I’d been contemplating to write something on this topic for at least a couple of weeks now. I articulated an initial draft of this idea of having as weekly summary of my Lifestyle goals, while writing the Blog I’d published the previous week. This idea of featuring a “Physique Phriday” weekly blogpost, was borrowed from one of the Reddit Subs which feature a weekly reddit post on the same theme. Link
Yesterday, as if struck by Epiphany again, I impulsively determined on pursuing the 75 Hard Challenge [Link To Blog]. If you ask me, it always came across to me as a fad social challenge, and would have perhaps benefited someone conditioned to a sedentary lifestyle. I didn’t quite think of myself as having sedentary lifestyle. But I wasn’t too impressed with my physique either. While I developed some kind of resistance training through sports or gymming into my lifestyle, I wasn’t very content with my physique outcome when I saw myself in the mirror. The stubborn fat was still was noticeable.
Even at my peak fitness levels, I was weighing somewhere between 75-80 kgs, and was still carrying a enough body fat. I was also pretty mischievous with my lifestyle habits. With frequent food binges, I didn’t quite practice any abstinence with the kind of food I was consuming and went on with my life making peace with my forgotten-physique-goals.
A couple of months back, I met with a gentleman aged 66, who when asked “what sort of advice would he be willing to part with someone who is 22 years old”, advised to take care of one’s health more prudently. I could tell he wanted to do so much more, and achieve so much more with the wisdom and decadal knowledge he was posessing, but he fell short with his physical faculties preventing him to do so.
Something about that conversation made me revisit and implore over my life choices and the attitude I had to espouse towards achieving some of the lifestyle goals I’d aspired to achieve over my lifetime. These blogposts are perhaps a written inscription of my innermost ambitions to become the best athletic self and practice self-discipline and abstinence from modern-day toxins.
Weekly Statistics
To begin with, I am going to stick with tracking a couple of important metrics to avoid becoming overwhelmed with too much of mental monitoring throughout the entire course.
Weight - 87 kgs
Height - 179 cm
Current BMI - 27.2 (overweight)
Body Fat Percentage - Approximately 20-25%
Workout Routine - Classic Push-Pull-Leg Split ( 3-4 Days a week ) + Jumping Rope ( 10 Rounds * 100-110 skips )
Supplement Stack - Fish Oil, Magnesium, Zinc, L-Arginine, Creatine
Current Water Intake - 3 - 3.5 Litres ( subject to how much exercise and how much coffee I take during the day )
How Much Weight Should I To Lose?
It’s worth sharing how I managed to estimate how much weight I am aspiring to lose at the moment. It is surely not perfect, but it at the very least gives me some crude information to begin somewhere. For someone my age and my height, an ideal BMI would be in the range of 18.5 to 25. I currently stand clock 27.2, which tags me as overweight. For someone aspiring to stick to a normal BMI range at my height, I would have to weigh anywhere between 59 to 80 kgs.
I definitely am not aspiring for the lower end of the range, given I have some body muscle from all my gym training and I’ve got muscle-building goals as well. I am viewing somewhere in the range of 20-25 BMI. That means, I need to weigh anywhere between 64 Kgs to 80 Kgs. Let’s take 75 Kgs.
Current Weight in Kgs | Pounds - 87 kgs | 191.8 lbs
Aspiring Weight in Kgs | Pounds - 75 kgs | 165.3 lbs
Difference : 87 - 75 = 12 kgs
This keeps me afloat within the normal BMI range of 20-25. Enough for me to keep an athletic physique.
Until Next Friday.