Keysha's Daily Journal

[keysha]

12/10/2003

Stats:

Sex: Female
Weight: 127.8
Height: 5'4"
BF %: 19.2% Last checked about 3 weeks ago.
Goals: Reduce body fat and gain LBM want to get down to around 15%

I used to be a cardio queen. I've worked out regularly for the past 15 years and have just recently started getting serious about weight training. I am having a problem dropping my cardio too much so I decided to start doing 3 days weight training (low reps, heavy weights) and 3 days cardio. Instead of 5 days cardio and 3 days weight training. Low Weight, High reps.

M Chest/Tris
T Cardio 30 min/abs
W Legs
T Cardio 30 min/abs
F Back/Bi's
S Cardio 45 min/abs
S Rest

Food: I used to be on the very high protien diet but wasn't very satisfied and was always having cravings for starchy, sugary foods so I dropped my protien and upped my carbs. I would also give in to all the cravings because I have no will power what so ever. Anyways, after all these years of working out like a maniac, i'm still not happy with the way I look so I thought I would try a whole new workout focusing more on weight training and less on cardio. I'm currently taking in between 1200-1300 cals per day unless of course i need to cheat.

Any advice anyone.

[stimulus]

..... workout focusing more on weight training and less on cardio.

IMO weight training is more demanding than simple cardio, but maybe I am just biased.

Also I hear that ideally one should intake calories - 10-12 times one's normal weight, i.e. for 150# target weight, that would be 1500-1800 calories. Anything less than that is not sustainable.

[Lady C]

Stimulis, She is within the target.
127.8 x 10 = 1278 calories. 127.8 x 12 = 1534 calories.
So her target is 1278-1534 calories.

Make sure that you don't drop below the 1278 very often or you will be losing that hard earned muscle.

[keysha]

Thanks for the input stimulus and Lady C. Sometimes it just gets so confusing trying to balance everything and making sure your getting enough or not enough of all the macronutrients. I want to build muscle but don't want to gain any fat so i'm trying to eat the correct amount of calories to achieve this. I guess it's just trial and error. I just have a really really bad sweet tooth that gets in the way of me achieving my goals. Once I start, I can't stop until i'm feeling sick.