Thursday, July 23, 2009

HCG Maintenance Phase day 5/Body for Life day 4

So, I'm still having kind of a hard time hitting even a thousand calories in my diet. I'm definitely over 500 but I'm just not eating enough (first time I've ever said that since my loading days).

Yesterday was legs day at the gym. I did squats (ow), leg extensions (ow), hamstring exercises, and seated calf raises (OW OW OW!). After all of that I decided that I'd like to give running (I.E. Barely jogging) a try. Bare in mind that I haven't jogged in forever, since before HCG. I tried once at about 210lbs and I was winded within about 50ft.

So, since I missed cardio on Tuesday due to tutoring, I decided that I would do the Body for Life cardio plan. It is a 20 minute workout that works like this:

Minutes:
1-2 Exercise level (EL) 5 (1 is sitting on the couch, 10 is nearly impossible)
3 EL 6
4 EL 7
5 EL 8
6 EL 9
7 EL 5
8 EL 6...
so on and so forth until minutes 19-20 where you try to hit a level 10.

10 is elusive in that it's basically stating that you cannot take another step. In lifting weights it's pretty easy to hit 10, it's called, muscle failure or "There's no way in hell I can lift that one more time!"

Anyway, cardio was interesting because my legs already wanted to freeze-up on me.

Then, since Body for Life says that Abs are done on Leg days, I went home to the hardest Ab routine I have available....P90X Ab Ripper

Happy to say that I can do more of the exercises now than before...but I'm a long ways away to being able to keep up with them.

All in good time I supposed.

More later

4 comments:

Unknown said...

WoW, I just watched your vlogs, I was very interested in the HCG, I did watch mommaclock but wanted a guys side. GOOD JOB. I think the wife and I are both going to try it out. I will keep watching to how you do on your new venture and thanks for what you have done!

Brian W. said...

jhenninger,

You should definitly do it if you're even considering it. It's been great. Keep coming back and posting updates. It'll keep you on the straight and narrow knowing that others are watching.

Cenk Cengiz said...

Hello,

I followed you on here and on youtube as well. I would have to say once I saw your videos, I wanted to do this. I did lose weight by exercising but just gained it right back when I stop.(and i am sure you know once you stop it's really hard to get back on) Anyway my question was, did you do this program thru an online program? You kept saying they, the doctor, doctor's office...did you go to your doctor and said you wanted to started losing weight with the hcg? Any clarification on that, I'd appreciate it.
Thank you,
Cenk

Brian W. said...

Cenk,
Please see my latest blog post as it will answer some of your questions.

Have a great day!

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I've tried just about every diet a guy can think about. I've tried Belly-Off from Men's Health, Body for Life by Bill Phillips, P90X (Holy Crap!), The Testosterone Diet, and just starving myself. Nothing worked even remotely close to Dr. Simeon's HCG Protocal. Now, for those of us who have completed the protocol, there is a new challenge, how do we eat now? Well, I don't have the answers, but I do know that I like to eat whole foods and I know that they can be easier to make than we think possible. This blog will feature recipes as well as just random sharing.