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Love seeing the posts here! I only stopped by to say that total body workout on Wednesday = total body DOMS today! Thank god I went light, or I'd be begging for death! LMAO. The masochist in me missed this! HAHA

I did it! I hit the gym for my first weight session in months. Kept the weights light for now and just did a total Body workout... Treaddy warm up. Bench, squats, deads, ohp, leg press, back row, lat pull down, tricep pushdown. Still not sure what my plan will be, but may just do what I was doing before I stopped. Sure…

Hopefully it'll be better by then! Good luck this weekend!

Yes indeed, I am listening @nossmf! <3 Excellent breakdown and thanks for the encouragement! I appreciate what you've shared here!

also following, but it seems that it really depends on your goal. I've always heard that high weight/low reps is for strength (< = 5), that med reps is for mass /size ( 8-10 ) and that 15+ is for endurance. But I'm just over here winging it, so curious to hear what others say. I've also heard that the benefit of higher…

lol, yeah I never quite figured out why pullups are so hard for me to see progress on. It definitely was easier when I weighed 185, but now that I'm 210lbs (*weeps*), it's a pipe dream. I think I need to be hitting the lat pull down and pushing for gains there, along with pushing harder on the assisted pullup machine,…

@discustank5 Thank you so much! That means a lot to me <3 I did just splurge on three new pairs of GRRRL tights (if you know me, you know it's my weakness). They're halloween themed and absolutely badass… can't wait til they get here! I didn't lift yesterday, but I DID (quite literally) dust off my exercise bike and did 30…

I've actually been using the Ryse app and I LOVE it. It's a great community and has some really great tools for tracking reps / sets / workouts - and tracks PRs, increases and trends. Has some really epic monthly recaps too. Highly recommend it. Glad to see you're still pushing through. I hate that you're battling chronic…

GUS!!! So good to hear from you too! I am trying to psych myself up for starting back at the gym come Monday. I'll strive for 2x a week. I just don't know what plan I want to follow and what goal I want to achieve. That's not usually a good thing for me, so I have a few days to figure shiz out. I definitely DO miss moving…

Thank you so much for this, @nossmf . I needed that.

That is so awesome!!! WAY TO GO! You've always been a go-getter (as long as I've known you) and I'm so glad to see that you're still pushing! I, on the other hand, have found 30 pounds and none of it was good. I'm struggling with knee and ankle issues (thanks to baseball) and feel absolutely gross. I just started day 1 of…

I tried going somewhere else, but it just isn't the same. So I stopped logging entirely. It's not that MFP was the best loggin app (it isn't), but the friends I made here over the unbroken decade login streak were what caused me to come back day after day. Losing my connection with them here was the last straw. I need to…

First time back here in a long time. It's ridiculous to say, but honestly - losing the MFP feed seemed to be the last thing holding me together. I really miss MFP. I'm on LoseIt, but I never log in, find it impossible to follow the feeds, and even though the logging portion is great, I just don't have that desire to check…

it's been a few months since I logged in to MFP. Which is crazy because I had a TEN YEAR logging streak. :( I was just talking to a friend on FB that I first met on MFP and I reminisced how we had met here and then expanded our friendship to other platforms. I miss that old MFP. I miss the friends. I tried connecting on…

Been a while since I checked in... Gus, you're not alone. I think I've done two lifting / gym sessions in the last month. Been dealing with my dad's weakness as well (for almost a week, I was going to their apartment and getting him out of bed and fed in the mornings, settled at dinner, and then to bed in the evening).…

I may not get them in as often as I want to, but I'm still thrilled after I've done them

Deleting the newsfeed just ruined it for me. I don't use MFP much at ALL anymore, and further more, having joined LoseIt and paid for a membership there, I still don't participate in my news feed or the forums. I just lost all desire to stay connected that way. Oh well... think of all the time I've gotten back from my…

I like to think that my height / weight puts me at a disadvantage when trying to do pullups, because I just suck at them. I do not look tiny from an upper body / back perspective, but for the life of me, pullups is not one exercise I seem to be able to grow at (not like I do with Squats). No offense taken about my…

Well thank you very much! 😊

Not a gif...but birthday post! This is 48. It's been a year of ups and downs, scale wise and lift wise. I'm back to logging and have upped my pace on the treadmill. Trying to set a new routine (but it's hard with all the demands of life), still...not going to quit! Here's to the ever steady climb to 50. May it look better…

I feel this acutely. I decided to set a plan and the first week back... family and work derailed it. Started back again on Oct 1st (logging, goal setting, water increase)... planned to lift Monday and Thursday (tonight), and sure enough, my band is performing on Friday so we have to go in tonight to load in our gear and…

This is awesome, Gus! Way to get back into it!

Great job and yay for the lifts not suffering! It's so awesome to see the changes coming through for you!

Thank you very much!!

Last night was a great session. Humbling still in that it's taking me time to get back to feeling full strength, but still. The lifts moved well and felt stable and controlled. Thought this was a neat compilation...

I've found this kind of silly... Most of the shoes that are used in the gym will do little to nothing to protect your feet from a loaded barbell or even a plate falling. Typically most people wear their shoes to their station, but often go in socks for deadlifts /squats or leg press

Back at the gym. Man it's humbling to be starting back so low, but I'm going to be keeping my squat weight low so that I can focus on my form and depth. This is only 135lb (5x5), but it felt pretty good.

Oh Steve, I'm so very sad to hear that she's gone. Big hugs to you. She was blessed to have been loved by you and your family.

Note... The gif sped them up. Lol. I'm not that fast in real life.

Still working on pullups. Band assisted and not really progressing. Some days I go with more assistance, some days less.