Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Day 55 Last Fitness Test

I'm not sure why the calendar didn't go all the way through to 60 days, but I'm not going to complain too much. I finished a week ago today with the last fitness test. I would say that I have peaked on those exercises. This time through I did not have the paper that I have recorded all of the previous tests as I wanted to not have a number that I was trying to beat.

Previous experience has shown that if I did 65 reps of something last time, I shoot for 64 this time. I wanted to go in with a blank slate and just do the most that I could. I went up in a couple of exercises, down in a few others, and tied on one.

Overall I am impressed with the results over the course of two months. The day that I started I weighed 190 which was a very light day for me. I normally went between 192-195 the week leading up to starting. For the last two days I was 185 and 185.6. So I dropped 7-10 pounds depending on the day. The pictures don't seem to show that, but I know for a fact that I am stronger than when I started. My plan now is to go back to the first month's videos and do them 2-3 times a week trying to get some time on the bowflex in there as well. The last two weeks of this program really wore me down with the 6 days a week of workouts.

Fitness test results:
Switch Kicks - 63               0%            53.66%
Power Jacks - 45                -4.26%     73.08%
Power Knees - 95               3.26%      50.79%
Power Jumps - 25               -7.41%     25%
Globe Jumps - 7.5               -16.67%   87.5%
Suicide Jumps - 15              25%          87.5%
Push Up Jacks - 28             -3.45%     47.37%
Low Plank Oblique - 55      -6.78        83.33%

The first percentage is the change since the fourth fitness test. As you can see from those numbers I have plateaued on the exercises. The second percentages are the change since day 1. Pretty impressive considering I thought I was going to pass out on day 1. Consistent exercise does pay off, and that was without any kind of diet change.

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