Muscle Bound: Progress Report

[shanmonster]

Today was the last day of my 6-week TRX training. I'm sad it's over, but I won't be slacking off. Until my next series of supervised training (whether TRX or CrossFit), I'll be doing weight training.

I made enormous gains in strength and technique, over the last six weeks. At the beginning of the series, I was given baseline testing. Here are the befores and afters of it all...

Movement	July 4, 2011	August 12, 2011
Atomic push-up	11 in one minute	20 in one minute
Row	6 in 30 seconds	10 in 30 seconds
Lunge right leg/left leg *	33/30 in one minute	33/33 in one minute
Hip press	24 in one minute	38 in one minute

* The lunges weren't done exactly the same way, but with greater resistance. So although the numbers didn't increase dramatically, I still improved, with the added handicap.

Here are my measurements, as of today.

Weight: 136 lbs

Neck: 12.75"
Chest: 34.5"
Waist: 28"
Hips: 37.5"
Left bicep: 10.25"
Right bicep: 10.25"
Left thigh: 21.25"
Right thigh: 21.25"
Left calf: 14.5"
Right calf: 14.25"

I'm not sure what my body fat percentage is, at the moment.

Here are the relaxed vs. flexed photos.













You can compare and contrast this with my progress from the onset of the TRX training here, if you're so inclined. The measurement differences are minimal.

(I like my vulgar underpants.)