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Roughly 175-180lbs, BF% ?

Target Date: Mar 31, 2012
Target Goal: 170 lbs. ~ 15% BF
Long Term Goal: Maintain or improve until May 31, 2012
Plan: Same as last year, maybe only 15min resistance a weekday (+hockey), run once a week.

Start Date: Jan 31. 2012

Initially:

190 lbs. 20.9% body fat

Target Date: Jan 17, 2011
Target Goal: 175 lbs. ~13% body fat
LongTerm Goal: maintain this fitness level for an additional 4 months once reaching it.

Start date: Nov. 17, 2010.

Plan:
45 minute Cardio M-F (155+ bpm), Free weights and resistance 30min weekdays
Aerobic/Resistance (Weekends) ~1 hr
Planned daily caloric intake ~2000 calories

Making a bit of progress I weighed in at ~187pds last night. Can't really see any difference, I am hoping it is not muscle mass loss.

That's great... I highly doubt that it's muscle loss with the amount of time you've been spending on the weights.

wow, aggressive goal. losing 15lbs in 2 months?
gl man.

Yeah, i wanted it to be pretty challenging... having said that this past week has been quite a set back. I am still at 187 when I measured in last night.

I may have to double up on my cardio next week and do a 2-3hr session on the weekend to get back up to pace ...

btw. It's a good idea to weigh yourself at the same time of the day under similar conditions. I prefer first thing in the morning after I take a dump. Remember, just 1 litre of water is 2.2 lbs. If I weigh myself after a long run I can lose ~4lbs.

Just something to keep in mind.

Keep it up Joel.

Yeah, I weigh myself twice daily always at the same time. Once just before i start my work out and once after it and i have sweated out some of the water weight. I am actually monitoring my weight progress daily, so I have a pretty good idea as soon as i start struggling, but for the sake of these forums i am only going to post progress on a weekly basis.

How about you Joel? How's your progress? Getting any stronger?

based on some of input i've read on the forums i've switched off using the universal with the machine bench press/pec deck, etc.. and gone to only free weights and cables for the past week.

I weighed myself in at ~185pds so i am making some progress. but probably a bit behind pace with only about 6 weeks to drop the last 10 pds. Don't know if i am getting stronger, i usually am not increasing the amount of weight i am doing.. i'm not really up to the point where i can do 3 full sets of 12 with the weight i use... i usually get to around 10 or 11 on the last set before my muscles start to give out.

probably set myself back a bit this weekend. I had pizza last night. I don't weigh myself on the weekends b/c i'm not at the gym. but last time i checked on thursday i was 183. Hopefully i can get down to 180 by christmas and give myself about 3 weeks to do the last 5pds.

That's great progress Joel, keep it up!
Don't worry about cheating a bit on your diet. A pizza every 3 weeks isn't going to put you back that much.

so 1 month through so far and i came in at 182 pds last night. I am on pace to reach my goal but i was actually hoping to be ahead and have a bit of a buffer for the last few weeks. I have been pretty consistent with my excercise but probably been a little too lax on my diet some days. 1 month + 7 pds to go.

Good job Joel!

Keep it up Joel.

so weighed in at 181 yesterday, and should get to 180 by weekend. Weight wise I am on pace.

I also used the fat analyzer at Jai's on the weekend to see my progress there. Unfortunately i was still hovering around ~18% still, my progress there isn't really on pace if I am to get to ~13% by mid jan. I guess I have been losing some muscle weight too.

Right now I'm just going to continue to focus on the 175pd mark first. It's seems difficult to control the ratio of fat/muscle i burn, while my focus is on dropping weight. Long term, I will probably have to adjust my weight goal to something even lower. But I will think about that after.