7 Weeks to Fitness Project

Happy Monday!

I am retracting the B- I gave to the 7-day Rapid Fat Loss plan on Saturday, because after a mere 24 hours of eating normally I had found 6 of the 8.5lbs I lost on the plan. Sunday I threw all semblance of discipline to the wind and had a totally crazy cheat day...so although I haven't been eager to get back on the scale I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm right back where I started!

Oh well.

Just goes to show that there's no easy way to shed fat; you just have to put the work in. And can I just  say that it feels really good to have some energy back? Still, it'll be good to get back to some kind of maintainable structure. I am returning to the basic rules that I mercilessly foist on my nutrition clients:

1. Eat every 2 - 4 hours.
2. Eat veggies every time you eat.
3. Eat protein every time you eat.
4. Save starchy carbs for after your workout.
5. Include a healthy fat every time you eat EXCEPT for your post-workout meal.

...and if you do just that and eliminate the 'extras' you will get lean and ripped, guaranteed....but it won't happen in a week.

Let's move on, shall we? Enough talk about food for now.

For my next silly trick, I am putting the 7 Weeks to Fitness programs to the test! This is a project I'm pretty excited about; the very basic nature of it really appeals to me. The premise for these programs is that most people have real trouble managing their own body weight, so it's aimed at getting regular people functional, strong, and resilient. Each of the four exercises has a 6-10 week program that is supposed to get you to where you can do an almost ridiculous number of reps in one set:

1. 100 Push Ups
2. 50 Pull Ups
3. 200 Squats
4. 300 Sit Ups

Check it out here.

Is it perfect? Hell no. But I'm going to try it and see what happens, and as a person who couldn't do one proper push up less than 10 years ago, the idea of ripping off 100 in one shot makes me sort of giddy! Hey, some people like to sit and watch terrible shit like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo for fun; it's not that crazy. Ha.

Of course, I can't resist making a couple of changes...the 100 push up regime I'll do as is, as well as the 50 pull up program. I just don't see the point of doing 300 sit ups so I'm leaving that one for someone else, and the 200 squats....that I can already do, easily. So, I'm going to follow the 200 squat program with 135lbs (standard Olympic bar with a big plate on either end) on my back.

Today was day one, which entailed 5 sets of each exercise. It was challenging but not murderous: a good place to start considering that I STILL don't feel as strong as I did before the 7 days of misery diet. But I remained conscious all the way through so it's a step in the right direction!