15% Body Fat?!?!
15% body fat! At least that's what the little hand-held "body fat testing machine" told me today. For all intensive purposes I can't for the life of me understand how a little metal and plastic machine that you hold between your hands can determine your body fat percentage but that's what popped up on the digital screen after I held it for the alloted 15 seconds. To be honest this might be the first time that I can ever remember doing a body fat testing... if it's not I'm going to assume that I just purely blocked out a number that was somewhere between Lebron and Shaq's jersey number.
I spoke to Todd about this a few days prior and he pretty much allotted me around 2,200 calories a day. We figured that I run every morning for 2.5 miles, (400 calories according to my Nike Plus shoes and ipod) plus another 1,000 calories burned during our daily hour workout and a good 2,000 just based upon metabolism throughout the day. Taking all this into account you'd think I'd be a lean, mean blogging machine in just a few days but if you bother to take a closer look at food portion size and actual calories and you've got a completely different story.
For the sake of brevity I'm not even going to look into my portion sizes and how many calories I'm ACTUALLY taking in. But based upon the fact that I'm very slowly dropping weight lets assume it's not enough. I am however gaining muscle mass and definition in target areas so we'll go ahead and assume I'm keeping up with the much needed protein.
Thus far it's been a slightly irregular week of workouts as I've more than tripled up on chest and bicep exercises thanks to Todd's recommendations and have neglected agility and leg training. Tomorrow I'm switching it up with a 10:30 workout so we'll see how that goes and I'll be back to update you all this weekend!
