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Keep The Same Weight / Mon-Fri Workout

Posted on16. May, 2011 by Jay.

Today is Monday, I woke up late today after staying up the night before catching up on lots of work. Saturday I drove 200 miles to the next city to play some paintball with friends. It was a lot of fun and a great workout as always. I got back in town late Sunday night pretty much exhausted.

This morning my legs are still sore from doing a lot of crouching and running around on Saturday. I found a few weeks ago when I was last paintballing, that my cardio was pretty bad. I was out of breath often and extremely hot, it could of been the large padded clothing I was wearing but I’m sure my cardio had something to do with it too. So for two weeks I worked harder on cardio and I’m happy to say I think it paid off. Running around Saturday wasn’t a problem at all. I didn’t get out of breath very much and I was actually much more mobile. What I did was focus mostly on elliptical training, 20 minute intervals every other day. That and I wore a light Under Armour shirt this time around.

So since it’s Monday, and my plan is to workout Monday through Friday at least an hour a day, it’s about time I get going for the day.

I’m logging what foods I eat in a day again. I found I’m eating slightly more calories then my goal but it’s okay as long as I’m working out often. I don’t want to gain or lose anymore weight, I just want to to stay the same weight (180-pounds), and this morning I’m exactly that, 180-pounds.

To tell you the truth I’m surprised how I’m able to stay the same weight pretty much every day. I used to always fluctuate in weight but now for the first time in my life I’ve stayed pretty much the same weight for around 6 months.

I weigh myself often, several times a week and if I see I gain weight or lost weight, I adjust my calorie intake and in a few days I’m back at 180 pounds. Now I’m wanting to increase muscle mass and decrease body fat. That’s easy to do, all it takes is persistence. At one point my body fat went as low as 8%, now I’m around 12%-13% I believe. I think a good 10% or 11% body-fat is a good goal to reach. Once reached I’ll focus on maintaining THAT as moving up and down in body fat isn’t as forgiving I found.

Time to workout!

Jay,

• 180 pounds
• 13%-14% bodyfat
• Goal is 180-pounds and 10%-11% body fat

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Lower Body Fat does not Forgive

Posted on26. Aug, 2010 by Jay.

I guess my trainer was right that once you have a lower body fat percentage.. if you have one bad week of eating, it really shows.

So I have been eating not so good foods lately in an attempt to not lose anymore weight. The good thing is I’m exactly the same weight (177) pounds a few days ago, but the bad thing is my body fat percentage has gone up a little bit.

I think all those days of eating out is catching up with me?

It’s like I have to start all over with figuring out which things to eat to best maintain my weight while accomplishing my other goals.

I guess eating out at Carl’s Jr twice in one week isn’t a good idea.

Live and learn…

Jay,
Current Weight: 177 lbs.
Blog Starting Weight: 268 lbs.
Heaviest Weight: 336 lbs.
Current Body Fat: 10.9%
Goal Body Fat: 8%

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