kenckar’s BodyBlog

Weighed in at 211.8 today. After last week’s disaster it feels good. I am back to focusing on reduced carbs, plenty of protein.

I have decided that squats are god’s exercise. It does a lot of good.

This was not a good week form a workout and diet standpoint. I had four days of meetings, plus dinners, etc., plus the dog had an operation and I had to do a lot to help him.
The meals with the meetings were pretty good, but the snacks were a disaster–popcorn, candy bars, cookies, cake.  The good news is that if my glycogen was depleted, it isn’t anymore.

The bad news is that it gave me about 4 pounds of puffy water weight. It will come off quickly too,  it’s just a bit annoying.

With all this going on, I haven’t worked out since Monday. OK, time to get going again.

I did squats yesterday for the first time in years. I had been doing angled leg press, but as I went over 600 lbs on that I started to feel stress in my lower back that concerned me. So I started doing deadlifts. I normally do 3X10 at 175#.

Yesterday, i went to the gym and decided to do squats for a change. I ended up doing 2 sets at 135# and a set at 145. Not a lot of weight I know, but I want to work on form a little before working heavier. All in all it felt good and i have a little DOMS in my quads today. I think I’ll keep gogin with squats for a while and see how it feels.

I hit 50 y.o. in December 2007. Right now, I am approaching the best shape I have been in in many years.
I am trying to lose fat, increase aerobic capacity, and gain muscle all at once. I have heard that’s not possible.

Whatever, I want to get down to about 12% body fat by mid-year 2008 and weigh under 200 lbs.

I use gymamerica.com to track my workouts. It helps motivate me, and I use stickk.com to get buddies to check in on me.

I started this journey in April 2007 when I went over 235 lbs. I started getting serious in late-summer and I have been losing about 3 lbs per month.

Ab muscles are beginning to peek through the melting snow. LOL.