How To Get Ripped Abs Challenge – Day 8
Today is day #8 on my How to Get Ripped Abs challenge. It is Monday and time to weigh in. I weighed in at 244.4 pounds so I lost 5.6 pounds and was very pleased with those results for week 1. I also lost an inch off of my waistline. Every inch you lose off of your waist makes a huge difference visually. It makes your upper body look that much bigger when the ratio of chest to waist starts favoring the chest measurement more. People in the gym are already making comments about my fat loss and I haven’t even got started yet on this great program of How To Get Ripped Abs.
Today was the Labor Day holiday so the gym was closed. I was supposed to do my workout A but since I didn’t have access to my gym I am making a slight adjustment this week. I will start the week off with cardio and then do my weight workouts on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. I’ll still have a full day off before my Monday workout when I get back on the Mon, Wed, Fri schedule for my workouts. Making a slight change like this won’t affect results and it’s always necessary to make some dynamic changes when small obstacles present themselves. Rather than missing a day of my program I made a simple change and will still get all my workouts in this week. I am not going to let anything keep me from following the How to Get Ripped Abs training routines consistently. I want to be able to give an honest review of before and after results and I know major results will come if I just keep sticking to the plan.
For cardio I did the jump roping workout again. I pushed much harder this time and noticed that being 5 pounds lighter makes a big difference as I didn’t fatigue quite as quickly. Once I got a few cycles into it though my calves start burning out after 30 seconds and I have to stop and take a 30 second rest. I worked up a good sweat and burnt off some major calories. The high intensity interval training cardio sessions are very intense but I’ll choose them any day over mind numbing boring cardio for 45 minutes at a time. The cardio workouts on the How to Get Ripped Abs program last anywhere from 12 to 18 minutes total and they will kick your butt.
My diet went well but I need to make a trip to the grocery store to stock up on more chicken breasts. I’m going to pick up the ingredients to make my turkey chili also. I’m eating plenty of food and am never hungry. The How to Get Ripped Abs program comes with a very precise eating manual and recipe book. If you follow this program there is no guess work involved. Just stick to the plan and you won’t believe how much you get to eat. It’s all clean whole foods which makes your metabolism run faster and allows your body to start detoxifying from any unhealthy eating patterns you may have had prior to starting.
Again, I am very happy with Week 1 results of my How To Get Ripped Abs Challenge – weight loss = 5.6 pounds, waist reduction = 1 inch.
