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For 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 [...]
RCR W3D3: 143 Pounds…Then and NowSo this is me at 143 pounds…In both pictures.
What a difference body fat percentage makes, eh?
I was almost 27% body fat in the picture on the left, and I’m closer to 21% on the right. It’s not about the scale weight, it’s about what’s happening underneath the skin and how that is affecting your shape [...]
Week 1 Measurements
(Starting measurements in parentheses; CHANGES indicated in BOLD)
Height: 5′6″
Weight: 143.6 lbs (146.4 lbs)
BMI: 23.2 (23.7)
BF% (7-Site Skinfold): 16.62% (17.68%)
BF% (Omron): 21.8% (23.0%)
BF% (Tanita scale): 27.2% (26.3%)
BF% (AVERAGE): 21.8% (22.3%)
Neck: 12.75″ (12.75″)
Chest: 35.75″ (36″)
Waist: 26.25″ (26.5″)
Waist - 2″ below belly button: 31.5″ (31.5″)
Hips: 38.75″ (39″)
Thigh: 23.5″ (23.5″)
Calf: 14 7/8″ (15″)
Bicep: 11 7/8″ relaxed / [...]
No workout today; I am reviewing the exercises from the Red Carpet Ready program so I’ll be ready for tomorrow. Up until Friday I was still wavering on whether I’d join the RCR 6-Week contest since my training preferences and physique goals are so different from Val’s program, but based on a purely objective analysis [...]
M&F W3D5: Chest/Shoulder/Tricep Workout (Month 1)For the next three days, I’ll be posting the exact workouts I am doing for the first 4 weeks of the Muscle and Fitness Hers 12-Week Makeover program I am using through November. The program is a three-day training split with a fourth day devoted to cardio only. As of this post, I am starting [...]
My defection to The New Rules of LiftingI have a confession to make.
After getting through stages 1 and 2 of the New Rules of Lifting for Women and even posting a spreadsheet for the program last month, I have officially jumped ship and am doing the original New Rules of Lifting workouts as part of a 12-week workout group I [...]