Project!

So I have a conundrum. I'm on the heels of completing 10,000 kettlebell swings in 10 days and I need a new project.

10 000 Swings to Fat Loss

My bizarre fitness and cooking experiments have prompted many of my friends, family and colleagues to urge me to start a blog with the blow-by-blow results of said projects. I only wish I started it sooner; that way I could have provided the online world with my daily insights gleaned from 1000 kettlebell swings/day for 10 days...but as that opportunity is lost, all I can do is post the end results of the KB project and move on to the next. So what's next?

Ha, I'm just going to leave you hanging on that one, because first I have to talk about cheesecake!

I love making cheesecake. A few months ago I decided that I'd start a charity fundraising effort for a destination race I was going to go do, and it became so successful that even though I won't go do the race (life got in the way this year) I'm keeping this fundraising thing going. The charity that I am raising $ for is KidSport Canada, and I'll keep that going until the end of 2012 and then I'll pick something new for 2013 (if you have ideas, contact me!). 

KidSport Canada

So for my next silly trick, I have two ideas and I can't decide between them. It would be possible to do both at the same time; one's a diet and one's a workout program, but that might skew the results.

One thing at a time.

Today, then, marks Day One of the 7-Day Rapid Fat Loss Diet designed by Joel Marion. I've been following this guy's career for a good while and he knows his stuff. This plan is designed to work with your metabolism so that you don't end up with great results only to gain all the weight back when you go back to 'normal' eating. Joel advises that if you have more than 10lbs of fat that you'd like to lose, you should do the 7 days twice. Hey, you can do anything for 14 days, right? So this is me steeling myself for 14 days of hard work and iron willpower!

The plan looks like this:

Day 1 (Sunday) - Cheat Day/No workout
Day 2 (Monday) - Fast Day/AM High-intensity interval training (HIIT), PM moderate cardio
Day 3 (Tuesday) - Shake Day/AM HIIT
Day 4 (Wednesday) - Carb-loading Day/AM moderate cardio
Day 5 (Thursday) - Fast Day/AM HIIT
Day 6 (Friday) - Carb-loading Day/AM moderate cardio
Day 7 (Saturday) - Shake Day/AM HIIT, PM moderate cardio

Of course, there are many more details but you get the gist of it. I'll post regularly about the details of each day and how I'm feeling. It's gonna be fun to watch I think!