Stats this morning:
Weight: 165.4
Fat Percentage: 10.6%
Been a while since I posted, not that I'm read much. :) In the intervening month I've joined a rowing club here in Everett, and have been out on the water three of four times per week, having a blast. There are enough experienced rowers in the "master's" (i.e. non high-school aged) part of the club that I've had a few pretty damn good rows, and I'm starting to build a little cardio-endurance. There's a race coming up tomorrow, the "Tail of the Lake" on Lake Union, which should be fun, weather permitting. I'm told the course is about 4-km, and I may end up rowing it twice, so I expect to be pretty warn out by the time I make it home.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Goal Accomplished!
Stats this morning:
Weight 166.6 lbs
Bodyfat: 12.7%
12.7% was my original goal, set about two months ago. So I've accomplished phase 1.
And I've got to say, I'm ready to give a wholehearted recommendation to the book that taught me how to do it. Tom Venuto is the author, and he calls his system "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle."
http://www.burnthefat.com/
This is brilliant, brilliant stuff. It's a complete education on the human body and it's relation to food. The beauty of it is, nothing about this process was hard. It took some time and effort, yes, to plan properly and go through the right motions, but nothing about that was particularly difficult to do. There were no cravings to fight, because this isn't a system of starving yourself. I didn't have to deprive myself of food I wanted, because there's complete flexibility in what you eat, so long as you balance things properly. There are no drugs to take or special brands of food to purchase, everything you need can be found in the stores where you already shop. Nor did I spend hours in the gym every day - my goal was three times per week, and often enough I did less than that.
So yeah, if you want to improve your health and/or body condition, I can't sing enough praises for this book. Worth every penny what I payed for it and many times more.
So from here I think I'm actually going to set a new leanness goal before undertaking "Phase 2," which was regain some weight, but in muscle form. 10% is on the lean side of "ideal" category for the body fat charts that came with my caliper, so I'll aim for 10% now, and see how things look when I get there.
Cheers!
- Z
Weight 166.6 lbs
Bodyfat: 12.7%
12.7% was my original goal, set about two months ago. So I've accomplished phase 1.
And I've got to say, I'm ready to give a wholehearted recommendation to the book that taught me how to do it. Tom Venuto is the author, and he calls his system "Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle."
http://www.burnthefat.com/
This is brilliant, brilliant stuff. It's a complete education on the human body and it's relation to food. The beauty of it is, nothing about this process was hard. It took some time and effort, yes, to plan properly and go through the right motions, but nothing about that was particularly difficult to do. There were no cravings to fight, because this isn't a system of starving yourself. I didn't have to deprive myself of food I wanted, because there's complete flexibility in what you eat, so long as you balance things properly. There are no drugs to take or special brands of food to purchase, everything you need can be found in the stores where you already shop. Nor did I spend hours in the gym every day - my goal was three times per week, and often enough I did less than that.
So yeah, if you want to improve your health and/or body condition, I can't sing enough praises for this book. Worth every penny what I payed for it and many times more.
So from here I think I'm actually going to set a new leanness goal before undertaking "Phase 2," which was regain some weight, but in muscle form. 10% is on the lean side of "ideal" category for the body fat charts that came with my caliper, so I'll aim for 10% now, and see how things look when I get there.
Cheers!
- Z
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Week 7 Update
Latest stats from this morning:
Weight: 166.8
Body Fat Percentage: 14.12%
In the last 7 weeks I've lost 7.4 lbs, and around 5% body fat. The plan was to lose 1 lb and between 1/2 to 1% body fat per week. Spot friggin on, I'm happy to say. =D
My discipline for the last two months has been anything but iron. I take the time to plan properly, which is probably the single biggest boon, but I skip meals sometimes, or stray from the plan when I'm feeling lazy, usually to eat less than I should, which seems somewhat ironic given the current hysteria over obesity-linked over-eating in the news. The last couple weeks I've skipped several planned trips to the gym, for excuses ranging from laziness to actual time conflicts, and not without a small price (my lean body mass fell slightly this week, reversing the very slight upward trend).
But it just goes to show how robust this stuff actually is. If I can achieve my goal with near perfect precision, while being far from perfect in my execution, in my mind that's pretty damn powerful!
At the current rate, I should make my initial goal (12.7% body fat, right in the middle of the "ideal" range for a 26-yr male) within the next 3-4 weeks. When I do, I'm going sit back down evaluate where to go from there. Originally my thought was to achieve 12.7, then regain some of the weight I lost, but in muscle form. Now I'm thinking I may push even a bit further first, down to 9-11%. That'd be on the lean side of "ideal," maybe even into the "lean" category. (These categories come from the chart for the Accu-measure body fat caliper, they are "lean, ideal, average, above-average"). That'll be a judgment based pretty much solely on vanity. ;-) I've long known exactly how I want to look, but for the first time since I became aware of such things, I feel like I can actually achieve it. =D
Weight: 166.8
Body Fat Percentage: 14.12%
In the last 7 weeks I've lost 7.4 lbs, and around 5% body fat. The plan was to lose 1 lb and between 1/2 to 1% body fat per week. Spot friggin on, I'm happy to say. =D
My discipline for the last two months has been anything but iron. I take the time to plan properly, which is probably the single biggest boon, but I skip meals sometimes, or stray from the plan when I'm feeling lazy, usually to eat less than I should, which seems somewhat ironic given the current hysteria over obesity-linked over-eating in the news. The last couple weeks I've skipped several planned trips to the gym, for excuses ranging from laziness to actual time conflicts, and not without a small price (my lean body mass fell slightly this week, reversing the very slight upward trend).
But it just goes to show how robust this stuff actually is. If I can achieve my goal with near perfect precision, while being far from perfect in my execution, in my mind that's pretty damn powerful!
At the current rate, I should make my initial goal (12.7% body fat, right in the middle of the "ideal" range for a 26-yr male) within the next 3-4 weeks. When I do, I'm going sit back down evaluate where to go from there. Originally my thought was to achieve 12.7, then regain some of the weight I lost, but in muscle form. Now I'm thinking I may push even a bit further first, down to 9-11%. That'd be on the lean side of "ideal," maybe even into the "lean" category. (These categories come from the chart for the Accu-measure body fat caliper, they are "lean, ideal, average, above-average"). That'll be a judgment based pretty much solely on vanity. ;-) I've long known exactly how I want to look, but for the first time since I became aware of such things, I feel like I can actually achieve it. =D
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