Hey Everyone! So I made it to week 2! Barely, thought I was done come Friday morning when that head cold hit me hard but I battled through! On Monday I woke up, jumped on the scales and was down 1lb from the day before! I was definitley on the mend! With my sunday mealContinue reading
Hey Everyone, So week 1 of this mini cut didn’t 100% go exactly to plan. Mainly due to the fact that a throat & chest infection really put a spanner in the works! On Monday I woke up super motivated, which to be fair has continued for the rest of this week. I knew thatContinue reading
Hey Everyone, So if you’ve been following me on my Instagram you’ll know that this weekend I was competing in a Squat and Bench competition in Galway. It was my second powerlifting competition and one that I was hoping to get a few PB’s in, especially following on from how well I did at theContinue reading
Hey Guys! If you’re reading this you either stuck with me through my bit of a hiatus, in which case I really appreciate all your support, or, this is your first time on my blog, in which case welcome! 🙂 I spent a bit of time this other day looking back over some of my olderContinue reading
Hey Everyone! So I’m two weeks out from my next powerlifting competition and my nerves are nowhere near what they were like this close to my first competition in July. Along with worrying about making my lifts I was also worrying about the competition in general. My coach filled me in on pretty much everythingContinue reading
Hey Everyone, So if you’ve been following me on my instagram and facebook page you will know that my first powerlifting competition is fast approaching – it’s actually less than a week away now. My PT even used the term ‘Competition Week’ in my conditioning session yesterday. Eeeeeep! As you can probably guess from the headingContinue reading
Hey Everyone, Some of you may have noticed from my Instagram that I don’t list the macros on any pics of my food anymore and that I’ve mentioned in previous blog posts that I’m taking a break from counting macros. I have a few reasons for this that I wanted to chat about in todaysContinue reading
Hey Everyone, So todays post is inspired by something that I’m going through at the moment with regards to weight loss – something that I’m doing is messing with my progress and currently it’s a game to try to figure out what that is. Throughout my fitness journey my weight and body fat % have behavedContinue reading
Hey Everyone, So you may have seen a few months ago on my Instagram that I ordered a considerable amount of stuff from My Protein! If you don’t follow me on Instagram go check it out; my handle is @sophrenshaw. So since I received that huge delivery I’ve been trying out some of the stuffContinue reading
Hey Everyone, So you can probably guess from the title what this post is about. You may think that I may have a had a slip up here and there or that I ended up having a cheat meal or two. Neither of those things happened, my slip up was of mega proportions. So muchContinue reading
