Day 29: Stats day....two massise shocks.....

I have to start by apologising to Christy. Sorry for taking so long to post today. I have been feeling progressively worse all afternoon and was not sure if I would get the stats in today, I was just going to post something like please tune in tomorrow but I am feeling a bit better so here goes....

So going back to yesterday's post there were 2 things planned for today, firstly my BF stats and then secondly to measure my heart rate during my HIT sprint run.

Body Fat History

81kgs & 17.9% BF (19-Sep-2007) 14.49 kgs fat
80kgs & 17.2% BF (26-Sep-2007) 13.76 kgs fat
80kgs & 16.0% BF (03-Oct-2007) 12.80 kgs fat
79.5kgs & 15.9% BF (10-Oct-2007) 12.64 kgs fat
79kgs & 15.5% BF (17-Oct-2007) 12.24 kgs fat
79kgs & 15.4% BF (24-Oct-2007) 12.16 kgs fat

The goal is 6% BF loss in 10 weeks, 5 weeks (halfway) had me to 2.6%. This week has been no holds barred eat clean and shred hard (where have I heard that before?!?).

Sooooooooo today's stats and the first massive shock.

Today's Stats

78kgs & 13.1% BF (29-Oct-2007) 10.21 kgs fat

I could not believe this and to tell you the truth still do not. I did take 3 separate measurements and they were all identical. The week that I lost 1.2% above I could visually see a difference but this time I could not. Also there has been only 5 days since the last measurement. I am going to get additional measurements in the week to confirm today's reading and think it will verify this is wrong.

So what could have happened?

I have been drinking lots but it is possible that I was dehydrated today and this can effect electronic readings, this is one possibility?

I did a really heavy upper body workout yesterday and with handheld measurements I have proven (not on this blog but in the gym) that your BF measurement can dramatically change if you have performed a hard weights session, however this was one measurement before and another straight after. Is it possible that my workout from yesterday is still influencing my BF reading today? This I cannot answer, but I will be at the gym tomorrow evening (providing I am feeling better) and I will take another reading.

Also I am looking in a mirror when looking for changes but fat is stored all over the body so it is entirely possible I have lost it from say my back!

Just going back to the stats though, assuming this is true, I have lost 1kg of body weight but have lost 2 kgs of BF. So I must have also put on 1kg of muscle. Now don't get me wrong I was really pleased to see this but to have done this all in 5 days is just a bit too amazing. I have had false positives before without knowing it and they can be a bad shock when you realise that they were wrong and can really knock your motivation.

So Stats day will continue into Tuesday and maybe Wednesday....

Then my second massive shock

I wanted to get to the gym early today to do my sprint HIT run before my personal training session. As I said yesterday both my PT and I were curious to what my HR reached during this. I thought based on previous runs that it would exceed 220 bpm.

Today's Workout

1 min 6kph
1 min 12 kph
1 min 14 kph
1 min 16 kph

then

1 min 6kph
1 min 13 kph
1 min 15kph
1 min 17kph

repeated 3 times and then I final cycle of:

1 min 6kph
1 min 12 kph
1 min 14 kph
1 min 16 kph
and then comes the dreaded 21st minute, and today this entire minute was run at 17kph.

So any guesses to what my HR reached, I was shocked, it only reached a maximum of 188bpm. I was expecting this to be much much higher based upon the final 2 minutes and was really pleased as to how much my cardio fitness has come on in 3 years of stopping smoking!! My ultimate goal is not some much a physique transformation but I know that I will get it by reaching 10% BF but my fitness is what I am looking at overall so this was just amazing today. What was even better was that by the end of the 1 minute warm down my pulse was already back down to 160 and falling fast.

I had about another 1 -2 minutes before starting a gruelling 25 - 30 minute ab session, this was following by some stretching and then 10 minutes on the elliptical cross trainer. So all in all this was a BIG workout today with hopefully (TBC) some fantastic stats.

I will keep you posted and I am really sorry for the lack of comments on everyones blog today but I have really been feeling awful this afternoon, not sure what it is, there is a nasty viral infection going around the town currently so I am hoping it will not effect the group shred any.

Again I hope you all are shredding as hard as me and are putting in that little bit extra to see some amazing results.

Take care everyone and I will hopefully come see all your blogs tomorrow and enthuse you all!!!

Until tomorrow....