Week 36
I came so close to my 10% BF goal by June 27th… I made it to 10.7%. Close enough, I guess, considering how far I have come just since October… though I still get the occasional commenter to some of my earlier progress pix telling me I am not making fast enough progress. I am over 40 so I can’t be like the 20-yr-olds and burn off 5% of BF in three workouts. I am making steady, though admittedly slow, progress. I have now set a new goal for 9% by the end of the summer, say Sept. 1st, or maybe Sept. 15th.
I am hoping to maintain my progress thus far. I am now on summer break and most importantly my eating schedule will be very different. I am trying hard to stick with eating decently every three hours. Also my lifting schedule will be thrown to bits as well as I travel a bit in the summer and don’t always have lifting equipment nearby. We’ll just have to see how it goes.
Spent some time with some friends this evening whose oldest son just graduated from high school. A nice honor to be invited to share this time with them. But, I was sad seeing their son. He’s of course 18, and is terribly out of shape. He’s a tall kid, probably about 6-3, but looks to me like he’s at about a 30% BF, or worse. No muscle tone at all on him any where. His younger brother is 16 and has a pretty good belly as well, and is probably around 20% BF. Damned video games. While I was never at a decent BF% most of my life, I was never that big when I was in high school. Well, maybe I was around 20% in high school. Makes me wonder what’s ahead for these guys, and hope it doesn’t take until they’re over 40 like I was to get into a decent shape.
This week was measurements for the month and modest progress was noted. Arms were up a quarter inch, and waist and hips were down a bit more. Everything else was relatively unchanged, though the thighs were up a bit, too. My weight also hit an all time recent low this week, 172, on two separate days. Might be related to water gain and loss due to some really summer-like weather (read: hot and muggy) we’ve been having, but heck, I’ll take it. Always nice to see lower numbers on the scale. Made a new front double bi progress comparison pic from the week I started back in October to yesterday. Quite a nice comparison IMHO and a couple of BodySpacers have already left some positive comments, so I think others agree, too. Gotta keep liftin’, though, I’d like some more mass on my arms and delts, and keep working on the lats. I just hope I can continue the progress through the summer with the erratic lifting schedule I will be facing.
June 28, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Progress is progress, and 10.6 still looks like it’s in the 10%BF club to me! Congrats!!