Thursday, February 12, 2009

My Exercise / Nutrition Program

So, since January 12th, I've been a part of the Ultimate Body Challenge program at the Academy of World Taekwondo. I began this program because I found myself putting on sympathy weight during Angela's pregnancy and, unlike her, I won't lose most of mine in one big birthing experience. We work out for one hour each morning, six days a week, and have a nutritional component as well.
Three of the workouts each week are Thai-robics (similar to Tae Bo). These are a sweat pouring, high kicking, hard punching aerobic hell. In other words, I love it. The other three days a week, we do a sport fusion class. Each week the sport changes so that we don't get bored. So far we've done Karate, skiing, track, boxing and uh...something I can't remember. These tend to be more muscle building exercises, but they certainly do get a sweat up and have aerobic qualities too.
Finally, we eat five meals per day, and at each meal we eat one palm-sized portion of protein and one palm sized portion of carbohydrates. I've chosen on my own to increase the difficulty by cutting out breads and pasta as Carbs and get mine almost exclusively from vegetables. Oh, and we drink a LOT of water.
As some of you know, if you read my facebook updates, I've been sore, tired and generally beat up since I started. But I have also made progres. This morning we had our mid-term testing, and I did 10 more pushups than a month ago, my flexibility increased from 14.75 to 20, am down 7 lbs of fat, and have lost 3.06% body fat (I'm now at 11%).
I've still got 5 weeks to go, and I'm hoping to lose another 3% and at LEAST want to break into the less than 10% body fat group. My plan at this point is to repeat the 10 week program again before summer and get into the best shape of my life. I'm not quite there yet (when I came back from Oman in 2002 was probably my peak), but I'll keep y'all updated.

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