The goal is to reduce my body fat from 23.5 to 19 percent in 90 days and I’m four weeks in. Thursday will be my fourth weekly workout with Danny.
Here’s the progress we’ve made so far:
1. We’ve basically doubled up my leg workout, and I don’t feel like I’m going to hurl anymore when I do it.
2. As of today, I weigh about 210 lbs. I say about because it’s sort of moving around on me day to day by a couple of pounds. My low so far has been 208. At 210, I’ve lost 6 lbs in four weeks.
3. I started at level three for 20 minutes on the elipse machine and this was moderately challenging. Today I did level six on the elipse for 20 minutes and this is moderately challenging.
4. My music collection is improving. For Wednesday’s cardio, I downloaded Daft Punk’s “Discovery,” and I nabbed “Around The World” as a single. This marks the first time I’ve worked up a sweat to Daft Punk while not standing under a strobe light. I kind of want to throw some Outkast or David Banner in there, but most of it’s not quite as energized as electronica and I really need to stay pumped up to get this cardio done.
I’m now pretty much addicted to Clif Bars and caffeine. I don’t think the caffeine is holding back the progress, but I’m probably overdoing it on the Clif Bars, which are far richer in carbs than they are in protein. That being said, they’re a lot healthier than what I used to snack on. And man, they’re tasty. And organic. I love my Clif Bars… But maybe I don’t need three or four of them per day.
Danny says the goal here is to build “muscular endurance” in order to make me strong enough to get stronger (meaning — get me enough muscles to endure real workouts with bigger weights). I haven’t been looking at the meticulous notes he keeps of what I’m lifting, but he tells me all will be revealed when I’m proficient with all the exercises we do.
Bryan Harris
