A Health Experiment: June 2013

So myself and one Mr. Senan Dolan have decided to start taking metrics as we work towards better bodies of some description. We seem to have pretty different reasons for taking up this sort of a thing. I'm interested in just being a fitter version of me, I feel better that way; he's interested in looking good in the mirror, he feels better that way. I guess "feel better about myself" is the core of the experiment.

I'm going to be doing the math as we go along, we're both interested in our bodyfat percentages as well as our general weight, though more out of interest than thinking it's a particularly useful thing to use as a metric. We will also be trying out a pretty simplistic macro-nutrient way of dealing with our food intakes.

So I suppose I better go through the math and the sources for now, I imagine we'll be doing more research as we go along an I expect these numbers to change for reasons other than just our work.

So first we wanted the basics, height (cm) and weight (kg). Then using a tape measure we took our neck and navel measurements (cm) and fed them into a web app^[1], to work out a bodyfat %, we've read ^[2] that this measurement has a habit of being high. We then used an Acuu-Measure Fitness 3000 caliper to work take seven measurements that we also fed into the previous web app^[1].

These were used to work out a lean body mass (kg), again for interest more than anything else; and a maintenance and deficit caloric intakes (kcal). From the deficit caloric intakes we used the formulae found on the spartan warrior blog^[2] (based on Katch, Katch and McArdle's work ^[3]).

So I guess without further ado, here's the numbers: