My Ab & Booty Camp Results!

Mar 22, 2009

I just finished a 9 week workout session of twice a week classes of exercises focused on the abs and booty, hence the name.

Before the session started, we had our body fat percentage calculated, we were measured around the bust, waist, hips and butt, we weighed ourselves and did some fitness testing that consisted of doing timed planks, pilates sit-ups and one-legged balancing exercises. At the end of the session, we repeated all these tests in order to see our results.

My results have completely blown me away, here is the email I received from my instructor:

Hi Jillian, here are your final results from the Ab & Booty camp measurements.
 
You have been making some huge changes on the inside (at the cellular level)! While the scale says you lost 6 lbs. of body weight, your assessment shows us even more detail. You reduced your body fat percentage--get this--from 35% down to 28%. Boy oh boy, that's a HUGE change. This puts you right in the acceptable female body fat range of 25 - 31%. Surely your eating style and continued fitness journey are working for you. Even more telling is your distribution of body weight: you started with 158 lean pounds and upped that to 171 lean pounds, gaining 13 lbs. of muscle! That took your fatty tissue pounds down from 84 to 66 lbs. You lost 18 lbs. of fat! Which explains why your measurements went down in your lower body by 3.5"... That's where you were carrying a good amount of the extra fatty stuff, which is now replaced by much firmer tighter muscle. Obviously, your clothes fit different now...
 
Your fitness level rose, too. Your core strength is now ranked at excellent on the fitness scale; average-to-strong on the military scale. (Your arm injury makes the plank test a tough one to base stuff on completely. That's why I was inspired to seek another ranking system which includes form and body weight for core strength. So thank you for that wake up call at the start of this camp experience.) You already had a great with your balance/glute test but now you have even more control and stability.
 
In other words, it was a successful winter, fitness- and health-wise. You look terrific we all can see the difference in your shape. What we can't fully see is the internal health benefits in that redution of body fat percentage, which really matters most to me. I think you should make your successes known and inspire people out there in your online communities. It's amazing what the human body and mind can do when they work together. Woo hoo! 

I am so excited to be in the "acceptable" body fat percentage range! I wouldn't have imagined I would find myself here. I am very proud of myself and looking forward to continuing my fitness journey and see where it takes me.

Jillian
 

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