I feel too weak for strength

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  • MFPBrandy
    MFPBrandy Posts: 564 Member
    I glanced at your diary for the last several days. If this is a true indication of what you are eating, you are not even fueling your body to sit on the couch. Most days you ate less than 900 calories. If your diary is not correct then follow the advice above. If it is, you need to give your body some fuel and you will be able to exercise every day if you wanted to! Best of luck to you!
    THIS^^^
    Log everything. If you aren't logging, you may be thinking you're eating more than you are -- but you might actually STILL be under BMR. Not fueling your body adequately would explain why strength training is so hard for you.
  • postrockandcats
    postrockandcats Posts: 1,145 Member
    You're only eating 500 calories a day? No wonder you're too weak for strength training. You're probably too weak to do much of anything. This kind of eating will only hurt you, not make you healthy. :)

    Hi,

    As pointed out previously:

    1) It is only 2:30pm
    2) I sometimes do not log dinner because I forget or my BB stops working

    Of course I do not just eat 500 calories a day, I wouldn't.

    Good! But I looked at other days as I saw you were in England. Just saw a trend.
  • NewFitKeri
    NewFitKeri Posts: 190 Member
    Congrats on your efforts!

    First off, UP YOUR PROTEIN! You need 1-1.5 grams of protein per lb just to MANTAIN lean muscle mass. I know what your thinking.."how and the *** am I going to eat protein like that?" It isn't easy at all, but protein is the building block of every part of your body. It fuels you. Obviously proetin shakes are great to have, cottage cheese, egg whites, greek yogurt etc. Make sure you are netting AT LEAST 1200 calories even after exercise. Your body is a machine and needs fuel :)

    Also, pick up New Rules of Lifting For Women. Lotsa great advice and you will def see a change in your body.

    Keep up the hard work and let me know if you need anything! Good Luck:flowerforyou:
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Drop the weights until you have the endurance to complete the program. Then add the weights back in to increase the intensity.

    If endurance is the problem, the solution is to slow down until you can get it all done, then increase speed/weights, etc.
  • queenhiphop
    queenhiphop Posts: 286 Member
    My protein is a huge issue! But I'm working on it. Today I was going to eat cottage cheese in my salad but the bloody staff canteen had run out typically.

    Speed may be an issue - thank you Wendy Terry for pointing it out - what would be the recommended speed to do a squat and press for example? E.g. how many seconds to press?
  • trudence1
    trudence1 Posts: 34
    bumping...this has a lot of info I am interested in. I just want to make sure before I purchase it...is the New Rules of Lifting for Women a book by Lou Schuler?
  • HeidiMightyRawr
    HeidiMightyRawr Posts: 3,343 Member
    bumping...this has a lot of info I am interested in. I just want to make sure before I purchase it...is the New Rules of Lifting for Women a book by Lou Schuler?

    Yes :)
  • sunshine_gem
    sunshine_gem Posts: 390 Member
    Thank you once again for some great advice.

    Re. my diary, I sometimes forget to log - this happens mostly with dinner. I am usually eating rice with some sort of meat/fish and sauce when I eat at my boyfriend's about 3 times a week, the rest of the week it'll be vegetables, potatoes and meat or fish - to be honest I get my main source of calories and nutrients from my dinners. I know it is bad that I forget to log it but I am trying to log it more often.

    My goal is to tone up, whether that is strength training I'm not sure - as you can tell I am not very knowledgable when it comes to exercise other than cardio.

    Thank you for the links, I have saved them to read later on and tomorrow.

    They sounds like well balanced meals so that's good. I was worried for you!

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