Week 9 - Start of Fat Loss I

• Weight - 14st 7.5lbs (down 0.75lb from last week)
• Body Fat % - 8.9% (apparently up 0.7% from last week)
• Waist - just over 34 inches (no change from last week)

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

• Body Fat% - 27.9% - (a decrease of 0.4% from last week)
• Body Water - 52.5% - (again slight rise of 0.1% in water content this week)
• Muscle - 68.4% - (slight rise of 0.1% in muscle from last week)
• BMI - 28.4 - (slight fall of 0.2 from last week)
• calories - 2, 817 - (a maintenance decrease of 6 cals)
  

The training has been difficult this week what with a change of programme and the resulting effects on my muscles. My legs have been hit hard with the Romanian Split Squat and the Deadlift combos. Hopefully I'll adjust quickly and be able to recover much quicker than I seem to have done this week. My usual bike is still in the process of being fixed so I've been using my reserve bike, a cyclecross bike that has been made into more of a road bike. It's been fun and a completely different ride to my usual bike but it has also made me work hard on my legs out of the saddle and pumping them up the big hill home. I think the bike will be another week being fixed as we've been waiting for parts so I'll be using the reserve bike for another week at least so that should keep the intensity up.

I've had a couple of comments this week in regard to weight loss. A old work colleague who hasn't seen me in a while commented that I've lost some weight and a couple of guys at the gym said the same as well (and they see me pretty regularly as well). Not sure if this was due to the clothes that I was wearing but they definitely thought I'd lost some weight. That's encouraging so long as it's fat that I'm losing and not valuable muscle mass. I have been working hard so I hope they are seeing the results of that effort. I intend to continue working hard and building up on my cardiovascular fitness as well. I have found some of the exercises a bit awkward within the Fat Loss I sessions but I will stick at them because I trust the thinking and science behind them. The results above generally show positive movement on the whole which is the main but I'm under no illusions that I still have plenty of work to do in what is a relatively short space of time. I'll keep the sessions at three a week as far as possible in order to achieve the required number of workouts. There are roughly two month before the vacation so I'd better keep working hard. I'll let you know how it all goes.

Cheers, BustaGut!