Max 10 hours per week of TV – Made it. Even though I was sick and watched quite a bit of extra TV, it was all non-trackable according to my goal.

• Knight Rider (0 hr) -Forgot to set this to record on the new satellite receiver.
• Battlestar Galactica (1 hr) – Caught up on a few episodes, still have a way to go.
• Biggest Loser (2 hrs) – One of the Idaho girls got sent home, I was hoping they’d stick around longer.
• Dirty Jobs (0 hr) – Didn’t air last week.
• Grey’s Anatomy (0 hr) – Didn’t air last week.
• ER (1 hr) – Watched a few episodes to try to get caught up.
• 24 (1 hr) – Watched the rest of the 2-hour episode we started last week, then one more. We’re missing an episode so I’ll have to see if I can get it on Fox’s website.
• Solitary 3.0 (1 hrs) – #7 was the winner much to my surprise, I thought #4 would take it.
• Non-tracked viewing: A bunch of educational shows, and a few movies Hi-Def is simply amazing on nature related shows…

At least 2 books per month -February’s goal met, now working on March.

• New Moon by Stephenie Meyer – Finished!
• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer – Finished! Took less than a week!
• Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer – About 1/4 of the way in already.

Minimum 3 blog postings per week – I wrote 2 entries but haven’t published them yet. I did just finish up and publish a page I had written over the last week though.

100 lbs (2 lbs/week) – These last couple of weeks have been so busy and so stressful I haven’t been paying as close attention as I should to my diet. I also missed going to the gym most of last week, and have not been getting up early enough to go this week. I’ve been getting to bed slightly later than I intend (the dangers of reading a good book!) which has made me pretty tired in the mornings.

Budget – I’m happy with where we’re at this week.

Max 10 hours per week of TV – Made it.

• Knight Rider (1 hr) – Didn’t watch yet.
• Battlestar Galactica (1 hr) – Falling further behind in watching.
• Biggest Loser (2 hrs)  -Go Green, well now Black!
• Dirty Jobs (1 hr) -  Haven’t watched yet
• Grey’s Anatomy (1 hr) – Got caught up on this one, it was another combined episode with Private Practice below.  It was actually a pretty good storyline.
• Private Practice (1 hr) – See above…
• ER (1 hr) – Didn’t watch this either.  I think I saw the Finale is this week, so I can reclaim this hour.
• 24 (1 hr) – We’re kind of holding off until we get our new TV to watch this now, but it will be nice to watch several at once.
• Solitary 3.0 (1 hrs) – The solitary confinement is starting to make a couple of them crack I think.
• Non-tracked viewing: Other than some evening news, I’ve watched a few episodes of The Dave Ramsey Show and I’ve watched some shows on the Science channel.  I also watched Obama’s speech last night too.

At least 2 books per month -January’s goal met, on track for February.

• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer- Finished.  This was surprisingly good for being a book targeted more towards late teens/early adult.  I finished it Monday night, though I didn’t plan to.  I planned to read for about an hour, but when that hour came and went, I ended up reading another hour and completed the book.  There was that point of no return where it got really good and I couldn’t put it down since I was “almost done” anyway.  Will be starting the second book in the series as soon as I finish “9 Steps”.
• The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying by Suze Orman – Couple dozen more pages and this is done.

Minimum 3 blog postings per week – I wrote 2 posts but did not get them polished up and published.  I’m considering modifying this goal, not because I’m having trouble meeting the goal, but because I don’t think the goal is meeting the intent.  I’ve been thinking “I need to hurry up and get this out” or “I need to find something to write about” when I’d rather be thinking “This would be something great to write about” or “I’m going to hold off a couple days on posting this to make sure it is polished.”  I don’t know how I am going to change it yet, but I don’t want to eliminate it altogether.

100 lbs (2 lbs/week) – Up 4 pounds this week, Yikes!  I was not careful over my birthday weekend but I did not go overboard either. 0.09 pounds down on the averaged trend. At this point I have to assume it is water weight, so next week’s weigh-in should be great.  Even though I may not have hit my weekly goal I have to remember I’m still down 10 lbs from the start of the year, which is still progress towards this goal, and there is plenty of time.

Budget – Our tax refund did not arrive yet and it was supposed to be here last Friday.  This changed our planned budget but it is not going to break us.

Max 10 hours per week of TV – Made it.

• Knight Rider (1 hr) – Didn’t watch yet.
• Battlestar Galactica (1 hr) – Falling further behind in watching.
• Biggest Loser (2 hrs) -Go Green!
• Dirty Jobs (1 hr) – This week’s episode did in fact have Mike visiting Boise, ID!  I had to work late last night so I’ll be watching this one tonight.
• Grey’s Anatomy (1 hr) – Haven’t watched it yet.
• Private Practice (1 hr) – Tied in with Grey’s Anatomy episode from above, so need to see it to get the entire story.
• ER (1 hr) – Didn’t watch this either.
• 24 (1 hr) – Still lagging here.  The first 2 episoded were 2 hours each, and it has been hard to find time for us to both watch it together  If we can make it pas the initial hurdle I think we’ll be able to get caught up rather quickly.
• Solitary 3.0 (1 hrs) – The solitary confinement is starting to make a couple of them crack I think.
• Non-tracked viewing: Other than some evening news, I’ve watched a few episodes of The Dave Ramsey Show and I’ve watched some shows on the Science channel.

At least 2 books per month -January’s goal met, on track for February.

• Twilight -about 1/3 through it now.  This one is a fast read.
• The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying by Suze Orman -Almost done.

Minimum 3 blog postings per week – Only one post this week, but there’s been a lot going on.  Its kind of a catch-22 in that when I have a lot going on, it makes things I can blog about, but it consequently takes time I could use to write the blog entries.  I could sacrifice some more TV time, but I’m already down to watching a few specific shows and outside of educational programming I never just watch something to be watching something anymore.  I have to have some form of passive entertainment.

100 lbs (2 lbs/week) – Down 6.3 pounds direct weight this week!  1.87 pounds down on the averaged trend. I’m tracking ever so slightly above my goal, literally by 66 calories per day.  I need to be a little more diligent about getting up in the morning so I can squeeze in an extra 15 minutes at the gym, and/or I need to try to cut about a hundred calories per day average from my diet.  That is such a small number but it really adds up over the long term.

Budget – Back to using cash.  It’s too easy to let it slip and overspend when using plastic, even when its just a debit card.

Max 10 hours per week of TV – Over the limit, but was home sick yesterday and consequently watched more TV than normal.  If I had not watched the extra episodes of Solitary I would be well under.

• Knight Rider (1 hr) – Didn’t watch yet.
• Battlestar Galactica (1 hr) – Watched one episode, still several behind.  I can’t imagine the feelings people would go through to strive for this perfect solution to literally all of their problems, only to find out that solution was only a dream and failed to produce.
• Biggest Loser (2 hrs) – Finally got rid of the Silver team!  Yay!  I felt bad for Carla as she worked her butt off just to have Joelle throw it all away for her, but that’s the breaks and they chose to be together as a team.  And then when they met afterward for Joelle to keep saying she tried when it was very obvious she didn’t was beyond annoying.  She has some issues with personal responsibility for sure.  It was too bad to see the black team get split up too, but I was glad to see the brown team got to stay for another week with a phenominal loss!
• Dirty Jobs (1 hr) – Was pretty gunny watching Mike separate out dirty diapers from last week’s episode.  Went to watch this week’s but the wife was too freaked out about watching anything to do with spiders right before bed.
• Grey’s Anatomy (1 hr) – Haven’t watched it yet.
• ER (1 hr) – Didn’t watch this either.
• 24 (1 hr) – Still behind on this, but I can’t wait to get started. Marathon didn’t happen yet.  I did notice the DVR was missing one episode so we’ll have to catch that one on Hulu if its there.
• Solitary 3.0 (5 hrs recorded) -  What a crazy show!  It is amazing how far these contestants will push themselves for $50K.  I have not watched all of the episodes I’ve recorded yet, but I have watched 3 of them.
• Non-tracked viewing: Other than some evening news, I’ve watched a few episodes of The Dave Ramsey Show.  Dish finally added Fox Business to their lineup, though I had to increase my programming package in order to get it.  It may seem odd to spend more money ($10 per month) to watch a show where the primary theme is saving money but I get more than that in motivation over a period of a month, plus there are several more channels (like the Science Channel and Discovery Kids) that we will enjoy too.

At least 2 books per month -January’s goal met, on track for February.

• Twilight – Finally started reading this.  I’m not too far in but so far it seems to be well written and should be a fast read once I get going.  Cristi read it in a few days, and if she can read a book that quickly I have no doubt I can too if I take the time to do it.
• The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying by Suze Orman -Almost done.

Minimum 3 blog postings per week – Got this one done this week with plenty of time to spare!  I should be able to do the same this week too.

100 lbs (2 lbs/week) – Up 1.5 pounds direct weight this week, but if I go by yesterday’s weight I’m down 4.2 lbs.  I had quite a bit of sodium yesterday being home sick eating raman noodles, so I think today is artificially high.  Even with today’s higher weight I am still 1.65 pounds down on the averaged trend.  If I use yesterday’s weight (its easy to be artificially high, but not artificially low) I’m on-track for my long term goal.

Budget – We never did set down and do our budget for the last pay period as I mentioned before, but even so we still didn’t overspend and come up short.  We made a few smaller trips to the grocery store, rather than one big trip, but overall we did very well having considering ourselves as completely slacking off this time around.  We will be going over our specific budget before this week’s paycheck to get back on the wagon.

I’ve been drinking an ounce every morning for a couple of weeks now, and so far I’m impressed.

I’ve been able to run on the Eliptical trainer (yes, this is my favorite cardio) with greater intensity than I normally can.  This is measured by an increase of 7% in my heartrate while not feeling as though I am exerting any additional energy.  Before starting MonaVie I was pushing myself as hard as I could, and now I feel I could push myself even harder, but I don’t want to push my heart rate any higher than I am now.

I’ve noticed less of a likelihood of wanting to snack too.  My only question is whether the positive changes I’ve noticed are a result of the Monavie drink, if it is due to my morning whey protein-based shakes, or if it is a result of my starting to exercise at the gym on a regular basis.  The easiest way to find out is to stop drinking Monavie for a while and see what happens.  I plan to not drink any for the next week and see if I notice any of the benefits I’ve perceived go away.

Max 10 hours per week of TV – Back under the limit this week.

• Double Shot at Love (1 hr) – Season Finale ran.  What a train wreck.  Vikki and Rikki both chose Trevor, and he was forced to choose between them.  He chose Vikki much to my surprise.  I don’t envy his situation, or any of them for that matter.  This show had bad news written all over it from the start.  But then they all chose to put themselves into the situation so I really can’t feel too badly for them.   I recorded the aftermath show (half hour I think, maybe an hour, under goal either way) but went to bed before watching it last night.
• Knight Rider (1 hr) – The last episode seemed to get back to the roots of the original show, a group of people secretly helping law enforcement.  I think it has some good things in store if the network doesn’t blow it.
• Battlestar Galactica (1 hr) – Still Haven’t watched this yet. Been too busy with other things.
• Biggest Loser (2 hrs) – This week’s episode will be watched tonight.  Cristi and I played Halo and Wii for a while last night and didn’t want to stay up late enough to watch this.
• Dirty Jobs (1 hr) – Haven’t watched it yet.  I did hear rumors yesterday that they filmed an episode in Boise and it will be airing in a couple of weeks.  I can’t wait to see if it is the truth, but I don’t have time to go search for info to confirm it ahead of time.
• Grey’s Anatomy (0 hr) -No episode this week.
• ER (0 hr) – Don’t think this one aired this week either.
• 24 (1 hr) – Still behind on this, but I can’t wait to get started.  Marathon this weekend?
• Non-tracked viewing: Other than some evening news, I watched a couple of episodes of Predator Raw, the behind the scenes and update show on Dateline NBC’s To Catch a Predator series.  I don’t know if it was necessarily educational, but I disqualified it as I was in bed, waiting for Cristi to get done with some things.  I was tired enough I didn’t want to read, but I didn’t want to go to sleep before she joined me, so it didn’t stop me from doing anything else.

At least 2 books per month -January’s goal met, on track for February.

• Twilight – Have it back from our friend but haven’t started it.  I will start it this week though.
• The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying by Suze Orman -3/4 of the way through it.

Minimum 3 blog postings per week – Dropped the ball on this one if you don’t count the smoothie recipes, met the goal if they are counted.  This wasn’t the intention of the goal, kind of as with last week’s 3 posts the day before the update.  I’m going to work harder on this goal to ensure I don’t completely blow it.

100 lbs (2 lbs/week) – Down 2.5 pounds direct weight this week, 1.07 pounds down on the averaged trend.  I’m only slightly behind my overall goal.  At 5 weeks I should be down 10 lbs, but I’m currently down 8.  Since it appears I’ve beaten the plateau I’ve been on, that should correct itself rather quickly and put me back on track..

Budget – We’ve fallen off the wagon a bit here.  We have made a few larger non-budgeted purchases, including the Wii Fit. It was a concious decision though, and with our budget being where it is we could afford to do so.  So while the purchases weren’t budgeted per se, they weren’t impulse purchases that will leave us short and scrounging for food before the next payday either.

Now there is a game system that has been out for a couple of years now that is pushing the boundary on game-based exercise, the Nintendo Wii.  From the start it has involved larger scale motions with your arms instead of pushing buttons on a stationary controller, and now they’ve added the Wii Fit for full body involvement.

The Wii Fit takes fitness gaming to another level.  When you start out and configure your Mii it asks for some information such as your birthday and height.  Next it has you go through a body test which checks your weight and your balance.  It then shows you your BMI and how far off-center your balance is, along with tips on how to adjust it and the benefits of doing so.  From there it takes you to a screen where you can select the type of activity you want to perform, Yoga, Aerobics, Strength, and Balance games.

Each of the categories has only a few exercises you can perform, and a whole bunch of exercises that you can’t view.  Yoga starts out with a simple breathing exercise, and a half-moon pose.  As you perform the poses it shows you your current center of balance on screen with a designated area you need to maintain.  The balance board is extremely sensitive and it doesn’t take much in order to move the balance indicator out of bounds.  The on-screen trainer offers words of encouragement as well as gentle reminders to maintain your balance if you are unsteady.

The aerobics games are fun.  The exercises originally open include running in place (Wii Remote in pocket, not on the balance board), and a step-aerobic dance routine where you step on and off the board in time with music while following the on-screen pattern.  Also open is the infamous Hula Hoop game where you swirl your hips as if you were using an actual hula hoop and bend to either direction as more hoops are tossed to you.

Strength training starts out with torso twists and push-ups with side planks.  The balance board watches your balance on the twists, and watches the pressue while doing the push-ups and planks.  After a while other exercises are opened up, such as a crunch-style leg lift (I don’t remember the exact name of it at the moment) and you start with your feet resting on the balance board, and lift them off and return as you’re following the movement.

The balance games are also quite a bit of fun.  One game involves standing on the board and leaning back and forth to hit a soccer ball with your head while avoiding shoes and stuffed panda heads (PVP reference maybe?) which is actually a lot harder than it appears.  There is a balance board game where you have several marbles on boards of varying shapes with holes.  You move the board to drop the marbles through the holes without making them fall off the edge.

As you play the games and perform the activities you get points in your piggy bank based on the number of minutes it takes to perform.  As you build up a balance and become more skilled at the activities it unlocks more of them for you to select.  I went through most of the activities originally open to me over a period of about 45 minutes, and earned 30 minutes of activity time.

My only complaint at this point is the pause time in between activities, and after browsing the ‘Net it appears I’m not alone.  If you could set up a circuit of a half dozen exercises or so it would make it much easier to get your heart rate up and keep it there, but as it is now there is at least 1 minute in between each exercise as you have to select each one individually by going back to the menu.  Since the Wii is connected to the Internet, I’m hoping Nintendo will listen to the complaints and offer an update to the game in order to offer this option.  With that being said, after completing a session I have muscles that are sore that I do not hit during my workouts at the gym, so I’m getting a more complete body workout.

There are those out there who put the Wii Fit down based on several factors.

• Price: It is $80 if you find it on sale.  This is only about $20 more than most console games these days anyway, and it includes a pretty sophisticated piece of hardware.  To put it into perspective that is only 2 nights of eating out at a restaurant with the family, or giving up a $3.50 daily FiveBucks coffee on the way to work for roughly a month.  I was told by a personal trainer a few years back that as a person ages, being overweight increases healthcare costs by several thousand dollars per year.  The math makes it look pretty cheap to me.
• Playing games instead of hitting the gym: They have a point here, but any exercise is better than no exercise.  Coupled with a stigma that many over-weight people have about going to a gym full of “skinny people,” it makes home workouts a good choice.  This is the reason workout videos are so successful.  The Wii has the advantage of not only showing you the correct moves, but can somewhat monitor it based on balance and other factors to ensure that good form is being followed.  Not to mention a gym membership is expensive monthly, and there is usually a signup fee as well.  You can get a Wii console along with a Wii Fit for far less than a new gym membership would cost over the course of a year.  In my case I have a killer deal for my gym membership since I’ve been grandfathered in so it is another tool at my disposal.
• Playing games instead of going outside for a walk:  Again this is just another option to workout at home.  For parents with small kids, it is hard to find time to go outside and walk for half an hour to an hour alone.  Couple this with bad weather that makes it difficult if not near impossible to take the kids along, indoor workouts are the best fit.
• Using a video game instead of a “real” piece of exercise equipment: One word sums this up – Monotony.  Sure you could pick up an exercise bike or treadmill (for far more money for a decent one) but you’re limited to the one and only exercise you can do on it.  Unitaskers suck.  With the Wii Fit, there are many different activities in the game itself, and there are already other games coming out that use the balance board too.  Besides the boredom of doing the same thing all the time, the body also becomes accustomed to the routine and needs a periodic change to keep it in calorie burning mode.

In my opinion, anything that helps my family get up and be more active is a good thing.  I’m glad we decided to pick up the Wii Fit, and I’m looking forward to the additional edge it’ll give me in working towards my goals.

Max 10 hours per week of TV – Back under the limit this week.

• Double Shot at Love (1 hr) – Haven’t watched it yet this week.  The DVR didn’t record it when it was supposed to so I set it to record a re-run later on.
• Knight Rider (1 hr) – The cheese I was worried about was only a short part of the last episode, so I’m now looking forward to the rest of the season.  With the change in leadership they just put in place, I think it has many more avenues it can take to keep it interesting.
• Battlestar Galactica (1 hr) – Haven’t watched this yet.  Been too busy with other things.
• Biggest Loser (2 hrs) – Wow, talk about screwing your team mate over.  I think Dan and Dave would have been able to stay if Dave hadn’t spouted off about being able to do just as well at home.  The video showed he couldn’t, and I think he gave up.  Unfortunately he also took his friend out too.
• Dirty Jobs (1 hr) – Haven’t watched it yet.  DVR skipped this one too for some reason so it’ll have to record later on.
• Grey’s Anatomy (1 hr) – Not only are they offing Izzy’s “dead husband” story arc, it appears based on previews that they may be offing the Izzy character altogether!  This is actually disappointing as I’ve always been a fan of Katherine Heigl ever since I saw her in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory when I was a teenager.
• ER (1 hr) – Falling behind on watching this one.
• 24 (1 hr) – Behind on this one too.  Its amazing that since I’ve been actively reducing my TV viewing, I’m not finding time to watch the shows that I truly DO want to watch.  I guess this is a prime example of changing a habit.
• Non-tracked viewing: Other than some evening news, I actually haven’t watched anything extra this week.

At least 2 books per month – Goal met.

• Otherland: River of Blue Fire by Tad Williams – Finished. Twilight was supposed to be next, but we loaned it to a friend since I wasn’t quite ready yet.  That’ll give me a chance to fly through a couple of shorter books in the queue.
• The Real America by Glenn Beck – Finished.
• The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom: Practical and Spiritual Steps So You Can Stop Worrying by Suze Orman – Originally decided to read this mainly to see if she actually knows what she is talking about or if she is purely TV hype and has sold some books because of it.  I’m about half way through it, and I have to say she really does have some good ideas.  I’m starting to think she is selling herself short by being a shill for FICO on her TV show since it is blowing gaping holes in her credibility.

Minimum 3 blog postings per week – Met.  All 3 were posted yesterday, which is not the intent of the goal to rush through at the last moment to make it happen.  In defense on that point, 2 of the 3 were postings were already done in rough draft form with the intention of publishing them earlier, but didn’t get a chance to polish them up on time.

100 lbs (2 lbs/week) – I’m actually up 0.4 pounds direct weight this week, but 0.89 pounds down on the averaged trend.  I’m frustrated with this slight gain, but at the same time I also had a very low weight in the middle of the week which would have put me at 1.5 pounds down.  Plateaus happen, and since I’ve had 2 weeks straight like this, I should see a pretty sudden drop as my body gives up on trying to hold that extra weight.

Budget – No update here.  Unless we have a wild blow-out week where we go on a spending spree, this goal is really measured every other week as we review our performance on the last 2 weeks and plan the next 2.

Losing weight is the same as paying down debt/saving money in that there is only one way to do it. Calories in vs. Calories out, just like money in vs. money out. When working to lose weight you must burn more calories than you eat, this creates a deficit and your body will burn fat (and lean mass if you aren’t careful) to make up that difference in what it needs to operate. Just like your debt, where you spend less than you earn so that the extra can be applied to payments or to savings if you’ve paid everything off.

The Bodybugg is a little device worn on your arm that does nothing but sit there and monitor the calorie burn rate of your body at any given point in time. To do this it uses a variety of sensors including an accelerometer, a couple of temperature sensors, and a sensor to read galvanic skin response (skin moisture level.) You wear it 24 hours a day, minus any time where it may be exposed to water, such as showering and swimming.  The Bodybugg ties my health and fitness goals to my geek obsession with gadgets.

The device itself has no indication of current rate, or any other feedback mechanism other than to warn when the logging memory is full (about a weeks worth of data can be stored) or when the AAA battery is getting low. In order to view the data, you have to connect it via USB (or a wireless communicator) to the computer and upload its data to the Bodybugg website.

Once the data is up on the website, this is where the real power of the system becomes apparent. You now can see how many calories you’ve burned so far today, as well as the number of steps taken and minutes of physical activity (when calories per minute are above a certain threshold.) This is great, but doesn’t this only provide half of the equation for losing weight (calories burned – calories eaten = calorie balance?)

Yes, that only covers the burned half of the equation. The website also has a food tracking system built in as well. It is set up for you to enter your food consumed for Breakfast, AM Snack, Lunch, PM Snack, Dinner, and Evening Snack. It includes a very extensive calorie database, so most foods you eat will be on there. If not, it allows you to enter your own foods based on the information found on the nutrition information label. You now have the calories eaten portion solved.

The system takes it one step further and you enter in your current and goal weights, and it will calculate it all out for you. This means if you want to lose 10 lbs in 10 weeks, you need to lose 1 lb per week. Since one pound = approximately 3600 calories, that means you need to eat 3600 calories per week less than you’re burning, or an approximately 500 calories per day deficit. You can adjust the different factors such as increasing the daily deficit and see how quickly you can lose that 10 lbs, or how much more you could lose in the same time frame.

When you set a new goal, it goes through a wizard asking you several pieces of information, including your activity level, your weight/height, and your preferred diet profile. Based on this information it generates a diet plan for you and sets your target burn and consume goals so you can see at a glance exactly where you are for the day.

The version of the armband I have is the V1/V2, and they just came out with a V3, which is smaller, and is black instead of grey. While I don’t see the information directly on their website, from what I’ve read from other sources it has upgraded sensors that will be used sometime in the future to increase the accuracy of the device even more than it already is.

The key to the Bodybugg is to work the program. If you upload the data often, especially before indulging in any extra eating, you will be able to take the most advantage of it. If I’ve burned extra calories during the day and maybe have eaten less than anticipated, I can see that it is OK some nights to have an extra snack, where others I need to just have a glass of water and forget about it. If you don’t upload it often, and don’t enter your food in, its slightly better than the guessing game you’re playing right now.

While the Bodybugg is expensive at $250 (or more depending on the accessories and subscription length,) it is well worth the price if you’re willing to put the work into the program. I’ve had my Bodybugg for several years, and have used it off and on. When I use it and actually follow my advice in the previous paragraph, it does wonders. My only problem I’ve had with it is I’ve been lazy and have not followed the program. Since I have a long-term goal in place, I’m confident this time I’ll make the most of it. Like any piece of exercise gear, if you use it properly you will see great results, but if you neglect it like the exercise bike in the basement, you’ll get the same benefits the bike provides. The bottom line is when you use it properly, you won’t find a better tool to assist you in reaching your weight loss goals.

Incline press: 10×40 2 sets, 10×30 1 set

Shoulder Press: 10×40 1 set, 10×30 2 sets

Ab crunch machine: 10×50 3 sets

MTS Squat machine: 10×60 3 sets