I’ve hit a little bit of a snag these past few weeks which is why I’ve been a bit late on updating.
I saw a nutritionist and was told to, yet again, eat more calories.
1300 on rest days and 1500 on workout days. So I’ve been doing that for about 2 weeks and Ive gained a lb. however thats to be expected until the body gets used to the calories. Its just like if you were to go from 2000 a day to 1300. Your going to loose quick at first, then your body will get used to it. Don’t get me wrong, visually and strength wise I am seeing a positive change.
I know I keep saying that I’m not interested in what the scale says, but geez does it get to me.
So far here are my change in measurements:
Waist: 33″ to 32.5″
Hips: 39″ to 40″ (I will elaborate on this more in a second.)
Chest: 32″ to 30″
Bust: 34″ to 34″ (with the decrease in the chest and bust staying the same… Women will realize that the busts actually had a 2″-1.5″ increase.)
Great news! I can finally do one full pushup and I’m only on week 4 of the program!! I can’t express how happy I am since never in my life have I been able to do an actual pushup. Well, maybe one time in my life when I had a personal trainer for about 6 months. However, took me a lot longer than 4 weeks of a program to do it.
My body is starting to slowly tone up. I’m noticing a little definition here and there that I didn’t have before. I’ve taken some before photos but I don’t want to post any until I’m finished with the Basic routine. So before and afters come about once every 10 weeks. 😛
Next week I’m going to see a nutritionist and figure out a way to fine tune a healthy maintainable diet. Not a loose weight diet, just a healthy one. I don’t really believe in loose weight diets in most cases (exceptions to everything). If you want to kick start something than go for it, however in the long run a healthy diet and exercise is what’s going to help you maintain.
I’m onto week 3 of the YAYOG basic 10 week routine.
I can feel my upper body strength increasing. Very amazing feeling and I’m really looking forward to being able to do a pull up at some point.
The workout timers have changed from Ladders (1 rep, rest, 2 rep, rest, 3 rep, rest, 4 rep, rest, 3 rep, rest, and so on for 7.5 minutes) to Interval with a 12 rep goal (basically you get 2-3 minutes to do 12 reps of a particular workout then you rest for 2-3 minutes. You do that 3 times per workout with 4 different workouts. So that’s 12 sets total.) While the number of reps have decreased, the challenge of the workouts have increased. Also doing 12 reps without any rest is different from resting in between every 1-2-3-4.
As you no doubt already know, I’m doing a workout routine called YAYOG. Otherwise known as You Are Your Own Gym developed by Mark Lauren.
I am currently on week 2 of Basic.
Thus far I’ve seen some pretty impressive results. Going by reps, here are some workouts and the number of reps I did in the beginning and what I’m doing now.
Spunky Punky 