Here at 2 Fat Nerds each Wednesday is a Weigh-In day, where all of the data from the previous week is collected, displayed, and analyzed. Let’s dive into the numbers!
September-October Challenge
Please leave a comment with your updated measurements! If you want them to be kept private for any reason, leave a comment and i'll make arrangements!
- Total Pushup Count until fatigue
- Total Chin-Up Count until fatigue (if assisted mark what pound assisted with)
- Total Plank Time in seconds
- Total Squats within a one minute window.
Weight Loss
Each week, members who have opted to have their weights publicly displayed for the world to see have them graphed on the main blog. It is a great way to keep track over time, and it gives a bit more accountability to your workouts. If you are interested, leave a comment!
Anti-Fat Points
Anti-fat points (AFP) is a system designed to give some sort of value to each and every workout, regardless of type. It is based on metabolic-equivalent values out of the compendium of physical activities. Submit a workout, get AFP. Each week we post the totals for each person for the week. In addition, you may see the monthly AFP leaderboard on the right-hand sidebar. This is meant to be a fun way to encourage competition to see who can earn the most points!
The threshold is back to 100 AFP, Green is over and Red is under. Try to get 100 AFP and turn your bar green!
The Chain-Game
The Chain Game is a fun little system we came up with to see how many consecutive weeks a person can complete a minimum of three days of workouts. Every week in a row that a person completes the three-day goal, he or she adds one link to his or her active chain. For more information see this post!
As always, if you were slow to get data in, your chain will be re-instated!
Time to be serious about my long term health. Today restarts calorie counting rather than just limiting portions most of the time. Added sugar and anything that doesn’t help me diet has been ruled out, although there will be pie for Thanksgiving and cookies for Christmas.
I’m aiming for 0.8lb/week. Past data shows that 1lb/week was unrealistic for me, but this still gives me a goal to stretch for beyond 0.5lb/week last time. This would put me at my goal for March 5th, or at the fallback rate May 14th.
I use this calculator to get a feel for what might be realistic for me and to keep calories needed weekly in mind. I’ve never used the rest of the site, but this is the most useful calculator I’ve found. http://www.healthyweightforum.org/eng/calculators/calories-required/
I think 0.5 – 0.8lbs is a great goal. I realized very early on that my expectations of a pound, or even two pounds when I first started was simply unattainable. All of those weight-loss magazines give completely unrealistic ideas of healthy weight-loss . . . and I think even though we know that it isn’t realistic, subconsciously we are let down when we don’t attain their benchmarks.
I think you’ll do great, and hit your mark! Don’t get discouraged when you hit plateaus, the barriers will always fall down with enough persistence.
Update – plank – 19 sec (I must be doing something
wrong), push ups – 35, squats – 28
Update: Chin-up: 12 w/ 64 lbs. assisted. I still have to do the other exercises, though.
uh, Plank- 1:35, pushups 25, squats 45 no pull ups this week. my bad.
Plank: 78 seconds
Squats: 40
Push-ups: 25
Push-ups: 34
Squats: 33
Plank: 90 seconds