Thats good though. It always helps to lose a little extra body fat.

You in the Air National Guard, or just the Army National Guard?

Ok, so my wife has hopped on board, and got serious with her fitness.

She told me she was bored with her workouts, so I took time to write some creative circuits for her to get her excited an keep her motivated. I took her through the first circuit yesterday, and it went exceptionally well.

I used bodyweight exercises, TRX, Jumprope, Perfect Pushups, and Exercise Balls to accomplish cardio, strenth, and metabolic conditioning, and flexibility.

She loved it!

So after the workout, I had her set a goal for herself. She set a goal to lose 75 lbs in 1 year. Very reasonable, so I think she will have no problem accomplishing the goal if she sticks to it.

I started a new category on my blog for her to track her progress as well. And wrote a post to start it off, if you're interested, it's at:

http://blog.gettingfitnaturally.com/?p=369

Thanks,

Justin

 The ARMY National Guard

My fitness goals are a little weird. In high school I boarded with a family and put on so much weight that my mother didn't recognize me because I was too fat to be her son hopping of the plane. Since then I have struggled with weight, even though I have consistently played rugby at a pretty decent level. In fact an additional part of my weight gain was due to my coaches encouraging me to put on weight. It has been 10 years and although I peaked at 260#, I have since integrated TRX, Olympic lifting and high intensity interval sprints to get and down to 210# and stay there for 2 years. My only problem is that the people I compete against in rugby are all 250+ in my position and my coaches gave me the challenge of putting on my weight; since during last season i dropped to about 203# by seasons end.

So my goal is to increase lean body mass to take my weight to 218-220# and decrease my bodyfat percentage to below 12%. My goal is to increase my mass without affecting my endurance and agility which is my edge over the bigger opponents that I play. Just in case you were wondering I play at anywhere in the front row. I prefer hooker, but an equally adept at packing down at loosehead or tighthead (yea, chuckle at the names, but then ask yourself...do I really want to laugh at the men at the front of a rugby scrum??)