Week 12 - Target 91.25kg
28 Jun - 1523c - 94kg - Strength training. CTX L13, 9.64km, HR 160-173bpm. Tre L3, 5.7km/h.
29 Jun - 1555c - 93.5kg - CTX L13, 10.36km, HR 164-175bpm. Tre L3, 5.8km/h.
30 Jun - 1510c - 93kg - Strength training. CTX L14, 7.80km, HR 148-161bpm. Tre L3, 5.9km/h.
1 Jul - 975c - 92.5kg - CTX L14, 7.81km, HR 165-173bpm. No treadmill.
2 Jul - 968c - 92kg - Strength training. CTX L14, 7.71km, HR 162-172bpm. No treadmill.
Total calories: 6531c, Weight: 93kg (+1.75kg)
Week 12

Only did 5 sessions this week. I took Jun 27 off as my rest day and intended to do a 6 session week but things didn't go as planned.

I had an extremely rough night on Jun 30, hence felt like crap on Jul 1 and didn't do a treadmill session. Didn't feel that good either on Jul 2, so decided to take it easy and skip another treadmill session.

Week ended fairly miserably for me, so I decided to take Jul 3 and Jul 4 off and pretty much stayed at home and relaxed.

CTX sessions are now up to L14. Boy resistance increases are really tough.

Weekly weight average deviation's gone up, although felt fairly happy that my weight was dropping on a daily basis. If you look carefully it's a 0.5kg drop per day for the weigh-ins which was pretty amusing.

After the upcoming week (Week 13), I'm almost dead certain that I'll be adjusting my weight loss target dates. Will see when we get there.

Strength training details:

28 Jun
Pulldown
45kg - 10/10/10/10

Abdominal
50kg - 10/10/10/10

Chest Press
30kg - 10/10/10/10

Shoulder Press
15kg - 10/10/10/10

Biceps Curl
12.5kg - 10/10/10/10

Leg Extension
40kg - 10/10/10/10

Seated Leg
40 kg - 10/10/10/10
20 Jun

30 Jun
Pulldown
45kg - 10/10/10/10

Abdominal
50kg - 10/10/10/10

Chest Press
30kg - 10/10/10/10

Shoulder Press
15kg - 10/10/10/10

Biceps Curl
12.5kg - 10/10/10/10

Leg Extension
40kg - 10/10/10/10

Seated Leg
40 kg - 10/10/10/10
30 Jun

2 Jul
Pulldown
45kg - 10/10/10/10

Abdominal
50kg - 10/10/10/10

Chest Press
30kg - 10/10/10/10

Shoulder Press
15kg - 10/10/10/10

Biceps Curl
12.5kg - 10/10/10/10

Leg Extension
40kg - 10/10/10/10

Seated Leg
40 kg - 10/10/10/10
2 Jul


Observations for the week:
Nothing much to say for this week. Weight loss progressing, albeit slowly. Just hoping that the Week 13 will be better in terms of productivity now that my mood's improved a bit from this week.

No gym story this week. Can't think of any at the moment.

Cheers for reading. Feel free to comment if you're in the mood. Constructive posts are always appreciated.

Just a quick update.

Went for a session today. Did strength training. Going into the first set of the first machine, I started to feel slight chest pains.

Knew that something wasn't right. Pain went away after a few minutes.

Took it easy but managed to do the typical strength training routine albeit it was more difficult.

However the moment I hit cardio, I knew something was dead wrong. I could barely do 6 minutes on the Cross-trainer without feeling really like crap, including shortness of breath.

Stopped and hit the showers.

Going to chill for tonight, get as much sleep as I can and try again tomorrow. Hopefully it's nothing serious.

chest pains are dangerous
consult a doctor if you encounter it again
you are sure its the muscle pain at chest area or it hurts from within inside?

It was hurting from the inside which freaked me out a bit. But seems to be a one off thing, no recurrence.

I suspect it was partly due to the high levels of stress I was going through last week. A lot of crap happened and at one point my blood pressure shot up to 150/100 from my typical 130/80.



Weekly report.

Week 13 - Target 90kg
5 Jul - 90c - 92.5kg - Weight inputted in machines set to 93kg (from 94kg previously). Strength training. CTX L14, 0.70km, 6 minutes only. No treadmill.
6 Jul - 607c - 91.5kg - CTX L14, 4.94km, 41 minutes only. No treadmill.
8 Jul - 1512c - 91.5kg - CTX L13, 8.83km. HR 163-175bpm. Treadmill L3, 6.0km/h.
10 Jul - 1490c - 91.5kg - Weight inputted in machines set to 92kg (from 93kg previously). CTX L13, 9.77km. HR 147-175bpm. Treadmill L3.5, 5.1/km/h.
Total calories: 3699c, Weight: 91.75 (+1.75kg)
Week 13

Disastrous performance for this week. Only 4 sessions due to the mentioned high stress levels affecting me.

Felt like crap on Jul 5. Going into my first set on the first machine for my strength training, I felt chest pains. Ignored it (not a smart thing to do, I know) and managed to do the entire routine. However when I started on the cross-trainer, I felt something was very wrong just a few minutes into the cross-trainer session and had to stop.

Went at it a bit more cautiously the next day (Jul 6), but only lasted a little over 40 minutes on the cross-trainer. Didn't like how things had gone for those two days, so I took an enforced rest day (Jul 7) and basically did nothing then, just chilled at home.

Third session of the week on Jul 8 turned out pretty okay, but decided to take it easy, took another enforced rest day on Jul 9. Jul 10 being the last session of the week was also fine. So things seem to be back on track now that my stress levels are down.

I skipped my strength training sessions the rest of the week just to play safe.

Since I doubt I'll be catching up with my weight deviation, I've decided to adjust my weight targets accordingly to Week 17 (my first mid-term weight target).

With 4 weeks remaining, I'm adjusting the target to 87.5kg for Week 17. This is up 2.5kg from the previous target of 85kg. This means, I'll have to lose 1kg a week or so which is a fairly realistic number. Will start with a target of 90.5kg for Week 14 and reduce it by 1kg each week thereafter.

Accordingly I've also adjusted my second mid-term target of 75kg from Week 25 (26 Sep-2 Oct 2010) to Week 29 (24 Oct 2010 - 30 Oct 2010). This figure is still tentative depending on what happens during the fasting month.

Strength training details

5 Jul
Pulldown
45kg - 10/10/10/10

Abdominal
50kg - 10/10/10/10

Chest Press
32.5kg - 10/10/10/8

Shoulder Press
17.5kg - 10/8
15kg - 8/8

Biceps Curl
12.5kg - 10/10/10/7

Leg Extension
40kg - 10/10/10/10

Seated Leg
40 kg - 10/10/10/10
5 Jul

Edit: Forgot to write that my weight inputted was set to 92kg on July 10.

This post has been edited by ayaz: Jul 14 2010, 03:00 PM

Alo there

You do know that stress releases hormones that can basically swing your weight the other way round right?

Take a day off to breathe, I'd recommend

Hi Syd

I did take a couple of days off in between for that week. I think my stress levels are back to normal though, so back to same old, same old.

And so far the weight hasn't swung back upwards (or not noticeably that is).

WHOA u lost so much in such a short time. just wanna say, keep up the good work, bro.

well done... just hope i can be just as focus as you are in working out

really inspired by your effort..any update?