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Archive for July, 2009

Hello readers,

I will be out from August 4th to roughly 9 weeks. I have Air Force basic training. Luckily for me, I am in the best shape of my life. I have very good stamina, can do 50 pushups in a minute, roughly 65-70 situps, and will be able to do 10 chinups if needed.

I am currently 6′2 180 pounds at the moment. My bodyfat is pretty low, I would say around 10 to 11 percent. I’m gonna be a little too skinny after basic lol I can’t see myself being under 170 but it probably will happen.

Whatsup guys. Sorry for the lack of updates. I have been very busy. As you may have recalled, I followed an extreme diet recently and I’m happy to say it was a success.

I started at 190 pounds. The 15 day journey was 500 calories a day with 80 grams of protein and the rest fats with minimum carbs. I had taken a vitamin pill each day.

At the end of 15 days, I stopped and today I checked my weight roughly 15 days later. My weight went back up only 3 pounds which was easily water weight and glycogen storage.

So I lost 8 pounds of fat with no strength lost at all. I actually increased in a few of my lifts. Looks like there really is no such thing as stavation mode. Starvation mode is a myth. Your body cannot drastically slower your metabolism from a severe calorie deficit.

Day 15

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Thoughts

My recruiter surprised me this morning and came to my house. She was notifying me that the meeting was today and she needed a bunch of information. eh…its my fault for not calling and taking care of this business earlier.

So no stats or anything for today. I weighed in at the recruiter office at 182 pounds with shoes and clothes so I’m probably still 178 pounds.

Today I’m gonna workout and hit the cardio so I should be below 178 tommorow.

Day 14 and Week 2 recap
Weight- 178.0 (-2.8 pounds)
Waist (W)- 33″ (-1″)
Waist (N)- 29.5″ (-1.75″)
Arms- 13.0″ (-0.4″)
Calves- 14.1″ (-.9″)
Forearms- 11.1″ (-.1″)
Ab Pinch- 14 (-4″)

Diet
I feel there is no need to update the diet any longer. Its pretty much the same everyday and basic. Simply 500-700 calories consisting of chicken, tuna, protein shakes, a bowl of salad, vitamin pill, and sometimes bacon/eggs/cheese.

Workout
My test is tommorow on the pushups, situps, chinups, and running. So I’m gonna go ahead and just rest another day. I’ll do something active today though like play basketball or football, etc. I haven’t worked out in like 4 days so I’m hoping to hit some PRS tommorow.

Thoughts
Half way through the experiment and 2 more weeks to go. I was gonna provide a picture today but my camera is busted so I’ll try to get a hold of one before I leave. I can see my top 2 abs and thats about it.

I lost 2.8 pounds this week which is impressive. What I need to work on is drinking lots of water. Despite have barely any carbs, my body is still holding on to some because of the rapid weight loss which is skewing my scale results everyday. So I’m gonna make it a priority to drink 2 gallons of water a day and see what that does for me.

Yesterday was rough….I skipped out on Pizza Hut pizza; my favorite

Day 13
Weight- 178
Waist (W)- 33″
Waist (N)- 29.5″
Arms- 13.1″
Calves- 14.2″
Forearms- 11.1″
Ab Pinch- 14

Diet
Meal 1: Chicken/ salad
Meal 2: Chicken/vitamin pill
Meal 3: chicken
Meal 4: and more chicken

Workout
Resting again today I feel I need it. Been busy.

Thoughts
Tommorow will mark 2 weeks and half way through the experiment. Tuesday I’m gonna test my 1.5 mile run, my pushups, chinups, and situps. We will see how that goes and what progress that I have made.

The jump rope is a underrated cardio exercise. You should use this exercise because, weather you are an athlete or not,  it will help  improve your endurance, agility, foot speed, and coordination. The jump rope is also a fun exercise when you get good at it. With practice you can start doing cross, double, and if your really good, triple jumps.  The jump rope has been around for hundreds of years.

Floyd Mayweather Jr is known for having awesome foot speed by using jump ropes.

The leg extension is a isolation exercise that targets the quadriceps. To do this exercise you will need a leg extension machine. All you do is load the weight on the sides, sit down on the machine and adjust the weight load to your knee height, and then push up.

You should do the leg extension to:

• Improve strength in the quadriceps
• Used as a symmetry exercise for bodybuilding to keep both quads the same size and strength
• For rehabing the knee and getting it back to its old strength (especially after a knee injury)

The leg extension should not be used alone as a leg exercise. Only squats and deadlifts can provide a full leg workout.

More information can be found at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leg_extension

Day 10
Weight- 180.6
Waist (W)- 33″
Waist (N)- 30″
Arms- 13.1″
Calves- 14.5″
Forearms- 11.2″
Ab Pinch- 15

Diet
Meal 1: 4 eggs and vitamin pill
Meal 2: Protein Shake and Salad
Meal 3: Chicken
Meal 4: Chicken

Workout
Some long distance running today. Aiming for 6 miles.

Thoughts
All is going good. I know my weight hasn’t changed much since Day 7 but that is fine as my ab pinch and waist keep decreasing (the weight is probably staying up because of water and the fact that I haven’t took #2 in a while). I can now see my top 2 abs pretty clearly and I barely have any lovehandles at all (it looks like I do, but those are my hips).