I know I know… Colin used the shakeweight!!!
Tapeworm?
Hells teeth --nearly the same amount took me 18 months !!
Yep you got me, shake weight it is! It allot less fun now that I lost the Moobs…
Actually I hired Roman as a coach. I knew if I didn’t pay some money I wouldn’t take it seriously and just go back to what I like doing. The energy work he built into the work outs is insane but for a power lifter kinda gay. It is embarrassing that a 35 pound dumbbell can kick you ass when he has you doing 6 movement circuits with it…
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
Since I don’t have a log I thought I would post an update in here. Today is my 48th Birthday and my gift to myself is 14.7% BF Down from 22.6% in 11 weeks. Weight dropped from 256.6 to 215. The really cool part is my strength levels are near or about the same as what I did in my comp last March. I am really excited with the results and can’t wait to get to my goal % which is anything single digit body fat. Then I can go back to Power Lifting but keep the diet clean and compete at whatever weight class I weigh around 10%
Anyways I was just excited with the update and wanted to share it with you all…[/quote]
Colin, that’s just fucking outstandingly awesome!!!
Good work!!
I’m down about 10 lbs myself, strength holding. I need to find that sweet spot of recomping or losing slightly versus just dumping weight (and strength).
What’s your diet looking like during the loss?
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Its a Zig Zag low carb approach. About 1660 on non-weight bearing days and 2200 on weight bearing days. I get a cheat meal every two weeks as well. I cheated and bought Nicotine gum to help with the hunger issues but I really haven’t had a hard time sticking to it. He gave me a list of “Free Foods” that I can eat as much of as I want and I just load up on them. Veggies and stuff…
[quote]dday wrote:
Next week starts CCNA bootcamp, I’ma skared.[/quote]
You will do fine. I am a CCIE (12 year) and the CCNA stuff is the most well written, straight forward shit in the cert industry.
To the OP, have you considered the CISSP? That is security oriented and is in high demand, especially in DoD circles.
I did the Cisco thing about 10 years ago. Had the CCNA, CCNP, CCDA, and the CCDP and was on my way to the IE and then got hired by Nortel and stupidly let the certs expire. Now I am so far removed from flying the equipment I would have to start all over. It makes me tired just thinking about it…lol
I am thinking maybe program management but IT specific, like heading up big IT type projects. Company mergers, NOS upgrades, Infrastructure upgrades moving companies to the cloud. Most PM’s I run into have no actual IT experience and do not understand the technology.
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
I did the Cisco thing about 10 years ago. Had the CCNA, CCNP, CCDA, and the CCDP and was on my way to the IE and then got hired by Nortel and stupidly let the certs expire. Now I am so far removed from flying the equipment I would have to start all over. It makes me tired just thinking about it…lol
I am thinking maybe program management but IT specific, like heading up big IT type projects. Company mergers, NOS upgrades, Infrastructure upgrades moving companies to the cloud. Most PM’s I run into have no actual IT experience and do not understand the technology. [/quote]
Colin, you looking to change jobs?
Ya I am bored with what I do now (Managing a Help desk) my job has become about listening to people whine all day about what sucks about the systems i have to maintain. I want to get back to some technology and start learning some cool stuff again. I am really thinking about doing the security thing more towards ethical hacking and pen testing.
I could leverage my back ground with routing and switching and packet sniffing. Plus it would be cool to develop some proactive approaches to hacking attacks. I’m thinking something like hacking the hackers…lol
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
Ya I am bored with what I do now (Managing a Help desk) my job has become about listening to people whine all day about what sucks about the systems i have to maintain. I want to get back to some technology and start learning some cool stuff again. I am really thinking about doing the security thing more towards ethical hacking and pen testing.
I could leverage my back ground with routing and switching and packet sniffing. Plus it would be cool to develop some proactive approaches to hacking attacks. I’m thinking something like hacking the hackers…lol [/quote]
Check your PM’s.
Done! Thanks for the info!
Down to 211 this week and 12.5% BF. I am shopping for speedo’s at this point…lol
Go ahead and admit it, pal. When we got together for a few minutes last week, he just had to roll up his sleeve and flex. Right in the lobby of the company.
For the record, I’ll have to dry clean my drool out of my suit.
lol, it wasn’t like I ripped my suit off and started posing in the lobby…easy there big fella…
You just flexed your arm briefly. Admit it, you have a very good reason for wearing short sleeves in this cold weather. (How about a new avatar?)
Getting back to the original subject (or did you want to turn this into the elusive Colin training log?), recruiters keep telling me Java is hot, hot, hot. As in if you have a solid background in Java programming, you got a job tomorrow.
I would look at the CISSP.
Been in IT for almost 30 years. The security work will get you into a strong growing market.
My 15 minutes of IT fame was having Groklaw saying I was a nail in SCO’s coffin.
hardware frightens me. i’ve been a software Business Analyst (minion) for over 3 years, and I kinda like it. You get to go into the client and figure out what they should have been doing all along, then make your shitty software bend to your will and do magical shit. but i worry about getting fired, cuz that’s exactly how i explain it…
Just a quick update on the diet. Down to 203 pounds and 13% body fat. I am a little worried that I am getting too small now and will talk to John about it. Hard to tell if it is my “Big Orexia” or if I do need to take a break from the cut and start to build for a little while. My goal was 10% BF but I never thought I would have to drop below 200 pounds to achieve it. Strength still feels pretty good although I have not gone for a heavy single in awhile. I put up a Body Space tracker over at bb.com with some progress picts if anyone is interested. I would appreciate your feedback. I don’t want to lose so much I look unhealthy…
Thanks!
Colin
great work on the diet