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JulieAnneFIU
JulieAnneFIU Posts: 125 Member
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I have been stalking this forum for weeks, I've gone back maybe seventeen pages while walking on the treadmill and was like "This is what I need to be doing" so I went online and bought a complete Olympic weight set. I started it Thursday and the first thing I thought was "This is AWESOME!" The second thing I thought was "Those ladies rule!" I just wanted to thank all of you for kicking butt, you all motivate more than you know!

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  • suremeansyes
    suremeansyes Posts: 962 Member
    Nice! Way to commit. :) Glad to have you in the group.
  • ketoandbarbell
    ketoandbarbell Posts: 189 Member
    Welcome! Yes it is awesome!!!
  • perseverance14
    perseverance14 Posts: 1,364 Member
    Welcome, it is awesome...you will do great!
  • JulieAnneFIU
    JulieAnneFIU Posts: 125 Member
    Thank you all so much. I hurt everywhere but it's a good hurt. My husband said he's going to get a bumper sticker that says "My wife can bench your wife". So lucky to have his support, I could barely get the bar up for the ohp!
  • Llamapants86
    Llamapants86 Posts: 1,221 Member
    Ha, I love the bumper sticker idea. And the bar was too much for OHP for me when I started, so go you for getting it up there!
  • perseverance14
    perseverance14 Posts: 1,364 Member
    Thank you all so much. I hurt everywhere but it's a good hurt. My husband said he's going to get a bumper sticker that says "My wife can bench your wife". So lucky to have his support, I could barely get the bar up for the ohp!
    I have found OHP the hardest one to progress with, but it gets easier as time goes on. I have been doing it since April and am at 60 with that now..so I progressed 20 from the 40 I started with (I didn't start with the empty bar), compare that to squats, from 40 to 155 in the same 3 months (it was late April when I started so it has been about 3 months). Some progress better with OHP then squats, some are the other way around.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    Thank you all so much. I hurt everywhere but it's a good hurt. My husband said he's going to get a bumper sticker that says "My wife can bench your wife". So lucky to have his support, I could barely get the bar up for the ohp!

    Hi and welcome...

    haha @ bumper sticker...it's great to have their support...my husbands would say the same I suspect or...my wife can squat me...can yours?

    OHP is a hard one to progress on...suggestion would be to get some fractionals or weighted collars.

    You can get 2.5lbs and down or go to a hardware store and get "big washers" or big magnets...
  • JulieAnneFIU
    JulieAnneFIU Posts: 125 Member
    Yeah I got washers, no way I can go up five pounds at a time. I thought I would be in screaming agony but I feel good. A tired sore but a good sore.

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