Week one of training has come to an end.  Both Carley and Jon made it through without injury.  The first week went off without many problems. Carley and Jon handed in food journals before the start of week one. Some changes had to be made in both of their eating habits. Both of them ate well, but their greatest flaw was not eating often enough. Jon appears to eat enough calories, protein, and carbohydrates, but he was eating three times a day. He was aldo waiting a long time after workouts to eat. Carley also ate three times a day, but her calorie intake was very low with very few sources of protein.

The plan was set, both received their workouts, and advice on changes in their diets. Both followed a 6 day training program with a day of complete rest as the 7^th day. Jon is familiar with the gym and lifting. He went right to work on a lifting program with a small amount of cardio added into the program. The goal of the first six weeks is hypertrophy and muscle fiber recruitment. The addition of cardio is to assist with some excessive fat loss. Carley admitted to mainly doing cardio workouts and some yoga. She was given a basic weightlifting program and a more extensive cardio program. The goals of her first six weeks were to get her familiar with weightlifting to address all muscle groups and to increase muscle tone. The more extensive cardio was again to decrease lose some weight and work toward a more lean appearance.

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Kinetic Connections is excited to announce we will be venturing into the world of bodybuilding. We have committed to training two athletes, Carley Karwoski and Jon Krizman. Their goal is to train for a figure competition and a bodybuilding competition. We have offered to assist them with their training. This is something completely new to us. Our background lies in weightlifting mainly to enhance performance on the playing field. Snap 24 Hour Fitness in Lake Villa has offered to help with providing a home gym to work out of a Nourish, LLC out of St. Louis, Mo. has shown an interest in providing nutritional consultation. On our end, Kinetic Connections will be providing workout routines and supervision in the gym. This is a learning process for all involved. We are excited to do something new and a little out of our comfort zone. Over the next year we will be journaling our progress through this journey. We will start with baseline measurements and photos and hopefully follow this project through to a competition late next fall or early next winter. Please join us as we navigate through this experience.

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