holofit #9 - That's the 12 Week Challenge Done

Hi Steemians!

I can't believe it has been over a month since I wrote about my fitness journey. Today, my time with my personal trainer, or rather, our contractual obligations to one another, expired. During the 12 weeks, and 24 one on one training sessions, I cursed, I hurt, I swore, and I made the darkest of jokes.

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I think I may have scarred poor young Josh in some way with the depths of my morbid humour, but he's pretty unscathed, sending himself up to the Northern Territory to umpire the Australian Rules Football that will be played up there, and potentially lose his toes to a reptilian, pre-historic crocodile.

I have to go back in time to my first post about this holofit initiative to discuss the impact of my journey. That post indicates that I began as a male weighing 110KG. That's 242lbs, for those of you reading from the Imperialist colonies. I am pleased to inform, as is my still in-situ beard, that I remain male, albeit at 101KG. That's 224 again, those of you who measure mass in British currency.

That's a loss of 9KG, or 22lbs, but what is more important than this shedding of mass is the impact this initiative has (so far) - had on my dimensions. Let's now proceed to objectify me with some data tables. All measurements are in centimetres.

Region	Starting	16-Aug	Today
Chest	109	105	107
Arms	35	32	36
Hips	109	104	105
Waist	113	103	99
Thighs	66	61	57

The biggest change is clearly the waist. 14cm! I've been noticing that my belts must need additional holes to enable my pants to stay on, and many of my favourite, lazy trackpants are now only appropriate to wear around the house, when no one's watching, otherwise, I'd be quickly wearing only underpants!

This change in dimensions hasn't been the only thing that has changed. I've been feeling more energetic, motivated; and I think that shows in the recent, prolific dedication to STEEM, and engaging my followers. It has probably shown, too; in my productivity at my day job, which has, as of late, been consuming oodles and oodles of my time.

My diet, too has changed considerably. There's a lot more salad, leafy greens, and well, more lean meat. Less steak, which is probably good for my colon, and a hell of a lot more seafood, which is okay by me.

I haven't totally cut out those things that I enjoy, with a fair share of cheat meals sprinkled in and among this 12 week program. The key now, is to continue, maintain, and keep up the regular, committed, gym sessions. I still have no goal, or ultimate objective in sight.

The mass dropping, and the energy boost isn't the only thing. I can run now, too. I've bene timing my 2KM times on a treadmill, and have improved markedly there, too.

That's a Personal Best of 11 minutes, 16 seconds, and a TWO minute reduction on the original time of 13 minutes, 35 seconds. That's huge!

I'm pretty proud of my progress, but there's still more to do. I personally feel as though, in particular, my grip strength, flexibility, and cardio-vascular endurance still has significant room for improvement.

As a result, I'll be changing my program to 5x5 Strong Lifts (3 times a week), with 2 days of Cardio, and 2 Recovery days mixed in. Once I've done that for 2 months or so, I'll go back to functional training, to keep my body, and metabolism guessing.

Here's hoping that I continue to remain injury free!

Yours,

@holoz0r