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Welcome to the MyFitnessPal Community: Fitness and Exercise
The Fitness and Exercise section is here for members to is to share fitness tips and exercise suggestions with other MyFitnessPal members. Kindly ensure your posts are placed in the most suitable forum category to keep discussions organized. Off-topic posts may be moved to the appropriate section or, in some cases,…
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Most Helpful Posts - Fitness and Exercise (Must Reads)
These are posts that have been recommended by our community members for fitness and exercise. * So you want to start running * So you want to start lifting? Great! * I am the woman in the freeweights section of the gym * HIIT vs. Steady State vs. Aerobic Intervals - which is best? * Which Lifting Program is Best for You? *…
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Why have I stopped gaining strength?
I was making regular progressive overload increases with my program until a few months ago, but I can't regularly hit my set/rep targets anymore. This statement was made five years ago in a different thread, and I started to type out a response until I realized not only was my answer growing excessively long, but it also…
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What Was Your Work Out Today?
I am often going on to Instagram to get work out ideas, as I follow a few trainers who post videos. I work out 5-6 days a week and like to mix it up & try new things. I thought I would start a discussion and have people post their work outs. Maybe give each other some good ideas! If I stick with the same thing over and…
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Cathe Fans Part 5
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/167733/cathe-fans-part-4#latest New page!!! Link to the old page is above.
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"TLFC" exercise and accountability support!
Welcome to the Tough Love Fitness Club or otherwise known as the TLFC! This is a SERIOUS club where members have chosen exercise to help with weight loss and eventually use it as maintenance to keep the weight off. I expect a certain format of posting so that it is easier for me to go over your workout and assess if you…
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Activity level question
Hey, so I have a quick question. I work a desk job, 8 hours Monday through Friday. Recently I got one of those under the desk pedal machines and I basically spend almost my entire shift through the week using it. I set it to level 1 resistance and go between 10-13mph. At the end of my days I am between 1,000-1,500 calories…
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Adjusting fitness goals when exercising is contraindicated
I’ve recently been unable to exercise due to a new health issue. One of my only options is walking which is good but also very limiting. I’ve since tried to focus my health goals on a heathy diet since I can’t focus on exercise at this time. Just wondering if there are others out there who have experienced this type of…
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How to log exercise with calorie burn?
Hi there. I’ve only logged cardio for the week I’ve been on the app and today I tried to log a strength training session, but I couldn’t figure out how to log a general workout vs specific exercises and include the calories. Does anyone know how to log a general workout and custom the calories (from my Apple Watch)? If it…
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Building muscle and Maintaining weight
any tips or ideas to help
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Abs
Hi! I’m relatively active between lots of sports, weight training and working out. I have abs developing for sure but I’d really love a defined six pack. Does anyone have either tips that worked for them, ab exercises that were rly rly good, diet, or just general advice? Thanks so much!
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Barefoot shoes
Does anyone know if these are a good idea to use for walking when overweight or is it better to stick to more supportive options until you lose weight?
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Burned calories from exercise
I’m fairy new on this app and noticed that my daily calorie is adjusted every day with burned calories from exercise. No wonder I haven’t lost any weight! In order to loose weight, I don’t want to add the calories I burned on my daily calories. How can I set my daily goal calories without exercise?
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Lower body strength training exercises with knee pain
Hi strength training friends! I’m a 45yo 165 lb female (overweight by about 30 pounds) who has been strength training for a little less than a year. I love it so far but I’m running into issues with knee pain when I do heavy (for me) squats or lunges. I’ve tried lowering both weight and reps, but the only thing that helped…
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Good beginner low intensity YouTube workouts
Hi all, I am looking for some new workout videos! While I prefer to walk outside, it is not always possible depending on the weather. So I like to have backups of things I can do indoor. I need actual beginner workouts. Not ones where they SAY it is a beginner workout but then expect you to be able to keep up for an hour…
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Posting exercise information
I have entered all of the exercises I do during my 35 minute weightlifting program. I click the checkmark button to apply it, but nothing is applied. My dashboard does not change whatsoever. What am I doing wrong? I am working too hard to not get the credit applied. Please advise! Thank you so much!
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As a teenage girl how can I get more defined abs?
I’d say I’m pretty athletic overall. I play volleyball, basketball, track, rugby, ski and I workout a lot. This past year I took fitness as an option in school and my did weightlifting. I’m super careful abt my form and I deadlifted 275. I’m 120 pounds and 5’3. My stomach is decently flat but I’m really bloated all the…
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Has anyone found an actual solve for the Fitbit sync issues?
I'm back to MFP after years off and it's genuinely crazy to me that this is still a problem. I connect the accounts, it syncs once, then never syncs again despite following all of the troubleshooting steps. The only way I can get it to sync is to disconnect and reconnect multiple times per day. Any tips?
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Peloton and Apple Workouts
Hi. I use the peloton app, bike and tread which link with my Apple Watch/health but I sometimes find the MFP duplicates workouts. It’s only sometimes not all the time which is strange. Does anyone else find this and know what causes it?
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Adding Pilates
I am trying to add a 50-minute Pilates reformer class to my diary. Here on the website I can look that up, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to look it up and log it in the app. I have tried to search for it in all three categories that the app lets me choose from. What am I doing wrong?
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almost no data taken from Apple Health?
Dear community, Michael here, Premium since yesterday and a bit dellusioned: Why doesn't myfitnesspal take all sorts of data from Apple Health? it only imports steps? Health is the biotope of all my data, that's where my Apps deliver to and mfp takes only the steps from it? My burnt calories are completly wrong and I'm…
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Device Pairing
How do I pair myfitnesspal with my IPhone FItness App. I had it previously and now myfitnesspal is not recognizing the exercise minutes from My Apple Fitness App.
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On MyFitnessPal free version how do I exclude exercise from calories
I have the MyFitnessPal free version on Apple iPhone. How do I not include exercise in the calorie counting. Thank you, Larry.
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Link Exercise from Garmin to MFP
I have my garmin account connected to MFP.. How do I sync the data?
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Do you live in Philly?
I’m looking for an exercise buddy to push each other.
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MapMyWalk
Can anyone please anyone tell me why I can't connect MapMyWalk to MyFitnessPal?
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How do you view all workouts completed to date?
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Rest Days
So at the moment my workout routine is Push on day 1, pull on day 2, and then I have a 2 day break then legs then a rest day then back to push. Does it sound like a lot of rest days? I'm not sure if it's worth me dropping a rest day. I don't get super sore the next day after a workout. I force myself to rest so my body…
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Correct form benchpress and activating the pecs
So yeah, when I do benchpresses I basically do them only with my arm muscles and the muscles going from just above the armpit towards the chest. But my main pecs remain asleep. I have no idea how to activate them. I can activate my pecs when I'm sitting, arms hanging down, lower arm horizontal to floor and the elbow behind…
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What do you want in a fitness tracking app?
Hey, I'm currently working on a school project where I'm designing a fitness tracking app. Personally, I only use fitness apps to track my progress in the gym. For this project it would be really helpful to know why people interested in fitness do or do not use fitness apps and what features they find most useful. If you…
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Core Workouts
So my current core workout is alright for me, but I want some new ideas to push myself a bit more... I am finding them easier considering it's 45 seconds each ab exercise with a 20 second rest for 2 reps. Day one is : weighed crunches, Russian Twists, leg flutters and walking plank. Day 2 is: Leg cycles, In & Out and…
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Push/Pull/Lower Recovery
I’m new to strength training, only did about the past few months so far. Let’s say Monday I did Push. Then Tuesday I was supposed to do Pull. If my Monday’s Push muscles feel recovered, should I do another push session (at least a small 20 minute session and mid intensity) and a full pull session, or only a pull session? I…