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Dawn - welcome back! I can hardly wait to see your pictures! Especially your shoes!0
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fanncy0626 wrote: »Dawn - welcome back! I can hardly wait to see your pictures! Especially your shoes!
those must be the most famous shoes on mfp. also i think we all breathed with relief when you found them.
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Welcome back!!0
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I've just come here for 5 minds to catch up on what everyone's doing, and to calm down from someone annoying me at work! You lot cheer me up with all your great workouts.
It's good to put things into perspective by stepping away from the irritation - and now I'm picturing arm wrestling the stupid person who annoyed me, and crushing her
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Dress pictures posted in progress forum. Will take pictures of the shoes in a couple of days as they are hard to see in the main picture.
Nice thought process Ariadnula. One time I overheard a comment from some guy thinking he was funny about making fun of the fluffy girl going out for a walk (aka, me). One of my thoughts was pfft, I could deadlift you. hehehe0 -
@DawnEmbers wow'!! Just seen you photos. A-ma-zing!!!!0
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My husband & 4 yr old are in their way to Florida for the next 8 days. I decided to stay home to work on (& hopefully) complete my big art commission. It's been such a struggle to find time to work between being home with my daughter 2 weekdays and being primary caregiver on weekends & evenings. School days I can work for a few hours but I have to quit during my most productive time to pick her up from school. Being a mom had been such a struggle for me, especially since we moved away from family & friends for my husband's job. I was welcoming the chance to sleep past 6-6:30, work as long as I want, take a break from cooking & cleaning. But I find myself feeling melancholy that they've gone without me. It's our daughter's first
plane trip. Sigh. I'm taking the rest of today to be emotional and then tomorrow I'm going to start hitting work & working out hard!0 -
Dawn- amazing difference! You looked awesome!
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Brava, Dawn! You look so great!0
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It took me a while to find the progress thread but blimey, well done Dawn, you look amazing!0
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Dawn you look beautiful and strong!0
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DawnEmbers wrote: »Dress pictures posted in progress forum.
you. look. amazing. just wow.
and such a pretty dress too.
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Thanks everyone.
And now for the shoes. They were simple black so can use them with other outfits in the future. I had bought blister bandaids just in case, but had no issues at all with these. Though, will admit I didn't dance much other than a short little bit cause I got pulled over by someone during a Garth Brooks song (yeah... I like his music but I don't usually dance to them). Not bad considering I got them at ShopKo in small town Utah.
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Love the shoes! They look very comfy.0
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They're great!0
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"make a shelf". people say this especially for bench and ohp and also for setting the bar on your back for the squat.
and i'm only now asking myself: do you mean that physically, i.e. by pulling your shoulderblades so tight together that the bones form a flat shelf?0 -
here. a friend showed me this. i have nothing to add.
have a giggle conniption you hate yourself for.
https://www.facebook.com/loukritiahdiaxroniki/videos/436861643169074/0 -
Haha, I have seen that before. I think it was originally Jimmy Kimmel or something...0
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canadianlbs wrote: »here. a friend showed me this. i have nothing to add.
have a giggle conniption you hate yourself for.
https://www.facebook.com/loukritiahdiaxroniki/videos/436861643169074/
the first time i saw this was on Ellen. It's always funny, tho! xD0 -
So safeties....I think boxes on either side might be the easiest. I have this rack:
http://www.hoistfitness.com/consumer/equipment/hf-4970_squat-rack
There are no commercially available safeties for it. We couldn't get a proper power cage because the ceiling was slightly too low. A single person spot is ok right now because let's be honest I'm not moving that much weight (5 rep max is 120 lb) And a single person spot will probably work for a really long time. Because I'm not getting stronger very quickly either.
I'm still going to need to either work at lower percentages of max or get a spot for bench tho.0 -
Since the holidays are approaching, I wanted to share this article - http://www.niashanks.com/exercise-is-not-punishment/0
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In order to give myself time frames for running and such since the half marathon won't be until fall (they don't have anything up on it yet even), I decided to find a 10k for spring. I found one on May 21st in the town I work in and it's an obstacle one, a very muddy obstacle course. Should be fun so I signed up. Of the things mentioned on the site, while I can't do a pull up yet or anything but I've climbed with ropes and stuff before, the main thing I don't know if I can do is jumping over stuff. They make a joke about hurdles being easy and mention blindfolded jumps over hay bales. Short with not much of a vertical jump ever means me no likey jumps. I may need to add box jumps to my training regimen. Good thing I have plenty of time to work on that and some upper body strength. Maybe a team will adopt me at the wave I picked cause it has teams but I know no one, so am signing up alone. Gives me training incentive and crosses off a goal on my list of things to accomplish: make it through an obstacle course.0
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dawn - that sounds like a lot of fun! Too bad we all can't join up for one together!0
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Wow, sounds great, good for you! It's the running bit that puts me off those - I could probably do the other stuff but running 10k would kill me
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hehe. I figure since I already ran a 10k, that should be okay. Plus, it'll keep me training so that I'm ready to work towards half marathon once spring gets here.0
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Not bad for a hotel gym! Nothing smaller than 5kg though, so have dropped back a bit rather than overdo things. There's no one here to rescue me if it flattens me!
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Oops, there was meant to be a photo there!0
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Okay, the overall time spent with the trainer today. It was different. Had made the appointment just to get someone to use the calipers since last time I tried everyone was too busy and I got told it was better to set up an appointment so that a trainer would be available. However, the guy trainer thought I had signed up to meet for more reasons than that, so it was a little awkward. Funny thing though, I'm actually certain that the trainer was the one I met in the other gym (not that far but different "town" that was a super sport so more expensive) who helped me sign up for the one I attend. Kind of funny, having the meet up a year later. He had noticed that I lost some weight but was hesitant about mentioning it, as some can be cause if you don't work with someone it's kind of weird to just go up and ask if the person has lost weight, though some customers still do it where I work.
He had me fill out the sheet that asks questions about goals, current consumption (calories and any supplements) plus an other spot that included past injuries, issue, hobbies and such all in one. I put the runs and lifting in my goals, dairy under allergy, my calorie range which is general as it does vary a little on the long run days compared to no exercise days, and the past injuries/issues.
We talked a little there with him mostly focusing on the areas where I have pain sometimes. Really shouldn't have mentioned the elbow, it doesn't flair up often but skull crushers this last time aggravated it some so the past couple of days it was achy. He kept trying to get me to pinpoint the exact location for each one, which I wasn't quite prepared for since I didn't really make the appointment in order to get a full assessment on those aspects. Talked a tad on the protein/food side but he was easily distracted and jumped topics a couple of times. Didn't ask about the lifting much though I did get a chance to get some answers on what things weigh. According to him the ez curl bars (not fixed weight ones) are 35, which would be why 45 felt rather heavy on curls compared to the 40 I had done before with the straight bar. He had to guess on the leg press because unlike any other he has worked with, they don't say them right on the equipment. He guessed the one I use to be no more than 20, possibly closer to 10 based on how it feels.
Only time we really talked weights and certain lifts is I mentioned needing to look into smaller plates or something to increase bench press. He suggested switching out for dumbbells for a while for the flat bench.
He did go off on a thing about whey protein, which I posted about already in the other topic. That was a bit weird. Finally, got the body fat assessment done and he did seem to know how to work the calipers, at least. Even gave me the sheet where he wrote the little details down on after we were done which has the measurements for each point used. The unfortunate part is all of that went down but my bf% compared to months ago when I last had it checked did not change at all. Or well, I guess looking at my notes the different is .15 as before had listed 28.7 and it was 28.55. Not really a noteworthy change there considering the margin of error and such. Though it was under 4 months, but still. Need to work on something or other in this regard. I'm down around 10 lbs since the July % test but hopefully as I get back on track working towards June goals, things will improve.
The focus on the injuries was weird cause I didn't list them to be like I hurt now. In fact, lifting hasn't bothered my knees at all and I've had problems with them off and on since 6th grade basketball. Though I do now like using the rack for lunges just in case one has a tantrum. Other than some slight aching, my back doesn't hurt either and that's where I have arthritis. The wrists, mostly right, I'm just careful with and it does set back my front squat some but I'm working on it. In general, I don't have a lot of pain so wasn't expected that to come up let alone be a main focus.
There was, of course, the mention of sessions though he worded it a little different than the others and didn't do the whole price point spiel and what not. He actually said it seemed I was doing well with my program lifting wise, but most of his interest to work with me was on the nutrition side. Said if I found myself stalling or just wanted to try a different approach in that regard, he would like to work with me. And offered a free hour session, if I'm interested in the future to get some ideas. Though the whole not eating in a deficit but still lose weight sounded tad questionable when he mentioned that part. He was nice at least and not pushy.
But yeah, all of that just to get someone to use calipers...0 -
Just feel like a ramble here. I've been sitting watching form videos for deadlifts and I'm keen to get in and try out some new ideas. I'm not due to deadlift tomorrow but I think I'll have a play with some light weights just to practise what I'm doing with those, because something's not been right so far! I think I've been too far from the bar, and kind of squatting my way into it. Dunno, we'll see.
In other news, my Christmas tree is up and it's very cheerful!0 -
@Ariadnula I find this video the easiest / most straightforward to use for set up. Obviously it's not that in depth, but helps me keep it super simple
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tfYez7-h55c
You've definitely got the strength to get those deadlifts off the ground 0
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