Fitness Assessment

[Catrin]

A couple times a year my personal trainer gives me a fitness assessment, and he has been resistant to do this since I developed my over-use injuries in September. Now that I am working my way out of that we agreed that it was time to take a new baseline of where I am.

There were a couple of changes I don't like - went from 20.5% body fat to 22.1%. My waist found an additional 2 inches. My thighs are an inch smaller, and my calves are a half-inch smaller. Considering I could not do any cardio at all from October until January outside of a very rare bike ride and extremely light spinning - all I could do was gentle walking - I shouldn't be surprised or upset

I think that it is the knowledge that I loss muscle mass as well as gaining back a little of that core body fat that does have me a little perturbed with myself. That is the only way that I can I weigh 2 pounds less than the last time yet my waist is 2 inches larger. Such is life.

My endurance and cardio is at least as good as it was then, and my trainer thinks that I am actually in slightly better shape than I was in August when we did this last time. The great news is that I am not starting back at ground zero as far as fitness is concerned, and that is great news

Am thankful that I can do real cardio work now - so am hoping those two extra inches will go away and fast!

I guess that what I am really wondering is how to get ride of this apple shape that just keeps hanging on - no matter how much weight I lose. When I am not injured I do a lot of both strength training and cardio...