Tag: progress report
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Strength Standards, May 2 – July 2, 2012
Just a couple of progress snapshots, captured from the Strength Standards webtool: May 2, 2012 July 2, 2012 Sadly, the progress I’ve made isn’t really captured by the charts above. My barbell bench press hasn’t “changed” because I haven’t measured it. Owing to concerns that my arms weren’t developing symmetrically, I switched to an exercise…
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8 Weeks into Squats
I’m new to weights, having bought my first set ever for Christmas 2011. To make the most of my time and my gains, I’ve been learning the canonical powerlifts. Here’s my progress on the Barbell Squat: I began the StrongLifts 5×5 program, but quickly found myself becoming bored with the low weight it started me…
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The Hacker’s Diet: My 3 Month Report Card
What does 3 months of weight loss look like? Here’s a graph of my experience: (click here to enlarge) Here are some bulletpoint take-aways from my experience so far on The Hacker’s Diet, referencing the chart above: General: My start weight was 222 pounds on November 3, 2011. Today’s weight is 185.0 pounds. I was…
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The Hacker’s Diet – January 2012
The math doesn’t lie—it was a good month! On the last day of December I was 197.6 pounds, and on January 31 I’d dropped to 186.8, for 10.8 pounds lost for the month and 35.2 lost overall since November 3, 2011! In December I lost slightly less (9 pounds), so what did I do to…
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The Hacker’s Diet – December 2011
I lost 9 pounds lost this month (and 24.4 pounds in total)! My lowest weight was 197 and I’m not exactly certain why it spiked up nearly two pounds only one day after. Two theories: (1) my body is continuing to fight the weight loss, because the change is sudden and my equilibrium is still…
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The Hacker’s Diet – November 2011
So, when my weight hit 222 pounds I had something of an epiphany and decided on a diet and exercise regimen. I chose The Hacker’s Diet, which I’d actually tried 2 years ago. Nothing wrong with the diet, I just wasn’t committed enough to stick to any kind of reduction. As diets go, Hacker’s couldn’t…