The End.

Well, it has been a long year but it looks like I made it through the workout plan fairly well. In the end I ended up making just shy of 75% of my schedule lifting days and ran about 1100 miles. Overall I can say that it was well worth doing and I am more than thrilled with the results. In retrospect I wish I had worked on my diet more earlier on but what can you do? I have started planning my next year's worth of goals are they are a little bit different in scope than this years, but I am not going to go to far into it here. This blog will not be updated moving forward as the intent was to document a single year. I have created a more general fitness blog here. Above is my start pic as well as my pic for the end of each phase. Ugh, that start pic frightens me. Here's to not letting that happen again.

End or Phase 10

And there you have it the end of the 10 Phase Men's Health program. The last 4 weeks had a week and a half of travel which caused me to miss 1 of 12 lifting days. 5 of 16 running days. Final weigh is was 173 lbs and 13.9% body fat. This compares to 192.6 lb. and 21.3% body fat when I started. A loss of 19 lb. and 7.4% body fat. I will probably post some kind of recap later in the week.

End of Phase 9

Another four weeks with a lot of travel, but only ended up only missing 3 of 15 lifting days. Running and 6 of my 19 running days. Ugh that lack of running took its toll on the numbers. 172.6 lbs and 15% body fat. Ohh well 4 weeks left in this whole process and hopefully I can recover.

End Of Phase 8

It looks like my hopes of an uninterrupted four weeks were dashed and I ended up with a week of travel. I ended up only missing 1 of 16 lifting days and 2 of my 20 running days. The next four weeks include one and a half weeks of travel which shouldn't mess with running to much but not sure what the lifting will go.

Numbers at the end of Phase 8 were 168.8 lbs and 13.9% body fat.

End of Phase 7

I had two and a half weeks of travel this time around and it was hell on my schedule. I missed 5 of my 12 lifting days and 2 of my 23 running days. As is the case with these things, running faired a lot better than lifting. In addition to having a crappy success rate with workouts I also pretty much ate like crap (read: I drank to much beer). I am back home now and it looks like I will get a 4 week stretch with non travel and I am hoping that nothing else comes up as I would like to have at least one good stretch of lifting this year.

Numbers at the end of Phase 7 were 172.6 lbs and 14.6% body fat.

End of Phase 6

The travel during this phase didn't seem to have as large of an impact as it has in the past. I missed 7 of 24 lifting days and only 2 of 30 running days. The running distances have been a bit shorter than the past due to the heat. The longest has been 7 miles with the majority being under that. My final numbers for the are 176 lbs (down 27 from when I started) and 15% body fat(down 7% from when I started). Looking at the first and last picture I can see a bit of difference, but I am not seeing a whole long in the last three phases. That is kind of a bummer.

End of Phase Five

This phase was pretty spotty. I had two weeks of travel and managed to lose my luggage. This caused me to miss a few days or working out. I ended up missed 6 of 12 lifting days and 8 of 11 running days. Another crappy 4 weeks. The final numbers are 180.4 lbs and 16.2% body fat. The next phase is a total of 8 weeks and I already know I have two weeks of travel planned. Hopefully the impact will not be huge.