I was under the impression that I was in pretty good cardiovascular shape….but I was partially wrong!  Unlike the HealZoo HIT Cardio routine, Hill Sprints incorporate a different set of core muscles and quickly make you rethink taking them on.  After 3 rounds, our legs were locked up.  By the time we had completed the 30 minutes, we were ready to lay in the middle of the street and beg God to take us up!  The last time I was this exhausted was back when I played team sports in High School.

The downside to Extreme Hill Sprints is that there is no way you can perform them everyday.  At most, I only recommend completing 1-2 sessions of these catastrophic routine per week.  Otherwise, you could risk long term injury and completely lose all of the progress you’ve made on the HealZoo Journey.  Enough about last night, let’s focus on today.

Tonight, I’ll be completing my Back and Abs as described in the HealZoo Training program.  What I truly love about this program is that you truly see and feel results and changes occurring daily.  This morning, I put on my favorite pair of jeans and oxford shirt and they are literally falling off of me.  And the belt that I purchased at the beginning of this year is completely done.  It’s much to large now.  How often do you have that problem?  And to top things off, people are actually telling  me how much more muscular I’m looking, all while I’m shedding tons of fat!

I’m sorry, but it just doesn’t get better than that.  Anyway, I hope you join me for tonight’s workout.  If you’re not already apart of the HealZoo Journey program, click here.  Otherwise, continue to let life past you by and enjoy the  “fun” that being out of shape offers.   See you tomorrow.

After visiting with my doctor last week, I was informed that my blood pressure is still slightly higher than where he’d like it to be, and that he feels that I STILL have another 15 pounds of fat to lose.  Talk about an eye-opener.  Before I started my HealZoo Journey program, I really didn’t have a clue as to just how out of shape and overweight I had allowed myself to become.  While he commended my accomplishments, he noted that the additional loss of weight would improve every minor issue he had with my vitals.

With that being said, today I’m beginning my second stint on my quest for ultimate fitness.  As you can see from the pictures, the results I experienced were amazing, and my transformation was right on target with what I should have safely lost during my 16 week journey.  But what you must realize is that sometimes, we let ourselves get so far gone, that it requires more effort and time to get back to where we should be.  Fortunately for me, I understand that Rome was not built in a day, and that it is IMPOSSIBLE to safely lose more than 35 lbs of fat in a 16 week period.

For those of you that didn’t notice what I just said, “It’s impossible to safely lose more than 35 lbs of fat, in a 16 week period”.  You can lose more weight than that, but it will come from a combination of fat AND muscle which is a big no-no when your goal is to lose fat/weight permanently.  More than 95% of the weight loss programs on the market tell you that you can lose up to 5 lbs per week and while that claim is true, they neglect to tell you that most of the loss will be from muscle.

The HealZoo Journey program is a program based on the exact same programs that ripped celebrities, athletes, and fitness models lose, and you will NEVER lose more than 2-3 lbs per week because the ultimate goal is to KEEP the fat/weight off, not have it come back the moment you stop training.

Ok, enough of my rant, today I’ll be hitting my legs using the routine shown in the HealZoo Journey Program for legs, and I’ll also be completing my 30 minutes of HealZoo HIT Cardio.  My daily caloric intake for the next 16 weeks will be roughly 2200 calories per day, broken down into 6 meals.  That equates to each of my 6 meals consisting of 366 calories each.  Obviously, each of my meals won’t be broken down perfectly into that bucket, but you  get the drift.

To determine your specific caloric intake, unique to your body type and height, use the HealZoo Calorie Calculator, located here.