I'm at the end of Week 8 of Body for Life and am so impressed with this program. As I've mentioned before, I started messing around with a couple different fitness programs on Feb 1, 2010. At 5 ft 10, 168 lbs, a 38 inch waist measurement, and 23.8% body fat, I was an out of shape fat, skinny man. I wanted to change that. Throughout Feb, I had decent results and then in March, I decided to do BFL with 100% intensity. I'm glad I did!
When I "officially" started the BFL challenge 8 weeks ago (March 1, 2010), my waist (measured level at belly button) was 35 in. Today it's 32 in! My body fat was 18.5%. Today it's 12.4%. Starting weight was 161. Today it's 154. Not real thrilled about that, as it shows I've basically lost fat and not gained a lot of muscle, but I'm definitely more defined now and I'm happy about that. But this week I started tweeking my diet a bit in efforts to help gain muscle over the next 4 weeks of the challenge. My goal is to be back to at least 165 by the end of May, but with no more than 10% body fat, so we'll see.
It's pretty cool to see how your body responds to things you do to it. Feed it clean foods for 2 months, your body responds with more energy. Weight train and your body responds by enabling you to lift more weight. Cardio train, and your body responds by improving your breathing capacity, lower heart-rate and endurance. (My resting heart-rate is now averaging 60 bpm!) Such an awesome thing that our Creator designed and it's really cool to see it respond the way it does.
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