T-minus 20 minutes until I do the Fit Test.God help us all...especially my downstairs neighbors. There's a very real possibility that my fat @## will land in their living room at some point.
OK, I'm gonna need to preface this with some information about your GB Homer J.I just turned 36. I'm 6'2" and was generally hanging out between 205 and 225 for most of the last 10 years. In the last six months however, I've put on an incomprehensible amount of weight...45 friggin' pounds. In six months. So I'm 6'2" and 267, and that's after dropping 6 pounds in the last couple of weeks.I've also smoked since I was 12. I quit back in January but I've pretty much fallen off the wagon in the last week. I have a horrendously bad lower back, no core strength whatsoever, no cardiovascular endurance to speak of, and shoulders that are made of ground glass.So based on this preface, you can probably guess that my Fit Test results were...shall we say...subpar.I couldn't even make it through the warmup...not even close.- Switch Kicks: 57- Power Jacks: 30- Power Knees: 40- Power Jumps: 16 (these KILLED me)- Globe Jumps: 7- Suicide Jumps: 6- Push-up Jacks: 10 - Low Plank Oblique: 26
I got a long way to go.
That's a lot of weight GB, and really unhealthy for you. I find that even if I'm 15 lbs or so above my ideal weight, it takes its toll on my lower back. I can only imagine how bad that much must be on you.Don't fret the statistics. For me, I didn't even write down stuff on the fit test. It doesn't matter to me. All we have to know is that if we follow the program, regardless of where we started off, we'll be in significantly better shape 2 months later. Even after a week I felt and noticed a difference -- my core was tighter and stronger, my gut was shrunk, I was thinner, and I felt great. And that's one week. 8 weeks straight of this, if one can stick with it, will be huge. So just hang in there and do what's prescribed, and we'll have in-shape Homer back in no time.