OK, ok, I’m sorry.

I’ve had a friend visiting and this post is now some 10 days or so late so my apologies for everyone who has been expecting it. It’s the sizeable post I have been promising.

I’m actually now well into my 2 week rest period (which I think is going to do me a power of good) and start back to the gym next week (Monday to be precise).

I will be doing a “catch-up” post soon but until then, here is all the detailed information from week 8 of this year’s challenge - the half way mark of my plan.

All the photographs and stats below were actually recorded at the correct time. It’s just taken me this long to get all the information uploaded to this site, so here we go.

Firstly a picture of how I look now which is definately moving in the right direction…

Now the body stats:

Interestingly I managed to put on weight this week but still lost some fat. Admittedly only a tiny bit but I also put on 2lbs of muscle by working out *very* hard. So far on this challenge I have now lost 4.6 lbs of fat and gained 4.1 lbs of muscle which is quite reasonable and keeps me moving in the right direction.

And now the weights I have been lifting:

Please note that the number of calf raises above is the number of consecutive raises I can do on the maximum weight available at the gym (which I can’t remember off hand).

Of interest is a comparison with what I was lifting to begin with.

For example at the beginning of January my chest press was 100 lbs, it’s now 150. That’s a 50% increase in maximum lifting weight in just 8 weeks - pretty impressive

Also I posted on January 28th the weights I was lifting at that point:

Bench Press - 112.5lb
Row - 137.5lb
Leg Press - 280lb
Leg Extension - 125lb
Leg Curl - 87.5lb
Bicep Curl - 75lb
Arm Extension - 70lb
Should Press - 45lb

Just compare these with the figures above to see how far I’ve come in just the last 4 weeks alone. Amazing gains in strength using this new program.

Expect another post over the weekend about the plans I have for the next 8 weeks of my challenge but just to close here is the latest picture of me on the left compared to week 6 on the right. Enjoy!

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A few people have asked what motivated me to start this site in the first place.

I have mentioned elsewhere on this blog that my primary aims are to hold myself publically accountable for the results I generate through my health and fitness regime, and to to hopefully offer advice and inspiration to others based on my own real-world experiences.

None of this is “theory” - everything gets tested and then reported back to you.

However there was a step even before these goals that had the idea of a blog forming in my head…

You see, I have built other websites in the past and found the experience a little bit “limited” in that a lot of what you publish is based on extensive research on what categories, topics and subjects people are interested in. Site are specifically structured to do well in the search engines and so draw free visitors.

It works, but it’s pretty “droid-like” work.

Then I started to discover blogging - a way to create a website based on the subject that you’re passionate about - but where the visitors come as much from the quality of the content you create as any slick marketing techniques.

Unfortunately my first foray into the world of blogs revealed a bunch of spammers producing absolute cr*p simply to try and attract free visitors to their sites. And so this went on for some time until I discovered a site that is, as far as I’m concerned, exactly what a blog should be…

Irrevarent, interesting, regularly updated, stuffed with fascinating high quality content and produced by a person who really cares for his visitors and the integrity of his site.

What was this site?

It was JohnChow.com and I still visit it daily. I even have an RSS Reader set up on my cell phone so updates to John’s blog get pushed through to me daily and I can read them during my lunch break at work or when I’m waiting in a queue in the supermarket.

From my own point of view watching John’s real-life results from marketing and running his blog are fascinating (he’s in the top 1,500 most visited blogs on the planet!) and provide some real food for thought on how to make Body For Life Results even bigger and better.

And it was John’s blog that inspired me to get going with this one. A blog based more on reporting my own life experiences with the emphasis on quality posts rather than search engine trickery. A blog where you put your heart and soul into producing real meaty articles on a subject you’re fiercely passionate about and finding that this alone is enough to attract regular visitors and earn you a small income. Is there a better way to make some extra money?!

Simply put, without John’s inspiration there would be no Body For Life Results.

And ironically, as I reported recently, this site in how in the top 20 for a phrase that has over 200 million competitors even *without* any marketing! Now that’s what I call a happy coincidence

So why not check out my favorite blog (even if it isn’t mainly about fitness!), if only for the stunning pictures of John’s street in winter which left me mesmorized the first time I saw them.

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