Daily Chat Thread
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Hey all you ladies who gave me good advice about the step ups - I tried my new box today, knee at right angle, etc., and it was great. I could do more weight than I thought, but also just enjoyed doing it right. I had a GREAT lifting session and felt really good about it.
THANKS y'all!0 -
Nice geeks I had a good workout too
I did a mixup of the two stage 1 workouts but I increased my squats and the height if my step, so I am pleased . Hope everyone had a good weekend0 -
Oh yeah for sure..no quitting here..in fact just planning my day which includes my scheduled workout at 11:30am.
I really need to lose some summer fat~yikes
Anyway..onward we go :-)0 -
Hi Ladies, I just want to say that I started stage 3 and Body Weight Matrix kicked my butt! OMG....here was the thought in my head, "oh, this can't be too hard, there are no weights involved"...so naive. But on the bright side, I did get to the gym 4x last week with 3 lifting days and one cardio, so at least there is that. Happy Monday y'all.0
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so i figured out what my problem was. i've been feeling so lethargic and exhausted lately... because... i'm PREGNANT!
NO WONDER getting up at 5 AM has been the hardest thing on the planet lately! i am so excited to be pregnant, but i sure wish i had more energy. i have been looking up some pregnancy workouts that i think i'm going to start trying at home after work. 5 AM gym time isn't happening again anytime soon for this girl.
oh and p.s. it's still a secret for the most part. we plan on telling our families sometime next month. i can't wait! i feel like i'm bursting on the inside! (emotionally and soon to be physically too, haha!)
and p.p.s. BEEPS you look amazing! your arms are gorgeously strong looking!0 -
CONGRATS tartsul!!! What happy news to share!
I will lift 3 x this week....am looking very forward to it!0 -
Congrats, tartsul! How exciting! I won't tell a soul. :happy:
Saw this article
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/when-is-it-safe-pregnant-woman-sparks-facebook-debate-with-crossfit-photo-1.146473
and wanted to get pregnant again just to look that good. But really, no. I'm done. :drinker:
Beeps, you are so smokin. Awesome!
Took some after shots to do a comparison over the weekend. Showed them to DH, and his face was full-on shock. I guess it's hard to notice the little changes over time?0 -
won't it be nice when "others" stop trying to tell women what to do with their own bodies???
ugh, media, go find something ELSE to rile people up about!!0 -
YES. Yes. yes.won't it be nice when "others" stop trying to tell women what to do with their own bodies???
ugh, media, go find something ELSE to rile people up about!!0 -
Hey ladies! Back from 9 day vacation. It was great. We lazed around , shopped, did some sightseeing, and ATE ALL the stinkin time!
Today I had to do laundry and get the house back in order. We left our 18 year old boy at home. Nuff said, right?:ohwell:
Tomorrow back to the gym!0 -
Beeps, you speak the truth!0
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congrats tarts. I think i slept through my first trimester...both times.
Beeps, right on.
Jewel, the BWM is a die-hard *****
Well, big news for me, not as big as being preggers, but I was excited. I hit 8 reps of 135lbs. that's right I got the big girl 45lb plates on my squat bar and rocked it. The guy next to me seemed amused by my excitement
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Sam that's terrific- it is encouraging to read what you can do
Tarts congratulations- If anyone tells you not to lift during pregnancy ask for a study-there's no good data- use common sense though if something hurts back down, etc. swimming is a great exercise for the third trimester less contractions and the water helps support you and it feels good especially if you are swollen.
My swim buddy had rest day so I stayed home and jumped rope. Since I was not at the pool- I had some extra time and I made a baked omelet but forgot some apparently critical ingredients and my family thought it was awful.0 -
Sam, you are so awesome! Wahoo! Sometimes y'all intimidate the heck out of me. LOL. Great motivation though! Keep it up, girl, no pun intended!
Congrats Tarts!!0 -
so i figured out what my problem was. i've been feeling so lethargic and exhausted lately... because... i'm PREGNANT!
NO WONDER getting up at 5 AM has been the hardest thing on the planet lately! i am so excited to be pregnant, but i sure wish i had more energy. i have been looking up some pregnancy workouts that i think i'm going to start trying at home after work. 5 AM gym time isn't happening again anytime soon for this girl.
oh and p.s. it's still a secret for the most part. we plan on telling our families sometime next month. i can't wait! i feel like i'm bursting on the inside! (emotionally and soon to be physically too, haha!)
and p.p.s. BEEPS you look amazing! your arms are gorgeously strong looking!
Congratulations! Enjoy your pregnancy and hope it's a healthy happy and easy one!
It's time for me to get back into the conversation a bit more! I'm ready for some changes again. I'm not as sore after yesterday as I was after my workout last week and I started all over and did the first workout...I upped my weights!0 -
that's great, Breeze...its so much fun when the weights go up!
and speaking of when weights go up.....all of you more experienced lifters - appreciate your thoughts on this:
I'm on phase 2 of NRW4W (and yes, I read that thread a lot), ,...when you all were just beginning, how did you handle going up in your weight that you lifted? In other words, did you strive for an amount in each lift that was challenging, and maybe the last two reps in a set were really hard, but you could do all 10 reps,...OR did you lift amounts that were challenging and you might not make the full 10 reps, say only 6 or 8? OR something else?
I am just trying to learn about others experiences,....appreciate all perspectives!0 -
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it's totally time to ROLL THIS THREAD!0
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I'm happy to be back lifting. My DOMs is there, but not UBER-terrible. So, I think easing back into it is working.
I am doing 3 sets (I never did bother with 2), but am going up in weights only slowly. Although, my top half is speeding up moreso than my butt-piece.
I *do* want to be able to walk. So, I'm only deadlifting 95 lbs and I'm only glute-bridging 115 lbs.
No matter - by this time in October, I'll be right back up to snuff!0 -
Way to go beeps!! Welcome back to the dark side. Your weights will be up in no time
As for stage 2. I'm starting that on Friday. If I remember correctly there are a lot of "little lifts" in stages two and three. Don't be in a hurry to bump those weights up. really work on form and squeezing/activating those muscles. On the one big lift, I tried to move p about five pounds a week.
So bummer day. Everybody was so negative and picking fights. at one point I was so upset with other people that I skipped a meal. Later my blood-sugar dropped and I couldn't put together a coherent sentence whole trying to talk to my son's teacher. Great way to make a first impression. She gave me a lollipop though 0 -
Beeps, sounds like you're easing back in nicely.
Sam, I loved Stage 2. I wish I would've done HIIT the way it's designed in Supercharged and Abs though (only about 6-10 mins of 1 min work/1 min effort or 30secs/30secs). I feel like I get more out of it.
Did my first Hypertrophy III workout. I haven't done regular DLs since July. I've lost a few lbs since then and wasn't eating at a deficit when I did them last and I had decrease my weights on them. I forget how my eating affects my strength. I am adequately sore- especially my upper body. I rolled after lifting yesterday and again this evening. Hopefully some of the soreness will have eased by tomorrow for swiss ball rollouts, single leg squats, inverted rows, back squats, and shoulder press.0 -
Nice job all !
I worked a ridiculous amount of the past 2 days so missed a planned work out today.
Will have to wait until Thursday0 -
time for me to get to gym today. I didn't get there yesterday. The house and laundry needed too much attention.
Congrats on the baby!!0 -
To the gym, to the gym, to the gym, gym, gym!
I *might* step on the scale today....I might not!0 -
I've been overwhelmed by life and a total lazyazz.0
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Wow, I did the whole program and never visited this thread, lol. But now I've started supercharged it's like a graveyard in there so I will come here for a natter ;-)
Last basic training 1 B today. Hope it goes better than A the other day - was just sucky. I've been unwell, tired, snowed under with other *kitten*. Not much has changed so I don't know if I hold out much hope for today lol. Fingers crossed I'm in the right headspace when I get to the gym!
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runzalot - it is when LIFE gets OVERWHELMING that the "to the gym" song should be LOUDEST! Go, go, go!
Hi jo_marnes! I did buy supercharged, but got WAY too lazy after NROL4Life to bother doing the "D-I-Y" stuff. If I just open my binder to the next page, and a work-out is there, THAT is what I like best!
PS, nice ABS in your avatar! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!0
