The Numbers

I received my equipment that should help me with some grip strength, got it from Ironmind, check out their website a LOT of great stuff on there. Unfortunately I already worked out twice today so I don't think I'll be playing with them tonight.

But tomorrow for sure. Like a kid playing with a Transformer until he breaks it.

The awesome metal ones they made back in the day, not the cheap plastic ones of today, but I digress.

Today I took my body fat percentage, here are my stats:

Weight: 212
Body Fat %: 18.4%
Lean Weight: 172.9
Fat Weight: 39.10

Post holiday season I'm doing pretty good so far. Healthy average body fat percent for men is 20%. When I'm eating right and training regularly I'm around 13-14%, obviously me stop and go training for a few months and eating everything in sight has not helped my percentage out any, I can only imagine how bad I was January 1st.

Lean weight is how much my bone, muscle, organs, ect, all weigh together, when you are regularly taking your body fat percentage and your lean weight goes up, you can generally contribute that you increase in muscle mass. The last time I took my body fat percentage my lean weight was about 169, meaning I've already put on about 4 pounds of muscle.

I've generally found AT BEST, that you can lose fat and add muscle at a 2:1 ratio (at least this works that well for me personally). Lets just pretend that each week I lose 2 pounds of body fat and gain 1 pound of muscle.

PRETEND.

That would mean to get to my target of 5% body fat it is going to take about 15 weeks. I will need to be very consistent with my diet and exercise, not cheat meals or skipping workouts!

Well maybe an occasional cheat meal, like for a special day or something.

I feel as though I could probably drop my body fat percentage faster, but I just do not want to sacrifice any strength or muscle gain, so I'm going to take it nice and slow.

Wish me luck.