Today’s pictures turned out great! You can actually see that my gut is actually further in than my ribcage in the front flexed picture! I haven’t seen that ever before. All in all I think I’m shaping up quite nicely, if I say so myself . My measurements had dropped again, a quarter inch from [...]
This week was a fantastic week again. Well I’m calling it fantastic but if you care about my strength exercising or my lean body mass retention this week kind of sucked. The week started out good, I did strength training on Tuesday but I skipped my Friday session. I went to the driving range with [...]
Today I ran my first fartlek run. Fartlek is a funny word and it originates from Sweden. It literally means “speedplay”. The goal of a Fartlek run is not unlike the goal of a tempo run. It is meant to improve lactate threshold. While the tempo run is meant to be a gradual steady incline [...]
As you probably have figured it out by now what started out as a fat loss blog is turning into a running blog. I’m still very much into my fat loss, but now I run like crazy instead of spending time on the elliptical machine to get my daily dose of cardio exercise. I really [...]
I actually think I looked better in the last set than this set but it’s mainly due to the more lost fat in the abdomen that now caused my stomach skin to get even looser and hang a bit over my pants. Once I lose even more of the fat the skin will be tighter [...]
The day of my big race came and gone. I ran my first 10K race in over 18 years. Had you asked me last summer or even last fall if I would ever run again I probably would have said no way. But here I am with a 5K race and a 10K race behind [...]
As you could see on my last weekly update my weekend calories were much higher than the weekday calories. On Sunday I have reached an all time high of 2,233 calories, a number I have not seen since November 11th, 2009. In November it was Olive Garden, an Italian restaurant, for dinner and leftover from [...]