Just a thumb?

It has now been 28 days since my first weigh in for the observational science bit, time for another look at where I have got to.

Core muscles are getting pretty solid now and slight definition of a six pack is grinning through the thinning layer of adipose tissue around my midriff.

Pectorals are also more solid but because I am having an upper body workout hiatus I think this might also be because of the reduction in fat tissue.

I have got more aerobic capacity than I did when I started this, being able to run for longer and faster before getting out of breath.

It’s not all good though. The shoulder is buggered. The arm still aches and I think I might be heading back to the doctor for a second opinion next week.

I am getting more ravenous as the weeks go by and after reading around the subject I think it is not only because I am expending more calories when I go to the gym but also because at rest, muscle tissue expend more calories than other tissue types.

At weigh in this morning I am now a whole 5 grams heavier than I was 28 days ago tipping in at 69kgs with a BMI of 22.53

I then wondered how much muscle I have developed since the beginning of this month, and went off and found out the weight of muscle (1.06 g/ml) and also the weight of fat (0.9 g/ml) and deduced that I have developed about 5.8 grams of new muscle. To put it another way, that is a little under two teaspoons by volume, or the size of an average thumb.

That doesn’t seem very much new muscle to me.