Revised Goals

May 1-210,may 3-430,may4-704,may5-870

total push ups/chins 177,643

weight 198.6 bf% 22.4

Above is my updated fitday weight goal chart. Tomorrow it is going to look a little different. While I was out of town last week. Our family conspired against me to try to cancel our family biggest loser contest. They had decided that no one was losing weight and we should cancel the contest. When we talked about it -it seemed that everyone had lost 7 or 8 pounds. A few of our families members had lost more but had gained it back and were hovering around 7 pounds down. We decided that we were still all making progress-so instead of ending the contest on May 15th -we would extend it to July 1st. As we have extended the deadline I have revised my goal (and the graph in Fitday ) to take me down to 185. Now I haven't weighted this little since I was in High School-so it will be a bit of a stretch for me.

A year off target

April-16-520

total push ups/chins 170,119

weight 203.8 bf% 23

I discovered that I had entered my new weight goal into Fitday incorrectly. I had entered the end date as May/15/2010 instead of May15/09. For a day or two I thought I was doing great on my target. So this graph above has been corrected. I am on target to loss twenty pounds by the 15th of May-just barely. I was starting to relax as I thought I was well below the target line, however -still on target -even if it is pretty close to the line. My son-in -law has already lost over twelve pounds -so I have a ways to go to catch up.

New Links

Jan23-319,jan 24-465,jan25-331,jan26-615,jan 27- 105

total push ups/chins 154,788

weight 201.6, bf%21.8

I added a few links to the sites I access fairly frequently over to the left. Fitday is pretty cool as you can track on a daily basis how many calories you are burning versus what you are eating. Dragon door will tell you almost everything you ever wanted to know about kettlebells and training with kettlebells. Crossfit is one of my new favorites. The daily workouts or WOD are pretty extreme.-Lots of variety so keeps things interesting. THe workoouts have lots of push ups ,chins and handstand pushups (not to mention some kettlebells thrown in to boot) so I like them. The site has what they call brandx workouts which are scaled down versions of the WOD. For right now the "puppy' version of the workouts is sufficient for me-looking forward to working up to the "big dog" workouts.

Goal Graph

Jan 11-550,Jan12-586

total push ups/chins 148,226

weight 202.2 bf%23.6

Here is my fitday weight goal graph as of today. It is a little hard to read, but the straight line represents the trendline I will need to maintain to hit 185 by next New Years. The squiggly line underneath is my actual recorded weight to date. As you can see by the graph even with the ups and downs-I am apparently ahead of schedule to make this target. Of course the challenge is when I reach the sub 200 lbs point -but knock on wood. Haven't tested myself for maximum chins or push ups in a while-but my total daily numbers are going okay

More on New Years Goals

Jan 2-560

Push ups/chin ups total 143,177

weight 205.4 bf%24.8

Just after Christmas I bought one of the new Tanita scales. We had one of the first ones they made (I think it was one of their first models) had it for about ten years. The new one measures bodyweight to a tenth of a pound instead of a half pound. BF percentage is the same-measures to a tenth a percent instead of one half a percent. The scale also measures bone mass, hydration, metabolic age. Pretty handy and accurate way to obsess about your weight and bodyfat.....

Further to my New Years goals, I figure to make the goal of 100 consecutive chins is going to take quite a bit of work. The good news is I tested myself yesterday and I figured I could do 10 straight. Well I can actually do 11-a ways from 100 -but better than I thought. I am assuming if I get my weight down a bit I will be more likely to make the goal (less weight to lift -equals more chins ups). Fitday has this cool feature where you can create a target weight and a goal date and it will help calculate the calorie deficit you need to make the goal. Above is an example of the graph it creates to help you track your progress. You can't quite tell on this image, but the graph had a second line that indicates your actual weight relative to the trend line you need to match to meet your goal. Part of the reason you can't see the second line on this chart is that I only set the goal up yesterday and there are only two data points visible (barely). My goal is to get to 185 by the time I am going to do my 100 chins ups, 100 push ups test (next New Years). Each day I only need about a 200 calorie deficit to make the goal-however to be honest I haven't been at this weight since University (maybe High School). The 200 calorie a day deficit shouldn't be any big problem-the consistency will. That is the possibilty of having one of those "what the hell days" where you eat 1200 calories more than you burn.

down 4

dec 26-600,dec 27-335

total push ups/chins 140,843

weight 205.5 bf%24

Down another 4 pounds since Christmas. My calorie deficit according to fitday -doesn't quite justify this loss in pounds. I have read that the kettebells have a "high Metabolic cost" -which I am I think is a more manly way of saying the burn a lot of calories. I have been doing 20-45 minutes of kettlebells on top of my push ups and chins. Fitday doesn't have an activity code for kettlebells so I have been plugging my time in as "weight training" which I am assuming burns fewer calories than the kbs. Nonetheless they seem to be working okay. It is quite something if this little (well not so little) ball of iron with a handle -swinging it around and such could burn that many calories. Got this months copy of Men's Health and there is a picture of Lance Armstrong swinging a kettlebell. I guess if they are good enough for Lance Armstrong they are good enough for me.