Post-meal

85.4kg...I couldn't finish everything, left a piece and a half in the box, couldn't down the whole shake. Ughh...I'm full..but, as you can track the past few days, rising fast. And the results from the shoulders/arms workout today were pretty awesome..I can see my body shape changing...

Shoulders/Arms

Post-workout weight was 84.7kg..I'm going to try to eat a full pizza and giant protein shake and reweigh myself...ha, this is fun.

I also bought a New Year's treat, 4 dark stout beers (that's Korean stout, so..draw your own conclusions) but anyways..I tend to lose weight when I drink that stuff...hence I haven't had alcohol since I've started...once for the decade is fair I suppose...

Until post-meal...

Quick Weight Update...

Just for reference...I was 83.4kg before eating, had two peanut butter/honey sandwiches on 7 grain bread, 4 hard boiled eggs with some salt, and a full blender of protein shake with all that entails...afterwards I'm 84.5kg. That's a gain of 1.1kg or 2.42508lbs. Whew...

And there you have it...

All done. Whew...did great except for a few moves. To be specific: 5 fewer standard push-ups, 3 fewer military push-ups, 5 fewer wide-fly push-ups, 4 fewer decline push-ups, 4 fewer diamond push-ups, and one FUCKING 1/2 fewer dive bomber pushups...I could not push myself off the ground, grunting, straining, kicking, groaning, wincing..I could not... These work outs are no bullshit.

(In just this chest/back workout I did 328 moves during week 9 last time, either push-ups, pull-ups, or a few assorted resistance band moves. So coming up short a total of 21 1/2 moves tonight means I am currently 93.445% of where I was on day 50 last time. Or, for a more positive spin, last week I did 263.75 moves. So tonight I did 42.75 more moves than last week, an improvement of 16.209%!! That's a HUGE improvement in one week's time. (What would you do if your investments improved 16.209% in one week??) I will think about that...)

I tipped the scales at 83.4kg after all of that. A little light..but, I haven't eaten in almost 5 hours. So, dinner is a couple sandwiches, some hard boiled eggs, and a protein shake.

I will try to do at least half of yoga later tonight, and then have a big samgyeopsal dinner with brown rice and kimchi. That should help.

Halfway through Chest/Back

So far, so good...at the halfway mark I have matched every move from Week 9 last time. For the lay people among you, that means at day 8 I am already doing as much as day 50 last time through. I went pretty hard this first half...the second half is a repeat, just in a slightly different order...so we will see if my muscle endurance has also carried over....yeahhh..let's ...g...o....oooph...

Continuation...

OK..just stepped off the scales at 84kg. Not bad, that's 185lbs. for you non-metric losers. That's after work, which is when I'm usually at my lightest weight during the day besides immediately after waking up..so, a good base to start from with no night classes today. Time for chest/back...I usually try to add a rep or two over my last workout..but I'm eyeing my week 9 results from last time..can I already catch up to where I was...it'll be a stretch, you saw the photos, I was big, and feeling strong. We will see how much I have improved in one short week. Time to shut up and put up...some big numbers I hope...I'll post after with my first of two dinners tonight and the protein shake...yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh let's go!!!!!!!!!!!

A light night...

I did the ab workout as soon as I got home, had dinner, digested, taught a class...came home ready to do chest/back, and just never got up off the floor. Means today could be tough, I need to do chest/back and the marathon yoga video. Fortunately I still have that quasi-four-day-weekend coming up. Might be doing doubles almost every day....but, results should start showing soon...

I topped the scales at 84.4kg just now, that's the highest for this round. I had just eaten two peanut butter sandwiches and an orange juice. But, if I can eat a lunch on my way to school, workout tonight and fit in two good size dinners, I could be 85kg. by tomorrow. And with the long weekend coming up...it is conceivable I would be back at 86.2kg (190lbs.) heading into next week when I will have morning classes, i.e. McMuffins! I would like to clear out all the unhealthy 'weight gaining' food by the end of January..I am wondering how hefty I could potentially be by then. 93kg?!? Wow...