Archive for the 'Programs and Progress' Category
7/7/09 Measurements (Difference from Week 6 stats in parentheses)
Age: 34 (still)
Height: 5’6” (same)
Weight: 146.6 (-2.6 lb)
BF%: 24.7% Averaged from 27.2% (Tanita body fat scale); 22.2% (Omron handheld)
Chest: 35.0” (same)
Waist: 27.25” (-1.25”)
Hip: 38.88” (-0.12”)
Thigh: 23.5” (-0.50”)
Calf: 14.88” (-0.12”)
Shoulder: 42” (+0.50”)
Arm: 12.13” (-0.37”)
Lean mass: 110.39 lbs (+0.28 lb)
Fat mass: 36.21 lbs (-2.88 lb)
From the online BF calculator:
Body [...]
For the May Makeover Challenge over at Pink Dumbbells, I am going back to basics with my program.
EXERCISE
As of this week, I am doing the program outlined by LL Cool J’s Platinum Workout book (LLCJ) with a week of Red Carpet Ready (RCR) workouts while I’m away from my home and gym on a trip [...]
In honor of my latest exergaming acquisition for the Wii console, Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout, I am embarking on a two-week video game workout program that will use the following three programs:
- Gold’s Gym Cardio Workout (GGCW) for the Wii
- Yourself Fitness (YF) for the Xbox; for Wii owners, an updated Wii version is sold [...]
To answer Erin’s question about what program I am using to move towards a more vegetarian (or pescatarian at least) nutrition model, at the moment I am just attempting to replace one of my usual two servings of meat per day with a vegetarian or seafood option. I normally have some kind of lean meat [...]
Hello 2009!Hey all! Sorry I’ve been incommunicado for the past month; all I can say is that 12 hour work days and a slew of holiday obligations can really chop one’s web posting time down to nothing. I think this happens every December, because I am feeling a sense of deja vu as I type these [...]
Muscle & Fitness Hers 12-Week Makeover ProgramFor those who were interested, here is the Muscle & Fitness Hers 12-Week Makeover Program I am pulling my upper body workouts from for the rest of the year. As I’ve mentioned before, if your goal is really the Red Carpet Ready look, you probably don’t want to train this way because you WILL build [...]
Red Carpet Ready 6-Week Results and ReviewThe RCR Club Experience
I admit that I started celebrity trainer Val Waters’s Red Carpet Ready program with a healthy dose of skepticism about what it could actually do for me since I’ve been training and eating clean pretty consistently for over 4 years now, but I can’t argue with the numbers below. I have lost [...]
I think I did pretty well this week since PMS officially ended (no more random carb cravings at 8 pm). I stayed true to my diet, got in all of my workouts (even when I had to do them after a 13 hour day at work), consumed 5-8 servings of fruits and veggies daily, and [...]
