Monday, April 30, 2007

Moving from bulk to cut

I'm ending my two-month bulk phase, where I've managed to lose 2 kg! I suck at this. My last (and first) bulk phase, I put on 7 kg, but I lost so much fat during the same period that I really could've gained a lot more if I could've eaten as much as I should have. This time, I haven't worked out with the same intensity because I'm back at work. I'm only doing maybe four days a week now. I was trying to eat a lot of good food for the first month, but my weight kept dropping, so I added more crap into the mix to make sure that I got enough calories. That was also a mistake.
Now I'm ending my bulk (hah!) phase and moving onto four weeks of cutting. This is the first time that I'll be using chemical help to cut. I purchased twenty days of Hydroxycut Hardcore, which is expensive, but I've heard amazing stories. Starting Monday, there will be no more crap and I will be watching my calories very closely to lose fat and not muscle.
Although I'm kind of negative in this post, I've still had personal bests several times in the last two weeks, so I can't be too unhappy. My bench press is up to 130 kg x 5 (one-rep max about 150) and my leg press is about 360 kg x 6 (one-rep max about 420), although I screwed up my knee on the last leg press. My tricep pushdown maxes the cable machine at 75 ?lb/kg? + 20kg of dumbbells. Not too shabby this week.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

What's This Blog About?

This is the blog dedicated to my ongoing struggle with the lard covering my body. I have other blogs on other subjects, but I feel that this one should be topic-specific.
In the last six months, I have reduced my body fat percentage (BF%) from 33% to just under 22% while increasing my total weight by about seven kilos. The results so far have been good and I added about 16kg of muscle while losing 12kg of fat. I don't expect to keep this pace up for very much longer, but I'd like to reach a BF% of eighteen and stay there for the rest of my life.