Week 1 Summary

Well folks, 1 week down 13 to go. Here is the tale of the tape so far:

Starting weight: 217.5 lbs
Week 1 end weight: 211 lbs

So I managed to lose 6.5 lbs. Granted it was the first week and that was mostly water weight, I'll take it as a good start. Managed to avoid any alcohol, and kept my pizza intake down to one night as well as only 1 bottle of soda.

I really haven't kicked into any heavy exercise yet. Just my normal league activity, with a few trips to the gym for some cardio "embellishments". I want to try and mix in a combo of weights and plyotmetrics gradually, and hopefully by week 3 I will have a full routine in place. My leagues are winding down, so I will start replace those nights with weight training nights.

Various people have suggested glucosamine chondroitin supplements for my joints. I don't like to take supplements of any kind, but I decided to give this stuff a shot for the duration of this experiment. I don't know if it will have any noticeable effects, but you never know.

Tomorrow I am scheduled to video my first dunk attempts as well as other key measurables such as maximum pushups, situps, and vertical leap. That should be a real hoot to see how far I have fallen over the last few years. The best shape I was ever in was my last year in the Army. I weighed about 175, could do 65 pushups in 2 minutes(w/ no rest), 70 situps in 2 minutes(w/ no rest), ran the 2 mile in about the 10:30 range and had a vertical leap of about 37 inches. I'll be happy to do half of that now.