Daily Chat Thread
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Ali-strep and bronchitis is going around here. Hope he's feeling better and no one else gets it! You'll finish 3 soon!
Jo-that'd be fabulous! You're probably not much higher than that based on your pictures!
I had my BF tested today with one of those handheld things... Said my Bf was 7% more than what the caliper has been saying...I don't trust those things. The scale either
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Thanks! I look forward to trying supercharged eventually!Hello
Jo you are pretty skinny. Strong too
Beeps- my neighbor was opposed to the bar position on my neck for squats, and lunges etc.i need to put it behind my traps not on the bump of my c5 vertebrae
Ali hope your little one gets better. Metabolic complexes are in supercharged - I think.
Basically three exercises with a lighter weight like 20 lunges with a twenty five lb barbell then 20 shoulder presses then 20 squats with the same weight quickly. The repeat the whole thing twice.
Good info on the neck..li think I've been doing that in the past. I used the padded thing, but think it's too high up on my neck not my back.
Stage 3 A2 tomorrow. Bring on the matrix!!0 -
Realistically I think I'm about 19%
Tired today but got in my lifting. I always do a 10 min run but was enjoying it so did 20 mins. Then when it came to lifts I either got all my reps or upped weights - hurrah! Hope I don't have DOMS tomorrow as need to lift again, else I'll only manage x2 this week.
Busy times - school hols now and placement.... one week until the in-laws arrive..... epic assignments.....
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Happy Friday ladies,
It look like my little one has strep. I kept him home from school today again and he seemed so disappointed, I hope he always like school like this. I will finish stage 3 tonight :bigsmile: I actually think I felt better not lifting Wednesday. I had a bit more energy to put into my cardio yesterday. I may need to relax my workouts a bit or up my calorie, I didn't realize how tired I was until I wasn't tired (does that make sense?)
Jo - Great workout, I've never been into running, I've actually been quite against it, its never been something I've enjoyed but lately I've considered it. Sometimes I just feel like I want to go. And great job increasing the weights, thats not always the easy to do. (why don't we have a smiley that flexes its muscles? We need one).
Julie- doesn't matter what any of those tests say, you look fantastic!!!! Keep doing whatever you're doing, its working.
I'm hoping everyone is my house is feel better and in high spirits this weekend, I want to take the kids to the halloween stores & decorate the house, yep I'm a month early but I LOVE Halloween!! You can dress silly, act like a kid & ppl give out candy, what's not to love.
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Ali Halloween is the best monthlong holiday of the year. It is hard to take too seriously. You don't need to eat with your family just dress up and have fun.
I had an ok lifting session yesterday and I swam this morning.
I am off today and I am enjoying the last of the sun with my doggy in my hammock. All I need is a glass of white wine...
My kids seem reasonably happy and I have a three day weekend.0 -
Gotmy lifting in-and-done this morning, at a beautiful gym in vancouver!
Am now at the airport. Waiting for my lunch and my flight.
Am verrrry tired. But, my travel-heavy september is over and october will be about moving off the five lbs i put on in september, lol.
Have a great weekend....go lift heavy things!0 -
Ladies, I've been MIA lately as life is just so busy. Hitting the gym 5-6 times a week, home with my toddler all day and running the older one to school, cleaning, cooking, errands, socializing...not much time for online stuff!
I am one week binge free as of today. Its a huge deal as I haven't gone that long in quite a while. I feel great, lighter, happier.
I am almost done Basic Training I from Supercharged and really like it. Its been nice to go back to some basic moves and focus on form a bit more. I went way back on my DL weight cause somehow my body seemed to totally forget the correct form after a couple weeks of not doing them. Some of the moves are difficult for me though, and I can see myself still doing them in BT11: my pushups still suck and the plank with pulldown is so challenging. I find my hips rolling over on that one a lot.
Glad to hear everyone is doing pretty well. Ali, hope your son is better soon!
I am terrified for Halloween and Christmas. Avoiding bingeing is so hard for me at those times and I love to bake, and usually do a ton of it for Christmas.0 -
Today is just an all round awesome day - the sun is shining and I fixed my form with DLs AND matched last weeks PR. No more smashed up knees, hurrah! :bigsmile:0
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Pudding - sorry holidays are so hard for you. Maybe pick an exercise you need to improve every time you catch yourself eating unhealthy. Push-ups are easy and you can do them anywhere- even against the wall. Just pick say five and do them perfectly.
Beeps I am jealous you were in Vancouver- it is gorgeous.
Jo glad you had a good one.
I had a great dinner with my family- mostly leftovers with some veg from our garden. Yum.
My kids are reading quietly from actual books not screens.0 -
Ali-hugs! Hope your son feels better. Glad the extra rest helped. Fueling your workouts well is important too! Reevaluating is wise...hope you're kicking tail!
Beeps-safe flight home. Good job!
Pmagnan-kids reading books? Good night for sure!
Jo-woohoo for good form dLs!! WTG!!
Pudding-good job on the week binge free! Maybe this year you'll not struggle as much is Halloween? Also like the old school type lifting and look forward to getting back to that eventually too!
I did stage 3 2A today... my second shot at the bw matrix...first time through similar time 3:30 and I survived! Rested my 7 minutes then tried again. I did the regular squats and lunges a bit faster this time (I don't go that deep with them...but they're squats and lunges though!) and really pushed though the jump lunges at the end even though I was wiped...beat my time by a lot!! 2:45!!! Shazam! Limped quite happily to my car!:bigsmile:0 -
Julie that's awesome !!!
I finally finished stage 3 !!!!!!!!!:bigsmile: I added some DL and squats at the end just to keep up on them and see what I could lift. My still is 125lb but I didn't try for more and I upped my squat to 85lbs. I'll happily take that.
My son is feeling better so he thinks he doesn't need his antibiotic. I'm glad to see him up and about but take the medicine!
Thanks for the concern with the candy ladies,I do need to watch that. Candy is my weakness. I have the biggest sweet tooth but I'm determined not to ruin the hard work I've done.
Beeps travel safely
Pudding good to see you, you've been missed
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Got in my lifting last night. My likey BT 4 of Supercharged. I feel like I'm doing real workouts again.
Plank 2x1 min.
RDL 70
Back Squat 3x10@100
Single are standing Cable Row 3x10 @ 25
elevated rear foot lunge 3x10@ 20dbs
T Pushups 3x10
I tried to do assisted chin ups in the metabolic but it didn't work I did REverse chin ups instead.0 -
It's cousin's/girl's night out. We are going back to Bahama Breeze. I will not allow myself to give a crap about calories. I NEED a good time.0
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Nice job Sam
I had a relaxing day
Tomorrow I get up early and lift0 -
Ali-great job finishing 3 and adding some!!
Sam-good job to you too! Hope you had a fun night out!
Pmqgnan-hope you get a great workout in tomorrow morning!!
I'm doing well, resting over the weekend. If I get 5 workouts in M-F I let myself take the weekend off to rest. Still sore from Friday...
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Hey everybody. Hope everyone is having an awesome weekend. pmag, it's so exciting you have a date planned for your powerlifting competition. Keep us informed.
Can't believe it's been more than a week since I last posted here. Been super busy. Still doing my 3 days of lifting though. But can't seem to fit in my cardio day. I think I'll see if I can do 5-10 mins a few days this week. Not doing cardio means I have to eat even less to lose the weight. I'm now down to 1600 calories daily which is way less than I'm used to, and even that low I lose less than a lb weekly.
I was finally able to hit my 25% protein goal and now I'm going to try to up it to 26% with the hope of eventually getting to 30%.
For some reason, I'm feeling really motivated right now. Hoping I can keep this up.0 -
Time for some before-after photos, pmagnan!
I want to see them!0 -
Hey beeps it is not about aesthetics!
I always weigh 109. I just want to lift more than 135 lbs officially for any stinking lift. So except for bench press I can lift 135 for a squat, hip thrust or deadlift. I can't seem to lift more for even one rep.
So I needed a way to set a goal. So I will compete in a women's pl event.
On December 13, I will lift more than 135 lbs for at least one lift. The meet is in Lincoln City Oregon where no one will know me. I will wear the embarrassing singlet. My current avatar is my before. My ugly singlet will be my after. I will take a "during".0 -
Morning everybody! Completed Stage 3 A4 this morning, so only one more workout left in Stage 3 for me, which I've got planned for this Wednesday...
Then my rest time will be elk hunting with my hubby the rest of the week - we leave after work on Wednesday and we'll be at it until Sunday, or until we both fill our tags, so excited!!! Such an awesome way to fill the freezer, and the macros for elk are pretty decent :happy: Let's just hope I've built up enough strength and endurance by this point to pack the thing out!
Julie - holy superwoman! It takes me like 5 minutes to finish that matrix, and I was super excited this morning bc I was actually able to do it without taking little rests during it :laugh:
Pmagnan - that is so exciting you're doing a competition! Bound to be an awesome experience, best of luck!0 -
Man, the BahamaRita is the best drink ever! I LOVE that place!!It's cousin's/girl's night out. We are going back to Bahama Breeze. I will not allow myself to give a crap about calories. I NEED a good time.
Happy Monday, all! Ali, glad to see your son is feeling better but tell him he has to finish the meds unless he wants to get sick again and miss more school! Sounds like that would do the trick. LOL
Julie, great job on improving your time in the BWM! I tend to fly through the squats and lunges, which helps the overall time. Then I do the jumps in groups of 4 or 6, depending on how my legs feel. That seems to help too.
I was back in the gym today after a planned rest week and an unplanned one. My back is feeling AWESOME so I am so happy to be back at it. Today was 4A1. I dropped my weight down to 45 (just the bar) for the FSPP and the bar went up way easy. So, next time I'll add some weight. I was concerned that I wouldn't be able to get it up. And, yeah, the planks - I barely made it to 1 minute for 2-minute planks. lol0 -
Hey beeps it is not about aesthetics!
I always weigh 109. I just want to lift more than 135 lbs officially for any stinking lift. So except for bench press I can lift 135 for a squat, hip thrust or deadlift. I can't seem to lift more for even one rep.
So I needed a way to set a goal. So I will compete in a women's pl event.
On December 13, I will lift more than 135 lbs for at least one lift. The meet is in Lincoln City Oregon where no one will know me. I will wear the embarrassing singlet. My current avatar is my before. My ugly singlet will be my after. I will take a "during".
Go, Pmag!!!! Holy cow, I wish was that brave. I have no doubt you will rock that singlet. We will cheer you on!0 -
Beeps-you know, a few photos of your progress would be inspiring too
. You're pretty strong and fabulous. Just sayin' :bigsmile:
Sam-hope you're doing well! Kutgw!
Pmagnan-looking forward to cheering you on! A competition is a great goal and motivator I'm sure! WTG!
Elsie-good luck on your hunt, and good timing too!
I go pretty quickly through the regular squats and lunges in the matrix, I realized I was taking too long with them and that was key to dropping my time. And psyching myself up for it-lol!
Love-so glad your back is feeling good! Glad you took it a bit easier, reinjuring is no good! Lol at the matrix-I also do them like that in subsets, then break to breathe and stomp my feet a bit. I pushed myself to do 8 reps before a little break this last time. My calves were really tight all weekend.
Did 3B2 today. I used a box for the single leg squat and added 5 lbs weights-much better, still think regular squats would do more for me, but I'm following the plan. YTWLs were better form too, but I still feel like my T's stink. Totally do the ab/flexion part differently-side bends, steep incline sit ups, weighted Swiss ball crunches, but I think it'll be ok. The Rdl/bor were ok.
I miss squats and DLs - when could I throw a few of those in...maybe before or after a lifting day? Probably not in btw, right?
New week, new opportunity to challenge and improve!!! We got this girls!!0 -
I'm not even going to try to reply to everyone, but it's awesome to see so many ladies lifting heavy stuff!
I was finally able to lift today for the first time in nearly 3 weeks. I started the final phase of Strong Curves. It was brutal. I'm going to be very sore. Back to a deficit. Need to lose an inch off this waist by the end of the year.0 -
Alright, pmagnan....thanks for clarifying - that makes good sense! I think this is a great thing for you to do.
Julieboolie....I don't have anymore side-by-sides to add to what I have already shown all over mfp, lol! I stopped taking bikini pics in early 2014.....I've been pretty much the same weight since then. Well, actually that's not true. I am 5 lbs heavier than I was on January 1, 2014.
Sooooooooooo, you guessed it!! I wanna lose 7 lbs by January 1, 2015. That's about 0.5 lbs per week. Totally doable.
BOOM!0 -
I have strong curves but it is not a good "take to the gym" style of book. When they come out with a leaflet version, though, I am ALL OVER IT.
Meanwhile, I keep on with Venus. Am doing Phase 3. Mind you, my printer won't print pages 27 to 53 of the friggin' .pdf, so I jumped ahead to Week 7 Day 3 because I don't have those missing pages! (I was about Week 3 DAy 3 last week).
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best of luck Beeps.
No gym this weekend. Had a blast with the girls though, and three of our kids were invited to be People to People Ambassadors. My son is going to Canada.
Didn't log food all week. I suck.0 -
Hey! Nobody sucks! Unless of course, you have ice cream. And then you suck ice cream. :bigsmile:
I've been reading, but not posting much again. The last week or so has seen me smash pretty close to the bottom and I'm slowly working my way back up again. So I didn't feel like posting when I didn't have anything much cheery to say (although I did try ).
I'm halfway through Stage 7. I have managed to keep the lifting and exercising up even though I desperately didn't want to because I'm well aware that it was just about the only thing keeping my head above water. Just locking myself in the garage and pushing through the workouts and the feeling of accomplishment afterwards (even if I had to lower some of the weights and adjust things so I could focus on good form) made me feel better.
DH's work sucks, his Masters degrees are coming thick and fast with the assignments and exams, he's flying out to Melbourne tomorrow, the kids are on holidays and my work is ramping up towards Christmas. I dropped some balls in my juggling act and pretty much crashed and burned mentally at the end of last week.
But, today the sun is shining, I've done a child-swap with a friend, so my girl is here being entertained by a friend and my boy is at their place with their boy. Here, they are now in the pool, I'm in my studio and I'm going to finish some orders that need to be posted tomorrow morning, and then I'm just going to sit and slowly go through some paperwork. Or maybe I'll just read a book.
My head is still pretty screwed up, but I'm going to take it one step at a time.
Today I did a HIIT session and tomorrow I will lift. Tonight is most definitely leftovers for dinner :laugh: 0 -
Sorry to hear you're fighting the epic workload too dna....
I too am trying to keep my head above water - struggling to work full time shifts, juggle the school hols, assignments and get the house ready for the in-laws. Thankfully today I performed my 40th delivery - now I have all the births I require to qualify! Am celebrating by myself with champagne, hahahaha. :drinker:
No workouts so far this week - no time. Days off tomorrow and thurs - will get to the gym.0 -
julie, when you do single leg squats, do you get your leg parallel to the floor at all? I tried. Epic fail. Barely got my foot up a few inches.
cowgirl I LOVED Strong Curves. I only wish I had improved my eating back then. I'm sure I would have gotten better results. I'm with you on losing an inch. How about it? Goal: to lose 1 inch from waist (smallest part) by now and December 31, 2014. We can do it!
sam, that's great about the kids! And you DON'T suck. Just start logging NOW.
dna, good job on still doing your workouts even though you have so many other things to do. I'm in the same boat.
jo, congrats!!! Champagne sounds lovely. I haven't had any in over a year. I stopped drinking to try to get this tummy down. NOT WORKING.
So, after I talked about how motivated I am right now, I found myself thinking about food all day yesterday. Eventually caved and had chocolate. And also went over my allotted calorie goal for the day. Couldn't understand it until I went and checked my calendar. TOM is less than a week away. Whew. Thank God. At least there is an explanation for why I feel so out of control all of a sudden. It'll pass. For now I just need to try to not go too far over on calories.
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Hey everyone.
Sorry I have been MIA lately. I haven't been feeling well and have been really busy. I'm only getting in 2 lifting sessions a week which really sucks but I am hoping that next week I will do better.
Jamaican, I am in on the losing 1 inch from the waist by the end of the year. I need something to keep me focused. My weight has been going in the wrong direction lately and I just can't seem to get a grip on it. Ugh!
I am not going to comment on everyone because there is so much to catch up on but its great to read about how awesome you all are. Keep it up ladies!0 -
Good morning!julie, when you do single leg squats, do you get your leg parallel to the floor at all? I tried. Epic fail. Barely got my foot up a few inches.
I don't think you're supposed to reach parallel. That's why they're called partial single leg squats. So, no failing! It wasn't meant to be done that way. :-)
Today is my off day and I am grateful. So, have any of you had anyone offer unsolicited advice to you in the gym? This man (who I'm fairly certain is trying to hit on me) continues to offer me advice on things. I smile and I'm trying to be nice but I'm nearing my breaking point! WTF?0
