November Q and A thread
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I've hit a lifting plateau that I just can't seem to break. I've been in a calorie deficit, on the order of 500-1000ish per day, depending on various factors, since I do have weight to lose. My first thought to dealing with the plateau is simply to increase calories.
My question is, to increase strength, is it sufficient to get my calories close to maintenance or do I really need to be in a surplus, even if it's small? Let's say, just to provide concrete numbers, that my TDEE is 2700 calories. Would I see similar gains at 2600 calories as 2800, or is a surplus required and it has to be 2800?
On re-reading this I'm not sure I've worded this well, but I'll hit "Post Reply" now anyway.
Maybe.
I have a video coming shortly
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I've hit a lifting plateau that I just can't seem to break. I've been in a calorie deficit, on the order of 500-1000ish per day, depending on various factors, since I do have weight to lose. My first thought to dealing with the plateau is simply to increase calories.
My question is, to increase strength, is it sufficient to get my calories close to maintenance or do I really need to be in a surplus, even if it's small? Let's say, just to provide concrete numbers, that my TDEE is 2700 calories. Would I see similar gains at 2600 calories as 2800, or is a surplus required and it has to be 2800?
On re-reading this I'm not sure I've worded this well, but I'll hit "Post Reply" now anyway.
Best of luck interpreting my ramblings.
Short answer: I don't know, also what does your program look like, also other questions
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Hi, again!
Would any of you know what this could:
A few months ago, I was about 2 months into stronglifts 5x5. Towards the middle of a workout, I became dizzy/light headed, weak/shaky and very nauseous. I could feel my heart beat harder and faster and very out of breath. I had eaten ~400-500 calories around 2 hours prior to the lifting. I managed to finish my workout without blacking out, but felt like even worse afterwards. I could barely make it up 2 sets of stairs and had to lay down for 40 minutes. After that, I started taking inderal (perscribed to me for for anxiety and migrains) which drastically deceased the above.
My question is, was it possible that I was having anxety, or could this have been a blood pressure issue known with lifting? I don't usually have blood pressure problems. Is this common for new lifters? I take a couple of large breaths before the major one that hold on the way down, then release slowly once I am out of the hole/towards the end of the lift.0 -
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Sounds like it could have been a low BP - often due to dehydration. Probably depends what your normal BP is though anyway.
Though honestly, could have been any number of things. Maybe you were sick? Probably not related to lifting IMO0 -
cerise_noir wrote: »Hi, again!
Would any of you know what this could:
A few months ago, I was about 2 months into stronglifts 5x5. Towards the middle of a workout, I became dizzy/light headed, weak/shaky and very nauseous. I could feel my heart beat harder and faster and very out of breath. I had eaten ~400-500 calories around 2 hours prior to the lifting. I managed to finish my workout without blacking out, but felt like even worse afterwards. I could barely make it up 2 sets of stairs and had to lay down for 40 minutes. After that, I started taking inderal (perscribed to me for for anxiety and migrains) which drastically deceased the above.
My question is, was it possible that I was having anxety, or could this have been a blood pressure issue known with lifting? I don't usually have blood pressure problems. Is this common for new lifters? I take a couple of large breaths before the major one that hold on the way down, then release slowly once I am out of the hole/towards the end of the lift.
I'll share an experience with you provided that I'm abundantly clear on something -- this is not medical advice, this is not me claiming what is going on with you, and I would really talk to your doctor if this is something that concerns you.
I had a similar circumstance post workout and one circumstance unrelated to working out where my vision would get all messed up (dark spots/auras) followed by periodic waves of racing heartbeat like I was having a panic attack. Heartbeat would spike randomly then come back down. Then intermittent intense nausea where I'd almost puke but not quite.
I went to my doctor thinking I was having panic attacks and it turned out to be a migraine.
For me it seems like these CAN happen if I train fasted for long durations (I can do a short workout fasted without much issue) probably due to blood sugar dropping too low, and I also seem to occasionally get them from intense light.
Totally sucked, bad. I no longer train fasted and I own lots of pairs of sunglasses, lol.1 -
One of these days I'll read this thread at home where I can watch the video responses with sound (not an option at the office, lol).0
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kathrynjean_ wrote: »Soo ... Maybe this is a stupid question, but I'd be interested in hearing yours (and others) thoughts about how to set fitness related goals that are both reasonable and specific enough to be useful.
As I'm transitioning into maitenance, it makes sense to have goals that are not scale related. But I feel like I don't really know where to start with that. In addition, I think I saw you say somewhere that for many people, it's not necessarily fruitful to set a goal like "lose xx lbs by xx date, or increase xx lift xx lbs by xx date" because the timeline is arbitrary and can lead to feelings of failure, even if some progress is made by that certain date. (Correct me if I'm wrong or if I've misunderstood)
But what does that leave? Things like "getting stronger" seem so nonspecific as to not be very useful (for me).
I feel like this is actually very obvious and I'm overthinking it to the max, but would be interested in hearing what others have to say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDYdGKkb5CQ&feature=youtu.be
Time for a new phone there, brother.
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kathrynjean_ wrote: »Soo ... Maybe this is a stupid question, but I'd be interested in hearing yours (and others) thoughts about how to set fitness related goals that are both reasonable and specific enough to be useful.
As I'm transitioning into maitenance, it makes sense to have goals that are not scale related. But I feel like I don't really know where to start with that. In addition, I think I saw you say somewhere that for many people, it's not necessarily fruitful to set a goal like "lose xx lbs by xx date, or increase xx lift xx lbs by xx date" because the timeline is arbitrary and can lead to feelings of failure, even if some progress is made by that certain date. (Correct me if I'm wrong or if I've misunderstood)
But what does that leave? Things like "getting stronger" seem so nonspecific as to not be very useful (for me).
I feel like this is actually very obvious and I'm overthinking it to the max, but would be interested in hearing what others have to say.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDYdGKkb5CQ&feature=youtu.be
Time for a new phone there, brother.
Actually it's a fairly new laptop, I probably got the camera lens fogged up from all the HOT SKYPE ACTION with my clients.
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kathrynjean_ wrote: »Soo ... Maybe this is a stupid question, but I'd be interested in hearing yours (and others) thoughts about how to set fitness related goals that are both reasonable and specific enough to be useful.
As I'm transitioning into maitenance, it makes sense to have goals that are not scale related. But I feel like I don't really know where to start with that. In addition, I think I saw you say somewhere that for many people, it's not necessarily fruitful to set a goal like "lose xx lbs by xx date, or increase xx lift xx lbs by xx date" because the timeline is arbitrary and can lead to feelings of failure, even if some progress is made by that certain date. (Correct me if I'm wrong or if I've misunderstood)
But what does that leave? Things like "getting stronger" seem so nonspecific as to not be very useful (for me).
I feel like this is actually very obvious and I'm overthinking it to the max, but would be interested in hearing what others have to say.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDYdGKkb5CQ&feature=youtu.be
Time for a new phone there, brother.
Actually it's a fairly new laptop, I probably got the camera lens fogged up from all the HOT SKYPE ACTION with my clients.
I saw that the videos are 240p so I figured you were using some ancient camera/webcam but maybe it's just the program/settings you are using to do the recording instead?0 -
kathrynjean_ wrote: »Soo ... Maybe this is a stupid question, but I'd be interested in hearing yours (and others) thoughts about how to set fitness related goals that are both reasonable and specific enough to be useful.
As I'm transitioning into maitenance, it makes sense to have goals that are not scale related. But I feel like I don't really know where to start with that. In addition, I think I saw you say somewhere that for many people, it's not necessarily fruitful to set a goal like "lose xx lbs by xx date, or increase xx lift xx lbs by xx date" because the timeline is arbitrary and can lead to feelings of failure, even if some progress is made by that certain date. (Correct me if I'm wrong or if I've misunderstood)
But what does that leave? Things like "getting stronger" seem so nonspecific as to not be very useful (for me).
I feel like this is actually very obvious and I'm overthinking it to the max, but would be interested in hearing what others have to say.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDYdGKkb5CQ&feature=youtu.be
Time for a new phone there, brother.
Actually it's a fairly new laptop, I probably got the camera lens fogged up from all the HOT SKYPE ACTION with my clients.
I saw that the videos are 240p so I figured you were using some ancient camera/webcam but maybe it's just the program/settings you are using to do the recording instead?
I just figured they haven't gotten out of the 90s yet in Minnesota.1 -
LOL
I'm using Windows movie maker but I had not checked the settings.
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Closing this thread for now but I'll kick off a December thread shortly.1
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