[John M Berardi]

The PN Challenge Wrap-Up
John M Berardi

The Wrap-Up
As of today, we've received all our PN Challenge Wrap-Up forms and I've gotta tell ya, we're seeing some amazing things with this challenge!

PN Challenge Participants By Gender
Of the PN challengers that submitted Wrap-Up forms, 35.29% are women and 64.71% are men.

PN Challenge Participants By Age
Of the PN challengers that submitted Wrap-Up forms, the mean age is 41.17 years with a spread of 20 years to 50 years.

PN Challenge Participants By Category
As many of you know, all participants will be grouped into one of four categories: Women Under 40; Women 40+; Men Under 40; Men 40+. Currently, here's the percentage breakdown of each group:

Women Under 40: 24%
Women 40+: 12%
Men Under 40: 38%
Men 40+: 26%

Men's Over 40 Finalist #2
Before and After The PN Challenge

Results
In addition to descriptive data, we also have the average results for our group. These are amazingly encouraging!

Average Body Weight
The participants began with an average 180.24lbs of body weight and ended with an average 168.54lbs of body weight.

This means an average 11.7lbs of weight loss in 16 weeks - or about 0.73lbs of weight lost per week.

Average Body Fat
The participants began with an average 23.72% body fat and ended with an average 16.42% body fat.

This means an average 7.3% body fat loss in 16 weeks - or about 1/2% body fat lost per week.

Average Fat Loss
The participants began with an average 42lbs of fat and ended with an average 27lbs of fat.

This means an average 15lbs of fat loss in 16 weeks - or about 1lb of fat lost per week.

Average Muscle Gain
The participants began with an average 138.08lbs of lean mass and ended with an average 141.31lbs of lean mass.

This means an average 3.23lbs of lean mass gained in 16 weeks - or about 0.2lb of muscle gained per week (while dropping fat).

Average Reduction in Waist Circumference
The participants also lost an average of 2.76 inches on their waists in 16 weeks.

Women's Under 40 Finalist #3
Before and After The PN Challenge

Lessons To Be Learned?
In the end, from the results above, you can see really excellent changes in body weight, body fat, lean and fat mass, and waist circumference. And we haven't even started analyzing the blood work yet! That's right - more data to come!

Also, keep this in mind, these changes are the AVERAGE changes experienced by our challengers. And they all pretty much fall in line with what we've been saying all along here at PN:

1) PN produces slow, steady, and sustainable body comp changes.

2) The average fat loss when following PN as outlined is about 1/2% or 1lb per week. At this rate, the "average person" could potentially lose 52lbs of fat in a year!

3) It's possible to gain lean mass while losing fat during a training phase. In this sample of folks, that means about 0.2lbs of lean mass gained per week while dropping about 1lb of fat during the same week.

With all this said, though, we did have some serious outliers! Folks who lost massive amounts of fat and gained large amounts of muscle in the 16 week challenge period. And these represent our Challenge Finalists.

Men's Under 40 Finalist #1
Before and After The PN Challenge

Now's The Time To Vote For Your Favorites
At this point, we need your help! Our finalists are all so good that we need some assistance in deciding the winners. So take a few minutes, check out our finalists, and vote for those you believe most deserving of the grand prize.

VOTE FOR THE WOMEN'S UNDER 40 CHAMPION

VOTE FOR THE WOMEN'S OVER 40 CHAMPION

VOTE FOR THE MEN'S UNDER 40 CHAMPION

VOTE FOR THE MEN'S OVER 40 CHAMPION

Thanks so much to all the challengers for participating and to all of you for voting! I look forward to seeing who you think deserves top honors!

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