Well, gotta say, this Whole30 thing made a difference. I've lost 7.6 lbs and gained lean muscle mass all while eating like a ravenous beast and training like a crazy person.

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I took some more photos yesterday. ( Here's what I look like now.... )

I think my trapezius muscles are getting meatier.


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About twenty years ago, when I first started going to the gym, I remember needing to get help from some of the big guys whenever I needed to remove 45-lb plates from the leg press. I remember getting on an exercise bike for a ten-minute warm-up, and being absolutely exhausted and drenched with sweat, heart pounding a million or so beats per minute ( Read more... )

( In case you're interested, here's what I currently do three times a week: )

Today was the last day of my 6-week TRX training. I'm sad it's over, but I won't be slacking off. Until my next series of supervised training (whether TRX or CrossFit), I'll be doing weight training.

I made enormous gains in strength and technique, over the last six weeks. At the beginning of the series, I was given baseline testing. ( Here are the befores and afters of it all... )

I need lessons on posing. And/or a coach. Or something.

I found a website on the classic poses, and I decided to give the rear lat spread a try.

Here I am relaxed:


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This is me this time last year. I was doing regular weight-training, lifting heavy free weights:


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New set of photos to mark progress made with TRX training. These were taken on day 2 of TRX ( Read more... )

I'm way overdue for these. I haven't been doing regular weight training for quite some time, due to scheduling conflicts and persnickety injuries. But I haven't exactly been lying fallow. I've continued dancing, walking, and cycling, as well as my occasional calisthenics/plyometrics/isometrics ( Read more... )