20% body fat

Ok, I go to check my bodyfat today with my Accumeasure caliper. I'm getting a zero mm reading, impossible!!! Something is wrong, which I suspected for awhile. When I'm at 13.5-18% body fat, I never looked the way I do currently. Even when looking at the before pics I took for the 2008 EAS challenge, I thought to myself I sure dont look like I'm 14.8% body fat---because I'm not!!! I asked a personal trainer at the gym to measure my body fat because I thought that I was way off. The personal trainer took caliper measurements on several areas of my body and he told me that I'm 20% body fat---now that sounds right. From now on, I'm going to have a personal trainer take my body fat measurements because I'm obviously doing something wrong.

So, that means I have 109.6 pounds of lean body mass and 27.4 pounds of fat mass. At the end of June 2007, I was 13.5% body fat (this measurement was taken by a personal trainer) at 112 pounds. So, June 2007 I had 96.88 pounds of lean body mass and 15.12 pounds of fat. From July 2007 to present, I have gained 12.72 pounds of muscle and gained 12.28 pounds of fat.



Today, I was the gym jerk. So, I get to the gym and I'm in the locker room putting my things up. When I have everything in the locker; I pick up my lifting gloves and water bottle from the bench. I didn't realize until a few minutes later that the water bottle I grabbed wasn't mine. Oh, I feel so awful!!! I went back to the locker room and found my water bottle still on the bench, and no one was there. So, I put the water bottle that I mistakenly thought was mine back where I took it from. Boy, do I feel like a jerk!!!

I did a chest workout today that consisted of the following exercises:

*pre-workout stretch

*flat barbell bench press--3 sets

*incline barbell bench press--3 sets

*decline barbell bench press---3 sets

*dumbell pullover--3 sets

*incline dumbell flyes--3 sets

*pec dec flyes--3 sets

*75 ab crunches

*post workout stretch

I also did a 45 minute recumbant bike cardio session today. I have plans on returning to the gym later (hopefully) to do an arm workout.

I apologize for being off with my body fat measurements, but you all got to remember I'm currently not a professional at this stuff--just someone who enjoys it!!!

Tameka