It must have been the bootcamp, and if not, then surely the stretching and mobility we did on Thursday after bootcamp. Personally my money is on the plate weighted squats and lunges that we did. Whatever it was, my hamstrings and quads were on fire on Friday and Saturday. So much so, in fact, that I took Friday off and resorted to doing Fountain of Youth Yoga on Saturday. By Sunday my legs were OK and so as a bit of a cardio workout I decided to do some barbell clean and press with a light weight but large volume. I managed to count up to 10 reps and back down to 1 again making it 100 clean and press with a 95lb barbell. Sore? My shoulders and traps are sore today and of course it’s WOD day at the gym with potentially some more strength work this evening. No rest for the wicked I guess. Since I really don’t have much to say since the workouts are pretty self-explanatory I will show you what my new scale tells me.
It’s a Tanita BC549 Ironman Body Composition Monitor and basically it claims to produce all kinds of measurements when you step on the thing including:
Features and Specifications:
- Weight
- Body Fat %
- Body Water %
- Muscle Mass
- Physique Rating
- Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
- Metabolic Age
- Bone Mass
- Visceral Fat Rating
Now I have long suspected that my old Tanita which just did bodyfat % was thrown off by hydration and that the cure for that would be to get a scale that does hydration levels too. I was sadly disappointed. If I step on my old scale before and after a workout I can have lost up to 5% body fat which of course is ridiculous. My thought was that the new scale would reflect the same bodyfat after the workout but a lower hydration level. I was not right to assume that. I did it with my new scale and the same thing happened, a massive drop in body fat and a slight drop in hydration. Anyway, I am not here to bash the scale for extreme conditions, I am going to do a long term study of my stats and see what my hydration and fat levels are like as I try to drop to 220lbs.
The first few days results are here:
| Date | June-30-12 | July-01-12 | July-02-12 |
| Weight | 232.6 | 231.2 | 231.2 |
| Fat | 19.4 | 19.5 | 19.4 |
| Water | 54.2 | 54.1 | 54.2 |
| Muscle | 178.2 | 177 | 178.2 |
| Rating | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| BMR | 2512 | 2594 | 2511 |
| Age | 29 | 30 | 29 |
| Bone Mass | 9.2 | 9 | 9.2 |
| Visceral Fat | 9 | 9 | 9 |
IÂ am not sure exactly what some of the numbers mean, but as I stepped on the scale after my workout to see the hydration level effect I was told my age was 12… Interesting.
I will try and go over some of the definitions tomorrow…