Week 10 - Pushing On (a few steps closer)

• Weight - 14st 6.5lbs (down 1lb from last week)
• Body Fat % - 7.6% (apparently down 1.3% from last week -suspect reading me thinks)
• Waist - just over 34 inches (no change from last week)

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

• Body Fat% - 27.3% - (a decrease of 0.6% from last week)
• Body Water - 52.7% - (again slight rise of 0.2% in water content this week)
• Muscle - 68.7% - (slight rise of 0.3% in muscle from last week)
• BMI - 28.3 - (slight fall of 0.1 from last week)
• calories - 2, 814 - (a maintenance decrease of 3 cals)

This week has seen an upturn in the Fat Loss I sessions to a decreased rest period, rep range and a corresponding increase in weight lifted. This serves to keep the intensity of the exercises high and hopefully keeping me within the fat loss range. Whilst I'm talking about the exercises there are a couple in this group of exercises that I find very awkward. Now that might be because my balance isn't the best but the swiss ball lateral roll just seems to be a crazy exercise. However, I think I'm getting better because I do feel it within my side abs when trying to stabilise but I still believe that form isn't quite right. I look a little bit like I'm doing side bends whilst laying laterally with my shoulders supported by the swiss ball. I'll just have to keep working at it.

In terms of this weeks results I think that they are very pleasing. There is good positive movement. However, I guarantee that I am not 7.6% bf and believe that there is some major inaccuracies either in the way that I'm measuring, the readings I'm getting from the digi callipers, or both. The handheld device does appear to be more consistent at the moment and encouragingly supports the positive movement presented by the other readings. So, if I had to place a visual reading of BF% on my body at the moment I would say I look about 17 to 18%. I believe that to be a fair representation of where I am.

I've still been using the reserve bike in my commute to work and back this week as I still don't have the main bike back yet. I am hoping to pick it up at some point over the weekend. I've been taking a few days off this week and over the next couple of weeks as I have some vacation time to use up before the end of my current vacation year. This week I've ridden the bike only 3 times which equates to just over 42 miles. I have kept the gym sessions to 3 per week and intend to keep this up even though it is hard work as it seems to be keeping things moving in the right direction. Well that's about it for now. I have a lot of work to do but things are moving along nicely. I'll keep you updated.

Cheers, BustaGut!