My Fitness Body Transformation – Week 8 Progress Report
Posted by Gain Muscle Mass on Mar 29, 2010 in My Body Transformation, Weight Gain Supplements | 28 commentsArvada, Colorado USA
My Fitness Body Transformation Log – Days 48 – 52
Objective: To Burn Fat Gain Muscle Mass And Transform My Body In 12 Weeks
Time to whip out the body fat calipers and see what I’ve accomplished over the past week. The past few weeks, I really haven’t been too excited to see where I’ve finished, but this week I really feel like I’ve made some decent progress toward my fitness body transformation goals.
The main reason that I think I’ve been able to “get over the hump” and finally start making some progress again is two fold…
First, I decided last week to start supplementing with AST’s micronized creatine monohydrate in order to help me move past a rather serious strength plateau. I knew that if I continued training with the same weights that I had been using for the past 3 weeks or so, that my chances of packing on any more muscle mass were slim at best, so I figured that a few weeks of creatine monohydrate supplementation would not hurt the cause. Instead of dosing the creatine out based on the manufacturers recommendations however, I decided to give the advice in Dr. Alfredo Franco-Obregón’s book Creatine A Practical Guide a try. While I’ve had really good luck in the past dosing out a loading phase of 20 grams a day and a maintenance phase of 5 grams a day, I always kind of felt like maybe that was more than my body really needed.
After implementing the advice found in Creatine A Practical Guide and finishing out my loading phase (5 training days), I began to see and feel an immediate difference in the size and strength of my muscles…I was pretty excited! All in all, a few grams of creatine monohydrate taken in an intelligent way allowed my to literally blast through my workouts at training weights that I hadn’t been able to hit for years, and more importantly allowed me to continue to stimulate new muscle growth during a cutting cycle (which up until now has been almost impossible for me to accomplish). If you find yourself ina similar situation (trying to lean out but still want to pack on some muscle mass), I wholeheartedly recommend investing in Dr. Alfredo Franco-Obregón’s book Creatine A Practical Guide and shelling out about $20 for some high quality AST Micronozed creatine monohydrate – if you follow the advice in the guide and you drink enough water and continue to train hard, your strength and muscle mass will most likely increase.
The second reason that I fell I’ve started to move in the right direction is the fact that I upped my cardio workouts a bit. Instead of running for 20 minutes 4 times a week, I decided to start jogging 6 times a week. This is definitely helping me strip off body fat and so far I haven’t noticed any muscle loss so I’m going to stick with it into the next few weeks and see what happens. If I don’t start to lose any muscle mass, I may start to push it a bit and perform 2 cardio sessions a day for the duration of this training cycle.
Now on to my fitness body transformation week 8 progress report…
Here Were My Fitness Body Transformation Initial Goals
- To gain 25lbs of lean body mass
- To lower my body fat level from 23.2% to 8%
- To increase the size of my arms by 2 inches
- To increase the size of my legs by 3 inches
- To get killer six pack abs
- To really focus on building up the muscle in my back
Here Are All of My Fitness Body Transformation Week 7 Measurements
- Percent Body Fat – 10.0% (an overall improvement of -13.2%)
- Current Lean Body Mass – 176.4 lbs (an overall improvement of +25.1 lbs)
- Current Fat Weight – 19.6 lbs (an overall improvement of -26.1 lbs)
As you can see, I really started to “hit my groove” and blast past the rut that I’ve been in the past few weeks. I feels great! My strength levels are steadily increasing, my mood is stable (I’m typically really cranky while dieting) and I’m starting to strip off body fat at the same time. If this type of progression continues I’ll definitely be able to achieve my fitness body transformation goals (I’ve already met my lean body mass goal of 25lbs!)- and probably even surpass them.
Your Friend And Trainer,
Nick
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