Day 57....Week 8 Summary!

Had another great back workout today, changed some things up a little, changed the order of 2 of my exercises, and replaced one exercise with another. The change was good and I really felt the difference after my workout! I also had a workout partner, a colleague from work, which motivated me to really push myself (using good form of course). I also went up 30 lbs on my 1 rep dead lift max, from last weeks effort!

12 Mar 07: Day 57

The good news is:
I lost body fat and went up in strength. I also continued to go up in weight, reps or both during almost every resistance training day. This time my body weight also went up, which hopefully means more muscle which will burn more calories during everything I do.

Below you can see my stats. Every day after I woke up and took my body fat measurement. As you can see the better I was hydrated, the lower my body fat percentage is (per the scale), so as you can see, accuracy, can be effected by hydration on an impedance measuring scale. So, I took the average of the week and summed it up, which put me at 12.6% on the athletic measurement.

Date Weight BF % Water %
05 Mär 195,1 11,4 62,7
06 Mär 195,6 12,8 61,2
07 Mär 194,3 12,3 61,8
08 Mär 195,6 12,9 61,1
09 Mär 191,6 13,2 60,9
10 Mär 193,6 12,3 61,7
11 Mär 191,4 13,2 60,9

Week 8 193,9 12,6 61,5

As you can see from the info below, I have lost body fat every week, but this week, my body weight went up. So, it appears I put on some new muscle.

Now, I'm not concerned with losing body weight (and you shouldn't be either, if you think so, re-read the Fat loss vs Weight loss article from Day 37), since I don't play a sport or do anything that requires me to be a lesser weight. My goal is to lose body fat and boost my metabolism and adding muscle will help do both.

I am not trying to become heavy either, because I think my ideal weight would be around 185lbs. I'm just focusing on losing as much body fat while keeping as much lean body mass, until I reach my goal. So, ideally, I would want to lose body fat and replace half of it with lean body mass.


Bw BF % Water %
Week 5 192,5 14 60,2
Week 6 192,4 13,5 60,6
Week 7 192,3 13,4 60,8
Week 8 193,9 12,6 61,5

Also, note that my Water % has gone up every week as well which can make it appear that I'm losing more body fat then actual. Since my water % can't go up forever ( eventually it will peak out) , I should get a truer indication of my Body fat %. Of course it might be that I am adding muscle which holds more water then fat and that is why my hydration levels are going up. Only time will tell.....next week results could be interesting.

Hope your progress continues.....until next time....Just get it done!