Since the beginning of telecommuting, the diet plan has started to take better shape, but since gyms & swimming pools are closed islandwide, fitness exercises are limited to mostly HIIT and upper body workouts. Since the beginning of the month, I started to dabble in some calisthenics for the upper body and HomeWorkouts iOS app as my HIIT guideline.
Furthermore, to track the progress better, I decided to do a daily weight/body composition check after I wake up in the morning. And the main purpose was to roughly know if the diet and/or the exercise is actually helping with the fat loss and muscle gain or not. Well, since I wasn’t going to spend any money to buy a new scale, I had to be satisfied with the “inaccurate” measurement reads of my Xiaomi Scale. But since the scale is consistently inconsistent, the measurements could still be useful to track the progress.
So as of April 17th, and considering the inaccuracy of the Mi Scale the reads are as follow
BMI and Total Body Fat
At this point, BMI and Total Body Fat look very depressing. There is still a long way left to my 18% Total Body Fat and sub 24 BMI.
Water and Visceral
Yet another disappointing matrix. And considering the fact that I’ve been drinking at least 2 liters of water every day for the past few weeks, these numbers don’t even make sense.
Finally a light
But finally, at the bottom of the list, there are some “Normal”, “Ideal”, and “Reached Goal” numbers.
As I suspected, the muscle level has been maintained, thanks to all the exercise & sport I’ve been doing in the past few years. Even though, they are currently covered by 10 inches of fat!
Exercise
As I was searching for some body-weight exercise that I can do at home, I came across TaoPhysique’s youtube channel which is all about Calisthenics. And as someone who has exclusively trained on machines in the gym and never done Calisthenics before, I found the exercises fascinating.
Coming from a month of just doing pushups, I had no idea there were so many different types of push-up that could be used to train different muscles. And I certainly didn’t know you back muscles could be trained with pushup!
This was probably the best video I found to begin Calisthenics
A few days ago we started a fun challenge with my colleagues to pick an exercise and do it every 2 hours. was not really a good idea, since by the end of the day everything got out of hand and there was no focus on the muscle group we were training.
Diet
Probably the hardest part to maintain after this whole Work From Home is over. I’ve been cooking lots of veggies and lean meat to try and control the calorie intake as low as I can, and have enough protein to avoid huge muscle loss. Getting rid of sugar is probably the most important part of the new diet. And I’m not really sure how long I can push it for, since the craving haven’t really begun yet.