Workout Blog

Welcome to my workout blog! I have created this blog to help me monitor and motivate myself to achieving a decent diet, fat loss and muscle gains. I shall be posting on here fairly regularly with updates on my progress. I tend to do quite a bit of reading on work out related stuff. So if I come across any interesting articles or info I'll link them in the Articles section at the bottom of my blog so others can check them out too.

Thanks for stopping by and feel free to leave comments or ask any questions. There's a bit more info about me in the section on the left.

Michael

Friday, 25 April 2008

Slowly getting back on track

Ok, I’m starting to get a bit of strength back which is good. Not managed to get up to my previous pb’s but I’m not too far off. I’m hoping to get my squat back up to 100kg on Saturday. I have improved my eating again this week but I need to improve more next week to shift the flab.

On Wednesday this week I went for a health screen as I thought it might be interesting and mostly I wanted to find out my body fat percentage after my month off. There were a few test involved which were as follows:

Weight
BMI
Body fat
Blood Pressure
Glucose
Cholesterol

I’ve not had the detailed results yet but will post them when I get them. I was told though that everything was at normal levels. The body fat percentage was measured using a Bodpod which is similar to hydrostatic weighing, but it uses air instead of water so it’s pretty accurate I believe.
I’m not impressed with my body fat percentage which came out at 18.3% as I thought I was probably closer to 14%! Anyway, it just means I have a bit more work than I first thought to get down to around 10% (which is my current goal).

Hopefully by the end of next week and my next write up I’ll be well back on track again with my routine and eating habits.

Current Personal Best Lifts

Current Weight 72kg's

Squat: 125kg - 2 reps
Deadlift: 108kg - 5 reps
Bench Press: 80kg - 3 reps
Dumbell Bench Press: 32kg (per arm) - 5 reps
BO Rows: 55kg - 5 reps
Dips: Bodyweight + 25kg - 6 reps
Chins: Bodyweight + 5kg - 5 reps