Raashid’s BodyBlog

After a two week hiatus from training to allow myself to get accustomed to the hardest Ramadan fasting I can remember I finally mustered the will to go to the gym today at 1.30pm, having not eaten since 04.20am.  I immediatley felt the difference the lack of food makes to training.  My squats, which had been performed with impeccable form with 80kg I could just squeeze out 3 sets of 6, my chins with 10kg were pretty slack in form and I had to lower the weight for my skullcrushers, which have become the only effective tricep exercise I can perform.
Rehan Jalili’s advice to train after breaking fast would make sense, but after a long day at work without food and the long journey home (I started a new job just as Ramadan started) I just cannot muster the energy to get to the gym and back before evening prayers.
It’s times like these I need a 24 hour gym!