Lori Video Blog

Trainer Notes

What a turn around week for Lori! She came back on track nutritionally, physically, and mentally. She realized the external stresses were a major cause of her weight gain. Lori is in a strength program currently and performing very advanced lifts. We have isolated muscle groups, reaching momentary muscle failure to ensure muscle growth. In the end, our goal for Lori in this phase is to increase her metabolism by almost 160 calories burned per day! This will be done simply by increasing her muscle mass by 3.5 lbs in 4 weeks. Physiologically, with every pound of muscle gained, the body will burn 40-60 more calories per day. Lori took this consideration seriously and is enthusiastic to see muscle gains. She also understands the scale may not change drastically this month simply due to weight gains in lean muscle.

Lori weighed in today and is down 15 pounds. This is the first time in YEARS Lori has weighed less than 185 lbs!! We rejoiced in this and then brought reality back that we still have many improvements to make. Following weigh-in, Lori completed a 13:13 run -- COMPLETING 1 MILE WITHOUT WALKING for 10 minutes of the cardio!! Lori chose on her own to run the distance and set her own goal to finish one mile in under 14 minutes. She blew her goal out of the water!! Next week, Lori is planning to complete a one mile run in under 13 minutes. One step at a time, one foot in front of the other, one healthy nutritional choice at a time!

Lori Video Blog: Week 10