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Hi ladies :) I have been a bit busy with starting a new job this week and also starting the whole30 (day 4!) But I'm still getting my lifts in, and I'm trying to get back into yoga, too. Today I lifted Squat 55 kg 5x5 (my ideal bodyweight!!) OHP 20 kg 5x5 (finally, I've been stalling since my deload) Deadlift 55 kg 1x5 A…

My goals: Be compliant to my whole30 I started today Lift at least twice a week, preferably thrice, every week Fit into my pre-pregnancy jeans with no muffin top (almost there) I'd like to reach 5x5 of my body weight in squats and deadlifts, and half my body weight in bench, and make some progress, even if only 1 kg, in…

@julie ewww at that guy...

Back to the gym today after my rest week! I also did a 10% deload "just because". It was nice getting 5x5 on all my lifts for once :) I also did some negative chins (It finally dawned on me that pull-ups & chin-ups are the BEST use of the Smith machine since the actual pull-up bar is so high I need to climb on a bench just…

That's actually a really good idea! I looked at my sports store and saw no smaller plates than 500 g, which my gym already has. I'll go back and look at the ankle weights!

When loading/unloading off the floor for deadlifts be careful not to pinch your fingers between the plates. Ouch lol! I have a blood blister from making that very mistake last week.

@xidia I agree, I really like the idea of a goals/results thread, keeping this one a chit-chat thread. I don't know how well this would work but I know some forums have "journals" where each member has a thread where they can post goals and pictures and whatever about themselves and others can comment. It keeps all the…

Squat form question: I've only started noticing this on heavy sets (so recently) but at the bottom position of the squat I feel like one leg is getting deeper into the squat than the other. My body isn't perfectly symmetric, I have scoliosis in my back (bad enough that they had to ultrasound my back to do my epidural, but…

I feel like a BAMF today! Squats 50 kg 5x5! (110 lbs) OHP 22 kg 5x3 (48 lbs) I don't even feel bad about not hitting 5x5 here because I wasn't expecting to! Deadlift 52 kg 1x5 (115 lbs) Then I did an hourlong spinning class. I also walked to & from the gym since the bus is so infrequent on Saturdays. I don't know if that…

It takes me about an hour if I do all the rest times I need. If I'm in a hurry sometimes I'll do minimal rest times but then I probably will fail to get 5x5 on at least one of my lifts. It's ok though. If I'm really in a hurry it's still better to work out and need to do the same lift next time than not work out at all,…

Yay Julie I'd be really excited too! If I had room for a home gym, I would get one in a heartbeat (but noooooo... I had to get a stupid elliptical a few years ago and DH doesn't want to get rid of it, he's the only one who uses it though). I do think a small deload is a good idea just to get used to the bar.

The chart for OHP isn't shown here, but it's just slightly better than the bench press, relatively speaking. This is from strstd.com The strange thing is I keep failing at bench and OHP at these sub-novice lift levels, but I'm still making progress each & every time on squats & deadlifts. Do you think my upper-body…

Something I've noticed about guys in the gym: Type 1 (most guys): ignore you, do their own thing :) Type 2 (a few): friendly - say hi - help -when asked - and encourage you as you make progress. Type 3 (a few): OMG why are YOU lifting weights? Are you sure you can handle that bar? That weight? WHYYYYYY? Type 4 (a few): NO.…

Ugh today my workout wasn't so great. It started out with a guy deciding I needed "help" putting the bar into the cage for squatting and he was very condescending. A lot of mansplaining about squats ensued. The good: I hit 5x5 at 48 kg on the squat (about 105 lbs) The not-so-good, downright embarrassing, is that on the…

I could have written this a while ago. It turns out that the calculated 65% comes from an estimate of your max heart rate. I was going with 220-age, the pretty classic formula you see everywhere. Which would have (last year) put my max HR at 196 BPM. I know for a fact that my max is AT LEAST 208 BPM (since I've hit that…

Don't worry too much about your HR while walking, at least not the first few weeks. Record it, make note of it, but don't worry. Just walk. Try to walk every day, adding a few minutes each day, doing whatever it takes to make it an enjoyable experience (walk with a friend, with a dog, in a new place, in a beautiful place,…

Great gains! Even after "bulking" you don't look like you've been bulking (but you didn't post before pics so it's hard to tell I guess). What BF% are you right now? At what BF% do you decide to start bulking or cutting? For now I really need to lower my BF% (just getting started and I'm around 30%) but I'm curious about…

When would you recommend it? What do you consider to be a "cycle"? I'm considering doing a little deload since even though I can complete the 5x5 on most lifts (except OHP and bench where I fail every other workout and am progressing slowly), I'm starting to notice that my form, while still ok, isn't as good as it was last…

Week 6 for me.

I agree thats the definition of "stalling". I should have said "when did you first fail to do 5x5 on a lift?" which is what I was really asking. It was just curiosity so I could know when to expect it on my other lifts. That said I'm curious to know when the REAL stall comes, too!

The smallest increment my gym has is 1 kg, which is what I use for OHP and for bench press. My increment for deadlifts is 3 kg, and for squats is 2 kg.

Hi and welcome! Sounds like our stats are pretty close. I'm 5 foot 3, 63.8 kg Squat 46kg Deadlift 49 kg Bench 29 kg OHP 21 kg

Ok so my stronglifts week has been ok... not fantastic but ok. I was only able to work out twice (due to scheduling). I got 5/4/4/3/3 on the bench press at 29 kg (after a very embarrassing fail at 30 kg where a guy had to rescue me from the bar after a mere rep) Other than that I hit 5x5 on all my other lifts this week…

This formula is not accurate at all and would even be dangerous. I have been 3 kg above the low end of the healthy weight according to this formula... in college when I couldn't really afford to eat and my ribs stuck out.

Really an amazing progression! I love this programme

I failed my OHP at 40 lbs too but got it the next time and I managed to go up after that, too. It's normal to fail that one more often I think.

I am!! I was actually feeling a bit down on myself because I gained weight during christmas and I was 63.3 kg in the December pic but weighed in at 64.3 kg today (I went up to 65.5 during xmas). So I'm actually heavier now! I had forgotten all about taking the first pic until today. Anyway it's visual proof that the…

Here are my progress pics. On December 15th (a bit more than a month postpartum, when I had stopped losing weight automatically, and before christmas so I still looked like this pretty much until I started working out in January) And today March 3d, 3 1/2 months postpartum after a full month of stronglifts.

You can add me My Stats 25 yrs old Mother of 1 (4 months old) Height 5' 3" Highest Weight while pregnant 166 lbs Highest Weight not pregnant 143 lbs Current Weight 141.5 lbs Goal Weight 125lbs

This is awesome! Doing stronglifts and knowing that running isn't THE ONLY/BEST EXERCISE (as it would be easy to believe when you're just starting fitness, I know I did about a year and a half ago) makes me feel so much better about not being able to run right now.