Day 14 - Week two recap

It's been a pretty lazy weekend so far. My coworker celebrated her 30th birthday party last night and it turned out to be a lot of fun. I did push my boss into the pool and in turn, was thrown in myself, but otherwise, it was a fun night! haha

I did the following arm workout tonight - PULL:
2 sets of 10 reps
Superset
Wide grip pull-ups (all unassisted which SUCKED- they were hard!)
with
Wide grip cable rows 70#

Megaset
Narrow lat pull down 70#
with
Dumbbell bent over row 20#s each
with
Max rep barbell curls 30# (5 reps each round)

I also got my 53 burpees done for today. They're getting easier... I did 28 of them as a warm-up tonight and did the other 25 in between sets of my arm workout.

And now it's time for the bad news.

Why oh why can't we see immediate results when we workout? Wouldn't that be great? According to my measurements, I went backwards for the 2nd week in a row- increasing my body fat percentage instead of losing body fat.

Michael wants to punch me right now (not really) because he does not think I should be measuring it weekly like this. He knows it's only going to make me frustrated. My total body fat % increased again and when I look at the individual components, the increase is coming from my arm measurements. I honestly think there's probably a 1% margin of error in using the calipers b/c I don't think it's possible that my tricep could have increased 3 mm in body fat in one week. Not when I worked out 4 times, plus did a bunch of burpees, plus ate healthier than most people (no, not perfect). I kind of wonder if it's water retention or hormonal b/c I'm 5lbs heavier today than I normally am (maybe Aunt Flo needs to go away? I don't really have a period so I don't actually know if this is the case...). I did just get back from the gym where I drank two of my water bottles in water.

Here are the details-
Bicep = 6.83  (it was a "6" last week)
Tricep = 17 (it was a "14" last week so a pretty big difference)
Back = 10.67 (it was a "12" last week)
Hip = 7.33 (it was an "8" last week)

TOTAL = 24.30% BODY FAT (total last week was 23.67%!)

So yeah, I'm trying to tell myself to ignore this but it's not easy.

And for my own records- I took my measurements tonight and came up with the following:
Neck 13
Right arm 11 3/4
Left arm 11 5/8
Chest 35 1/4
Shoulders 40
Waist 29 7/8
Hips 42
Right thigh 22
Left thigh 21 3/4
Right calf 14 1/4
Left calf 14 1/4

Until tomorrow,
KelsaLynn