Archive for February, 2012

It’s workout day 19 today and after instating the Isagenix Cleanse and keeping the workouts going I lost 7lbs in the last week and gained muscle. It’s not easy keeping consistent on my work outs every week but I’m working really hard to keep my program in line. 6 Days of working out and 1 day of rest is going great and I only have 9 days left in the 30 day challenge. After that I might be doing something else as a workout routine but not sure yet but I am looking at different options.

Today I also added some more weights on my workout and also moved from knee pushups to regular pushups which I did 25 total in 1 minute. when I started the workout challenge 3 weeks ago I couldn’t even do 1 pushup so this is definitely a difference.

My main goal in the beginning was to get active and work in my joints and muscles slowly to make sure I didn’t hurt or pull anything. Buy now just 3 weeks of workout out I can already tell the difference and feel much better.

My 2012 Workout Challenge is on it’s way and below are some before pictures so I can compare the results in the future weeks and months. This was a big stretch for me to post up some pictures but the heck with it! I’m going all the WAY!

My current BMI is over 31 which is categorized as obese and holly crap that’s BAD! That’s beyond being fat its OBESE! So it was definitely time to change the way I look at my health and nutrition.

Today was also my 13th day of me working out and my results are getting better but need to do more stretching as still get some aches and pains in my joints. Nothing to crazy but that’s what happens when your not active for years, that is why I started up really slow to work my muscles and joints in.

My starting weight is 229lbs

I also purchased a cleanse and nutrition program called Isagenix which will help me boost up my results by loosing that excess fat and help build some muscle. Soon as I get a chance I will write up a review on the Isagenix program and let you know what I think of it.

Today is the 2nd week of working out and I can see the improvement already. On Sunday I decided to take a day off and let my body recuperate from working out all week. This will work out great for the future because it will give me one empty day in case I miss a workout during the week where I can catch up.

Looking at my results of what I accomplished today in my workout I can see that having that one day to rebuild my muscles and regain my strength made a difference. I’ll post up my stats and my workout routine tomorrow.

Today was my 5th day of working out and I am feeling better about my health already. Food intake still needs an adjustment but I can already see my thoughts shifting from couch potato into muscle man.

My brother Paul introduced me to a website called fitocracy and this place is awesome. It’s almost like a role playing game where you level up but instead of getting experience points for killing or completing quests I am getting points for working out. So the more I workout the more points I earn and level up, as of today’s date I am at level 5.

Click on this link www.fitocracy.com to use my invite link and become a friend. You can start tracking your stats today, oh and don’t worry its free

Two days ago I finally reached my breaking point and I’m now ready to put energy into working out and eating better to get myself into a more healthier state. I’ve been gaining weight in the past few years I made jokes about it but you can only hide behind these so long.

As of today’s date I am at 229lbs and my gut is way too big and to add to it I was recently told by an old friend I got FAT! I understand this is not a nice thing to say but hey sometimes you need the truth.

Before I go on any further I want to stress this right now that I am a total NOOB in the way of nutrition, healthy food preparation and even working out. So if you read something in my future posts about these subjects feel free to comment as I am sure i will be mistaken more then once.

So as of Yesterdays date I am doing a number of personal challenges for working out and eating better.

I did my first workout challenge yesterday this was just to start something, some sort of exercise more then just sitting on a couch and clicking the remote. So this I achieved I did a 15minute workout with some exercises I seen on Bodyrock.tv.

I did these the best I could but lets just say that even doing these workout routines my knees, ankles and other joints were cracking and squeaking like an 80 year old. LOL

All I can say is I feel really sad for myself but at the same time I am happy because I am taking the first step into getting healthy and fit and that is to START DOING SOMETHING. I can perfect my techniques down the road but just doing something consistently is the key.

For my workout challenges here is my order

Challenge 1 : Start a workout

Challenge 2: Work out 5 days in a row

Challenge 3: Work out for 2 weeks

Challenge 4: Work out for 1 month

Challenge 5: Go for a 5km walk

I will also do some personal food challenges but I have to figure out how to approach these first so I’ll post about these later. So stay tuned for more posts that will either make you laugh or get you inspired to take action to move toward a more healthier state like I am doing myself.