I was above 20% on this device when I started the 2020 challenge. Happy to see this moving to acceptable levels.
Overall okay nevertheless not too much progress since March, also feel I lost some size. Looking to regain quickly, gyms open up this week! I will be extending this and am going into full transformation mode for the next 12 weeks.
Tons of great work in here, the visual transformations and otherwise. If there was ever a year where just trudging through and limping across the finish line was good enough, this’d be it.
Time to grab a quick lunchtime selfie or forever hold your peas. Kinda glad to say that, even if we get no more entries, we already have a wider field than last year. 35 finishers last year, 41 (so far) this year. That’s pretty cool.
That’s not really a thing, but we do always have check-ins every August and every February to kinda make sure “internet arguing muscles” aren’t the only thing forum members train regularly.
They also serve double purpose because, since they’re also six months apart, they can work as a kind of goal/deadline for anyone who kinda drifts along and trains without anything particular to shoot for. So like, “drop the waist two inches by the next check-in” or “squat 3 plates by the next check-in” can help keep people on track.
This challenge is for us in the Northern Hemisphere. We get to prep for summer when we strut around shirtless showing off our work. We also drink and eat and start to puff up for the fall. And then the holidays hit. By the time you realize what’s happened, it’s December and you decide it’s time to suck it up and get disciplined again… right after the New Year’s binge.
That’s some great long term work there! Keep it up!
Dont consider this a DEtransformation as much as a Prep for Before Photos LOL or a very good transformation into bear mode from slightly less bear mode.
105.1kg this morning. Pretty sure all the weight I gained is in my belly.
Here we go for 2020. Started out with no real focus (“do no harm”) then ended up on a “lean bulk” doing bodybuilding training in my garage once the gyms closed. Plan from here is to lose an inch around the waist by the August check-in while maintaining as high a weight as possible.
I think some of my earlier measurements in January were off. I’ve updated them with my notes from my handwritten journal.
BEFORE
weight: 148 lbs
waist: 32 1/4"
shoulder circumference: 42"
right upper arm: 13 1/2"
