Week 8 - End of the NROL Break In!

• Weight - 14st 8.25lbs (down 1.75lb from last week)
• Body Fat % - 8.2% (apparently down 0.4% from last week)
• Waist - just over 34 inches (down over 0.5 inches from last week)

I also have readings from a handheld body composition monitor. These are as follows;

• Body Fat% - 27.9% - (a decrease of 0.2% from last week)
• Body Water - 52.4% - (again slight rise of 0.1% in water content this week)
• Muscle - 68.3% - (slight rise of 0.2% in muscle from last week)
• BMI - 28.6 - (slight fall of 0.1 from last week)
• calories - 2, 823 - (a maintenance decrease of 14 cals)

I've found this week quite hard and am very pleased with myself with the effort that has been put into the sessions and the fact that I struggled to fit the three sessions in at all. A number of things have worked against me but some rearrangement and adjustment has meant that I was able to achieve my goal of three workouts this week and complete the NROL break in sessions. I can now move on to the Fat Loss I sessions. I'll be starting these tomorrow.

In terms of results, this week has been very pleasing. Ok the figures differ considerably on the handheld device etc but all of the results show improvement from the previous week with the major ones showing good movement. This is encouraging, especially after a couple of weeks of extremely painstakingly slow progress. However, it was progress none the less but it's always nice to feel that the return you get for the effort is worthwhile.

I can't believe that we are already at the end of February and will be in March as of tomorrow. This year is flying along at a fair old pace. The vacation will be hear before we know it. Before that though I have a lot of work to do and it continues from tomorrow with the first of the Fat Loss I sessions. I also want to keep the cycling up but I'll be on one of my other bikes as my main one is being checked over as it makes some strange tension like clicking noises as I cycle up the big hill. I'm having this checked out to make sure everything is ok. Talking of cycling I've signed up to the charity bike ride again that I did last year. I was good stuff last time and I want to do a lot better this time round. I've made arrangements to do a couple of bigger rides before the event with one ride in April and one in May before the vacation. The Charity ride is in the first weekend or maybe the second one once I get back from vacation. Anyway there's plenty of work to be done before all of that especially as I don't want to be found wanting for fitness etc.

Well that about wraps things up for now. I'll let you know how things go on the Fat Loss I sessions and try to report any thing that I find unusual throughout the week.

Cheers, BustaGut!