 19 for breakfast and the rest throughout the day and night, but even with all these, by the 7th day you could see she was beginning to go downhill, by the time her first checkup at the hospital at 10 days came around, she was really ill again.
As she was already on the strongest drugs they could give her, the only option left was to remove her large intestine. When the day of her operation came around, i spent an hour with her before she was taken to the operating room, she as gravely ill.
They told me she would be out within 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours and they would ring me, 5 hours later still no call, i’m going out of my mind with worry, fearing the worst, ‘How would i cope without her? What would i tell Olivia? All of this flew through my mind, finally after many frantic calls to the hospital, 5 1/2 hours later she was out and safe, though apparently it was a close call, and they admitted that they should’ve operated sooner!
So after a week she finally came home again, this time she managed two weeks at home before being rushed back in by ambulance, she had a massive abscess on the stump of her colon which was leaking back into her body, making her ill again, another operation, another week in hospital, another few weeks at home and…. her index finger blows up black and blue, another abscess, all related.
While she’s going through all this, i’ve been taking time off to look after the girls, run her to hospital appointments, pick up drugs etc etc… and with all the stress and worry, something had to give, and yes you’ve guessed it, twas my workouts!
Just when we thought she was getting stronger, last week she spent in hospital, again, fortunately this time it was only viral, something caught from a home help, but due to her reduced immune system, it hit her like a tone of bricks, hence the lack of posts.
Anyway, to get to the point (yaay at last…) i’ve just started training again going right back to basics using Craig Ballantynes Turbulence Training and to be sensible i’ve gone right back to the beginners workout schedule, which quite honestly still hit me like a freight train!
Before all the problems started, i was at a steady 13st 6lbs (188lbs) with around 15% body fat, not fantastic, i would never have graced the pages of Mens Health et al, but it was ok, i was fairly solid, reasonably muscly, and felt healthy. Now, well see my stats below, doesn’t take long to lose it, just five months;
Weight: 13st 9lbs (191lbs)
Body Fat: 25.4% (dear god)
Visceral fat:14 (1-12 healthy level, 13-29 needs adjustment)
Muscle mass: 39.2%
So i’m 44 yrs old, have an underactive-thyroid, am pre-diabetic (due to my weight gain years ago, i was 16st or 224lbs) have lost a lot of muscle and gained a lot of fat, so am i worried?
No, because i have the tools and the knowledge to sort this out, and quickly, how quickly, well we’ll see, and if anyone wants to join me on this, then please leave a comment below.
I will be using Turbulence Training mostly throughout for the workouts and Jon Bensons Every Other Day Diet 2.0 for my nutrition program, why these two programs particularly? Simple they both work! They are what are i used to burn my fat the first time, and successfully maintain that weight-loss too
I will be posting some pics, and maybe some video if i can snag a camcorder.
Sorry it was such a long post, but it had to be explained, please stay in touch, and leave a comment if you will, thanks from Paul and My Health And Fitness Today!

