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Acliff
I do the housecleaning once a week. Am reasonably active. At the beginning of lockdown I restarted trainer road but was also building veg beds which involved digging and carting a few tons of topsoil, manure and compost. Since then the gardening has been much less physically challenging.
Do 45 minutes to 2 hours of yoga each day, and the 5 trainer road workouts each week.
A lot of my diet is vegetarian or vegan, eating meat once or twice a week. Possibly what is doing the damage is homemade bread, cakes and eating chocolates in the evening watching tv. The other harm was birthday week last week, which was spread over 3 days with my dad coming one day, friends over another and a huge steak meal another day.
What has been disappointing is as trainer road workouts have moved more into over under territory it appears I have been gaining more muscle bulk, which I don't want or need!
Really trying to work out what will be the best training plan to chose next. Is a build phase going to just encourage more muscle? Would rather focus on cardio.