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Linear! He has a strength/hypertrophy program that I want to do.

I’ve been using it mainly because I feel like I have trouble activating/feeling my lats in certain upper body movements.

It would apply for most upper body lifts right? But what about lower lifts? Example, hip thrust? Or goblet squat?

I workout about 2-3 times a week, though I’m hoping to increase to 4-5. Mainly weightlifting (light stuff at the moment since I’m pregnant) and when it’s nice out, sometimes 1-2 30 min walks. My BF before both pregnancies was around 22-23.

After this baby, my husband and I are planning on not having another for a good two years or so haha so even if it takes 2 years to get to my goal, it’s my ideal pre-pregnancy weight before I have another baby. I will be exclusively breastfeeding like I did with my first. Because of nursing with my first, I ended up losing…

I’m definitely willing to adapt and adjust. My goal weight after my first baby was 118. But for a good 2-3 months, I sat between 124-125 and I felt comfortable at that weight and my body looked overall okay. My main goal of going into the teens is to reach a higher level of leanness. I’ve hovered between 23-24% for a long…

I’m 5”2!

Haha I had those expectations after the first baby but I’m not expecting that this time around 😂 I’m hoping to get to that weight around 7-8 months postpartum if I don’t gain more than 30-35 lbs 🤷🏼‍♀️ I should have mentioned that too - like is that a realistic timeline?

Get my 10 month old on sleep schedule 😣

How to deal with comparison and how to get back into lifting when I feel so lost and weak haha.

Both!

I have resistant bands ranging fro 5-35 lbs, dumbbells that go from 5-60 lbs, a pulldown machine which also has a cable to do rows, barbells (smaller ones and larger ones) and a squat rack where I can also do pull-ups/chin-ups.

The first year after my injury, I pushed through the pain and kept lifting without doing anything to truly assess the problem or to assess the exact area/muscle that had been injured (what exercises would help it, didn’t help it, etc.) Eventually the pain got to be too much though so I started to cut back on upper body…

My mirror is terrible, so sorry if it’s not super clear 😂 This was about 6 months postpartum with my first. I’m now pregnant with my second, due July of this year :) Height/Weight: 5”2, 128 pre-pregnancy with my first and 126 pre-pregnancy with my second. I’m sitting at about 131-132 at 15 weeks pregnant. Age: 21 BF%…

Overall the recovery was slow because I’ve suffered injuries before, but they were minor, so I was dumb and just thought that I could push through the pain... not the case with this injury 🙄 The rehab exercises I’m doing will be a majority of my upper body work at the moment until I can get the achy feeling to not be there…

I saw a PT and a chiropractor and both said that it was a subscapularis impingement. When I first injured it, it was super bad but has healed significantly over the years. It’s just at the point now where it feels tight and weak because I haven’t trained upper body very consistently since it happened. I’ve tried several…

Lose all the baby weight of baby #2 by 3 months postpartum. Baby is due in July. So far at 15ish weeks, I’m only up 6 lbs which is great because my first baby I was up about 13 lbs at this point hahah. 2022 will be a better year for making some more goals because I won’t be pregnant more than half the year 😂

I suck at confrontation haha. But you’re probably right. This has been going on for a long time now.. I just never did anything because I was too upset with myself for getting jealous and petty over stuff that shouldn’t matter.

Relate to the first one. I had a major surgery in 2019 and even though my mom and grandma were/are nurses, they have NO idea what I went through or how recovery was, yet they still told me what I should or shouldn’t be doing. None of that “listen to your body crap” it was instead “listen to me because I know better than…

When girls think that in order to be in shape and beautiful they can’t have any fat on their bodies... ESPECIALLY right after having a baby 🙄 sister in law hated that she had some stomach fat after her baby and I’m like “girl. It’s normal. You just had a baby.”

Just viewed the videos and I think they will be EXTREMELY helpful. Thank you!!

Yeah I feel like I struggle sometimes with activating my lats because the weird tightness in my subscapular takes over. What kind of exercises do you do to activate your lats?

How often do you do each thing? And for how long? Do you recommend any stretches?

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Yes I’ve gone to PT and they didn’t really give me anything to help to be honest. They assessed my “injury” and told me to look up exercises to help with a rotator cuff impingement. That’s about it. It’s gotten better over the years - now just a dull ache most days 🤷🏼‍♀️

Hey there, trying to find a program that would be suit my goals. I’ve suffered a rotator cuff injury for the past 3 years (in the subscapularis region) and the one thing that makes it feel better is rows. In my training programs in the past, I didn’t realize how imbalanced my upper body lifts were. I did WAY more push…

I’m having baby #2 and I never got to where I wanted to be after my first due to postpartum depression and lack of major motivation :P I want to show people that babies don’t ruin your body (because that’s what everyone is telling me) and that I can even fitter than before I had kids. I’d love to compete in a bodybuilding…

Boy this is a tricky one for me too. My first was born this March and unfortunately I spoiled him a bit too much because he’s very used to being held by me most of the day and going down for naps with me next to him... and he knows when I leave too. Like literally, I’d sneak out of bed and 5 minutes later, he’d be up and…

The pressing to pulling ratio I did before was over the course of two days haha not one - sorry just needed to clarify 😂😅

I’ve had this issue for almost 3 years. The most I feel nowadays is an occasional tight, achy feeling. It’s not painful, just an irritation. But I’m definitely wanting to prioritize rows. In the past I would do like 7-8 pressing exercises to 4-5 pulling :P should’ve been the other way around, if not MORE for pulling. I…