Click here<\/a> to get the biggest stories straight to your inbox in our Daily Newsletter<\/p>\nNow, Lyndsey has lost nearly five stone by doing 40 minutes of fasted cardio at 4am five times a week and eating the same meals every single day.<\/p>\n
She has found a love for weightlifting and now at 8st 8lbs she competes in bodybuilding competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cI work 12 hour shifts so I get up at 4am and do 40 minutes of fasted cardio, then I walk to work and do a weights session in the gym after my shift finishes,” she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first it was agony, but after a couple of weeks you get into it and it becomes routine. I quite enjoy it now because I like the structure and the discipline but that only comes with time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not killing myself with cardio, it\u2019s just consistency.\u201d Lyndsey says she was previously a “couch potato” who did no cardio and sat around drinking every weekend.<\/p>\n
She said: “I was eating too much, drinking too much, having takeaways and doing no exercise. I’d just had enough.<\/p>\n
“I changed for my son. I wanted to be a role model and show him what you can achieve.”<\/p>\n
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Lyndsey competes in bodybuilding competitions now <\/p>\n
In January 2024, Lyndsey decided to make a change and entered an online competition to win three months of coaching with a personal trainer.<\/p>\n
Although she didn’t win, the coach contacted her afterwards to ask if she still wanted to work together.<\/p>\n
Lyndsey told Talk to the Press: “I thought the money I’d spend on coaching was the money I’d been spending on alcohol and takeaways anyway.<\/p>\n
\u201cI pay for three months coaching at a time which costs me \u00a3350, which is cheap compared to some coaches out there, but it\u2019s a lifestyle choice.<\/p>\n
\u201cI yo-yo\u2019d with my weight over the years, particularly when my son was young as he was my priority and I would put myself on the backburner.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he is 16 now so I\u2019ve got so much more time. I signed up with Craig two and a half years ago and I still check in with him every Sunday. I know I can’t get away with anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lyndsey swapped chicken kebabs for five meals a day which are carefully weighed out.<\/p>\n
Every single day, Lyndsey\u2019s menu includes oats and yoghurt, chicken and rice, chicken wraps, mince meat with potatoes and vegetables, and sourdough bread with peanut butter.<\/p>\n
Her coach was a bodybuilding specialist so got into bodybuilding straight away, eventually building up to enter the 2026 NABBA North West bodybuilding competition.<\/p>\n
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Lyndsey says she used to be a ‘couch potato’<\/p>\n
Now her cardio work typically involves time on a static bike or on the Stairmaster, and most of her weight work focuses on heavy dumbbells.<\/p>\n
Lyndsey said: \u201cWomen always say that they don’t want to get too bulky and that they just want to tone up, but toning up comes from building muscle.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’re not going to turn into a man overnight by lifting weights. It’s actually very hard for women to build muscle because we don’t naturally have the same testosterone levels, so its all about what we eat.\u201d<\/p>\n
On June 13, the mum finished second in the NABBA North West bodybuilding finals. She initially entered in the toned category but judges moved her into the athletic class because of her muscle definition and conditioning.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cI was really nervous, but what I’ve taken away is to just have fun, don’t take it too seriously.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody is so lovely and puts you at ease. You\u2019ve worked hard so it\u2019s time to show it off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lyndsey now shares her fitness journey with her 11,000 followers on Instagram @lynds.lifts.<\/p>\n
For anyone considering starting their own fitness journey later in life, she advises: “You’ve got to get used to it and give it time. It can be a bit boring at first, but once you start seeing results, you realise it works. Trust the process.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAt first it was agony, but after a couple of weeks you get into it and it becomes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[53749,49,48,407,84,5472],"class_list":["post-784532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-bolton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-instagram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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