60-Day Challenge: Why I Am Doing It And How I Will Win My Division

Today was the first day of the weigh ins for the Life Time Fitness 60-Day Challenge.  Once thing that has been cool is there is more encouragement for Life Time employees to do the employee division and there are decent prizes for the winner.

 

I am doing the Employee Transformation Division this year.  I am doing it for the following reasons:

1. I have proven myself pretty credible when it comes to fat loss.  In addition to helping clients achieve great results, I have successfully lost 60+ pounds and have kept it off for 20+ years.  In addition to that I have won three similar Transformation Challenges as well as have competed in six Physique competitions.  I think it is safe to say that I am an expert on fat loss!
2. Although I have done well on fat loss, I want to prove to people as well as myself that I am a credible source when it comes to muscle gain.  My goal for the transformation is to gain as much muscle as possible while gaining minimal fat in the process.
3. I always joke that in the previous 90-Day Challenges the Weight Loss Division and the Transformation Division should be called Weight Loss for People Who Won't See Their Abs and Weight Loss For People Who Can See Their Abs at the end of the challenge respectively.  What I mean by that is that they are both really weight loss challenges and many LTF members who are below 10% body fat usually aren't that motivated to do the challenge because they are lean to begin with.  I want to prove someone who is already really lean can win the thing.

I also intend to win the Employee Transformation Division and this is how I am going to do it:

1. I rarely drink alcohol - that give me an immediate edge in the "Beer & Barbeque" season.
2. My average nightly sleep has only been six hours/night.  If I can up that to 7-8 hours/night it could be a game changer.
3. Even though I did well in my last physique competition, I wasn't as meticulous on nutrition and program design as I could have been.
4. Finally, as much as I hate it, doing two High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) sessions/week could be big in the off-season.

Will I win?  We will see and I will keep you posted along the way.  Stay tuned!