Weight lifting experiment #1
My roommate and I are going to conduct a little exercise experiment in the coming month.
I am going to lift weights via high intensity strength training one day per every seven days. I will also only perform 5-7 exercises.
I will be eating a low carb diet with lots of eggs and organic meat.
My roommate will exercise 3 days per week via a workout that he devised himself.
He will be eating a bunch of everything, I think. He will also be taking a supplement called Cell Tech*. This is a post workout supplement that has large amounts of creatine* in it. If any thing abnormal happens to his body weight, mood or any other part of his being I will be posting it here.
* This is the exact supplement that he will be taking. Here
* Creatine is an organic acid found in and used by skeletal muscle for energy.
I will be posting our exact workouts, the time it took to perform and the order in which the exercises were done.
We will both weigh ourselves and get our body fat percentages tested via an electronic wave scale at the Student Wellness Center on the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh campus. This will be done twice. At the beginning and end of our experiment.
The focus of our experiment will be body weight and body fat percentage. Obviously if our weight goes up and our BF% goes down then the weight we gained was almost all muscle.
4 weeks is a short time to be able to see the true benefits of a workout plan, but we each have a winter interim class this month and we figured 4 weeks would be better than nothing!
I will be fasting for 3 days next week as well. This may have impacts on my results for this experiment, but that is ok. I am curious to see the impacts Cell Tech has on my friends health and physique.
- Ryan
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January 6th, 2010 - 12:36
How low will your carbs be?
You will probably lose a few pounds if you really abandon carbs — i’ve heard that really low carbs have a dehydrating effect, therefore taking off some excess water weight, not to mention that your body will have to turn to bodyfat or muscle to burn for it’s energy.
January 6th, 2010 - 13:38
Ryne,
I haven’t heard of low carb diets having a dehydrating affect on the body, but you could definitely be correct in that assumption. I have been eating a low carb diet for the last two months. If what your claiming is correct, then I would have already lost that weight. Me and PJ are doing this experiment to simply compare our drastically different workout programs. Pj’s will workout longer and more often than I will and he will also be taking that supplement.
The reason that I am including PJ and his work out plans is to show my audience different ways of exercising. And hopefully prove that high intensity exercise and resting are more beneficial than the common exercise ideals.
Also, I understand that this is only two people doing a non scientific experiment for a short duration of time. Don’t judge us to harshly and don’t take the results to seriously.
“Not to mention your body will have to turn to bf and muscle for energy”
Ryne, I am going to be eating food. My body will be getting energy from the protein, fat and cholesterol that I consume.
Thank you Ryne for reading these articles and again commenting on them.
- Ryan
January 6th, 2010 - 13:39
Ryne,
For the last two months I have aimed at keeping my intake of carbs to under 60 grams.
-Ryan