Blasting Away The Debris

The road to Stereo is most definitely on track. In keeping with the sculpting metaphor I am burning the fat, or the debris away at a good rate which will allow for a more workable surface to start working on the specific details. So far my plan of the first month focusing on adding muscle mass seems to be paying dividends. I am stripping away 1-2 kilograms a week. This is the generally accepted "safe" weight-loss level and in line with my focus it means that the majority of weight loss is in actual fat and not muscle mass. My idea behind adding muscle first is that I am replacing a non-metabolically active tissue (adipose or fat) with a metabolically active tissue (muscle). This will aid in the next stages of the Sculpting process as I will have a high functioning metabolism and will not have to rely on extra cardio to continue to drop body fat. Funnily enough I am dropping fat at a higher rate doing the heavy workouts than I was doing large sessions of cardio with weights tossed in as an after thought. This could be due to a number of factors - perhaps the calorie consumption of excessive cardio led to increased food intake negating the calorie deficiet. Or maybe the change in activity has sparked my metabolism and fat-burning molecules. Both are possible or maybe simply because my diet and exercise attrition is much more improved now then when I was doing heavy cardio. Probably more likely.

I am tearing the gym up, making large gains on numerous exercises each session. Based on past experience and some guesstimation I think I will start to plateau at roughly the same time I travel to New Zealand, the week I planned to analyse how I am going and make any changes to beat said plateau. This is great news and will play into my hands excellently. Full tilt towards Stereo!