‘Getting Back On The Upward Curve'

We find out what our Fitness Project trio have been up to over the past few weeks as lockdown began to be eased

- Alicia Thompson

It’s now six weeks since I was diagnosed with an underactive thyroid gland, which – as detailed last month – struck out of the blue and left me feeling like my energy levels had completely flatlined. It all happened so quickly; my FTP nosedived by about 50 watts in the space of a week. Since then, I’ve been plugging away trying to get back to fitness, but to be honest it hasn’t been easy. In my last catch-up with coach Stephen Gallagher (dig deep coaching. com), we had to face the fact my numbers hadn’t come back to where I would have liked. Stephen reassured me that, prior to diagnosis, my FTP had been improving at a good, consistent rate, so it’s not that I don’t have the potential to bounce back – the lack of progress recently was definitely thyroid-related.