with 2 workouts left in January here is a review or the month and new targets/pan for february -

REVIEW
plan was 4 x work out per wk managed this each week apart from wk comm 21/1 when i was suffering man flu - the important thing for jan was to develop the training habit again and not worry too much about volume/weight/intensity etc - on this note i feel it was a success

i planned to train the swing and press and that is exactly what i have done - swing wise ive played with the weight and mixed things up a bit with the number of reps and thrown in some power swings to allow me to use a heavier bell - press wise i have settled into the long cycle clean and press and kept the volume static and changed the weight scheme as ive felt stronger and thrown in some push presses to get the feel for the 24kg bell - again this part of the plan has been a success
the numbers -
550 long cycle clean and press (various weights)
170 push press (various weights)
2670 swings (various weights/styles - 2 w/o to go +-500 swings)

third part of the plan was to get control of my weight - without going into too many details and giving myself a pointless beating up - i can say that this has not been a success 

so 2 out of three isnt bad i have made progress and i have got out of the lazy rut in which i found myself - am i pleased - YES - could i have done better - YES 

i let myself down on the weight control side of thing simply because i didnt approach it as i should - i just did it instead of thinking about it - i didnt plan meals or really even think about it 

PLANS

1 will still ain to work out 4 x per week - tue,thus,sat and sun
i have been doing 3 x swing workout per week and 1 x press workout - in February i will reintroduce the snatch - the week will look like this -
tuesday - swing
thursday - snatch
saturday - swing
sunday - pressing

so thats the easy bit and will start from feb 1st

as for the eating plan i intend to go back to a style of eating i tried last year with success - called eat stop eat - and based on an intermittent fasting approach so you basically have an 8hr window to eat your daily requirements in, this has to fit round real life and in my case will start late morning 1030-11 am and finish with evening meal 6-630pm the rest of the time its water/juicee/coffee - no food
thats the plan
the food goes a little like this
breakfast - high carb
lunch - medium carb/medium protein
dinner - high protein
snacks - fruit
worked well last time and never felt hungry so gotta be worth a try again
aim to try and drop 7lbs in feb
weigh in friday am

so heres to february and hopefully ill achieve all my goals this time

sng