Posted by Amy | Posted in Finish Strong, Having It All | Posted on 30-09-2010
Tags: Big Als Gym, Fat Girl, Finish Strong, Fit Girl
My gym is offering this really interesting 12 week challenge called Finish Strong. It combines personal training, nutrition, small and group fitness classes. The gym has offered these types of training challenges before but what made me sign up is that the course is designed to teach you how to essentially be your own trainer. It’s supposed to teach you how to train in your target heart zones and whatnot.
So what have I learned in the first three days of the program? Fat Girl might run, but she sure is damn weak. My core strength sucks and I have the upper body strength of a small rodent. I got a long way to go. And that’s ok right as this is a journey I’m only half way through.
My heaviest was 274lbs back around 2000-ish. Fat Girl has obliated much evidence from that time but I did manage to find one photo where I was probably over 250.
Fat Girl in 2005-ish
This is me at my sister’s wedding last year, circa 220.
Fat Maid of Honor
Here’s the same dress minus 20lbs.
Dress Redo
And this the Before picture they took at the start of the Finish Strong program.
194 - 80lbs down.
The other cool thing about this program is that they do a whole work up on where you are right now. And I do love me some good stats and numbers to look at.
Weight: 194
Fat: 63.8lbs – 33.2%
Lean Body Mass: 128.2lbs – 66.8%
BMI: 28.35
Basal Metabolic Rage: 1746kCal
Daily Energy Expenditure 2793kCal
Chest: 41.5in
Waist: 40.25
Hips: 45
Thigh: 22
Bicep: 12.5
AND they do some physical fitness testing –
Plank on toes and elbows: 54 seconds
Push ups – 6
Sit and Reach: 19 inches
Balance on one foot: 2mins 45sec.
What does all this mean? Nothing really. It’s just numbers that don’t really tell me anything. It is a starting place, so I know where the finish line is.
You look FANTASTIC! What an amazing change. You should feel really proud of yourself.
Thanks!
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Great challenge! Having the numbers for where you started is something I thought was a little too over the top for a long time, but then when I was supposed to do that and take ‘before’ pictures for P90X and realized what a HUGE difference it made for my motivation when the going was tough to KNOW that I’d gotten stronger and looked better and had shrunk in size (but not weight!) I changed my mind. It’s really important and a lot of fun, especially with the strength, because you can get stronger a lot faster than you can lose weight!
So excited for you!
Teresa
so glad you are back! those numbers will mean more at the end of 12 weeks…its a challenge and you CAN do it!! Good luck!
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