Evolution

On march 3rd I wrote a blog about being on march break and therfore being able to do a 5 day split, I measured myself that day to compare to today’s(last day of the 5 day split) measurement. My stats have been input on my page progress over the week:

Chest:+2.8", waist -0.2", shoulders: +0.8", Quads: +0.1", calves: N/A, Arms: +.4", forearm: -0.1", weight: + 0.4lbs.

I know these are mostly just weekly fluctuations but still alot bigger change than I anticipated!!!

I’ve also started measuring my BF% again, I have a scale that does it, as well as calipers. These both vary quite a bit from each other(3% today) and are a far from the # I got when a trainer did it at the gym. I’m just going to take the average of the calipers and the scale just to keep an eye on any fluctuations…I want to get it done at he gym again but they charge an arm and a leg for it.

Way back in November I was on a rant about "flexed" stats on this site and my goals related to flexed stats; To spare you having to find and read that ish I’ll do a quick overview here:

flexed goals:

Chest 46" , arms(keep dreamin’) 18.5",  waist 31" , forearms 14.5", shoulders 53"

Becuse I was merely bitching, I didn’t even measure some of the parts I was complaing about ( apparantly, I really go on tangents once in a while !!) I only measured chest, waist, and arms flexed they were 43.5", 35.5", and 14.9" respectively

I totally forgot about this until now and figured "hey why not go on another senseless rant??" so here it goes… New Flexed stats/ change from old flexed stats:

Chest 44"/0.5"

arms:14.3"/-0.6"

Waist: 35.2"/-0.4"

Shoulders are 51" and forarms are 11.6"(just incase I actually remember about this and decide to babble about nothing later down the road)

I really don’t know what to make of this…My arms dropped but so did my gut, and I was bulking(dirty) for the first set of measurements as well…not surprisingly (but dissapointingly)my arms dropped more than my waist… damn arms!!!

Thank you(and sorry) to any one who took the time to read this waste of time post

Jex

I’ve said this to myself at least 2 years now, but I really feel I can reach my goals come this summer!! I feel I’ve made pretty good progress in the last little while; I could see a little more definition in my abs this morning(when flexed) and my tri’s are starting to grow a bit too, I’m not bulking or anything right now (just maintaining) so I’m definitely happy about this. I need to start monitoring my cals a little more closely as we start getting closer to summer. I have quite a bit  o.k. a lot of fat to lose of the gutt so will probably get started  on that pretty soon. I’m not really sure how I should be training during this, last year I brought the weights down, and I made o.k. progress on my stomache but lost about half an inch from my arms as well, thery’re already small and I can’t afford to lose ANYTHING!! 

I’ll probably post some progress pics soon, but I dunno I kinda want to surprise myself with the pics like 2 months later or something….

Jex

I’m going to do a little experiment this week. Since I’m on march break this week, and therefore able to train harder/longer, and on a five day split opposed to my usual three day split, I took my measurements this morning, and am going to compare those to the measurements I get this coming saturday morning. I really should have taken my measurements on Sunday but just thought of doing this now. I’m not expecting any change over 4-5 days time, but I’m just curious if there will be a change…gotta keep the brain semi-active : )

This weekend was a disaster nutritionally, I went out with friends on friday, felt like crap saturday and ate garbage all day saturday and sunday!! uuggghhh…. Was back in the gym this morning and it felt good, I’m on  march break and so can afford to do a five day split. I miss being able to train like this all the time : (   I’ll enjoy it while it lasts…. maybe when summer comes…. need to find a job though….we’ll see…