trial and error

After getting "schooled" on workout knowledge today from my lovely co-competitor/best friend/stand in trainer I'm ready to work harder. Its funny, I can always count on him to put me in my place. When everybody says, "Gosh Crystal you're looking good!" He'll be the first to bust that bubble with, "Your arms look that way because you aren't pushing yourself hard enough." Some may view this as harsh, these words are the ones I appreciate the most.

I'm eight weeks out. I have a trainer again, and a best friend who has a great deal of knowledge and criticism he loves throwing my way, so we'll call the 2 of them my training team ha. I'm now sitting on my third week of no weight loss. I think I've already said that, it's time to make some changes. This week we've decided to cut some of the workload off. So, I was at a 5 day split and we're bringing me back down to 4. If anybody doesn't quite know what a 4 day split is, well, its gym talk for specific muscle group training, I was doing 5 days of weights a week, and we're retrying 4 days instead. My cardio is also dropping and I wont lie I'm kind of excited to hear that. I was ready for 120 min a day but nope, I'm bringing it down to 60 min a day. Not too bad at all, cake. Oh and then there's my diet. Nothing is really changing, we're just reorganizing what time of day I get which macros. Macros: short for macronutrients i.e. calories, fat, carbohydrates, protein.

At the end of the day there's no telling if this plan will fail or pass. There is no sure plan, as every body is different, and will respond differently to different methods. I'm hoping for a pass. Less work, more weightloss? Wouldn't that be just amazing? I'm hesitant to post my numbers, weight, inches, bodyfat so I wont. But in a week from today, with these changes to my program, I will report the final grade of this change. Oh yea, and I'm putting the scale away. For the next couple of weeks it'll be pictures and measurements to dictate if my program is working. This is about to get very interesting.