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1 year weight loss transformation

Posted on January 18, 2014by admin

110lb weight loss picture

Twelve months ago I made a decision to loose weight and improve my life, today I’m 110 pounds lighter and feeling great! It’s amazing to see this weight loss transformation when you put the pictures side by side.

A little more perspective on my twelve month journey.

  • Old Pant size 46, new pant size 32
  • Old shirt size XXL, new shirt size large
  • Old shoe size 12, new shoe size 10.5 or 11 (yes your feet can shrink)

I’m really thankful that I worked out with weights throughout the last 12 months specifically weight training with Les Mills Pump and p90X because I didn’t end up with all the extra skin since I was adding muscle while I was loosing fat. That was a huge key for me during this journey.

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Insanity wraps up, Focus T25 starts

Posted on January 14, 2014by admin

Insanity wraps up, Focus T25 starts.

Insanity wraps up, Focus T25 starts.

As I wrap up Insanity this week, I’ll be starting the alpha, beta and gamma programs that make up Focus T25. It will be interesting to see how I feel about the 30 minute workouts, I have a feeling I’ll be adding in some additional weights and running to hit my personal workout goals during the period, but we will see.

Over the course of 2013, I’ve completed Les Mills Pump, P90X and Insanity has been one of the best programs I’ve done to date. For me Les Mills Pump and P90X built the foundation (from nothing) to allow Insanity to help make my core stronger and more defined.

During the past 60 days of doing Insanity so far I’ve lost 7 pounds and  2% body fat.

Pictures to come..

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Tough Mudder Central Florida 2013

Posted on November 17, 2013by admin

Tough Mudder in Central Florida completed on November 2nd, 2013. I ran this Tough Mudder with a co-worker and we decided to be in wave #1 so we left the gate at 8am. The course was roughly 12 miles long with about 23 obstacles we finished around 10:15am.

Below are the pictures that were taken along the way.

2013 Tough Mudder Florida
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Travel, Food and Weight Loss

Posted on November 17, 2013by admin

I spent the majority of last week in Buffalo and Rochester, NY with my team which meant I was eating three meals a day “out”. I managed to keep my meals pretty standard and the patience was worth the wait. I managed to drop 3 pounds and drop by body fat by 1.5% as well, I’m not at 192.5 pounds and 19% body fat.

Breakfast

When I’m on the road my breakfast consists of Oatmeal & eggwhites from The Bistro, I try to stay at Courtyards because they are consistent.

Lunch

Lunch consisted of Grilled Chicken Breasts with a steamed vegetable. If the restaurant doesn’t have grilled chicken on the menu I’ll request it, Salmon or Steak is my fallback.

Dinner

Much like lunch my dinner consisted of either Chicken or Steak, side salad with no croutons, cheese or bacon, ranch on the side and a steamed vegetable.

Snacks

I eat Rise Bars either Honey Almond or Carob Chocolate.

In addition to keeping my food under control and maintaining around 2000-2100 calories a day I ran out of my GNC Multi-vitamin and decided to take a different route for the next 45 days. I’ll post on that change soon..

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One round of p90X Results

Posted on November 6, 2013by admin

I recently completed a round of p90X and here are the results.. The picture on the right, my nipples were chafed from running. Hence the bandaids. 🙂

 

90 days of p90X

90 days of p90X
June 2013 – September 2013

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Sunday morning Les Mills Combat Power HIIT 1

Posted on October 27, 2013by admin

Les Mills Combat - HIIT

Les Mills Combat – HIIT

I decided to switch things up a little this morning for my cardio workout. Since my wife is out of town I couldn’t leave my 3 year to go run so I decided to take Les Mills Combat: Power HIIT 1 for a spin.

I’ve done a few of the Combat workouts in the past, mostly the Core Attack ab workout. I actually substituted the Core Attack ab routine while doing my last round of P90X. One thing I appreciate about the Les Mills programs is they do a good job explaining the routines and workouts.

Anyways, I’m glad I decided to tryout this workout. It had great mixture of cardio and strength. I’ll certainly be adding this into my weekly rotation.

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Travel, Workouts & Food

Posted on October 25, 2013by admin

This week has been a whirl wind in regards to travel and eating on the road. I flew into Boston, MA on Monday night and few out Wednesday night. However, I was able to maintain my workout schedule this week but the travel did play a role in workouts that I felt were not optimal.

Monday, October 21 – Abs, Pure Cardio and Chest/Triceps – I felt really good after this workout Monday morning, total time spent working out was around 1.5 hours. However, I think I pushed myself a little to hard and that combined with travel put a toll on my body.

Tuesday, October 22 – Typically this is a running/cardio day. I wasn’t really feeling it but I was able to get a 2 mile treadmill run in at the hotel.

Wednesday, October 23 – Abs, Back & Biceps. I hit the hotel gym at 5:30am and was able to get my back/biceps workout in. However, much like Tuesday I was dragging and I felt like it wasn’t an optimal workout.

Thursday, October 24 – I took the day off.

During the course of the travel week I maintained my weight at 195.8lbs and stuck with eating Egg Whites, Oatmeal,  Grilled chicken, Salmon, vegetables, and Rise Bars. The hotel actually had a pretty decent restaurant that I ate Salmon at twice, I always ask for a custom meal without additional sauces etc. The biggest challenge I found was eating at the Washington DC National Airport, the terminal I was in had lack luster options so I settled on a Chicken sandwich from Fuddruckers for dinner.

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Breakfast – Hyatt Place Pittsburgh North Shore

Posted on October 16, 2013by admin

Short post today, I like to record the food I eat and be as accurate as possible. Today, I was pleasantly surprised at the attitude and willingness the staff at Hyatt Place North Shore in Pittsburgh had when I asked them what type of OatMeal they used on their breakfast buffet. The gentleman went and got the canister, for those interested this specific Hyatt Place uses McCann’s Irish Steel Cut 30 minute oatmeal.