Sadly, my goal will be to see the doctor tonight and hope there isn't anything seriously wrong with my left knee.

I woke up Saturday morning to do a Stronglift workout. Started my warmups and noticed when I bent it, there were two buldges. Over the weekend it has gotten even more stiff and little shoots of pain every so often. LeSigh.

That knee has always been rather crunchy and loose feeling, but my doctor told me unless there is pain or discomfort, there was nothing be concerned about. If I think back, the last 6 months it has been feeling more stiff after workouts. Even walking the dog it would feel stiff. I never thought of fluid building up I just thought I needed to get more active and help build the muscles in that area. Thats where weight lifting came in the picture.

I don't know what I did. I don't over do my workouts, I have never had an "oh crap I hurt something.. moment". I do run somethings but never more than 3-5km, and not everday or on lifting days.

Going to keep up with the upper body workouts from stronglifts, but extremely sad... I LOVE SQUATS!!

My lifting goals are taking a backseat to running this month, as my half marathon is looming (Nov. 9) and my distances are getting to a point where lifting 3 times/week is too much to recover from. So, as far as lifting goes:

- Lifting (SL) 2ce a week
- Kbls (heavy) 1ce a week
- Make progress on weights, but not at the expense of form
- Get back on track with my pull-up plan
- NO INJURIES
- NO INJURIES
and
- NO INJURIES

As far as non-lifting:
- Try not to derail the diet in the face of FALL BEER, the best of all beers, plus there being some sort of special event every weekend this month (weddings, parties, fair, etc.)
- Hit my training runs hard - I WILL PR THIS HALF y'all. It's gonna happen.
- Hit my bootcamp workouts hard.

First, I will NOT get derailed or sabotage myself when I start to see results or change- not ever again. I used to have a really nice body and was fit and I liked how it felt and looked- why am I afraid to go back there?? I have some ideas, and still working through it.

And to that end, I will...

* Continue lifting, but may switch to 3X5 to keep from burning out at high weights (if anyone has a reason why this would be detrimental or not continue to provide benefits for me, please let me know- I'm kinda making it up as I go along)

* Continue cardio 2-3X per week- doing walk/jog intervals seems to not be TOO painful for me and only takes 30 minutes which is nice.

* Watch my food (1450 cals/day gross based roughly on TDEE minus a deficit), get some protein and focus on hydration as I am chronically dehydrated due to lack of a large intestine (surgically removed 3 years ago).

* Hopefully have some visible or measurable results by the end of the month to keep me motivated. I'd like to be back to where others can notice a change, but trying to be patient.

I'm still fairly new to SL so my goals are also pretty simple:

Aim to lift 3x a week

Continue with the cardio I was already doing.

Try and get my biscuit obsession under control!

Try and get an actual home gym set up in the garage (funds depending)

My October goals are to start lifting on a regular basis. Hoping to get my husband on the 5x5 train too. He's wanting to get bigger. Start eating better as a family.

Personally:
Get on a lifting schedule and stick with it
Eat better
Knock out my 50 mile challenge
Lose BF (going to the local gym for a BF test on the 31st)
Look great as Daphne from the Scooby Doo gang for our family Halloween costumes

Now that I have my home gym set up, my goals are:
SL 3 times a week
Get rid of this lard I've attached to my body over the last few stressful weeks of uni and no lifting (I still ate the same though. Dummy!)

That'll do.

Don't have much by way of goals this month. My migraines and chronic Fatigue are bad in the autumn. My goal is to to some lifting 2 times a week at least. (With walk/bike 1-2 times a week)