I don’t even know where to began, how about at day one. I have always been over weight. I spent six years in the military fighting with my weight. I have always been very athletic and loved to exercise, but loved food that much more. It was the ultimate “you can’t out train a bad diet”. Like most of my online counterparts I started this as a weight loss journey and it ended up as a life changer.
I had been doing the Insanity workout and training for a marathon, before I started the TT Challenge. It’s funny because I had seen the TT workouts and wanted to do a TT Challenge before I started the other workouts, but there was no dates posted about the next challenge. Low and behold when I was two weeks out from being finished with the Insanity program; Craig announced the next TT Challenge and it changed my whole outlook on training.
I always had the mind set of hard core cardio and long slow cardio was the
way to lose fat. The more the better, but boy was I wrong. Coming off of Insanity, I was training crazy hard for six days a week and could barely walk on my off day. I was using the same muscle group’s everyday and they were never given a chance to recover. I was in a constant breakdown for 6 weeks.
I was skeptical about only doing the TT workouts three and four days a week, but I followed the plan. I figured that Craig had already proven so much more to me with facts than all of the others had put together. Not only did he have the science and studies behind what he was saying, but he also had real people for proof. Not a bunch of fake Holly Wood models.
I started with the Xtream Fat Loss Diet (XFLD) & Clash of the Titans TT workout. I think this program was great and did what it said it would do. The workouts were awesome. I felt like I had a good workout, but I was not exhausted to the point where I could not function the next day.
I then moved on to the TT for Abs, and I think I like it the best out of the TT work outs I have tried thus far. As far as my diet or meal plan; I started the “Eat Whatever I Wanted” plan. This was I could eat as much of raw veggies, fruits, and lean protein that I wanted. I still kept one fast day a week, because I think it works out very well (just like ESE). I also kept up with my water intake (150+ oz a day) and had one cheat day/meal a week.
From here I used TT for Mass as my ending program. This program was good, but I think I went a little over board with the heavy weights. I think I encountered an injury near the end of my TT Challenge. That was not a fault of the program, but of me getting over zealous.
Starting numbers 5/10/2010:
6’ tall
240lbs
13% Body Fat
38/40 Pant size
XXL Shirt size
Ending numbers
6’ tall
225lbs
11.5% Body Fat
34 Pant size
LG Shirt size
I had three goals when I started this contest:
1. Lose 20lbs – I missed it by 5lbs, but I will get those soon…
2. 8% body fat – I fell short, but I now feel that it may have been too lofty of a goal. I will get down to 10% in the next 6 months.
3. Build my chest back up – I think I got this goal in the bag, but I will continue to work on it.
I would like to especially thank all of my Online friends for all of the support. I don’t know that I could have done as well as I did without the help of all of my friends and support group.
Thank you all,
Matty G.
