^thats awesome! like really realyl awesome.

oops new page.
this is in reference to icanread2's post

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"Current weight: 168 Leg press this morning: 577x5 Definitely felt like I had more in my legs, but the gf asked me to stop,"

im reposting it bc it really is badass



i also got a really cool compliment at the gym yesterday actually.
ive pretty much been sticking with cardio and upper body strength training for the past 2-3 weeks now and ive slowed down a lot, at least until my knee stops feeling wonky.

i was on the stair stepper and a guy came up to me and complimented me on how i bust ass when im there and that im easily one of the hardest worker outters (ha) there . he even went on to tell me i was one of (not "the" by any means ahaha) the strongest girls he's ever personally seen.
it was really cool

ok im done tooting now

[Edited on March 26, 2011 at 12:17 PM. Reason : gfddf]

3/26/2011 12:16:22 PM

did you give him a smooch?

3/26/2011 1:30:32 PM

nahhh son.

3/26/2011 1:32:51 PM

i thought women didn't like getting hit on at the gym

3/26/2011 6:44:22 PM

^
+1

3/26/2011 7:09:15 PM

I know what you are talking about, Joie. It is such a great compliment even if the intention was to hit on you. Ha! I don't blame him.

I know when I was busting my ass in the gym and lifting heavier and heavier weights, it meant a lot to me when guys who would lift obscene amounts would be impressed and voice it.

3/26/2011 7:11:58 PM

I remember starting out and doing dinky weights now I feel like I'm actually accomplishing something, I can't wait to get way up there and be impressive too! ha

3/26/2011 8:18:30 PM

girls who lift > girls who do cardio

3/26/2011 9:52:25 PM

Great work getting stronger, but I've got to let off a bit of steam....

It's a pet peeve of mine when people brag about the leg press. Moving massive amounts of weight on the leg press does not require that much strength or development.

My recommendation: Learn to squat. Then brag

3/26/2011 11:55:46 PM

I finally decided to split my leg routine into two separate days, with one for quads and one for hamstrings/glutes. I'm amazed by how sore my hamstrings have been this week.

3/27/2011 1:28:01 AM

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"I know when I was busting my ass in the gym and lifting heavier and heavier weights, it meant a lot to me when guys who would lift obscene amounts would be impressed and voice it."

exactly!
i also had one guy a little while back tell me to "be careful" because he thought i would get too muscle-y because of the amount i was lifting! (i lolled a lil inside but smiled and said i would)

[Edited on March 27, 2011 at 8:41 AM. Reason : sdfdf]

3/27/2011 8:35:33 AM

Diet-wise, today is not going well.

But I'm still at a deficit for the week.

Might not lose any this week, but I'm still working out all six days a week.

3/27/2011 8:37:38 AM

stay strong my brotha!

I've had a few weekends where I wasn't so strict about my diet, its all good. I just try to make sure I get in some extra cardio if I do cheat a little bit.

3/27/2011 8:51:45 AM

I only saw 3-6 women that lift free weights at LFF sadly. Getting hit on in the gym is pretty common. It sucks for men because we get it from both genders.

3/27/2011 9:42:12 AM

Here's a pretty good write up on the paleo diet: http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/most_recent/paleo_nutrition_improved

Eat this way. Strength train. Ensure that you are in a weekly negative calorie balance. Get in about 2-5hours of light-moderate physical activity beyond strength training. Profit in health and wellness.

3/27/2011 9:47:47 AM

^^ hahaha

3/27/2011 9:52:07 AM

^^^ahahahahah cody and tripped out

3/27/2011 10:42:19 AM

So, cardio advice. What should a target heart rate be while doing cardio to best reap the rewards? I keep it closer to max than not. I don't hit my peak high for my age but I do get about 10 beats pm less than it. Is that cool, bad? should i go higher?

3/27/2011 11:39:55 AM

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"i also had one guy a little while back tell me to "be careful" because he thought i would get too muscle-y because of the amount i was lifting!"

I just started telling people that my goal is to become a She-Hulk. It normally shuts them up. Or if I'm in a more serious mood, tell them I've been lifting for a year and a half and I don't think I'm oh-so-huge yet, so I'm not too worried. I try to subliminally plant the idea that lifting is a good thing, especially with the "I never lift anything over 5 pounds" type. I don't get why people are so quick to offer advice on your workouts ("You know you should be doing low weight, high rep stuff to tone and not get huge.") when they don't have much experience themselves.

I will sometimes ask guys to help me put 45-lb plates on a bar for deadlifts (with short arms that is really awkward for me to do by myself) and they usually seem to think I'm trying to hit on them. At least, until I actually pick it up. Then they seem a little scared.

On that note, I have only ever seen one other person do deadlifts at any gym outside of working with a personal trainer. That makes me sad. They are my favorite.

3/27/2011 12:18:43 PM

A few months ago I was lifting at the campus gym and some big black guy was taking for-ev-er on the leg press machine. Finally, when it looked like he was done, I asked him just to make sure... he said yeah then started to take the weights off. I told him, "No, that's ok, please leave those on."

He glared at me across the room when I was leg pressing the same amount he was.


I feel like the undergrad guys glare more if you lift around them versus being impressed and/or trying to hit on you. Or maybe it's just because I am all sweaty and they'd rather glare than hit on me.


Hahahahaha... Sorry Stein you would hate me even more if I posted the link for the red velvet brownies with white chocolate cream cheese frosting

[Edited on March 27, 2011 at 1:28 PM. Reason : .]

3/27/2011 1:17:50 PM

Quote :

"What should a target heart rate be while doing cardio to best reap the rewards? I keep it closer to max than not. I don't hit my peak high for my age but I do get about 10 beats pm less than it. Is that cool, bad? should i go higher?"

For fat burning I try to be somewhere b/n 60-70% of my hr max
For endurance I try to get somewhere b/n 70-80% of my hr max

3/27/2011 1:54:55 PM

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"Hahahahaha... Sorry Stein you would hate me even more if I posted the link for the red velvet brownies with white chocolate cream cheese frosting"

Actually I hate both white chocolate and cream cheese, so you're free to post that one whenever you'd like :-P

3/27/2011 8:36:58 PM

this is for you, boo

3/27/2011 9:29:25 PM

Fuck my life.

(I like the oreo peeking out on the right.)

3/27/2011 10:11:53 PM

holy crap


how do you make those?

3/27/2011 10:16:00 PM

^ http://picky-palate.com/2011/01/06/oreo-stuffed-chocolate-chip-cookies/


mine turned out huge though because we didn't have one of those cookie scoops, so we just wrapped the dough around the Oreos

3/27/2011 10:18:11 PM

Seriously? Good lawd those things look A) delicious and B) terrible for me.

Sidenote: I weigh in for week six tonight. Here's hoping I lost another kilo! I don't want to hit that plateau yet.

3/28/2011 7:40:56 AM

^^

3/28/2011 8:39:23 AM

whoooot.....so i met my original work out goal this week and made it into the gym 3 times, running 3 miles each time then lifting. in case you were wondering i started out running a mile once or twice a week back in mid February (which is when i started going back tot the gym regularly). i would up my distance a half mile each week and this past week finally got to my goal of 3 miles 3 times a week. i'm going to keep it here for a few weeks and work on my time. Saturday I ran the 3 miles in 27 mins. I'd like to get to an avg of 8 min miles so I have to shave at least 3 mins off my 3 mi run. in other good news, weighed myself Saturday and posted a 179, that's 10lbs lighter then when i started. now just 14 more to go to meet my 165 goal weight.

3/28/2011 8:51:30 AM

Congrats on hitting your first set of goals. Why do you want to get down to 165? Is it a BMI measurement, body fat % or just a goal weight that you remember being at before and you want to get back to it?

3/28/2011 11:12:18 AM

i'm back up 8 pounds i've given up with going to the doctors for the time being. i work out 5 days a week, eat healthy and my weight is a rollercoaster. and it's not just my weight - but i bloat really bad too. almost like a swelling.

3/28/2011 11:50:05 AM

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"but i bloat really bad too. almost like a swelling."

is this caused by certain foods?

3/28/2011 12:00:38 PM

After two weeks of losing 3lbs a week I've not lost 1lb this week!

Also, what kind of calorie deficit should someone shoot for a day? According to caloriecount.about.com I'm at least 1,000 calories deficit a day, but I read somewhere that it shouldn't be more than 1,000?!?!?!?! I'm taking in about 1,600 calories a day and working out 5 days a week...

3/28/2011 12:08:30 PM

^^ i think so. the doctors thought it was gluten.....well until my hands and toes started swelling when i consumed products with sulfite in it. so now i've been watching sulfite - but it's weird. even without eating sulfite, my body is still all out of whack. it's not normal i gain (like straight gain - do not fit in clothes) 5 pounds within a few hours and it doesn't go away.

3/28/2011 12:12:36 PM

ITT women admit they go to the weight area to get stared at

3/28/2011 1:43:12 PM

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"Congrats on hitting your first set of goals. Why do you want to get down to 165? Is it a BMI measurement, body fat % or just a goal weight that you remember being at before and you want to get back to it?"

mostly its a weight that i have been at before and was comfortable with my physique. its also an easy metric, but i do put more emphasis on appearance and body fat %. my goal BF % is 10% (i started at 19%). BMI is such bullshit!! according to BMI i should be 146lbs on the high side, 124lbs on he low side. if i weighted 146 lbs i would look like a sick Ethiopian. I would probably die before i got down to 124....that's just sick.

3/28/2011 2:49:20 PM

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"women admit they go to the weight area to get stared at"

I avoid the weight area b/c of this. All the guys are really intense and scary.

3/28/2011 2:56:24 PM

^lol. it is a little creepy. but dont let it bother you, get yo ass in there

i have a bunch of weights at home so i can lift here when i want to

3/28/2011 2:59:21 PM

i highly doubt i am intimidating even in the middle of a shoulder press

3/28/2011 3:00:35 PM

I was a little intimidated at first too especially when i was SO out of shape but I figured I couldn't let people I don't even know stop me from achieving the life I want, sooooooooo that shut me up pretty quick, now I'm a regular in there. And I see lot more women in there than i would have thought which is awesome.

3/28/2011 3:25:18 PM

yeah i see a lot of chicks using free weights at my gym. its pretty dope.

3/28/2011 3:43:58 PM

So here's the update:

This week I lost 1.5 kilos (3 lbs) and another 1/2 inch off my gut.

I also started the next phase of my workout program today. Holy crap I got my butt kicked. I'm going to try to do cardio tomorrow and see what happens. For those that know P90 (not P90X), I just upgraded to Sculpt 3-4 today. The jump also tripled the amount of squats I did and my legs were like jelly afterward. I'm pretty stoked about the upgrade.

I now weigh 217 lbs. I've not weighed this in probably... three or four years? I hovered around 230 for a long time before ballooning up to 250 lbs this past summer. Needless to say, 8.5 more kilos is the magic number for me to be under 200 lbs. (I'm only 5'10")

In other news - the fiance is starting to get bummed that I'm getting skinnier than her now. She wants to keep up, but she's still rehabbing a broken leg from late January so her weight loss isn't quite as fast. She's still losing weight and I'm personally totally excited about us being a hot fit couple.

Hurray health! (Sidenote - We should make a healthy food recipe thread)

3/28/2011 4:13:50 PM

also...ladies...just because i pick my treadmill based on the booty in front of me on the stair master does not make me creepy. i enjoy some nice scenery when i run.

3/28/2011 4:14:46 PM

haha ^

and no i get my free weights done in my bootcamp classes, I also like the machine weights just b/c i know I am less likely to injure myself.

3/28/2011 5:27:30 PM

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"On that note, I have only ever seen one other person do deadlifts at any gym outside of working with a personal trainer. That makes me sad. They are my favorite."

Whut, I did dead lifts too

I'm starting to get back into the swing of working out again, but its hard to keep up the motivation lately. I wouldn't expect it, but its almost tougher to go out in the garage since I have my equipment available 24/7; its not like "shit I better go before the gym closes/the rush comes/etc"

3/28/2011 6:01:36 PM

Its odd to see women intimidated by the free weight section. I weighed 125-130lbs as a male when I first joined and I wasn't intimidated. In retrospect I do think my height helped.

I like the girl at NCSU the other night "is there a girls weight room?" . Some guy told her yes and she started to go look for it.......(not blonde)

3/28/2011 6:09:39 PM

I'm up to 193, about an 8 lb gain from when I started I know it's mostly muscle, because I'm not fat, and when I weighed this much before I was fat. Anyway, time to step it up and lose all of this extra pudge.

3/28/2011 6:51:42 PM

Ok i peeped into the free weight section b/c wanted to do some barbell squats or whatever...ya no all intimidating as hell.

3/28/2011 10:21:48 PM

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"i also had one guy a little while back tell me to "be careful" because he thought i would get too muscle-y because of the amount i was lifting!"

You should have punched him in the mouth and called him a bitch.

Girls:

If you want a killer body, you need to work out "like a dude". Heavy (relatively, of course you aren't as strong as the 250-lb dude who sweats dianabol) weights: as much as you can do for 6-10 reps or so. Compound-movement exercises (bench, squats, weighted lunges, deadlifts, pull-ups/lat pulls, rows, cleans, shoulder presses, etc.), not a bunch of dumbell side raises and tricep extensions....and for the love of God, stop wasting your time with those stupid 3-lb dumbells. You're not that weak...you need to be straining your ass off to get, say, 10 reps.

Cardio is needed too, of course...and lazily pedaling the stationary bike while reading a magazine is barely better than nothing.

If you want to look like you're in shape, you need to exercise like an athlete.

[Edited on March 28, 2011 at 10:57 PM. Reason : ]

3/28/2011 10:56:23 PM

well, I've been hittin up the gym now for almost 2 months. Haven't seen any significant weight loss, but I figured that 2 times a week and with 2 other days running wasn't going to do much anyway. BUT, the amount I can lift in each exercise is going up, so I figure I am getting something done. started out benching 50 (i know, weakling), and now I'm doin 70. Started out barely curling 20, now I'm doing 40, same with overhead.

slowly figuring out what I can do with a leg press after I got away from a really bad machine. I could barely get off of the plate with 150 on it, but I went to the one across the gym and I can do 265 with a larger range of motion like it's nothing. The other one must be crappy or something.

I know my weight numbers are pathetic, but they are improvements, and that's all that matters to me. Hopefully I will someday be able to see my pecs, lol

3/28/2011 10:57:17 PM