Gaining one pound of muscle per week

Dec 27-7

total push ups/chins 341,482

weight 198.2 bf%22.2

Well today the scale indicates that I have about 154.2 pounds of lean body mass. This is up about 1 pound of lean mass since I started Occam's protocol on Dec 20th. I suppose one pound of muscle gained in about 8 days is not all that bad. My LOSEIT app tells me I did 40 minutes of weights and 20 minutes walking on the treadmill in the last seven days. Typically I would workout more than that amount each day. So I suppose if all I gained was a pound of muscle in the last seven days or so- this return on investment is much better than I have be experiencing recently. If I could keep this up in a year I would have 50 more pounds of muscle -not sure the human body works that way, but who knows... Anyway I know I am getting stronger. The first work out B I was able to do 3 strict dips using the 5 second lowering 5 second pushing back up format. Yesterday I did 7 strict reps and one kind of floppy pathetic rep after that. I am assuming that I will have to pay more attention to the "trends" versus the day to day fluctuation in weight. Over the last 8 days the results on the scale have ranged from I lost muscle weight to having gained about 7 pounds of lean. Since yesterday's weigh in the scale indicates that I gained about 1.5 pounds of muscle. It will be interesting to see what tomorrow brings. I am going to try to up my daily protein intake to 250 grams a day. I misread the section of the book that says how much protein to eat per pound. I have been finding it hard to eat 200 grams a day ( I am still "meatless") so 250 might take some extra effort. Hard boiled eggs and protein bars here I come.

muscle gained? fat lost?

total push ups/chins 341,475

weight 199.8 bf% 19.9

I am not sure I want to jump on the scale today, after an out of control "cheat day" on the 24th I jumped on the scale to find my bodyfat percentage had actually gone down. Two cheat days in a row -I fear -I am pushing my luck a bit. For today I will just be happy with the positive results on the scale. According to yesterdays weigh in I have lost 3.4 pounds of fat and gained about 7 pounds of lean mass since starting Occam's protocol on the 20th. My next workout is scheduled for tomorrow. I am anticipating some kind of increase on my percentage of bodyfat due to two days of fairly poor eating (or just plain all out excessive eating). I am also completely aware that fluctuations or inaccuracy of the readings could be accounting for a portion of these gains-nonethless while the scale is leaning in a favourable direction-I won't look a gift horse in the mouth.

If you want to check out Tim Ferriss' book here is the address to the official website:

fourhourbody.com

Not that I am selling it or anything, although if I am really gaining a pound of muscle a day -and I keep doing that- I think I might just start selling the damn book

Two week haitus

Nov 3-16-2691

total push ups/chins 326,386

weight 195.8 bf 19.7

Well I haven't posted in about two weeks. I sort of fell off the push ups band wagon for a while there. Instead of posting my day by day numbers for push ups/chins I just posted the total for the last two weeks. Mostly I did this because some of the days were pretty pathetic . Nonetheless I am using this post as a punctuation mark to the string of bad push up/chin up days and to jump back on the band wagon. Today I will post a good number. My LEANSCALE is still my best friend (when it tells me good things and today it is telling me good things). Last time I posted I was at 155.77 pounds of lean mass-today I am at 157.23 pounds. My fat mass was 39.43 pounds on the last post- today I am at 38.57.

Leanscale

Oct 18-100

total push ups/chins 322,840

weight 192.5 bf 18.3%

So far I have been able to follow thru with rule #3-don't go to bed until you have burned more calories than you have eaten. Sunday was a little hard. We decided to go to the breakfast buffet at the Deerfoot Inn and Casino. I ate 3200 calories worth of food. It was fantastic. However Sunday evening I had to workout for two hours and five minutes to burn it off. Running, weights ab work and chin ups. It was worth it -but it made it hard to follow rule number three that day. I found this new app for my Ipod that should put a little prospective on this process. It is "Leanscale". The App is designed for people who use a bodyfat scale. The challenge with this type of scale is that they are so sensitive to anything that affects your hydration level. Exercise, drinking too much water or too little all affect your percentage rating. You enter your weight and percentage of bodyfat into the app. The program then tells you the trend of bodyfat and lean, not just what your percentage is like today, Today my weight is up and my BF percent is down. The other day my BF percentage was up. The app today tells me that my trend average over the last three days is that I have gained 2.6 pounds of lean mass and lost 2.3 pounds of fat-I like that trend.

Muscle Gain fat lost

sept17-202,sept18-340,sept19-38,sept20-61,sept21-175,sept 22-51

320,120 total push ups/chins

weight 192.4 bf% 16.8

As of my last post I was at about 152.4 pounds of lean weight and 34.6 pounds of body fat. I thought protein was my problem -but a maybe this has not been the problem. This week I was eating a good amount -still vegetarian, but not getting a lot more protein than last week ( that wasn't the plan but it was what happened). I was eating more calories and my weight went up a bit, however my percentage of bodyfat has been going down each day for the last few days. That is good news the math on this works out to about 160.8 pounds of lean bodyweight and 32.32 pounds of bodyfat. In other words I gained 7.68 pounds of lean bodymass since last week and lost 2.28 pounds of fat. Pretty good results for a week or so. As you might notice above I have not been hitting high numbers of chins/push ups- pretty moderate to low actually. Above that typically I try to get a lot more rowing or running on the treadmill than I did this week. It was a bit of hit and miss 20 or 30 minutes here and there. This was kind of an accidental experiment but what it seems to be suggesting is that I should be trying to get more calories and a little bit less exercise overall. So much for "more is better". I am going to try to keep the exercise and calorie intake a little closer to what I was doing by accident this week.