What Chuck Does

Week in Review

149.25lbs.
12.60% fat
62.16% hydration

These are my weekly averages. This is the first week that I’ve convincingly broken the 150lbs. mark. I’ve also (mistakenly) included my prior week’s average (the 2nd row) for reference. For that week you can see that my average was poor as a result of my bout with food poisoning.

For this past week however, I think I’ve done rather well for myself. If you look at my fat %, I’d would have averaged 12.5 of less if it weren’t for the outlier in the 14% range when I was dehydrated. Also, if you look at my hydration it’s consistently higher than the week before. I made a special effort to delay my weigh-ins until as late as possible since I can usually rehydrate by the time I go to bed. The higher hydration levels are also partially why my fat % has dropped.

This past week I also caught up on sleep. I was pretty drained from my bout with food poisoning last week so I made an effort to turn-in earlier. I’m going to try to get to bed earlier this week now that I’ve finished my most recent “project”. While it still needs a little work here and there, it’s mostly done and won’t require the heavy amount of time needed initially. Then again, I foresee that I will be spending some time post-processing the pictures that I took over this past weekend… it’s hard to get enough sleep when you want to actually have a life outside of work.

Based upon my calculations above, I took in a caloric deficit throughout the week. Much of this came yesterday when I played a combined 2 hours of tennis and basketball. I know that one day’s work does not a week make but with the revamping of my caloric models, I will be more accurate with what is actually happening to my body.

Oh and another nice thing about this past week. I put in quite a few cardio sessions and exercised more than 400 minutes throughout the week.

For this upcoming week I foresee some pretty intense workouts while holding my caloric intake steady. We’re so close to the end that I can’t let up now. That and I beginning to see the side lines for #5 and #6 so I’m pretty excited. Let’s see if we can’t take some good pictures sometime this week!