Sunday 15th January

Exercise – Weights

Usually routine adopted – three groups of two unrelated exercises repeated up to 5 times with rests of 1minute to 90 seconds between each set, or “supersets”.

Superset 1

Exercise A1 – Seated Leg Extensions (110kg)

Sets 5
Reps 5
Rest 90 seconds

Exercise A2 – Chin-ups (60kg – 40kg)

Sets 5
Reps 5
Rest 90 seconds

Superset 2

Exercise B1 – Dumbbell Chest Press (36kg – 32kg)

Sets 4
Reps 6-8
Rest 60 seconds

Exercise B2 – Concentration Curls (14kg)

Sets 4
Reps 12-14
Rest 60 seconds

Superset 3

Exercise C1 – Decline Sit-up (thought that, in the spirit of trying to get a six pack, some abdominal exercises probably wouldn’t go a mis...)

Sets 4
Reps 15-18
Rest 60 seconds

Exercise C2 – Decline Dumbbell flys (10kg – 8kg)

Sets 4
Reps 10-12
Rest 60 seconds

After my extended Sunday session, and in the advent of two weeks un-deterred commitment (discounting the curry, and approximately 7 bottles of wine) i thought that I’d treat myself to a “weigh in”, undoubtedly having shed my Christmas indulgence several times over by this point.

However, it's probably important at this stage to point out that i didn’t actually weigh myself at the beginning of this experiment, simply taking my usual weight of 94kg, and added a few extra in light of my duty bound mother’s tireless and indeed unstoppable requirement that I be fed and watered (wined) to the point of complete saturation thought the entire duration of my Christmas break.

It was then with little or no trepidation I strode proudly onto the scales already practising my congratulatory inner soliloquy and half smile that would intestinally and succinctly convey my success to fellow gym goings.

I weigh 100kg.  I went home, ate a consolation stick of celery (clearly the wooden spoon of snack foods) and cried myself to sleep. This is going to be a little harder than I imagined.