Yours truly might be up in the Vizual Xcellence Wall of Fame soon. I’m still not nearly as lean as I want to be, but Chris “Swolecat” Janusz contacted me the other day to see if I’d be willing to be added to the WoF after I posted my most recent progress pictures.

I’ve got at least another month and a half of cutting ahead of me, half of which will be on pure Swolegenix as I get closer to goal weight and body fat, so I expect to have better photos in November, but I am flattered nonetheless.

The scale weight has not been changing drastically, but I can see I’m getting a little leaner in my upper body, and my jeans are doing their usual “too tight in the lower quads, too loose in the abdomen” thing that always signals a drop in overall body fat. I probably won’t see any changes in leg measurements until I am around 16% or below. The legs are definitely the deep end of the fat-filled swimming pool in my case; I can drain as much fat from the pool as I want, but the deep end won’t be visible until all the shallow bits are exposed.

I have two more Full Body Blitz workouts left, and then I’ll be starting up a different training split beginning next Monday. FBB has been a very good workout for the past three and a half weeks, and I’d recommend it to just about any beginner just starting out and in need of guidance during a lifting session or intermediate trainee who just needs to shake things up a bit and take a refresher course in form and tempo. I’ve made noticeable gains in bicep size and definition using the program (I think I tend to recruit too many other muscles besides my biceps when I perform dbell curls on my own), and my quads are getting scary hard again between the heavy leg presses I do with FBB, HIIT runs, Plyo, Yoga and Kenpo from P90X, and all of the cardio-emphasis Yourself Fitness sessions that have me doing hops, jumping jacks, squat jacks, and any number of leg moves for 30 minutes at a time. I’ve had to modify and substitute about half of the exercises for FBB due to the limited equipment at the fitness center, but even so I’d say that my results have been excellent.

Next week I’ll either return to Femgenix workout I received with my SGX program, or start a custom split I wrote up myself after reading through Negrita Jayde’s Supervixen. Her book on “shapeshifting” through resistance training for women is organized according to body parts and, more importantly, common flaws in those parts seen on women. You can review the list of 4-6 possible flaws for each body part, pick out the ones from which your own physique suffers, and then page to the recommended exercises to fix said problem areas. It was tempting to jot down every flaw listed, but I managed to be practical and objective enough to only focus on the worst ones for my prospective program. Biceps and hammies are going to get some serious attention soon! Whichever program I choose to do, I will be training 4 days a week instead of three, and cardio may have to shift around a bit to accomodate the change.

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Nutrition: Training Day Menu
(SGX nutrition details omitted by request of trainer)

1: 3×1 spinach omelette with raisin oatmeal
2a: Pre-workout SGX snack
2b: PWO Dextrose/whey shake
3: Veggie mozarella quiche
4: 2/3 c. LF cottage cheese, 1 orange, 1 T. oatmeal
5: SGX Meal
6: SGX Meal

Daily Supplements: multivitamin with iron, calcium 500 + D, 1 T. flaxseed oil or natural peanut butter
Water: 16 cups minimum

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Workout:
7:00 AM YF Lower Body (30 minutes)
7:30 AM Full Body Blitz #10 (60 minutes)

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The Awful Truth:
1. Move along now; nothing to see here. :claplow:

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Brownie Points:
1. 9/31 Perfect LMH Challenge Days

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Short-term Goals:
1. Update HandBase workout module.
2. Organize desk.
3. Buy eggs, cooking sherry/wine, veggies, apples, and FF yogurt.
4. Read a few chapters from NASM book.
5. Choose pattern and sew Halloween costume.