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Oppinions- is my work day a workout?!
Ok so usually, I walk between 3-4000 steps a day when I'm not working. That's my base level of activity. When I work a double shift at work (10-12 hours) I do around 12,000 steps. Sometimes closer to 20,000 if it's really busy and I'm charging around. I don't break a sweat, its walking. I'm on my feet for the entire time…
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Fueling long run
I've been running for a while now, but my runs are getting longer and I think I'm not fueling adequately. I didn't usually fuel at all for my runs because most of them aren't that long. But I first had an issue after a 17km run (anything up to 12km was fine) where I felt fine during, but nauseous and weak starting a few…
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Strength Training on Vegetarian Diet
I have been strength training for years. YEARS. Eight years to be exact. My max weights have plateaued for years. YEARS. About six years to be exact. While I continue to keep lifting through injuries and medical issues, I would really like to see my one rep max numbers go up. I highly suspect the problem is my diet. For a…
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Chicago Soldier Field 10 Mile/10K
I’m training for the 10k. Anyone want to join me?
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Southern hemisphere winter is coming
Mornings are getting darker, and there's a real early morning chill now. Days are getting shorter and its a race after work to get the walk or run in. I find I increase the intensity of my exercise when there's less daylight and reduce the time im exercising. Gone are the longer, slower walks and runs when it's too hot to…
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My calories vs mfp calories on cardio
I’m 265lbs and I do interval training for an hour on different inclines at 3.0mph but then I push a little higher on the speed at the last 10 minutes on the treadmill. The treadmill says I burned 586 but when I used mfp it says I burned way more like 1100 so which one is accurate? Need help please.
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5.0 mph walk is how fast?
Roughly how fast is a 5.0 mph walk. an awkward question as a 5.0 mph walk is exactly 5.0 mph. But I was wondering in more descriptive terms what how fast would a 5.0 mph walk look? Is it almost to the point of jogging?
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BCAA's - which brand is your favorite?
I'm looking for a brand of clean BCAA's. So many have unwanted, unnecessary fillers and looking to find something healthy and clean. Could you give me your best brand? Also wondering if it makes a difference that I'm a 50+ female ~ Thanks!
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Weight gain and endurance running
I ran my 5th marathon a week ago, and after avoiding the scale for months I stepped on and found I gained about 10 lbs. I know for sure that's not all muscle weight because I've definitely put on some fat in the belly area. This is the first year this has happened to me (in previous years I had the opposite problem). I'm…
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training peaks sync
MFP has stopped syncing my nutrition to the training peaks app. I have disconnected/re-connected the accounts and followed all instructions properly and still no syncing. Training peaks is syncing my workouts to MFP. Help!
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Unplug!
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Logging non tradition work-outs
Hi there! Any new moms out there have tips on how to log various pp calorie burns? Ie breast feeding, pumping etc.
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Adding Exercise When You Are DONE With It.
What does it mean to be DONE with exercise? For me, it is a feeling of aversion to exercise after years and years of it. I've been maintaining for three months now by a lot of headwork on binge eating problems. Good on me. However, I understand and realize now it is time to add the fitness component. Mentally, I just…
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Golf
I was playing around and was looking for golf. This say golf with a power cart burns over 400 cals per hour. I realize that it is better than sitting on the couch but really? Do you actually think I should log 1200 cals burned over my baseline just for driving around the course for 3 hrs? I golf at least once a week and…
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How much should I eat before morning lift?
I normally lift in the afternoon/evening but need to switch it for vacation. I've struggled with morning lifts before feeling weak. If I eat a 300 calorie breakfast, how long should I wait to lift? 1.5 hour? Do I need more or less? (I'm 101 lbs)
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Is it weird DOMS or something else?
I've been having some new and unusual (for me) pains during and post-workouts for the past couple of weeks and am a little puzzled. I've been lifting weights consistently twice a week (with a couple short breaks for travel) for the past nine months (plus walking a couple other days a week). I've had the occasional bout of…
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excersise for a 70 year old
Hi, can anyone suggest exercise for a 70 year old "girl" with two new knees
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Contemplating yoga teacher training
I’ve been doing yoga on and off since 2012-ish. For the first couple of years I had a consistent (6 days a week) mysore style ahstanga practice. I’ve rekindled it a couple of times since and have also done bouts of YouTube yoga (mainly yoga with adriene), gone to aerial yoga classes and some gym based vinyasa classes. The…
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Activity Suggestions for Obese
I’m starting my weight loss journey after coming to terms with my size. I currently weigh 272 pounds and am 5’7”, so quite obese. I never considered myself exceptionally out of shape or unathletic, and I’m still quite young (early 20s), but I started avoiding physical activity as I gained weight. So I guess I don’t know…
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Exercise Intolerance
I'm sure this will be a controversial topic. Does anyone else have it? I've suspected for years that I have it and recent events have stoked my suspicions even more. I've always walked a lot (an hour or more per day) with no ill effects. But every time I try to do anything more intense than that, I end up having some…
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Building Strength, Loosing Belly
I am very active and in good health. I am "skinny fat". I workout every morning before work. I am have cut calories, and portion sizes. Still can't get my belly trimmed down. My Strength is going up nicely. Just need to keep moving along. It just seems disheartening. Any ideas?
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Steps calories always ZERO
I have messed around so much with this and tried enabling and disabling everything. I've turned off the steps, synced, and tried again. Yet today finally I realized it tracks my steps but will not give me calories burned. I haven't inputed any other exercise. I'm walking only. Why?
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Isolation Exercise Imbalance
I'm at a point where when doing bent over dumbbell rows my right side is stronger than my left. I could probably add more weight to the right side, but the left is near failure on the last one or two reps. I am not sure how to continue. Should I keep the weight the same until my left side catches up, or just keep adding…
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Elliptical, Miles, and Heartrate
My primary means of cardio is walking and running on the elliptical, and I’m a little perturbed about what I’m seeing on the elliptical. Most days I’ll hop on the elliptical at the gym for 30 minutes, and generally get in an estimated 2.25 miles (by the machine’s calculations), giving me an embarrassingly slow 13 minute…
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What exercise
Hi all My job is normally sat at a desk so my activity level is sendatry. I went on a manual handling course for two days and it had a lot of physical exercises, which in exercise terms involved squatting, pulling a weight, sitting up from a laying down position. Each day was a 8 hour day, so easily a good 2/3 hours of…
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Cross posted: Bradycardia
Does anybody else deal with this issue? I went for my physical a few days ago and my pulse was 40. I'm an almost 53 year old woman, at a healthy weight, and a runner. It still seems very slow to me.
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Advice please- pain in front of hip/ beginning running
I’m doing the IFit beginning running series with Tommy Rivs. I have completed 11/30 workouts and now we are to 5 minute warm up walk, one minute running, one minute walking intervals, 5 minute walk for 30 minutes total. I have skipped the two rest days at the end of weeks one and two because of being an idiot. Yesterday…
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What’s your pre workout (meal, shake, routine?)
Hi fit fam. My pre workout shake consists of: 1 scoop of creatine 1 scoop of BCAAs 1 scoop of cocoa flavonals 1 scoop of spermidine 1 teaspoon of Saigon cinnamon 1 scoop of collagen peptides
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Has anyone done the MiniBeast Challenge??
Has anyone done the MiniBeast Challenge by Misscarriejune?? Or the 8 week program? I've been working out for a year now and love the gym. Lately I have been going to the gym without too much of a plan and have been trying to look into the MiniBeast challenge because the results she has posted and the transformation…
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Jillian Michaels Ripped in 30 vs. 6 week 6 pack. Do they work?
Hello all, I hope this post finds you well. I have always struggled with my weight since I was a teenager. I hit my heaviest weight at 210 lbs. Diabetes runs in my family. After having a wake-up call, I decided to take my health seriously. From 210 lbs I am down to 180. I am doing Jillian Michaels 30 day shred and it works…